Financial

Econintersect: Japan saw an increase in exports (year-over-year) of 9.8% in February, up from 9.5% in January.  While this may sound good, expectations had been for an increase of 12.4% …

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Part 1 Is An Introduction To Double Bollinger Bands, Here, Part 2, Is A Continuation That Presents Specific Rules And Examples This is part of FXEmpire’s continuing series of special features on trader …

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Will this be the year when the Fed’s quantitative easing program finally ends?  For a long time, many analysts were proclaiming that the Fed would never taper.  But then it …

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Just a month ago we warned that food inflation was on its way. Today we got the first confirmation that problems are on their way. While headline data washes away the …

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In a recent note by Jeff Saut at Raymond James, he noted that valuations are cheap based on forward earnings estimates.  He is what he says: “That said, valuations are not particularly …

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The stock market saw a bit of a sell off today as the FOMC statement and press conference took place. The entire statement can be read here but basically the Federal Reserve …

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There was intraday commentary on the Fed Statement here, and some comments on the nature of the Fed’s policy error in the US equity charts and review here. There is an option …

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Much has been said about Yellen’s Freudian slip involving the “6 month” considerable period language, which as we pointed out earlier, is said to have been the catalyst that sent stocks …

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Econintersect: The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) – the board of directors of the Federal Reserve decided to continue to “taper” – reduce their RATE of MONTHLY purchasing under their …

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