by Royston Roche The LIBOR rates have been rising in the past one year. The initial rise was due to the adoption of Money Market Fund Reform Rules which had its deadline of October 14, 2016. But what is more worrying …
by Bob Stokes https://youtu.be/TB-VIvx0q2w [Editor’s Note: The text version of the story is below.] The convergence of the internet, faster computers and a rip-roaring bull market gave rise to the 1990s stock market day-trading phenomenon. It was all about the …
by Oliver Donaldson The Election of Donald Trump spurred an extended buying frenzy in stocks and commodities, sending the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) sky high. The Dow broke multiple new records nearing 20,000 points and rose 8% since the …
Even at the very best of times, the forex market is a volatile entity that is vulnerable to sudden price shifts and wider, social, economic and geopolitical conditions. Given this, it should come as no surprise that a recent slew …
You may have heard of Airbnb and how it has grown and gathered momentum since its inception. Exactly how big is the threat from this relative newbie to the accommodation market? Can regular furnished apartments hold on to their share …
As cross-border migration has come to characterise the flexible employment habits of the twenty-first century, the remittance market has grown significantly. The FinTech industry benefiting from this growth and change. Companies borne from the FinTech industry, particularly those focused on …
Do you think that you have what it takes to become an astute investor? Have you been seeking to diversify your current financial strategy by entering into the world of Forex trading? As these markets are now exceedingly attractive to …
By Michael Snyder On Tuesday junk bonds continued to crash, the price of oil briefly dipped below 28 dollars a barrel, Deutsche Bank was forced to deny that it is on the verge of collapse, but the biggest news was …
Over the past week, gold prices have been gradually declining at remarkably low volumes. Struggling to firm with the U.S market on Labor Day, gold settled at $1,116.20 an ounce in the European trading session on Monday, dropping to its …
The following article was posted on June 2, 2015. Mother Nature took her sweet time, but she is finally imposing her will on a rigged stock market and she is doing so with a vengeance. It is sad that it has come …
At this point in the unrelenting bull market that began in March 2009, many market observers suspect or are convinced that the stock market is rigged. One only has to look at the chart below to see the strong correlation …
by LV The heavy influence of the Federal Reserve and high frequency algorithmic trading has distorted fair market price discovery, making the application of chart theory nothing more than a crapshoot. Technical market analysis, employing chart theory, is based strictly …
The heavy influence of the Federal Reserve and high frequency algorithmic trading has distorted fair market price discovery, making the application of chart theory nothing more than a crapshoot. Technical market analysis, employing chart theory, is based strictly on market …
by LV It has been almost four years since the infamous flash crash that occurred on May 6, 2010. There have been numerous mini-flash crashes in individual stocks since then. It has been about one and a half years since …
by LV According to The Free Dictionary, the term “cornering the market” means “purchasing a security or commodity in such volume as to achieve control over its price”. The cornering entity can manipulate prices to its advantage and can trigger …
by LV Technical market analysis is based strictly on market action (i.e. price movement and volume) as opposed to fundamental market analysis, which concerns itself with the factors that drive the market to change. Technical analysis assumes that price movements …
Shortly before the joint report of the SEC/CFTC was released to the public on September 30th, a meeting was held in the Oval Office of the White House. In attendance were the President, the Vice-President, the Secretary of the U.S. …
Heidi is the proprietor of a bar in Detroit . She realizes that virtually all of her customers are unemployed alcoholics and, as such, can no longer afford to patronize her bar. To solve this problem, she comes up with …