Prices for U.S. imports decreased 0.9 percent in August following a 0.3-percent decline in July, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Both the August and July drops in overall import prices were driven by lower fuel prices. U.S. export prices declined 0.5 percent in August, after …
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US Import and Export Price Indexes – August 2014
Federal Reserve officials will be updating their forecasts for the economy at their policy meeting next week, including for the first time estimates for growth, unemployment, inflation and interest rates in 2017. What will the world look like to the Fed in three years’ time? To take measure of ho…
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Why You Might Pencil in a 3.5% Fed Funds Rate in 2017
China’s broadest measure of new credit trailed analyst estimates in August, adding to the government’s challenge to meet its economic-growth target amid a slumping property market and a pullback in manufacturing. Aggregate financing was 957.4 billion yuan ($156 billion), the People’s Bank of Chi…
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China Credit Gauge Misses Estimates as Growth Risks Escalate
The union between Scotland and England hangs by a political thread as a fresh Guardian/ICM poll published on Friday puts the yes vote just two percentage points behind those supporting no. Despite a week of intense political campaigning by pro-union politicians and repeated warnings from business…
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Guardian Scotland Referendum poll: Yes 49%; No 51%; GBPUSD trips lower
As the US federal reserve might start soon raising interest rates and the ECB is about to being his quantitative easing plans, some see this divergence as a potential source of a large fall in the value of the Euro that might have already started over the last days. Given that we have witnessed i…
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The Euro crash?
As the Scottish referendum draws closer (it’s Sept. 18 in case you haven’t been watching), it’s fair to look at how the national characteristics of the U.K. would shape up if Scotland were a separate nation. Current economic data shows that an independent Scotland is likely to be slightly less pr…
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Scottish Independence: What the U.K. Would Look Like if ‘Yes’ Camp Triumphs
Wall Street markets recovered some early jitters to close the session basically flat on the day. The earlier weakness was driven by the disappointing weekly jobless claims, but the bulls managed to claw back the losses into the close as the outlook began to look forward to today’s consumer data…
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Selling pressure mounts with Gold and Silver breaking key support levels
President Vladimir Putin took a break from his official duties to slip into a Russian Orthodox Church this week and light a candle for fighters killed in eastern Ukraine. “I left a candle for those who died defending people in Novorossiya,” he told reporters after emerging from the Church of the…
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Putin holds key to Ukraine peace but keeps world guessing
The Conference Board Leading Economic Index® (LEI) for the U.K. increased 0.1 percent in July, after a 0.6 percent increase in June and a 0.5 percent increase in May. Four of the seven components made positive contributions to the index this month. The index now stands at 111.8 (2004=100). “The …
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The Conference Board Leading Economic Index for the UK
The number of persons employed1 increased by 0.2% in the euro area2 (EA18) and by 0.3% in the EU282 in the second quarter of 2014 compared with the previous quarter, according to national accounts estimates published by Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. In the first quarter o…
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Employment up by 0.2% in euro area
Judging by the amount of currency destruction, all of it completely voluntary and reminiscent of what happened in the final days of the Roman empire, we urge readers to enjoy whatever fiat paper is around: it won’t be there for much longer. So to help out in that regard, below is an infographic…
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A Brief History of Currency
Judging by the amount of currency destruction, all of it completely voluntary and reminiscent of what happened in the final days of the Roman empire, we urge readers to enjoy whatever fiat paper is around: it won’t be there for much longer. So to help out in that regard, below is an infographic…
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A Brief History of Currency
For years, Nice Cote d’Azur airport received a steady stream of wealthy Russians touching down in corporate jets on their way to holiday homes on the French Riviera. As the Ukraine crisis deepens, that’s begun to change. European Union sanctions curbing travel for leading Russian business people…
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Russians Skip Riviera Retreats as Sanctions Ground Private Jets
For years, Nice Cote d’Azur airport received a steady stream of wealthy Russians touching down in corporate jets on their way to holiday homes on the French Riviera. As the Ukraine crisis deepens, that’s begun to change. European Union sanctions curbing travel for leading Russian business people…
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Russians Skip Riviera Retreats as Sanctions Ground Private Jets
The two main themes of the week have been the ongoing Ukrainian crisis and opinion polls that suggest the referendum on Scotland’s independence could lead to a victory for the secessionists. It seems these themes will remain with us for some time, as the latest opinion polls confirm that the…
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3 Numbers: Eurozone output edges up, Russia sanctions and US retail
The two main themes of the week have been the ongoing Ukrainian crisis and opinion polls that suggest the referendum on Scotland’s independence could lead to a victory for the secessionists. It seems these themes will remain with us for some time, as the latest opinion polls confirm that the…
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3 Numbers: Eurozone output edges up, Russia sanctions and US retail
Over the past few months, we’ve published quite a few articles on the topic of price action. Price action is the study of investigating past price movements to perform technical analysis. Price action can be used in conjunction with technical indicators, or all on its own. Over the next two a…
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How to Trade with Price Action, Part 1
