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Week Ahead In US Financial Markets (October 13-17 2008)
The week of October 13-17 will see perhaps the most important week of macroeconomic data and Fed talk of the year. The weekend of Oct 10-12 will see the G-7 meeting in Washington where finance ministers will attempt to formulate a ...
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Governments Should Buy Straight Preferred Stock In Their Banks
The G7 needs to follow the UK’s plan, and do so on a coordinated basis. That plan has two parts. First, the governments must work together to share the burden of standing behind interbank borrowing in the LIBOR market for a...
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Not All ETF Products Are Created Alike
When commodity exchange traded funds (ETFs) were on a bull run this summer, London-based ETF Securities was right there with its line of funds aimed squarely at the sector. The provider, which actually runs products known as exchange ...
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Government Moves Forward With Bank Equity Purchase Plan
Apparently the government has woken up and decided to move forward with a plan to take equity stakes in the nation’s banks:. (From the Associated Press): “WASHINGTON - Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said Friday that the Bush ...
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Paulson’s Plan Won’t Work, We Need A Plan B
After pointing a gun to the head of Congress, threatening a financial meltdown in case his plan was not approved, Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson has finally arrived at the only logical conclusion: his plan will not work. ...
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US Treasury May Take Stake In Morgan Stanley
Thursday’s coordinated move of seven major central banks cutting in synchronous interest rates by 50 bsp, gave the impression that the cavalry had finally arrived. Unfortunately, in this most unusual times where Wall Street’s maniac ...
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US Price Deflation On The Way
The world is on the cusp of an inflation “turning point”, so the standard models are likely to go badly wrong. Recent research with better models suggests that the US inflation rate could become negative within the next 18 months. ...
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Looking For A Bounce In Stocks? Here’s What You Need To Know
Another historic day to cap off another historic week. The last time we declined 8 days in a row were the days following Sept. 11, 2001. The DJIA (^DJI) lost 18.2% this week. The DJIA had a 1018.77 point range and the S&P 500 had...
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Stock Trading: How To Trade Power Spikes
Today (Friday) is one of my favorite days, not because it’s the end of the worst week in market history, but because the end-of-day rally created so many trading opportunities for next week (yes, can you believe it?). ...
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Wild Intraday Trading Action In The Dow
I’ve never been so happy a weekend has arrived. Before that weekend starts, let’s take a look at the 1000 point intraday swing in the Dow (^DJI) and other insights from the intraday trading for October 10, 2008. Dow 5-minute chart: ...
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Dow And S&P 500 Are Off Their 2007 Highs By 40%
Most of the major indexes ended lower today, capping a volatile and losing week for stocks and exchange traded funds (ETFs). It could have been worse, though. The Dow (^DJI) dropped nearly 700 points at the opening, before fluctuating ...
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Bullish Percent Indicator: Bottom May Be Forming
The Bullish Percent Indicator is a great indicator to look at. It measures the % of stocks on the NYSE that are showing point and figure buy signals. The rational is that in a strong market or a market that has turned and is heading ...
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Market Summary: What A Ride, And Bank Failures Too
I don’t know about you, but this week has left me feeling like I just did a marathon of roller coaster rides back to back. We will have more on the today’s (Friday) action over the weekend. And we will monitor what comes out of the G7 ... ...
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Manic market
Well I will pass today as trading day. I like profit I made this week and let's cool things down and keep it. For your entertainment this weekend I want to share with you one of the most funniest journal threads on Elite Trader forum. ...
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Daily Market Update by D. Jobman, Tradingeducation.com, LLC
The latest market commentary by TradingEducation.com covering, news, events, and issues of the day impacting the world's major Currency, Forex, Commodity and Stock Markets.
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