Oil Prices

I seem to recall EU leadership stating that it would not be dictated by the market. The point was that Europe needed to find the right solutions for its… Read more

Yesterday, a Euro Central Bank official was credited with sparking a rally when he said that the European… Read more

Oil is more useful as an indicator than even stocks because of one thing: business. … Read more

Well, that didn't take long. It hasn't even been a week since EU leaders burned the midnight oil to reach a deal that might help Greece manage its debt… Read more

From a low of 1,075, the S&P 500 rallied 210 points, closing at 1,253 yesterday. That’s a 16.5% gain in a month. And there are some… Read more

A number of oil stocks are worth putting on your radar screen with the aftermath of Hurricane Irene barreling up the East Coast over the … Read more

How badly did investors want to put their cash into safe-havens during yesterday’s huge sell-off? Money market rates went negative at one… Read more

Financial markets like money. When the Fed was pumping cash in to the system via QE2, stocks moved relentlessly higher.
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Over the weekend, new capital requirement rules for large banks were finalized. Known as Basel III, these rules will add as much… Read more