What happened to de-leveraging? What happened to all those bubble era mistakes? What happened to all that debt consumers were carrying? What happened to the Great Correction?

For more than a year, the "recovery" bounce in the stock market has refused to give up.

At least the economic model of the bubble era made sense. The producers produced. The consumers consumed. That worked great until the consumers ran out of money.

We are in a nascent recovery from the depths of the Great Recession, but the question is "what kind of recovery?"

As traders, we are constantly taught to seek out trading opportunities with a positive edge.

Every line in the financial world has a hook on it.

The dollar surged after the non-farm payrolls report because job growth excluding census workers was very strong.

A tentative bullish breakout for the US dollar has been summarily reversed. It is still too early to deem the currency’s pullback a true bear trend.

The euro may resume its four-month down trend after the European Central Bank delivers their monetary policy announcement as the Greek debt crisis returns to the forefront against a backdrop of a still lackluster interest rate outlook.

A Bloomberg News survey shows all of the 21 economists polled forecast the Bank of Japan to hold the benchmark interest rate at 0.10 percent next Wednesday as policy makers aim to balance the risks for the economy.