At this point, upside potential outweighs downside risk in the near term for the EUR/USD currency pair.

Currency strategist Boris Schlossberg analyzes the major currencies for the week of August 20.

The Nikkei took its cue from the strong Friday finish of the DJIA rising more than 450 points as a sense of stability returned to the financial markets.

John Mauldin explains in simple terms the very complicated story of how we went from some bad mortgage loan practices in the US to the point of world credit markets freezing up.

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

Tim Bourquin interviews Adam Hewison, who talks about the elimination of the uptick rule and how it will affect individual traders.

The dollar is going up against the euro and down against yen.  Is it because speculators are growing fearful, and because they need dollars to pay their debts and their bills?

It has been a busy week in the financial markets with two to three hundred point intraday swings in carry trades and the Dow quickly becoming the norm.

Inflation growth in Canada is expected to slow during the month of July, with the Bank of Canada’s core CPI measure estimated to have fallen back to an annualized rate of 2.3 percent from 2.5 percent.

The Chinese yuan gained against the US dollar and British pound, while dropping against the Euro, in a volatility filled session.