Fears that rising oil prices will strangle the economic recovery and produce a double-dip recession appear overblown.A barrel of oil on the New York Mercantile Exchange recently fetched $78.55, 4.2%

Risky assets remained in favor during the past week, generally helped along by fairly robust economic data and better-than-expected corporate earnings reports. A number of bourses, crude oil, inflati

Once again everyone is hyperventilating over "secret" moves to trade oil in currencies other than the US dollar. Please consider The Demise of the Dollar by Robert Fisk.  “In

Rents Falling Everywhere Given that the official measure of Consumer Price Index (CPI) is based on rents not housing prices, consider the following links courtesy of Lanser on Real Estate: Really? Re

After starting the week with a broad-based sell-off, stock markets resumed their 5-month uptrend as investors’ confidence in the recovery prospects of the global economy gained traction. With r

Risky assets last week again marched higher to the tune of economic data supporting the argument of a global economic recovery. A realization among investors that the economic transition from recessi

Last week, caution crept back into investors’ vocabularies for the first time in more than 3 months as they faced up to President Barack Obama’s plan to reform the US financial marke

Ups and downs on financial markets were plentiful during the past week, but investor sentiment, on balance, brightened on the back of constructive financial and economic data - capped by a better-tha

Battle lines are being drawn. Sides chosen. Allegiances cemented. But this war won't be waged with bullets; instead, it will be fought with words and ideas. The dollar wars are heating up. Just

I promise this column isn't becoming Macke & Me; about a frustrated man's relationship with his dog. Marley and Me somehow both sucked and blew as a movie. Also, Beulah was a good dog. I trained