The Artificial Inflation Of Stock Prices Due To Short Selling Ban Short-covering and bidding interest pushed the Dow over 400 points intraday in stock trading on Friday and London’s FTSE 100 closed up by more than 8%. As much as many people are elated at SEC’s ban on short selling, there...

Forex Trading EURUSD approaches resistance at the 1.4481 level The EURUSD his approaching the 1.4481 level. This corresponds with the high from 15th September. Yesterday stops were hit a break above this level but the market quickly sold off. The high yesterday was 1.4541. ... Go to...

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Stock Rally Tempts Carry Traders Back Into The Market, Causing US ... Bailout Nation, that’s what comes to my mind when I hear about the Fed and US government coming up with their latest and broadest plan to erase all the toxic mortgage-related assets from banks and other financial...

Market Update from Trade The News US Market Update Dow 392 S&P +48 NASDAQ +71 - Equity markets around the world continue to snap back after more than 10B shares traded on the NYSE yesterday. Stocks surged late in yesterday's session following initial reports that

Government Resorting To Enron Style Tactics With Resolution Trust Corp All of the jubilance in financial markets today over the US Government proposal to create a RTC 2.0 that would buy-up the bad mortgage assets of the banks, in order to prop up/save/rescue the financial system, as a cure...

Short Selling Ban: Ridiculous And Biased A couple of interesting tidbits on the SEC’s new short-selling rule:. (From Infectious Greed): “…consider the practical consequences of making it impossible to short financials (and don’t even get me started about disallowing all ... Go to...

Martial Law Declared On Financial Markets Earlier this week, I was thinking about what might qualify as the five most important events in my lifetime. I came up with the following list, which perhaps reflects my personal perspective on the world more than anything else: ... Go to Full...

Lehman’s Last Eight Days: Short Sellers Not To Blame For Demise Here is a graphic from the Financial Times depicting Lehman’s (LEHMQ.PK) last eight days:. Graphic courtesy of the Financial Times. You can click here to get access to the interactive graphic on the FT web site, along with...

Open Letter To The SEC From EOBarlow: Banning Shortselling ... There will be a groundswell of anger from independent traders that our right to a free capital market has been seized by the Treasury Secretary, the Federal Reserve Bank Chairman, and the SEC Chairman. This open letter was sent...

S&P and Russell Have Huge Overnight Upward Gap I wanted to show a quick snapshot of the S&P 500 and Russell 2000 indexes this morning following the massive overnight gap which is so far being faded but it would surprise me to no end if the entire gap was filled. Let’s look: ... Go to...

S&P 500 Rallies 10 Percent Off Lows, Is Now the Time to Sell Japanese Yen? A significant improvement in financial market conditions has led to an impressive rally in global equity markets, with the US S&P 500 now over 10 percent... Go to Full Article

Friday Global Investing Roundups - Palm, Oracle, FedEx Palm Inc. (PALM) yesterday (Thursday) reported its fifth consecutive quarterly loss, as that maker of the Treo smartphone continued to lose ground to the more popular Blackberry models from rival Research in Motion Ltd. (RIMM). ... Go...

Forex Trading Commentary: Fed And US Government Take Steps To ... EURO. The euro depreciated vis-Ã*-vis the US dollar Friday as the single currency tested bids around the US$ 1.4150 level and was capped around the $1.4350 level. The common currency clawed its way higher early in the North...

Forex Trading Market Conditions Improve on US Treasury Plans Forex market conditions have seen a short-term improvement, as a sigh of relief across global financial markets eases tensions and returns much-needed... Go to Full Article