by JD Lasinger | Jun 7, 2016 | Featured Posts
It is natural for a country that has historically played the role of the balancer in European diplomacy, keeping its distance from continental Europe as much as it can, to decide that it had enough. Britain’s choice to extricate itself from the European experiment,...
by JD Lasinger | Jun 6, 2016 | Market News
Major Events of Last Week Investor confidence took a direct hit last Friday when the US Department of labor issued its highly-anticipated Non-Farm Payroll (NFP) for May which badly missed economists’ expectations. American employers generated the smallest monthly job...
by JD Lasinger | Jun 2, 2016 | Featured Posts
It seems like the Fed rate hike hype is behind us now, and real data has taken over the markets. Main indexes dipped all throughout Wednesday’s trading, thanks to lackluster profit reports, gloomy economic growth prospects from the OECD and manufacturing reports that...
by JD Lasinger | Jun 2, 2016 | Featured Posts
It is widely known that fracking was the main reason why oil took a huge dive at around July 2014. The fact that crude has not recovered fully since, is a testament to the technique’s power, and the industrial capabilities that brought US oil markets back to...
by JD Lasinger | May 30, 2016 | Market News
Major Events of Last Week The USA revised its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for the first quarter of 2016 upwards last Friday although the enhanced growth was still insipid. This improvement was generated primarily by decreasing inventory stockpiles and increasing home...
