The Japanese Yen finished the week near fresh monthly highs against the downtrodden US Dollar, but sharp rallies in the US S&P 500 and other risk sentiment barometers urgented the currency to losses against virtually all other counterparts. An earlier week descend in equities gave hope that the Japanese Yen would forced a sustained turnaround a...

The U.S. unemployment rate decrease in July for the first time in 15 months as employers cut far fewer jobs than expected, giving the clearest mark yet that the economy was turning around from a deep decline of economy. U.S. employers radiated 247,000 jobs in July, the Labour Department said on Friday, the least in any month since last August, taki...

Natural gas futures fell the most in two months after a government report showed a bigger than  estimated rise in U.S. to buffer stock. Supplies in storage gained 66 billion cubic feet in the week ended July 31 to 3.089 trillion cubic feet, the Energy Department said. Analysts forecast a gain of 61 billion. The total was a record for late July, b...

The stock market is influenced by many factors. Two of the most important are the direction of inflation and interest rates. The reason commodity prices are so important is because of their role as a leading indicator of inflation. As a general rule of thumb, rising interest rates are bearish for stocks; falling interest rates are bullish. Put anot...