Is possibility of more QE the only thing keeping stocks above...
While his given view is not new news, voting member Williams in a speech released two hours ago said “if further action is called...
Brokers Lose Own $2 Billion in Bad 401(k) Bank Bets
Wall Street employees, who dispense financial advice to individuals and companies, aren’t following a basic investing tenet with their...
Banks’ Defenses to Potential Trillions in Libor Claims Fail
All 3 Libor Defenses Fail The big banks have been manipulating the world’s central economic indicator – Libor – for decades,...
No major decisions from EZ finance ministers meeting
Japanese machinery orders declined -14.8% in May, MoM, the largest decline since 2001. In addition, Japan’s current account surplus...
Books Bought By Big Picture Readers (June 2012)
Click to enlarge: Once again, its time to peruse the data to see which books TBP readers bought last month. Amazon’s embed code lets me...
ETF Comparison Tools
Popular ETFs Trading volume and market capitalization are the metrics that we’ve used to measure the popularity of ETFs. • Most...
QE1-2 Operation Twist(s) Market Impact
From Ron Griess of the Chart Store, a very telling chart above. Every subsequent Fed intervention seems to have a...
Rents On The Rise
Click to enlarge: The Wall Street Journal – Rents Increase as Vacancies Dry Up Landlords boosted apartment rents to record levels in...
Sovereign guarantees of ESM bailouts?
Well, maybe that EU summit agreement to cut the link between banks and its sovereign isn’t as clean as originally thought....