Stock Picks And Trade Ideas For Next Week - PCLN, POT, MOS, RFMD, MRVL Chart courtesy of stockcharts ( click to enlarge ). Marvell Technology (mrvl) - The stock is pulling back after recent strong move up. If it does not catch support here on its 20 day moving average, look for support at...

US Dollar Gets A Boost On Independence Day…From Europe Two weeks ago, Euro had rallied strongly against the US dollar in the currency markets on the expectation that the ECB would embark on a series of interest rate increases, but all that changed last Thursday on July 3rd. ... Go to...

Weekly Trading Update - June 30 - July 4 Well was it me or were the forex markets completely dead this week? While the major indices are falling and the oil price continues soaring, the major currency pairs seem stuck in a rut. (...) Go to Full Article

Tricks Companies Play To Manipulate Their Reported Earnings Wall Street is a harsh judge when it comes to missing earnings estimates. It is not uncommon for a stock to significantly report quarterly earnings are below the consensus estimate. This is especially true for aggressive growth...

Pairing Up ETFs May Be A Way To Head Off Volatility In an attempt to stave off market volatility, trading in pairs of exchange traded funds (ETFs), or pairs trading, can be an option for investors who want to hedge market downturns. Pairs trading is a strategy that reduces portfolio ... ...

Happy 4th Of July Happy 4th of July! Thursday’s shortened session provided little help to stocks as many on Wall Street were on vacation enjoying this Holiday weekend. Crude oil remains the hot topic on Wall Street as it traded above $144 much of the day ... Go to Full Article

Gold Investments Market Update Gold was down $12.90 to $931.90 in New York yesterday and silver closed at $18.28, down 5 cents. Gold remained at these levels in Asia but has fallen near to yesterday’s lows in early trading in Europe. ... Go to Full Article

Cheer Up! Here’s Some Good News You Don’t Often Hear From The ... Wealth. The mainstream media played this up recently, but only because it fell by nearly $2 trillion in the first quarter. Stand back and a different picture is revealed. Americans’ net worth — what they owned less...

Russian Oil Production Down The following report from Bloomberg details declining Russian oil production. Even more troubling for the world’s increasing shortage of oil is what this implies for the future. Turning around Russia’s production problem requires ... Go to Full Article

A Long-Term Demographic Headwind For The US Dollar What if we had a time machine that could tell you how the world markets and economies are going to behave? We do – it’s called demographics. While this time machine won’t tell you the winner of the Super Bowl in 2015, it will tell us a...

US Stock Market Summary For Thursday A short trading day with very light volume. But it was not void of significant economic data. Jean-Claude Trichet, president of the European Central Bank this morning raised their benchmark lending rate by 25 basis points to 4.25%. ... Go to Full...

AMD: Chipping Away At Intel Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has increased its market share compared to its rival Intel (INTC), according to a July 1st report from iSuppli. AMD’s market share has increased 2.2% over the last year compared to a decline in Intel’s share ... Go to Full...

Bank Leumi Looks International For Growth As we have mentioned here before, many Israeli companies have to look abroad for growth. In many sectors, especially banking, the big players have such a large market share, that growth prospects are dim. Hence the need to look outside ... Go to...

2008 Third Quarter Currency Market Forecasts One of the most dominant trends in the financial markets in the first half of 2008 has been relentless US dollar weakness. Going into the third quarter,... Go to Full Article

Euro Still Smarting From Yesterdays Collapse - What Will Fed Do? A day after the 200 point collapse EURUSD bulls continued to lick their wounds as the pair tried to consolidate around the 1.5700 level in quiet holiday... Go to Full Article