Global Worries Boost Dollar – Reuters Oil Falls to 14-week Low – Bloomberg Russia Orders Halt to War – Reuters The Multi-Billion Dollar Olympics – Weekly Standard Lessons from the Credit Crunch – The American What to Make of Oil’s Weakness – RealClearMarkets What Hath the Fed Wrought? – FT Portfolios One Third of New [...]

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The Olympics in Beijing officially started today after months of pre-game scrutiny. China has gotten a lot of attention this past year as commodities such as corn and crude rose to new highs because of the high demand coming from them. In the following video below, Senior Market Strategist Jeff Friedman, gives an interesting analysis [...]

Friedman’s Futures Forecast: August By Jeff Friedman Last month, my big-picture themes for traders were to keep your eye on the U.S. dollar, and also China. These remain driving factors this month, too. But now, in early August, one major trend has changed: commodities are no longer going through the roof and are in midst [...]