Posts Tagged ‘Need’
The euro fell to $1.310 by 2:30 pm in New York on Monday and continues to be assailed on two fronts. Investors clearly remain unmoved by the outcome of the weekend summit meeting and this has money leaving the euro in favor of safer destinations. In addition, the European Central Bank’s back-to-back interest rate cuts [...]
NFC Technology Picking Up Steam: What Investors Need to Know
by Justin Dove, Investment U Research
Friday, September 30, 2011
Two recent events have likely ushered the dawn of NFC smartphone technology in the mainstream marketplace.
Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) finally released Google Wallet on September 19,
Isis announced this week that a handful of major handset manufacturers are already showing [...]
Computers can do in a microsecond what would take humans hours to do manually. Beginning with the U.S. equities market more than 15 years ago, algorithmic trading has become common in major financial markets – and has penetrated the foreign-exchange market in a big way in recent years.
FX algorithmic trading infographic courtesy of Interbank FX
Currently [...]
Economy on the mend
need to ensure oil prices don’t boost general inflation rates
Does not believe US in imminent inflation danger
Margaret Thatcher
famously quipped , “The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.” But the former prime minister of the United Kingdom was only half right: What’s really wrong with socialism is its philosophy.
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German Q4 GDP confirmed at +0.4% q/q, +4.0% y/y, as expected
Euro zone February economic sentiment 107.8, up from revised 106.8 in January (previous 106.5), better than median forecast 106.8. Consumer inflation expectations 25.7, sharp rise from 20.9 in January. The read is significantly above the long-term average since 1990 of 20.6 points and will be [...]
Ed. Note: What follows was adapted from a post for WSJ.com’s Financial Adviser blog. The original post is
here .
Let’s not turn this into a Tea Party forum or a political circus. I’m just relaying the facts. We can whip out our contradictory charts showing how higher taxes either bolster or crush the economy later.
Obama introduced [...]
Quotas? We don’t need no stinking quotas …
You know how you just roll right on through stop signs with nary a hesitation … when you’re in residential areas, parking lots, or anytime you’re the only vehicle around. You know exactly what that big red and white sign means. But you also know there is no [...]
We’re perfectly happy eating in a Chinese restaurant. But will we start banking in a Chinese bank?
It’s not as crazy as it sounds. As The Wall Street Journal’s Lingling Wei
reported Wednesday , the Bank of China here in the U.S. has started allowing American customers to open an account and to invest up to $4,000 [...]
