All articles by Mike Fitzpatrick

  1. Is the U.S. Dollar About To Reverse Course? by Mike Fitzpatrick

    For the first time in several years the U.S. dollar has managed to gain value against the world's other major currencies. During the first three months of 2005, the U.S. dollar is up approximately five percent against both the yen and the euro. The gains for the dollar should be considered significant when considering the United States still faces a growing trade imbalance. So far this year, currency traders have shifted their focus from the United

  2. Summer's Interest Rate Mystery by Mike Fitzpatrick

    The end of the Spring brought an end to the Federal Reverse's view interest rates need to positioned in a way of stimulating the economy. For most of the past few years interest rates consistently moved downward as the Federal Reserve launched an ambitious plan to prevent deflation and bring a reversal to a stagnant economy. Low interest rates helped to keep the U.S. economy afloat while the excesses of the 1990's worked their way off.