In the U.S., economic data continues to be eclipsed, at least in the media, by the financing frenzy surrounding the Facebook IPO which is set to launch tomorrow. Nonetheless, there were some events ...

Only a few headlines dominated the media this week, and most of those originated in the eurozone. It began over the weekend when key elections in France, Greek and Germany swept out the incumbents and...

In the U.S., a sizeable Wall Street rally precipitated by better-than-expected manufacturing data petered out on first eurozone growth issues, then ADP’s disappointing employment report. At the ...

(eToro Blog) The U.S. Federal Reserve took center stage this week as markets focused on their response to an improving economy despite headwinds generated by a global slowdown in general, and ...

(eToro Blog) In the Eurozone, investors who endured a week in which there was a clear resumption of uncertainty and fear over peripheral debt contagion were heaving a sigh of relief on the news that ...

(eToro Blog) In the U.S., last Friday’s release of non-farms payroll labor both surprised and disappointed markets. Analysts had expected that the March data would show a 4th consecutive month ...

The week in review culminated with the crash of the EUR/USD pair, which lost more than 130 pips yesterday before recovering. That was precipitated by the ECB’s rate decision and ECB chief Mario ...

In the U.S., the various members of the Federal Reserve Bank have all recently given speeches during which they discussed the Fed’s policy relative to the U.S. economy. But no sole ...

In this week’s review, we turn first to Wall Street, which had been consistently climbing higher on various U.S. economic data points that confirmed that the economy is slowly but steadily being...

(eToro Blog) Market analysts and investors have anticipated that the rising tensions in the Middle East and Iran would be a boon to oil prices; now Shell’s CEO, Peter Voser, confirms that oil ...