Bernanke Comments Steady Stocks and Gold
The global stock markets experienced a degree of turbulence on Tuesday by oscillating between gains and losses to eventually trade almost flat. They were buffeted by the positive news disclosing improvements in Middle East tension and by the negativity arising from Bernanke’s dire warnings about the <a href=” http://www.financialtrading.com/us-markets-brace-for-decisions-on-fiscal-cliff”>fiscal More...
Flying or Investing – Is the Boeing 787 actually safe?
Boeing Commercial Airlines (BA) and the aviation world in general suffered a major setback last week when the national aviation authority of the United States, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) red flagged More...
Cameron to define UK’s European future on Friday
Britain’s Prime Minister, David Cameron is to give one of the most important speeches of his premiership on Friday when he lays out his country’s European course. More...
The curious case of the one trillion dollar coin
When the Nobel Prize winner and economist Paul Krugman supported Obama’s decision to consider the one trillion dollar coin idea, a great dispute started in the media about this solution. Is Krugman going crazy More...
FinancialTrading.com’s 10 Most Influential People in Finance
The financial world is a dynamic and high risk environment at the best of times but during a financial crisis on the scale of the one we are currently enduring it is a minefield. One false move and the global economy More...
Euro Falls as Draghi Maintains Interest Rate
The euro dealt with its sharpest decline of the month versus the United States dollar. This drop followed an announcement by the chief of the European Central Bank that it would downgrade the economic forecast and More...
Emerging Market Currencies Fall
The gross domestic product report for the third quarter shows that Brazil’s economy grew at half of the rate previously expected. Prior to the report, most analysts believed that the economy would grow 1.2 percent. More...
Daily Market Review – 4th December 2012
Promising signs that a revival in the Chinese economy could now be in progress were offset by worse-than-expected manufacturing news from the USA. Global stocks weakened in response to these developments as shown More...
Greek Aid Deal Completed, US Budget Talks Stall
Around 2 p.m. in New York, United States-based markets started to decline. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced prior to this that talks over the fiscal cliff were making little progress. By 4 p.m., the Standard More...
Euro Hits Three-Week High
As the week drew to an end, the euro managed to reach a three-week peak against the dollar. The euro has gained against the greenback over the last two weeks as the Eurozone approaches a much-need agreement to release More...