The U.S. Dollar index is a geometrically average of six currencies weighted against the U.S. dollar. It was created by the Federal Reserve in 1973. The index contains six currencies: the euro, Japanese yen, British pound, Canadian dollar, Swedish krona and Swiss franc. The euro replaced now-defunct five European currencies – the Deutsch Mark, the [...]

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EWI senior analyst Jeffrey Kennedy shows you how to identify quality trade setups with supporting technical indicators.

“I always will be an Elliottician, but other technical tools have merit and are indeed worthwhile: they allow me to build a case, build a more confident reason for making a forecast and for taking a trade; making [...]

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Some of the greatest problem solvers in history — Albert Einstein, for example — know that the secret to solving complex problems requires simplicity.

Einstein’s simple equation (E = mc²) revolutionized math and science because it offered a single simple solution to so [...]

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Financial historians will eventually describe the past 30 years as a time when investors embraced epic levels of financial risk.

Stock mutual funds are now so popular that they outnumber stocks. Bond, real estate and other types of mutual funds also exploded in number. Many financial instruments — such [...]

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The federal government defines the Producer Price Index (PPI) as “the average change over time in the selling prices received by domestic producers for their output.” With help from the Federal Reserve’s massive inflationary policies, the PPI has climbed even as the economy began to fall in 2008-09. All [...]

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Senior Analyst Jeffrey Kennedy shows you how these volatility indicators support pattern recognition

As a technical trader, are you able to view financial market fluctuations clearly and reliably?

At Elliott Wave International, we hold that the Elliott Wave Principle is the most effective tool for analysis. Yet the Wave Principle works well with other technical [...]

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The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and the Indian Ministry of Finance seem to be at loggerhead. The government is concerned with the slowing growth and is trying to implement growth policies and dropping strong hints to RBI to provide some help.

In its mid-year economic analysis presented in Parliament on Monday, the finance ministry [...]

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That would be, drumroll please, Chicago Fed President Charles Evans, again. This is via MarketWatch:

In a speech to the C.D. Howe Institute, an independent not-for-profit economic research firm based in Toronto, Evans said policy makers should vow low rates until unemployment falls below 6.5%, as long as inflation is not forecast to rise above [...]

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Courtsey Sid Verma of Euromoney:

Carney cuts a statesman-like figure, rising above partisan affiliation, respected even by his detractors, and consistently open to dialogue, say bankers, all of whom are critical of the intellectual and operational thrust of Basel III.

But, Carney seems to be having a running feud with JP Morgan’s Jamie Dimon or, [...]

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Citing Wall Street Journal, Business Insider reports that Amazon is seeking to raise $3 billion in debt. This is the good side of low interest rates. Perhaps, Amazon has big expansion plans.

And why not? It’s paying 0.38 to 0.93 percentage points more than comparable Treasury rates in interest for the bonds, which mature in [...]

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