Posts Tagged ‘LongTerm’
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This afternoon’s investment data from Treasury International Capital (TIC) revealed worse than forecast growth in foreign investment levels for domestic, long-term securities. The TIC Long-Term Purchases report measures the difference between domestic securities purchased by foreign investors and foreign securities purchased by domestic investors.
A positive reading represents a higher level of foreign investment in [...]
Price action on USD/CAD (a daily chart of which is shown) as of Monday (5/02/2011) has established yet a new long-term 3+ year low at 0.9445 before rebounding back up to re-test prior support in the 0.9500 price region. This occurs within the context of strong bearish environment within a longstanding overall downtrend. For more [...]
I assume he refers to the sovereign debt crisis, though the headline is not specific…
Italy needs significant spending curbs to fix public finances
The presumptive next head of the ECB, when Draghi talks, we listen…
EUR/USD is finding good buying on dips to the 1.4775/80; sellers on rallies toward 1.4840/50…rinse, repeat.
Price action on USD/CAD (a daily chart of which is shown) as of Friday (4/22/2011) has established yet a new 3+ year low at 0.9453 before bouncing back up above key 0.9500 support. This occurs within the context of a strong and well-formed parallel downtrend channel extending back to the October 2010 high. For more [...]
Price action on EUR/CHF (a daily chart of which is shown) as of Tuesday (4/12/2011) has respected key resistance around the 1.3200 price region and turned to the downside, essentially keeping the long-term downtrend that has been in place since late 2007 intact. For more technical analysis on this currency pair, please click here for [...]
Price action on GBP/USD (a daily chart of which is shown) as of Tuesday (3/22/2011) has broken out to the upside to hit a new long-term high around 1.6400, nearly a 14-month high for this currency pair, also breaking the trading range consolidation that has characterized GBP/USD since early February. This occurs within the context [...]
Dollar value not a primary goal of monetary policy
Credit access improving for small business
Banks starting to ease lending standards
(MONEY Magazine) — If you have long-term-care insurance, get ready for sticker shock.
John Hancock wants to hike premiums for the bulk of its customers by an average of 40% this year; Genworth Financial (GNW, Fortune 500) is asking for an 18% increase on some policies; and other insurers are expected to follow. Meanwhile, MetLife [...]
Most of the discussion between Bernanke and the Senate Banking committee has been on the looming budget crisis in the as entitlement spending is expected to short higher later this decade as the baby-boomers head into retirement.
All very nice, but any spending and tax reform is months, if not years away…A little but more red [...]
