by | Jan 6, 2011 | Towing
The dollar is looking mighty attractive, thanks to a reviving U.S. economy and eurozone woes, and it will only get stronger as traders who gambled that it would fall buy dollars to unwind their bad bets. Add in China’s desperat…
by | Dec 29, 2010 | Towing
The big winners of 2010 scored returns far above those of U.S. markets by piggybacking on China’s ferocious growth. But rebounding American equities look mighty impressive next to the year’s real losers: the victims of the euro…
by | Dec 29, 2010 | Towing
While most of the world’s central banks are still fighting the last war, Sweden’s Riksbank has moved on to the next one. Rather than looking at conventional inflation gauges, the world’s oldest central bank is basing its action…
by | Dec 9, 2010 | Towing
Fitch Ratings has downgraded Ireland three notches from A to BBB , citing the costs of restructuring the Irish banking system, the country’s weak growth prospects, and uncertainty about its economy due to the deepening financi…
by | Dec 7, 2010 | Towing
The notion that the EU could issue a eurozone-wide bond is probably the most sweeping proposal yet to relieve country debt problems. But the ad hoc measures Europe has been taking to put out fires are likely to remain the statu…