Ian Wyatt

Ireland recently joined Greece, Portugal and Spain to round out the PIGS acronym of debt-downgraded European nations.

It’s a legacy Europe… Read more

Citigroup (NYSE:C) and Bank of America (NYSE:BAC) both posted disappointing earnings this morning. Both banks beat quarterly… Read more

There’s lots going on in the news cycle right now, between the new finance regulations and BP (NYSE: BP) capping its well, every news… Read more

China’s monetary tightening campaign to prevent inflation and asset bubbles has lowered inflation to an annualized 2.9%. Investors should prepare now for a rebound in commodity prices as fears of Chinese… Read more

I wrote about lithium two weeks ago, and I mentioned why it’s so great for batteries. There are lots of highly technical reasons, but they mostly boil down to… Read more

It’s hard to be disappointed with JP Morgan’s (NYSE:JPM) $1.09 a share earnings for the second quarter…. Read more

Intel’s blowout earnings report last night is certainly making it look as though earnings estimates were revised too low for corporations. And so… Read more

Whereas the scientist Dr. Werner Heisenberg is famous for his Uncertainty Principle of quantum physics, I’m somewhat less notorious for my Certainty Principle… Read more

Last week’s rally ahead of earnings was a good indication that the stock market had priced in lower 2Q earnings estimates. And in fact, … Read more