Dollar Holds Ground- Is Inflation Illusory? Another night of back and forth price action as EURUSD continued to swing on either side of the 1.5500 figure which has become the literal and figurative... Go to Full Article

U.K. Inflation Breaches 3% Threshold, Will BoE Raise Rates? See the article... Go to Full Article

Dollar at Key Levels Against The Majors Last week saw us hit the targets on multi-week New Zealand Dollar and British Pound shorts as well as a quick Swiss Franc range trade. A sudden breakout... Go to Full Article

Forex Trading News - Asian Trading News The Bank for International Settlements reports that FX trading in Asia has dollar settlement risk. Japan's former currency official Wantanbe spoke again tonight about intervention, commenting that it is not urgent, but adding that ... Go to Full...

17 June Probability Studies Weak US data yesterday coupled with high inflation data from the Eurozone has caused the Greenback to decrease in value even further. We have Germany’s ZEW index later as well as US PPI which is another inflation figure and if it is ... Go to Full Article

Forex Trading USDJPY approaches the 100 hour moving average The 100 hour moving average comes in at 107.77. The 38.2% retracement of the move up from June 11th comes in at the 107.80 level as well. Key level for the USDJPY. Go to Full Article

Europe Hopes To Regain Position As Top Drug-Development Market In a bid to re-establish itself as the “pharmacy of the world” - and narrow the growing gap between itself and the United States and Asia - Europe is launching a $3.1 billion drug-discovery initiative. The program - known as...

NY Times Article Explains The Role Of Speculators The NY Times has an article that does a pretty good job of explaining the role of speculators in the futures markets, and highlights some of the benefits they bring to the market:. Greater volume of trading, leading to greater liquidity ... ...

Is Ireland’s Vote A Sign That Europe Is As Bloated And Corrupt As ... It’s not often that developments in the political sphere bring a smile to Macro Man’s face, but he has to admit that he enjoyed the spectacle of Ireland’s rejection of the Lisbon Treaty, which was announced on...

uWink Predicts 600 Trillion in Game Sales, Mathematically Possible? It’s time to go Hollywood! uWink (UWKI.OB), an entertainment and hospitality software development company and the operator of an interactive restaurant concept called uWink, has made it official and has sent notice that...

Israel Economic Update: Strong May CPI Aaron Katsman. Israel’s CPI reading for May came in with a rise of 0.7%. This is the highest CPI for May in 7 years. While the number came in at the high end of estimates, it wasn’t much of a surprise. We have been speaking about ... Go to Full...

Earnings Preview for This Week Although we are still a few weeks away from the “official start” of second-quarter earnings season, there will be some notable reports during the third week of June. Five S&P 500 members are on the calendar: Adobe Systems (ADBE), ... Go to Full Article

Mutual Funds’ Decade Of Turbulence Has Helped ETFs The mutual fund industry’s tough decade has paved the way for exchange traded funds (ETFs). Ten years ago, mutual funds were looking swell: more than 130 of them posted returns of 100% or more at the end of 1999, reports David Hoffman ... ...

People Who Played A Role In The Housing Bubble In the end, it’s always about people. Analysts, economists and investors - including me, sometimes - can easily forget that booms, bubbles, busts and blow-ups represent the sum total of decisions and actions taken by many individuals. ... ...

The Week’s Review Of Commodities Energies. A choppy week of consolidation in energies focused on inventory numbers and a lack of continuation from the Israeli comments about Iran’s nuclear ambitions. The energy report showed yet another shocking draw for crude but a ... Go to Full...