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U.S. Trade Deficit Narrows: Which Country Is Hit Hardest?

When the economy tumbles, it is getting even harder to rid the cheap imports from China.

Options Trader: Super Tuesday Outlook

House price up while oil price down. That is the wet dream of you and many other politicians, but will never happen in this country in the next decade.

Japan: Ready to Soar on Lower Oil Prices

CLH, you are wrong. The lower oil price stands for credit crunch. It is very bad. If you see oil price heading 50 bucks, the credit market will be done, VIX will be over 40 and Ted Spread over 300bps.

Japan: Ready to Soar on Lower Oil Prices

I think just the opposite, higher oil price is good for Japan, that is a country in deflation and desperately needs to reflate its economy.

Global Returns: Stocks Down, Bonds Down

You should also add the currency depreciation/appreciat... into the chart. Compare index returns without that is meaningless. You will reconsider South Africa market as a winner if you look at the dismal performance of its currency as of late.

Global P/E Ratios: How the U.S. Stacks Up

hollowman, so I guess you mean Nikkei 225 should have the highest PEs among all countries all the time as it gets the lowest interest rate in Japan?
All this monetary policy with cheap money is the root cause for all these troubles, get rid of those financial opiums, otherwise, we move from one bubble to another and finally end up losing the next decade like Japan did.