This morning, most of the leading European banks are coming under some early selling pressure. Meanwhile, the leading financial stocks in the United States are trading higher on the day. Traders can easily look at a J.P. Morgan Chase & Co (NYSE:JPM) and see that the stock is now trading higher by 0.75 cents to $41.20 a share. This is a new eight month high for JPM. On the flip side, leading European stocks such as UBS AG (NYSE:UBS), Deutsche Bank AG (NYSE:DB), and Credit Suisse…

Does supply and demand even matter any longer? Just think about it for a minute, it is really the central bank's policy that really moves the market. Just look at Alcoa (NYSE:AA) today, the company missed its earnings estimate and the stock is still inflating higher after the Chinese government basically said that they will push investors to buy stocks. This stuff can't be made up. This action by the Chinese government comes as the Shanghai Index was plummeting throughout most of 2011.…

Yesterday, all of the major stock indexes around the world surged higher after the central banks announced the coordinated intervention for the banks holding European debt. This action by the central banks is a repeat of the action taken back in September 2008. We all know what happened shortly after that intervention in 2008 as the stock markets cratered into March 2009. This time around the central bankers will probably be a bit smarter and the current scenario will not be as dire so…

Germany is considered the most important country in the European Union. This country now has to decide if it is willing to go all in and allow the European central bank to have complete control over the banking crisis that is taking place. France has already been pleading for the European Central Bank (ECB) to start to print money to bailout the European banks. This puts Germany in a very compromising position since it has been so cozy with France over the past two years. If the German…

This morning, the leading financial stocks in the United States markets are trading lower. This is usually a good indication that the major stock indexes will be lower as well. While that is the case this morning, it is also more important to follow the European financial stocks since this a European debt crisis. Leading European financial stocks such as Deutsche Bank AG (NYSE:DB), UBS AG (NYSE:UBS), and Credit Suisse Group AG (NYSE:CS) are all holding up exceptionally well considering…

The plot thickens again in the soap opera of the European Union. One day there is a $1.4 trillion bailout fund in place and the next day that deal is falling apart at the seams. One day Greece is on board with austerity measures and the next day they might be back to using the Greek Drachma. This Greek drama continues to get better by the minute.



Next there is Italy and Spain. Italian 10 year bond yields are now surging higher by more than 6.0 percent and this is…