I’ve written several times about currencies this year. It feels like an asset class that will be at the center of many of the defining narratives of the years and decades ahead. I wrote in August ...

Hedging aims to reduce risk from market drops, interest rate hikes, or currency changes by taking offsetting positions. Speculation, by comparison, focuses on profit from price moves and catalysts but ...

A detailed analysis examines various methods to protect investments when market downturns occur. The article reviews several techniques and provides insight into how each strategy works. Investors can ...

John Jagerson has more than 15 years of experience in stocks, options, Forex, bonds, and portfolio analysis. He is Co-founder of Learning Markets LLC, a leading creator of financial content, analysis, ...

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Investing in international stocks exposes investors to currency risk, which arises from fluctuations in the exchange rate between two currencies. When an investor from one country buys stocks in a ...

In past decades, a simple two-factor model was relatively robust for estimating gold’s “fair value”: the US dollar and real interest rates. For several decades, this relationship was relatively robust ...