his week we look at the similarities and the differences between the credit crisis that is going on today and what happened in 1998, take a quick look at the threat from China to the dollar and see what exotic fish and exotic bonds have in common.

Professional system trader Art Collins shares his daily biases in the index, bonds and currency futures markets for August 13.

Tim Bourquin interviews Kathy Lien, who talks about what she learned from her research about successful traders and what traits they shared.

With softness in the housing sector still clearly an issue, spending on furniture and building materials isn’t likely to see gains.

Everyone is confident, because we are all true believers in the Theology of Capitalism. But just in case this capitalism thing doesn’t work out, the Bank of Japan, the Bank of Canada, the European Central Bank and the Fed all joined to say that they would put some additional liquidity into the system.

It was another rocky session for the equity markets, which meant further volatility for the US dollar in the foreign exchange realm.

Appreciating during the session, the Chinese yuan was boosted by speculation that Chinese officials will be more flexible when it comes to the currently rigid exchange rate regime.

Currency technical analyst Jamie Saettele analyzes the euro against the Canadian dollar, Australian dollar, and New Zealand dollar.

The announcement by France’s largest bank that they were freezing redemptions from investments into two of their funds triggered a broad market reaction that was carried around the world.

Professional system trader Art Collins shares his daily biases in the index, bonds and currency futures markets for August 10.