currencies

The Dow Jones industrial Average could play a primary rol today: falling apart, is only 30 points of the minimum reached at 7900 basis points a few days ago.  If the Index falls under that level, we could see some “pannic selling” across the board, with Dollar to be the overall winner, followed by japanese […]

By Jerry Furst - Sr Analyst
Investors Education Network.com
The Week That Was: Nov 3 - 7 
Last Tuesday’s Historic US election of Barack Obama was followed by disappointing reaction from the markets, with ADP employment numbers confirming contraction on Wednesday. Thursday  got started with a monster 1.5% surprise interest rate cut by the Bank of England, and Friday closed the […]

By Jerry Furst - Sr Analyst
Investors Education Network
 
The Week Ahead - Calendar and Webinars
For my summarized Scheduled Economic Calendar - Click Here
Monday - US Election Coverage Goes Parabolic!
I’m expecting the markets to be really quiet Monday and Tuesday as the world sits back and pops enough pop corn for the next few days (or maybe weeks). […]

By Jerry Furst - Sr Analyst
Investors Education Network
 
The Dollar - Gives and Takes
The past few days have seen the US Dollar give back a small portion of it’s historic rally - save the Yen… This despite factors that fundamentally - “in normal times” - should have hammered the greenback. The biggest factor being the FOMC […]

By Jerry Furst - Sr Analyst
Investors Education Network
The Bernanke team at the FOMC is expected to lower rates by as much as 50 bps tommorrow. This as Jean Claude Trichet at the ECB, and the Bank of England are under pressure and telegraphing that they too will be lowering rates.
 
Live Webinars on FOMC and US GDP […]

By Jerry Furst - Sr Analyst
Investors Education Network
EU Meets Over the Weekend
Pumping in liquidity and propping up businesses was front and center this weekend as a crisis in confidence is being headed off by a symphony of concerted action by central banks and governments and the EU nations trying to maintain composure on their alliance. 
The […]

What Would You Do With Interest Rates?
The Federal Reserve is scheduled to make an interest rate announcement tomorrow afternoon - and it comes at a time when Ben Bernanke is walking a tight rope of what to do - and say.  The Dow dropped over 500 points on Monday - the worst drop since the […]

Systemic Risk at Hand
9pm Sunday and all is not well - The “systemic risk” that Hank Paulson and the US Treasury and Federal Reserve has been trying to ward off may be coming.  Reports are coming across fast and furious - one that there may be an emergency rate cut! Separating the rumors from fact is […]