June 2010

By Marc Chandler of Brown Brothers Harriman Highlights The US dollar has seen its initial gains scored in Asia pared, but the risk is that North American players resume the buying of the greenback.  The euro initially fell to about…

Everybody in the west knows the fabled effectiveness of weight-loss dietary programs designed around intense cardiovascular regimes which burn huge amounts of calories. The people who work hard, doing as much cardio as possible lose weight.…

By Marc Chandler of Brown Brothers Harriman. Highlights US dollar was mostly firmer vs. majors, with EUR/USD making new multi-year lows after breaking 1.20.  More jitters about Hungary didn’t help the euro.  Yen was stronger…

Must-read: The paradox of public thrift FT.com - Edward Chancellor - The dreadful potential of frugality The Usual Fare Black Flight is the New Worry for Detroit - WSJ.com Sieben Menschen: Staatsziel sparen - so fühlt sich…

By John Lounsbury. Here is some astounding news:  BP PLC (BP) has 97% of the most serious safety violations at U.S. refineries over the past 35 months.  In the very top "egregious" category, BP has 99.9% of all…

In the next four months more than 500,000 job losses are baked in the cake. The reason? The temporary Census workers hired so far this year will be largely ending their assignments during the third quarter and will be looking for employment…

By David Galland, Managing Director, Casey Research Digging through the entrails of the fundamentals associated with the global economy and markets, it increasingly strikes me that there is really only one investment I’d now consider a…

Must Reads: Mark Thoma Economist's View: Things are Different at the Zero Bound Economist's View: It Wasn't Fannie, Freddie, or the CRA Bank Failures FDIC: Press Releases - Great Western Bank, Sioux Falls, South Dakota,…

Lakshman Achuthan is a Managing Director at the Economic Cycle Research Institute. ECRI studies recessions and recoveries, forecasting economic and inflation cycle turns for all major market economies using a rigorous and objective…

Courtesy of FinViz.com, these heat maps give you an idea of stock and asset allocation performance yesterday.   Here are the same heat maps for the year-to-date: