Could the current war of words raging in the eurozone undermine the euro and give hope to Britons wanting to afford to move to live abroad?
Canada’s property market has survived the global economic storm relatively unscathed, and now positive data about the nation’s economy and its prospects look set to add more fuel to Canada’s real estate fire!
“It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other, and dependent on each other in so complex a manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us.”
– Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
When Sir Charles … [visit site to read more]
I thought I would put this more detailed report on finding and trading low risk setups for gold, silver, oil indexes etc…. In short it does not matter what time frame you trade with or if you trade exchange traded funds, futures contracts or CFD’s (contract of difference).
This type of trading setup works for virtually every investment but I mainly focus on trading: Gold Futures, Gold ETFs, Gold CFD’s, and the SP500 & Dow 30 futures, ETF’s and CFD’s as I find they are very accurate and … [visit site to read more]
The U.S. Dollar closed out the month of January sharply higher as aggressive buyers helped the Greenback surge to the upside following Friday morning’s better than expected U.S. GDP report. The report, which blew out forecasts, encouraged traders to buy with both hands as investor sentiment turned more optimistic toward a strong U.S. economic recovery.
Earlier in the week, the Dollar was bolstered by a more upbeat statement by the Federal Reserve. Although the FOMC left interest rates … [visit site to read more]
The past week saw important updates on several key economies. First up is US GDP figures, showing an acceleration of the inventory cycle and stimulus led recovery. Then we look at a far slower recovery in the UK (if you can even call it a recovery), then review some much stronger figures from one of the Asian tigers. Then we look at Japan; considering how this week’s trade, inflation, and employment data feed into the current picture and outlook for Japan.
The theme to take from the … [visit site to read more]
The financial markets have millions of people competing for profitable trades but unfortunately their natural instinct gets in the way of the final goal. Through evolution these investors are programmed to proceed (buy stocks) when they are feeling confident and run (sell) when they are scared. The result of this “basic instinct” mentality is the classic, buy high and sell low, losing trade.
It is our opinion that the average investor falls into one of the following two … [visit site to read more]
Shaken by the financial debacle of 2008, jumpy investors turned to bonds and related exchange traded funds (ETFs) to safeguard what was left of their wealth. The problem with this scenario is that investors aren’t letting go of bonds, despite the changing investment atmosphere.
The Federal Reserve opted to leave interest rates unchanged for now, so the risk is low at this point. But as the economic recovery continues along, the risk that rates will rise is a very real one and if you’re … [visit site to read more]
With the Fed’s monetary policy decision behind us, the U.S. Non-Farm Payrolls and the G7 meeting along with three interest rate announcements from the Reserve Bank of Australia, the Bank of England, and the European Central Bank will take the center stage in what could become another pivotal week ahead for equities, commodities and currencies.
In preparation for the new trading week, here is a quick look at the most important economic events that every currency trader should pay attention … [visit site to read more]
On the TV show, overweight contestants take vigorous measures to lose excess weight, by cutting back on calories and increasing healthy exercise… all in pursuit of a cash prize. If only the feds were able to undertake a similarly austere strategy.
The federal budget isn’t really the showbiz-type of “Biggest Loser,” it’s more the traditional … [visit site to read more]
