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By Justin Pugsley |
May 22, 2013
A financial crisis is almost certainly in the cards for Japan, and it is just a question of timing. Unfortunately, the government may have fast forwarded that date.
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By Isabel Reynolds, Bloomberg |
May 17, 2013
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe vowed to increase private investment and infrastructure exports as part of his strategy to overcome deflation and build on an economic expansion fueled by rising consumer spending.
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By Joseph Ciolli and John Detrixhe, Bloomberg |
May 9, 2013
The yen weakened beyond 100 per dollar for the first time in four years as the Bank of Japan’s deflation-fighting measures have the currency headed for its longest streak of monthly losses in almost two decades.
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By Craig Trudell, Bloomberg |
May 1, 2013
Ford Motor Co. and Chrysler Group LLC reported U.S. sales increases for April, building on the first sweep of market share gains by all three domestic automakers in the first quarter of any year in two decades.
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By Phil Flynn |
April 30, 2013
Natural gas bears still bemoan the cold as it appears that gas prices have to continue to soar because winter refuses to go quietly. The market continues to rise to make sure we refill storage.
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By Abe Cofnas |
April 24, 2013
It should be clear by now that we are in an era where reliance on traditional approaches to analyzing currency markets is not sufficient in predictive effectiveness.
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By Christopher Faille |
April 16, 2013
Japan has become a very attractive place to invest in recent weeks. It is something akin to a great river with a lot of fresh meat floating about, and as yet relatively few piranhas benefitting from that environment.
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By Lu Wang, Bloomberg |
April 10, 2013
U.S. stocks rallied, sending the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index to its highest level ever, as China’s imports grew, Japan reiterated its stimulus plans and investors speculated earnings will beat estimates.
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By Phil Flynn |
April 4, 2013
Seasonal RBOB traders beware! The Energy Information Administration rocked the market by reporting a surge in oil supplies and rocking refinery runs. U.S. crude oil stocks climbed by a higher-than-expected 2.7M barrels.
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By Toru Fujioka and Masahiro Hidaka, Bloomberg |
April 4, 2013
Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda began his onslaught to end two decades of economic stagnation and 15 years of deflation as the central bank pledged unprecedented easing, driving the yen down by the most since October 2011.
