Currencies
Daily Data Flow: Stocks Fall on Fed Minutes; Trade Speculation Lowers Oil; Fed Minutes Aid Dollar Growth
Today's release of minutes from the Federal Reserve's last meeting showed debate regarding the direction of further stimulus...
Daily Data Flow: S&P Hits Five-Year High; Homebuilder Confidence Down; Yen up on Easing Disagreement
Optimism towards dealmaking has raised the S&P 500 to its highest point in five years. “More deals out...
Daily Data Flow: Stocks Steady as Buffet Buys Heinz; Airline Merger Reduces Flight Options; Discouraging Data Pushes Euro Down
Countering investor concern over the shrinking Japanese and European economies, Warren Buffet's deal for Heinz, as well as...
The Global Guru: How to Make Money from the ‘Big Mac Index’
If you are an average American, you probably don't give much thought to currencies. Yet currencies have a...
Daily Data Flow: S&P Falls after Six-Week Climb; Central Bank Comments Boost Euro; State of the Union
Today, after six weeks of gains, culminating in the S&P 500's highest point since late 2007, the S&P...
Daily Data Flow: European Agreement Boosts Stocks; Americans Using Home Equity; Yen Jumps
European leaders arrived at a budget agreement today, eliminating the uncertainty of the previous few days and giving...
Daily Data Flow: Stocks Fluctuate on Europe Concerns; Oil Flat Today; Euro Falls against Dollar
While earnings surpassed estimates, U.S. stocks fluctuated as investors were concerned about Europe's debt crisis in anticipation of...
Making Money Alert: The New Currency War
Unless you’ve traveled to Tokyo recently, you may not have noticed that over the past several months, the...
Daily Data Flow: Jobs Data Boosts Dow Past 14,000; Auto Sales Strong in January; Euro Beats Dollar and Yen
Manufacturing and jobs data released today pushed U.S. stocks upward, allowing the Dow to jump 148.14 points, 1.1%,...
Daily Data Flow: U.S. Economy Shrinks; Fed Continues Stimulus;Dollar Hits Low against Euro
From October through December 2012, the U.S. economy experienced its first shrinking since the end of the recession....