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By Austin Kiddle |
May 15, 2013
Bubble talks about bonds and stocks have surfaced as have the concerns that the Fed will taper off its QE program sooner than expected. Strength in physical gold demand has countered the gold-backed ETF outflows.
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By John L. Caiazzo |
May 12, 2013
Ambiguous employment data and rising inventories suggest roadblocks may emerge in recovery.
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By Paul Cox, Bloomberg |
May 10, 2013
Pacific Investment Management Co.’s Bill Gross wrote in a message on Twitter that the 30-year bull market for bonds “likely ended” on April 29.
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By Phil Flynn |
May 10, 2013
The President is pushing for natural gas exports. He must have run the numbers and now realizes what a positive impact it will have on his economy.
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By Inyoung Hwang, Bloomberg |
May 7, 2013
U.S. stocks rose, sending the Dow Jones Industrial Average to its first close above 15,000, on optimism over global central bank stimulus and better-than- estimated corporate earnings.
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By Anthony Lazzara |
May 7, 2013
First, the Aussie Central Bank cut interest rates, which has sparked Aussie dollar selling. Second, rumors of legendary trader George Soros taking a big short position in this currency also probably stoked some added selling as well.
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By Debarati Roy, Bloomberg |
May 6, 2013
Hedge funds increased positions on a gold rally by the most in three weeks as central banks signaled no end to economic stimulus, driving prices higher just as analysts and traders turned the most bearish in three years.
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By John L. Caiazzo |
May 5, 2013
Despite slowly improving employment data, the stock market continues to stack gains.
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By Laura Litvan and Andrew Mayeda, Bloomberg |
May 3, 2013
President Barack Obama is being pressed by opponents of the Keystone XL pipeline to tie any approval to measures that would curb climate change, reflecting mounting pressure on the administration to mitigate the project’s impact if it goes forward.
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By Michael P. Regan and Inyoung Hwang, Bloomberg |
May 3, 2013
U.S. stocks rallied, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average reaching 15,000 for the first time, and Treasuries slid as faster-than-forecast employment growth bolstered optimism in the world’s largest economy.
