Financial Markets around the world are facing a severe volatility induced by divided views & uncertainty over the outcome of [...]

Then: Risk-On/Risk-Off. JPMorgan’s Marko Kolanovic head of Equity Derivatives Strategy explains: Over the last 5 years, Treasuries and Equities had strong negative [...]

Don’t you just love how some things are named? Like the Federal Reserve System, for instance. It’s a central bank [...]

The Federal Reserve has a dual mandate to promote maximum sustainable employment and price stability. In its attempt to achieve these objectives, [...]

Why 2013 could be the best year to buy gold since 2008 Quantitative easing, the oft-referenced $85 billion per month [...]

The next formal policy statement from the Federal Reserve could prove to be unfriendly to the current stock market rally. [...]

“Good news is good news and bad news is good news” is a refrain that we have consistently heard over [...]

It is immeasurably easier to digitally create claims on real-world assets than it is to create real-world assets. We all [...]

Joseph Schumpeter, the originator of the phrase “creative destruction,” authored a less well-known corollary at some point in the 1930s. [...]

Nothing lasts forever, apparently not even quantitative easing. On Wednesday, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke threatened to take away the massive [...]

As usual, the markets were hanging on every word of the Bernanke testimony to Congress today (Wednesday). By now, everyone should know [...]

It appears (as we noted here) that the size of the balance sheet, difficulty of the exit, frothiness of markets, and [...]

Exit strategy – is the current buzz phrase among market watchers, with the dollar rallying in recent days and weeks [...]

Gold prices advanced modestly as the market awaits the Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke’s testimony on the economy and monetary [...]

We are going to start off with one of the most eye-popping pictures of just one central bank, the privately owned corporate [...]