Is The Social Media Bubble About To Burst?
The social media bubble has a lot of attention these days. The prognosticators of tech have their eyes trained on the changes of social media today and if you’re old enough to remember the old days of the dotcom boom, you’re also old enough to remember the fantastic rollercoaster ride that preceded its own implosion....Read More →
Bitcoin Currency Exchange: Worth it?
The bitcoin currency exchange might be a revolution. What else can you buy at $93.03 and sell at $1,124.37 just eight months later? That’s exactly what would have happened if you’d bought Bitcoins on March 30, 2013 and liquidated on November 30th. (11) A 12-times return in just eight months. Safe? Not especially. Yet the...Read More →
The Greatest Market Crash In History: Is It Around the Corner?
The recent spate of reported suicides among high profile bankers has gotten conspiracy theorists in a bona fide tizzy . Across the pond in England, ex-Deutsche Bank exec William Broeksmit committed suicide by hanging on January 26. A day later, a chief economist for Russell Investments named Mike Deuker reportedly leaped to his death down...Read More →
The Hull Moving Average: Enhance Your Trading Strategy
Traders have long used moving averages to measure momentum and define areas of support and resistance. Moving averages are calculated by averaging the value of a security’s price over a set amount of time, with the result being a curve that smooths price fluctuations. This tool’s main weakness lies in how it is calculated; because...Read More →
Yen Jumps on Risk Aversion After Quake
FOREX- The yen earlier earlier trimmed some of its gains as a 100-basis-point drop versus the dollar spurred vague talk of yen-selling intervention by Japanese authorities. Traders later said there was no intervention, but they were wary Japan may act to stem a sharp yen rise, especially if the dollar were to fall below 80 yen.
Euro Rises On Rates
The Euro rises on rates Friday after remarks by a European Central Bank member revived expectations of higher interest rates in the euro zone. The single currency has been intermittently pressured this week by Middle East tensions and investors focusing on the 17-nation currency bloc’s still-unresolved debt problems. But Friday, ECB executive board member Lorenzo Bini...Read More →
An Investment Where Profits Flow
The leak of an Enbridge oil pipeline in Michigan, which came on the heels of BP PLC’s massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, threatened to tarnish Enbridge’s reputation. And the costs associated with the cleanup looked as though they might ripple through the company’s smooth earnings flow.
Forex Today
Euro strength today is capping off a rebound week against the US dollar with the EUR/USD pair reaching 1.3650 in Friday’s forex trading. The pair is demonstrating renewed bullishness this week after a retreat from the 1.3861 February 1st high to a February 14th low of 1.3428. Today’s action has seen the pair ascend with...Read More →