http://www.isnare.com/?s=author&a=Giovanni+Medici Finances Giovanni Medici Thu, 20 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=400477&ca=Finances An economic recovery cannot occur without a significant rebound in global trade. Global trade cannot be revived without a recovery. The difficulty in this relationship goes far beyond semantics. Governments have been pumping gigantic amounts of money to revive global economic activity, and businesse... Business Giovanni Medici Sun, 12 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=383846&ca=Business Here’s the million dollar question for traders: are we witnessing a period of volatility in stocks and commodities, or are we experiencing the incipient phases of the next decade’s bull market. The financial media is more enthusiastic about the future of the markets than reason and knowledge would d... Business Giovanni Medici Sun, 12 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=383848&ca=Business One important difference between a bull and a bear market lies in volatility. Rising markets are often accompanied by falling volatility, while bear markets are coupled to rising volatility in most cases. The cause of this is not hard to determine: in a bull market traders feel more confident about...