Getting Ready to Close the Books
Trading The last day of trading beckons with markets on target for the worst year since 1931, a year when investors elected to give their money to the government in exchange for nothing, lest they find a way to lose it themselves. Futures are a bit higher, for whatever that means [more...]
Date: 2008-12-31 14:12:07
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GMAC Deal Boosts Auto Stocks
Autos The government’s decision to provide $6 billion in financing to steady the lending arm of auto giant General Motors has jolted futures on the second-to-last full day of equity trading before the end of the year. On the back of the news, shares of GM were up by nearly 8% and rival Ford Motor Co. gained 5.9%, while stock futures rose [more...]
Date: 2008-12-30 14:03:40
GMAC Deal Boosts Auto Stocks
Autos The government’s decision to provide $6 billion in financing to steady the lending arm of auto giant General Motors has jolted futures on the second-to-last full day of equity trading before the end of the year. On the back of the news, shares of GM were up by nearly 8% and rival Ford Motor Co. gained 5.9%, while stock futures rose [more...]
Date: 2008-12-30 17:03:00
A long eventful weekend awaits us
Remember Bear Sterns last March? This weekend, people will be waiting to hear if FRE & FNM will be the next to be bailed out by the US Government ... and it has been going down all day. Trading would have been a lot easier if I had just traded bond futures today ... ), but I still managed to scalp some good profits during the mid-day. I quit trading aroun [more...]
Date: 2008-07-11 18:25:00
The Real Election Trading
For the last few days traders have been talking about whether the equity market is “discounting” a win by Senator Barack Obama (D ... Futures Trading Commission, according to Tom Snee, spokesman for the IEM. (Intrade is an unregulated ... near as liquid as even the more thinly-traded commodities, that doesn’t mean there isn’ [more...]
Date: 2008-11-04 17:32:29
The Real Election Trading
For the last few days traders have been talking about whether the equity market is “discounting” a win by Senator Barack Obama (D ... Futures Trading Commission, according to Tom Snee, spokesman for the IEM. (Intrade is an unregulated ... near as liquid as even the more thinly-traded commodities, that doesn’t mean there isn’ [more...]
Date: 2008-11-04 20:25:00
Sugar Futures Poised To Move In 2009
March sugar futures ended the last trading day of 2008 with a positive note. March sugar futures closed .48 points higher at 11.77. Sugar prices have been working... [more...]
Date: 2009-01-03 18:02:50
S&P 500 day trading course, market makers squeaking bad news
Federal Reserve policy makers saw "substantial" risks to the slumping economy last month as they cut the benchmark interest rate to a record low and ... 3 million jobs and may cost about $775 billion.S&P 500 day trading course live room emini futures [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 22:31:00
Giving Your Heart Away
I give away my heart so easily, and when I take a fancy to a horse it’s hard to let go ... in love with her last winter at Tampa Bay, placed a Kentucky Oaks Futures wager on her—which looked ... suggests she can run all day (Awesome Again, out of the A.P. Indy mare Trading), even though [more...]
Date: 2009-01-04 01:56:00
DrumBeat: July 17, 2008
Oil futures: Know when to hold 'em NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- In the last three days oil prices have fallen by roughly $10 a barrel ... Trading in Chicago, who also thinks there's a good chance prices have peaked. "If I were an oil [more...]
Date: 2008-07-17 13:02:18
TREASURIES-Slip after surge, 10-year yields near 1950 lows
U.S. Treasuries slipped on Wednesday after the previous day’s surge drove benchmark yields back near their lowest since 1950 after data showing a ... will also be released. * March T-note futures rose 9.5/32 to 127-19/32 in extremely light trade ... and the second biggest in the last 20 years. * Merrill Lynch’s U.S. government bond index is set to [more...]
Date: 2008-12-31 05:58:17
TREASURIES-Drop further in new year as risk appetite improves
U.S. Treasuries fell in Asia on Friday, extending losses on the first trading day of 2009 as a recovery in stock and credit markets spurred selling of safe-haven government bonds. * The surge in Treasuries stalled last week as bond investors ... in Tokyo and Shanghai among those still closed for holidays. U.S. futures markets for stocks [more...]
Date: 2009-01-02 06:26:56
Mobile Social Network GREE Lands a Big IPO, In Japan
The tech IPO is not completely dead. Last Wednesday, Japan’s third largest social network GREE, launched in 2004 by the company of the same name, ... to $56 on the first trading day. The company now has a market capitalization of over $1.3 billion ... to shrink considerably in the future for a variety of reas [more...]
Date: 2008-12-22 17:38:19
Intrade Opens VP Palin Withdrawal Contract
Last week, we looked at the track record of Intrade regarding the VP nominees. Since then, its been an eventful few days. The Intrade prediction market has opened trading on whether "Sarah Palin to be withdrawn as Republican VP nominee before 2008 presidential election." (Note: I am more concerned with the futures [more...]
Date: 2008-09-02 20:17:27
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