The only way to pay off old lenders is to bring in new ones.

When equities and USD/JPY are moving in different directions, Kathy Lien likes to look at the commodity and Treasury markets for more clarity on investor sentiment.

The US dollar and Japanese yen ended the day mostly lower on Thursday after sharp declines during the European trading session, but it was clear that risk appetite in the forex markets was on edge during US trading as US economic data was broadly disappointing.

Professional system trader Art Collins shares his daily biases in the index, bonds and currency futures markets for February 19.

Stock prices are adjusting to a new psychology of a depression era.

It is not very often that we see the US dollar and gold prices move in the same direction.

The US dollar saw a mixed day of trading on Wednesday, gaining against the euro, Swiss franc, and Japanese yen while falling versus the commodity bloc. Based on broad losses for the Japanese yen, the moves signaled slight improvements in risk appetite.

Professional system trader Art Collins shares his daily biases in the index, bonds and currency futures markets for February 18.

The S&P has completed 6 quarters of negative growth and is now registering it first quarter ever of negative earnings.

Fear is running the show as the S&P 500 was annihilated today.