Tightening Fed Policy: Is A Smooth Exit A Sure Thing?
What factor is most responsible for the recovery Fed policy has - by most accounts - stimulated in financial (housing and labor also?) markets...
Interview With Estimize Founder Leigh Drogen
For the past 12 months, I have been part of Estimize, a community of 13,000+ professional and non-professional equity analysts who are contributing their...
Heads Up: It’s NFP Friday!
By Andrew Kassen Welcome to Non-Farm Payroll (NFP; a.k.a. "the monthly unemployment data) Friday! Excluding Central Bank rate decisions and the occasional errant twitter...
Brexit: What a British Exit from the EU Looks Like
By Alex Salomon   Are you familiar with Brixit? Not yet? It might become the next catchy buzzword for yet another European Union drama. Brexit,...
Doc Copper: The Personal Physician to King Dollar
By Andrew Kassen Copper is often held up when analysts and commentators are having an "intermarket analysis" moment to bolster whatever argument they're...
Stock Market Report and Economic Update: March 2013
By Greg Naylor   March was an eventful month, as the Euro zone dealt with another crisis, this time in Cyprus, and the sequestration went...
Reviving The Yen Carry Trade
By Andrew Kassen "The Yen Carry Trade" - whatever your tenure in and familiarity with financial markets, it's a litmus phrase evoking a...
While You’re Sleeping: Massive Moves Prevail In Japanese Markets
By Andrew Kassen A lot of atrocious developments occur in world financial markets while the West sleeps. Lately, that has meant mayhem in Japanese...
Political Tensions Rise as Euro Crisis Continues
By Andrew Nyquist   The Euro was never given a fighting chance. Figuratively, and quite possibly literally. From conception, economists and investors questioned the Euro's...
European Youth Unemployment: Risking a Lost Generation
By Joshua Schroeder   Once again Europe's leaders spoiled a chance to take coordinated action to effectively address the bailout in Cyprus. This failure has...
