Do the Chinese have a strong interest in dampening crude oil prices and in general boosting world stock markets ahead of the Olympics?

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

Input prices are running up at nearly twice the rate of the official CPI figure. Prices for goods imported from overseas are rising nearly four times as fast.

Professional system trader Art Collins shares his daily biases in the index, bonds and currency futures markets for June 19.

Consumers and central banks are both trapped. Central banks want to lower rates and increase liquidity in order to stimulate a sagging economy. But their inflation no longer swells assets prices and nourishes economic growth; now it leaks into consumer prices.

Professional system trader Art Collins shares his daily biases in the index, bonds and currency futures markets for June 18.

There’s no doubt the Federal Reserve holds a much more hawkish bias nowadays, but is their stance extreme enough to warrant a preemptive rate hike next week?

The socialization of the mortgage business may be a vote-getting idea in any housing downturn.  In an election year, it is unstoppable.

Professional system trader Art Collins shares his daily biases in the index, bonds and currency futures markets for June 17.

Bill Bonner writes that the cure for high oil prices is still high oil prices.