The relative wealth of America versus the rest of the world has slid precipitously over the past few years.

Professional system trader Art Collins shares his daily biases in the index, bonds and currency futures markets for July 15.

U.S. retail sales are expected to have increased 0.4% in June after a 1% gain the month prior.  Economists are predicting that Americans continued to spend their stimulus checks as the government has distributed $86.1 billion of the expected $100 billion planned.

FDIC can bail out a few of these banks, but not all of them.  And there is no way it can bail out Fannie and Freddie.  Together, the twins have more than $5 trillion in liabilities.

Which will matter more tomorrow: US Retail Sales or Bernanke's testimony?

Andy Swan takes a closer look at double tops and bottoms as is one of the more common reversal patterns.

Professional system trader Art Collins shares his daily biases in the index, bonds and currency futures markets for July 14.

The action we have currently at hand suggests a most likely scenario that the breakdown on Wednesday that continued into Friday was a flush of the larger pattern. To confirm this bias now what we will need is a rapid reversal higher.

It seems that with each passing month the estimates for losses in the international banking system keep rising.

Tim Bourquin interviews Ken Calhoun, who talks about the currency pairs he trades, how his stock trading and currency trading strategies differ, and the items he looks at on his charts.