GBR Market Wrap: Who is to Blame for the MF Global Collapse?
With an estimated $1.2bn in customer assets still missing, the clients of MF Global are obviously outraged. Who is to blame for their collapse?
Economics
GBR Market Wrap: Markets Indicate an Imminent Default by Greece
All eyes were on Greece, Italy, and Spain again as if we don’t have a mess in our own economic backyard. Nevertheless, the situation in Europe is grave.
GBR Market Wrap: Do Central Bank Interventions Work?
Last week, we looked at a perfect central bank intervention. Markets reacted immediately shedding about 400 points off the value of the Yen against the Dollar.
GBR Market Wrap: Eurozone Crisis Continues; U.S. Unemployment May be at Turning Point
Although the unemployment rate remains stubbornly high, the trend is going in the right direction and the number of long-term unemployed fell.
GBR Market Wrap: All Eyes on Europe
Despite positive market signals and an extension of a Greek default, fundamentally nothing has changed and more is sure to unfold in this European saga.
GBR Market Wrap: Inflation Disorientation
Experts contend actual inflation is substantially higher than currently reported via the CPI, closer to the financial pinch consumers have been experiencing.
GBR Market Wrap: How to Position Your Trades
The markets have been in a tight trading range all summer. Are there any signs of a change in this side-ways trend?
GBR Market Wrap: S&P 500 Déjà Vu?
Chartists and technical traders were spooked by a rather strange form of déjà vu this week.
GBR Market Wrap: U.S. Stocks End Gloomy Third Quarter on a Weak Note
It’s the end of the quarter and a rather tumultuous summer for investors. September was particularly unappealing at -7.18% for the month.
GBR Market Wrap: Focusing on the Positives
We decided to give our readers a bit of a break this week by focusing on the positives among the plethora of bad news emanating from the markets.
VIDEO: Southern California Grocery Strike Averted
Dr. David Smith offers his insight into the Southern California grocery worker negotiations and its larger implications for labor unions as a whole.
PODCAST: The Impact of Defecit Reduction on the U.S. Labor Market
In this podcast interview, Dr. Don M. Atwater explains how decreases in public sector employment will push back the recovery of the U.S. labor market.
GBR Market Wrap: Can More Government Really Help?
U.S. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner points out the elephant in the room (i.e. the political dysfunction of governments).
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GBR Market Wrap: Euro Crisis Abroad, Jobs Stimulus at Home
Developments in Europe are showing the effects of investors who have lost the least bit of hope that Greece can come out of their quagmire without a default.