When The Dust Settles: NASDAQ, Dollar, Crude Oil Today’s (Monday’s) action was historic and will likely be remembered for some time to come. The NASDAQ (^IXIC) fell almost 10% ; Crude Oil also fell 10%. The Dollar Index rallied slightly through all the turmoil and the 10-Year Yield ... ...

Dow Jones’ 2-Day Rate Of Change From 1930 Till Today The two day Rate of Change since 1930. It looks like the largest 2-day rate of change (ROC) was -26%+ in the 1987 Crash. Prior to that ,the largest 2-day ROC was … ... Go to Full Article

Stocks Plunge On The Failure Of Washington DC To Come Together On ... Panic struck Wall Street as many are fearing a complete meltdown of the nation’s banking system. The media has done a fabulous job, aided by President Bush’s plea to the American people to strike fear across this...

Wall Street Bonuses To Sink In 2008 Over the last two years, Wall Street financiers were able to rake in more than $60 billion in bonuses, much of it in cash. Lehman Brothers (LEHMQ.PK) alone disbursed nearly $6 billion in bonuses in fiscal ‘07 before recently filing for ... Go to...

Consumer Spending Wobbles, Apple Tumbles On any other day, this story would be big news. But with so much going on in the world financial markets—and none of it positive— a less than stellar consumer spending number has been pushed down to page 7. ... Go to Full Article

Volatility Index VIX: Top Ten Highest End Of Day Closes In the table below, I offer up the ten highest end of day closes in the VIX. Regarding the “event trigger,” the dividing line between the Russian financial crisis and the problems associated with Long-Term Capital Management is...

Monday’s Market Recap: We Haven’t Bottomed Out Yet The markets crumbled today (Monday) when investors panicked after the House rejected the government’s proposed financial bailout plan. 228 representatives rejected the proposal while only 205 voted in favor. The Dow Jones Industrial ... ...

Neuberger Berman Acquired By Two Private Equity Firms Bain Capital Partners, and Hellman & Friedman, two of the world’s leading private equity firms - agreed on Monday to acquire Neuberger Berman, the 69-year-old asset management firm owned by the failed investment bank Lehman Brothers ... ...

30 September Probability Studies - Bailout Plan Rejected, Markets ... Sep 30, 2008 by Johan Kriek (jkriek@fxinstructor.com). No Trade Zone within a bullish probability. After the bailout plan was rejected yesterday the dollar weakened considerably against the majors but moved back to its...

German Unemployment Rate Holds at 16 Year Low, Euro-Dollar Holds 1.4360 The German jobless rate slipped to -29K from a revised reading of -39K in August, which helped to keep the unemployment rate held steady at its lowest... Go to Full Article

German Unemployment Rate Holds at 16 Year Low, Jobless Rate Slips to -29K The German jobless rate slipped to -29K from a revised reading of -39K in August, which helped to keep the unemployment rate held steady at its lowest... Go to Full Article

Post of the Day: EUR/USD Student's Question: I see this indicator give a lot of correct signals in the range bound area of EUR/USD, used in conjunction with the candlesticks. I'm... Go to Full Article

GBP/JPY - British Pound Yen, European Session - 30/09/08 188,47. Go to Full Article

GBP/USD - British Pound Dollar, European Session - 30/09/08 1,8054. Go to Full Article

USD/CAD - US Dollar Canadian Dollar, European Session - 30/09/08 1,0505. Go to Full Article