by JD Lasinger | Jul 5, 2016 | Featured Posts
Supply shocks affected the price of oil recently, sending it on an upward trend. A series of attacks in Nigeria and other calamities such as the wild fires in Alberta, helped buoy the price of crude for a while. With the fires under control, terrorist attacks on...
by JD Lasinger | Jun 29, 2016 | Featured Posts
The downturn that started on Friday, the day after Britain decided it wanted to part ways with the EU, was indeed exaggerated. Now the markets are taking a break from the self-flagellation, and investors seem to be returning to the fundamentals. Although it is too...
by JD Lasinger | Jun 28, 2016 | Featured Posts
Widespread panic is the only way to describe how the markets reacted to Brexit on Monday. The first week after 15.6 million Britons turned world markets over, the Pound seems to be in a free fall with oil, the Euro, and almost every major index and industrial metals...
by JD Lasinger | Jun 27, 2016 | Featured Posts
The unthinkable happened. It turns out that Greece was not the first one to leave the European Union, despite having many more reasons to do so than any other member. It was the UK that delivered the first blow to a weakened union, which just a year earlier was...
by JD Lasinger | Jun 27, 2016 | Market News
Major Events of Last Week Global investors were stunned late last week by the surprised decision of Great Britain to exit the European Union which subsequently generated levels of high price volatility and chaos last recorded during the 2008 equity meltdown. For...
