The dream of home ownership may be disappearing for future families in the US. Talk of disbanding Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae surfaced this week after reports by Freddie of a $113 million financial los...
Strategic alliances, mergers, and acquisitions are changing the partnerships in global financial trading. This week the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) announced a marriage with the Deutsche Boerse (DE...
As always in life, there may be unintended consequences to otherwise well-intended actions. This axiom has been proved again and again in the financial industry. Use of the new Leveraged and Inverse E...
In an attempt to encourage a global economic growth, governments around the world have taken dramatic efforts to increase the money supply. The problem is, the money isn’t flowing as planned.
In the ...
In Egypt, trading on the stock exchange was suspended after dropping another six percent on Thursday in response to escalating protests in the region. This was the second day of declines, with the Egy...
Yield spreads have narrowed dramatically since the blow-out three years ago. They returned to more normal levels as the financial market regained its legs with support from gratuitous government fundi...
The US Treasury yield curve has reached a record steep slope, as measured by the difference between the two-year and 30-year yield. The almost four-point difference between the on-the-run 0.6 percent ...
As 2011 began, we moved into a new decade. No one needs to be reminded that the first ten years of the new millennia were turbulent and troublesome. This new decade is opening with a sense of optimism...
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail. To get somewhere in life, we need to know which way we are heading and a roadmap of how to get there. For some reason, so many of us leave our most important dec...
Mysterious factors seem at play in the market for copper. Late last month it was revealed that one buyer was hoarding over half of the copper inventory at the London Metal Exchanges (LME). That could ...
