The Traderszone Network

Holiday shopping promises to get into full swing on Black Friday, so retailers’ stocks could make notable moves in Friday’s abbreviated, postholiday session.
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China is getting close to launching a long-anticipated deposit-insurance system, a landmark overhaul that would inject greater risk into the banking sector and pave the way for eventually allowing banks to freely compete for depositors.
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Juerg Kiener, MD & CIO of Swiss Asia Capital, says the Swiss referendum is an example of the world increasingly moving towards a de facto gold standard.

Matthew Klein has a useful piece in the FT that shows the way that government spending has fluctuated over time.  The data is reported as if changes in G passed through one for one into changes in GDP. It wasn’t clear to me why this data was important, but then I’ve never really understood the appeal of Keynesian economics.

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Authored by Paul Craig Roberts,

When Americans celebrate Thanksgiving, they don’t know what they are celebrating.

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OPEC’s contentious decision to keep its production target could trigger a wave of debt defaults by U.S. shale oil producers, warn analysts.

Dominic Bunning, FX Strategist at HSBC, says the Canadian dollar is likely to fall against the dollar. He also recommend going short on the Malaysian ringgit and going long on the rupee.