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Gold is up big today and trading like the monetary printing presses are ready to kick into overdrive. We believe the recent Fed speak about QE3, possible BofJ intervention to weaken the yen, and growing expectations that tomorrow’s…

Key points: German Flash Composite Index at 2-month high; Flash Services Index at 3-month high; French Flash Composite Index at 29-month low; Flash Services Index at 27-month low

In case you have noticed recently the Euro and S&P500 seem to be moving together almost tick for tick. Here are the daily moves in futures over the past month. Makes you think they’re both dancing to the same tune by the Algorithmics,…

According to China Daily, China owns $1.13 trillion of US debt. China has $3.20 trillion in foreign exchange reserves.

Now watch the Greek protestors turn on each other. Makes you wonder if an EU plan to be announced Wednesday is really going to solve the core issues of the crisis in the eurozone: 1) too much debt that can't be paid back; 2) debt/credit…

Nicholas Sarkozy has some sharp words about the crisis.

It’s kind of useless, in our opinion, to be looking at the technicals as the market approaches the big life or death event. The EU debt plan is either going to be taken positively, in which case the S&P500 will break through the…

The Chinese trade surplus has dwindled. But pressure to revalue the Yuan remains. Video below

Europe is way over banked and the chart illustrates the monumental task and cost of recapitalizing some of their largest banks. The size of the largest four banking institutions in France, for example, represents over 300 percent of the…

Great graphic constructed by Mobile Phone Tracker coming to us via Nicholas Jackson of The Atlantic. We were surprised that only $7.00 goes to Foxconn to manufacture each unit. Here are some of Jackson’s favorite “facts and figures” of the…