Echoes of 2008: Here we go again | The Economist

Echoes of 2008 Here we go again The Europeans are pushing the global banking system to the edge Oct 8th 2011 | from the print edition YOU know something bad is going to happen in a horror film when…


How well are you Hedged?

Why should you hedge?. The answer is simple, you can secure profits long term if you limit your risk. To understand hedging you must first understand a basic but ignored concept that all investors…


Promising USA Employment Data

US employers added 103,000 jobs in September, a modest burst of hiring after a sluggish summer. Still, job growth remains too weak to lower the unemployment rate, which stayed at 9.1 percent for the…


Occupy Wall St, the start of a new protest era?

(Reuters) - When Paul Friedman met the rag-tag youth camped out near Wall Street to protest inequality in the American economy, he felt he was witnessing the start of a protest movement not seen in…


Fitch cuts Italy, Spain ratings, outlook negative

(Reuters) - Fitch on Friday cut Italy's sovereign credit rating by one notch and Spain's by two, citing a worsening of the euro zone debt crisis and a risk of fiscal slippage in both countries. Fitch…