Stock News 2011 has proved to be a tough year for stocks in the tech sector.  Just look at the performance of the tech-heavy NASDAQ, an index that is up only 1.2% year-to-date, indicating little buying interest in tech stocks, and marking a flat performance for ...

Beginners Guide Different currency pairs can often be seen to move together, sharing a similar chart pattern and increasing and decreasing in value at the same time. These can be seen to be correlated, sharing direction and mimicking the movements of the other. The level ...

Europe Investors watching the US Labor Department non-farm payroll report had reason to be optimistic, as the dip below 400,000 in unemployment claims seems to indicate a light at the end of the tunnel for the country’s ailing labor market. The US labor ...

Europe Greece is in the process of making a U-turn on it’s democratic, but somewhat predictable, decision to hold a referendum on its bailout options. Predictable not in the sense that it was something which was bound to happen in the cradle of democracy that ...

Stock Picks The US economy has been on a seemingly never-ending treadmill as of late.  Primarily consumer spending driven, the economy has stalled on low consumer confidence levels, exacerbated by continuous media coverage of said low confidence levels, slow job ...

Beginners Guide Risk management is an absolutely essential requirement to becoming successful in forex trading. It is quite possibly the single most important discipline for a trader to develop and can make even the most average trading strategy potentially very profitable. ...

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 ...

Technical Analysis Technical analysts have seen several clear-cut opportunities to enter the market over the past two trading days as several currency pairs and commodities approach significant resistance levels. Classic reversal patterns has successfully played out in ...

Stock Picks European markets fell Tuesday morning, and US market were set to open lower following the Greek announcement that a vote on the bailout package will be allowed, throwing into question the fate of Greece in the European union, and igniting calls for the ...

Forex News One of the principle reasons why many traders refuse to get involved with the Japanese yen is because of situations such as today’s, where intervention by the Ministry of Finance manipulated the value and sent it spiralling in early Monday trading. ...