The forecast for non-farm payrolls is 150k. The whisper number is 500k.

It's better than a prediction. It's what you should believe, even if it turns out to be wrong.

The person lumpenproletarian can't easily increase his income.  So if he wants to improve his financial circumstances, all he can do is to work on the expense side of the ledger, not the income side.

The first two trading days of 2011 has been very kind to USD/JPY.

On the one hand, the deflationary contraction that began in 2007 will continue shrinking prices and economic growth.  On the other hand, the inflationary expansion of the money supply that began in 2009 will go on too.

Boris Schlossberg has one destructive trading behavior to stop for 2011.

The US dollar finished 2010 on a weak note, falling against all G10 currency counterparts in the final week of trading.

Price action can be misleading if you are simply looking for a reflection of a currency’s health via its relative level on the market.

The Japanese yen gained over 2 percent against the dollar over the past week as declining U.S. yields sunk the greenback.

The bullish breakout in the British pound may gather pace in January as it carves out a bottom during the holiday trade, but the exchange rate may consolidate over the following week as the economic docket is expected to reinforce a weakened outlook.