The Canadian edition of Time magazine has named the Canadian dollar their Newsmaker of the Year.  Is this a testament to how popular currencies have become?

Tim Bourquin interviews Wade Hansen, who talks about how he sells deep in-the-money calls to hedge his currency positions.

Trading gives us lessons not only about what to do or not to do next time in a trade, but also life lessons about personality traits that could improve the rest of our lives too.

According to a survey of economists polled by Bloomberg News, expansion in New Zealand during the third quarter is expected to have cooled slightly to 0.4 percent after growing 0.7 percent during the second quarter.

Professional system trader Art Collins shares his daily biases in the index, bonds and currency futures markets for December 20.

Consumers can’t make money from rising house prices. And they can’t borrow money either. All they can do is to spend the money they earn. Ouch. Ouch. Yes, a recession is probably on the way.

A shift in risk appetite is the real driver behind the US dollar's comeback.

If it is true that Americans are the world’s champion consumers, and if it is true that China imports much of its commodities for the purpose of making stuff for Americans, won’t Chinese demand go down with U.S. consumption? And won’t commodity prices crash rather than soar?

Traders showed limited reactions to the fresh real estate data and remained similarly unmoved despite the noteworthy monetary policy developments and overall outlook for the US economy expressed by Fed officials.

The most market-moving piece of information from the BOE minutes will be the vote count, as just a few additional motions for a rate cut than traders are expecting could lead investors to ramp up speculation that the BOE will indeed make monetary policy more accommodative again in January.