Currency strategist Boris Schlossberg analyzes the major currencies for the week of February 4.

Professional system trader Art Collins shares his daily biases in the index, bonds and currency futures markets for February 4.

This week John Mauldin explains what a recession looks like, and how it affects people's lives and their investments.

Tim Bourquin interviews Joshua Hayes, who talks about how he uses the CANSLIM method to find profitable trades, and how he uses the 50-day moving average to find stocks that are ready to move.

The EU might have to be cut rates, despite their steadfast approach to inflation fighting, which is what precipitated Friday morning's sell-off in the euro against the US dollar.

Bill Bonner writes that capitalism is a jungle, not a zoo.  It lets animals get fat, but only so they can be eaten by hungrier beasts.

Earlier this week, the Federal Reserve told the markets that the reason why they lowered interest rates by 50 basis points to 3 percent was because the labor market is weak.  However, the severity of the problems with job growth was not clear until the release of this morning's non-farm payrolls report.

The release of Australian trade and housing data may encourage the markets to ramp up speculation that the RBA will move to hike rates on February 4.

The Federal Reserve lowered interest rates by 50bp on Wednesday and indicated that they will be cutting rates further in the months to come. How much and how quickly they reduce interest rates again will be dependent upon the level of job growth in the month of January.

Another possibility, now, for speculators is the obvious one. One of the surest bull markets on the planet is in gold. And as the dollar continues its decent toward its true value – and indeed the true value of all paper currencies – our Trade of this Decade is one thing that will always be worth having .