We start with analyzing the 4 problems and 4 solutions that Varoufakis presented in Barcelona, continue with the data dependent dollar drive and finish with a preview of the interesting week. You are welcome to listen, subscribe and provide feedback. Yanis Varoufakis in…
The global mood is souring but we keep the talk alive with mitigating the minutes from the Fed, explaining the can kicking exercise known as the Greek Bailout III and the commodity crash. Don’t worry, China is omnipresent in all topics and in…
We had two highly important deals: on Greece and on Iran, and both have significant market implications. After digesting the deals and their impact down the road, we preview the events of the next two weeks. You are welcome to listen, subscribe…
The Greek drama continues to dominate the news cycle and isn’t likely to get off the headlines until a bailout deal is struck or a final Greek exit decision is made. So even though the Greek debt crisis will likely…
We explain the current situation in the Greek crisis heading to a showdown. We make it less complicated than it seems and then explain what’s next. We then move the crisis in Chinese stocks as well as the fall in…
The recent NFP report wasn’t far off the market estimates as 223K jobs were added back in June, albeit the overall it wasn’t too impressive with lower participation rate and no gain in wages. But for this week the main…
The unlikely has finally happened: Greece has officially missed out on its 1.5 billion euros to the IMF. As a result the IMF also reported it will cut off any IMF financing until Greece pays back this sum. So Greece…
It was supposed to be short week that will focus on the latest non-farm payroll report, alas the Greeks will take center stage again as they will have a referendum on the proposed bailout plan set on July 5th. Athens plead…
As the whole debacle around the Greek debt crisis dissipates and takes the backburner for the near term, other economic developments could retake the center stage including the changes in the monetary policy of the FOMC and ECB. In the…
Precious metals prices resumed their upward trend mainly during the first couple of weeks of the September in anticipation of many bullion traders for another intervention of the FOMC. This bet paid off because on September 13th the FOMC announced…