I had an e-mail exchange with an old fried who now works for a large macro hedge fund up in Greenwich. The broad topic was the very long list of signs that the global economy is hitting...

If you haven’t read it yet, Simone Foxman has a very good roundup of the various sub-plots in the European drama that are causing investors to freak out again… just days after a EU Summit that was...

Hedge fund manager Bill Fleckenstein states in a column on MSN Money that given the stage at which the European Monetary Union has arrived in the crisis of the common currency, the big problem right now is...

Peter Spiegel of the FT has a must-read piece on the urgency of the current EU Summit, which includes this key insight… Although Italy does not have Spain’s banks, Greece’s economy, or Ireland’s deficits, it is easy...

From Dan Greenhaus at BTIG, a fantastic chart that needs virtually no explanation. The red line is the S&P 500 and the blue line is a homebrewed index of companies that are virtually all domestically based (names...

Leading cyber security firm McAfee has issued a startling breaking news report that indicates the U.S., European and Latin American financial systems are under a massive financial attacks that have digitally siphoned some $ 2.5 billion from...

Germany famously austere and harsh Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble is the subject of a Der Spiegel interview in which he defends the Euro and Germany’s motives in acting the way it has. There are some funny, eye-rolly...

And the week begins, and it’s off to a rough start, particularly in Europe. Spain and Italy, the two countries that everyone cares about are both getting slammed. Spanish stocks are off 1.75% Italy’s FTSE MIB stock...

Asian markets rallied after the weekend’s Greek elections, but the market respite is fading. With yields on Spanish 10-year bonds surging, Asian stock markets have started trading lower. Meanwhile, stocks in Japan were also hit by a...

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