The daily chart for IBM, which has recently been registering all-time highs, reveals a candlestick sequence that can be a precursor to a change or pause in the current trend.

In the first quarter, the economy grew at a 1.8% annual rate, said the estimate. That is equivalent to the average real rate of growth for the US economy since 1925. The only trouble is, this growth isn't real.

This age of deleveraging will produce a fundamentally different economic environment. Whether this deleveraging is orderly, as now appears to be the case in Britain, or more resembles what will be a violent default in Greece, it will create a profoundly different economic world from the one we have lived in for 60 years.

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From the point of view of a modern economist, nothing stimulates better than a bank robbery.

A dovish Federal Reserve and fresh multi-year highs in the Dow Jones Industrial Average sunk the US dollar to new lows against the euro and other key counterparts.

The interest rate outlook is the primary concern this week as the European Central Bank (ECB) is set to reconsider its monetary policy approach on Thursday.

The Japanese yen continued to appreciate against the U.S. dollar during the final week of April, with the exchange rate slipping to a fresh monthly low.

Monetary policy expectations are in focus for the British pound, with correlation studies suggesting the influence of relative yield spreads over the exchange rate is at the strongest relative to that of risk sentiment since August of last year.

The Canadian dollar continue its trend of strength against the US dollar.