Financial

The topic of collapsing bond market liquidity (and in many cases, volume) is not new: It has been covered here for over 3 years, as we observed the amount of …

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American International Group (AIG) released its latest earnings report after closing bell tonight, posting earnings of 97 cents per share, excluding items. Analysts had been expecting earnings of $1.05 per …

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Tim Cook, Apple (AAPL) CEO  said,  “2015 will be the year of Apple Pay”, and he is probably right in terms of industry change, but that should not be translated into …

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Stocks moved broadly higher at the open and extended gains in afternoon trading Thursday. At the closing bell, the S&P 500 was up nearly 20 points to 2088.44 and back within …

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Europeans bought a lot more gold in January. Investors turned to the yellow metal to protect themselves economic turmoil that could result from Greece leaving the eurozone and the oncoming wave of …

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In a world of slowing growth, currency debasement has become the economic weapon of choice. In the last month alone, we have seen central banking easing measures announced in Romania, India, Switzerland, …

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Source: Wikimedia Dear Diary, Every day, we think we see more clearly where this is going. And every day, we are staggered by it. Our mind boggles. Our knees buckle. We …

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Global capital is looking for a place to hide. But after decades of enthusiastic currency creation and financial engineering, there’s way too much of it for any one country to …

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Forecasting is a singularly difficult task and is more often than not fraught with failure. The Federal Reserve has some of the smartest economists in the world, and yet their …

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US equity markets are quietly doing what they do – go up and stay up. But in the biggest markets in the world – US Treasury, Japanese bonds, and foreign …

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