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By Kristin Fox |
April 24, 2013
Swapping his career at PIMCO to start his own firm, John Brynjolfsson talks with us about trading, the economy and launching a global macro hedge fund firm in 2009, arguably one of the most difficult times to start a fund.
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By Stephen Kirkland and Inyoung Hwang, Bloomberg |
April 15, 2013
Commodities fell to a nine-month low, led by the worst plunge in gold since 1980, and global stocks slid the most since June as China’s economic growth unexpectedly slowed and investors speculated hedges against inflation were unneeded.
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By Alexis Xydias and Whitney Kisling, Bloomberg |
April 15, 2013
Capitulating bears and overseas buyers are drowning out every other concern for American stocks, pushing the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index to successive records even after the biggest drop in Treasury yields since June.
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By Austin Kiddle |
April 12, 2013
Bears of gold are battling with the bulls, with the bears excited by the shorter-term factors such as the U.S. economic improvement, and the bulls encouraged by the longer-term hedging demand by the global central banks.
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By Austin Kiddle |
April 10, 2013
Barclays recently reiterate that the biggest short-term risk for gold prices will be gold-backed ETP outflows. Close to 18 tonnes of outflow occurred in the first week of April.
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By Anthony Lazzara |
March 27, 2013
With recent headlines on Cyprus, the Euro debt crisis is obviously far from “over” thus the euro currency has been in a steady downtrend since early February. Our key resistance level is at 1.30.
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By Anthony Lazzara |
March 20, 2013
RBOB completed a classic seasonal rally in the beginning of this year, and since hitting a high of $3.30, has sold off almost $.30 in 30 days, hitting a low of $3.02 today. This is our very important pivot level for this market.
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By Austin Kiddle |
March 8, 2013
The underlying improving tone in the U.S. economy has prompted investors to buy equities and reduce their bets on gold prices. Even Japan reported a much higher-than-expected GDP growth of +0.2% in Q4.
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By Dominick Chirichella |
March 6, 2013
The relatively balanced global fundamental situation has been keeping oil prices under control as the market has been in a short term downward trading channel since breaking through key technical support levels in the middle of February.
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By Austin Kiddle |
March 1, 2013
In the past few days, positive economic data from the major economies have accompanied the falling safe-haven demand for gold.
