America Once again, the domination of risk sentiment in determining the general trends of currency values worldwide was evident again today. The strong correlation between the largest U.S stock index, the S&P500, and major currency pairs offers an insight ...

America In a move that is surprising to almost no one who has been following United States politics, the United States Super Committee has plans to announce on Monday that it has failed to complete its charge of tackling the mounting debt issue in the US. On ...

America The United States stock market futures pointed to a higher opening on Friday morning, in spite of vexations over the state of the European union’s lingering debt crisis and Thursday’s demonstrations seen in the United States, Italy and Greece, ...

America The US economy has been struggling to recover from the financial crisis of 2008, as modest improvements in the labor market and consumer confidence have lifted hopes of an improvement in the economy, the housing market has remained stubbornly sluggish. At ...

America US stock markets advanced on Wednesday morning ahead of a monetary policy statement by the Federal Reserve and following better than anticipated news concerning the US jobs report.  Led by banks and energy, all 10 sectors in the S&P 500 were up at ...

America US markets opened higher on Thursday morning on encouraging earnings and economic reports, and the outline of a plan by European leaders to solve the debt crisis that has been plaguing the Euro zone.  Breaking through the psychologically important level ...

America As investors continue to wait to see if Europe can agree on a major boost to their rescue fund to backstop sovereign debt and the financial institutions that own it, news on the US economy has turned slightly more positive for September. In August, economic ...