Apple Rally Stalls, and Stuff
In the course of performing my technical analysis of AAPL day-to-day price movements, I never do it with blinders on ... with an examination of market futures and pre-market economic reports. And includes a broad analysis ... to one another, from airlines to utilities, from health care to commodities, to energy and financials [more...]
Date: 2008-11-26 04:51:12
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Green Ink: Detroit Gets Greener, Will Jobs?
paper Crude futures peeked above $100 on rebounding stock markets and signs of financial-market stability, Bloomberg reports ... markets, the WSJ reports (sub reqd.), with question marks over commodities trades made with Lehman [more...]
Date: 2008-09-19 12:18:37
Some Opening Comments December 10 2008
Prices of Treasury coupon securities are retreating in overnight trading as the prospect of an agreement on an auto industry bail out, ... to 2.70 percent and the yield on the Long Bond is higher by 5 basis points at 3.10 percent. Equity ... . Trading in futures markets indicates that US markets should open with modest gains today. Reports [more...]
Date: 2008-12-10 12:25:44
Safe Harbor for Prediction Markets?
As everyone who has read The Wisdom of the Crowds knows, prediction markets are excellent predictors of future events like elections ... Professor John McGinnis reports, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission is recognizing the benefits ... , exempting them from cumbersome financial trading laws. As McGinnis argues, creating such an exception would [more...]
Date: 2008-07-11 19:29:49
Wall Street’s jobs jitters
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) ... reports. Labor market: A pair of weak job market reports sparked worries ahead of Friday's big government report. Related stories from top sites:Stock futures point to higher Wall Street openWall [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 15:53:10
Oh the Real Estate Market has been frightful…
New Hampshire November 2008 Market Trends report. This months market report by Demographer Peter Francese was just released by the New Hampshire ... during this holiday season, or optimistic about the future. Yes, from an economic point of view [more...]
Date: 2008-12-23 05:00:26
CNBC On Speculators Gone Wild: ‘So What?’
Yesterday, the Center for American Progress Action Fund’s Dan Weiss stood up for working American families as CNBC host Trish Regan and two other ... Futures Trading Commission released a report recommending specific improvements to commodities markets ... months from January to May traders poured $60 billion into the commodities market and basically per [more...]
Date: 2008-09-11 23:30:34
Morning Update
Unpleasant Employment Data Sours SentimentMacro-economic worries are once again influencing shares and sending the market lower after ADP reported ... , and markets overseas are mixed. As of 8:35 a.m. ET, the March S&P 500 Index Globex futures contract ... are designed to conserve cash, cut costs, and improve competitiveness.Monsanto (MON $73) is tradin [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 15:45:00
CFTC Report on High Oil Prices - "Speculation My A$$"
With a pending Senate vote on the "Stop Excessive Energy Speculation Act", it seems that we (not the TOD 'we', but the collective society 'we') ... . In this report, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), threw cold water on the recent ... , activity on the crude oil futures market – as measured by the number of contracts outstanding, trading [more...]
Date: 2008-07-23 14:47:59
SPECULATORS ARE NOT DRIVING UP OIL PRICES, REPORT SAYS
As Congress debates how to curtail the role of speculators and rein in rising oil prices, ... report by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission with help from six other agencies, including ... offer investors a future return linked to commodity markets, were roughly balanced between purchases [more...]
Date: 2008-07-25 13:21:56
Wall Street awaits jobs report
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Wall Street prepared Friday for a report expected to show another huge decline in jobs, ... stock futures were lower. Stock futures give an early indication of market sentiment and can signal how the market will open, although that sentiment was likely to change after the release [more...]
Date: 2009-01-09 09:33:45
Daily Report for Mon, Oct 27, 2008
The crisis in global equity, commodity and currency markets worsened overnight ... ) as an indicator. US equity futures have come off their earlier lows. ADDENDUM Links & Charts ... is sinking as are prices on the European bourses; the US equity markets may open with futures locked [more...]
Date: 2008-10-27 10:13:05
McCain Aide Created 'Enron Loophole'
Editor's Note: On Wednesday evening, Keith Olbermann, the host of MSNBC's "Countdown," reported the findings of a "Countdown investigation" ... its proposed regulation of energy futures trading, a market that was famously abused when Enron ... into the Commodities Futures Modernization Act that exempted from regulation energy trading on electronic [more...]
Date: 2008-06-19 14:00:00
Week Ahead: A Stone Better Left Unturned
By "The Greek" - Economy & Markets:Visit the front pages of Wall Street Greek and Market Moving News to see our current coverage of economic reports ... such future payments may never occur in bankruptcy. Because of the numbers involved, this leaves [more...]
Date: 2008-12-08 14:00:00
12/31/2008 Farm Bureau Market Report
Click here to view this report online. Grain & Soybean Date: December 31, 2008 Soybeans Local Elevators: (Dec) EAST AR: 935 to 972 (NC) Summ ... Futures:Jan 09up26 1/2at 972 1/4 Mar 09 up 27 at 980 May 09up26 3/4 at 991 1/2 July 09up26 1/2 at 1002 3/4 ... rode a late rally in oil futures to a positive year end close. Weather concerns in South [more...]
Date: 2008-12-31 19:40:00
Green Ink: Oil?s Future Is Pricey
paper Crude oil futures inched above $65 after earlier declines, boosted by rising stock markets, Bloomberg reports ... social unrest. Lower oil prices are self-correcting. Just look at the 2013 futures price, says the WSJ— ... . But dismal economic data out of the U.S. and Asia has some analysts forecasting $55 oil. China [more...]
Date: 2008-11-04 14:19:44
Four Key Housing Trends Critical To Market Awareness
So many different news agencies report how the real estate market is doing, ... allows us to roughly predict the future sales trend. Sales - The number of homes that successfully [more...]
Date: 2008-09-16 11:11:25
November Jobs Report: Blecch
Egads The worst one-month loss in payrolls since December 1974 knocked stock futures back on their heels, ... the labor force for various reasons. Equity futures across the board are lower. The bond market’ ... as the Standard & Poor’s 500 futures dropped by as much as 21 points before recovering a bit [more...]
Date: 2008-12-05 16:41:00
Alan Knowles, Haywood Securities: Finding that Elusive Bottom
Source: The Energy Report Haywood Senior Oil and Gas Analyst Alan Knowles says we haven’t seen a bottom yet, ... that are $45 today were $148 last summer, so while the futures indicate current market sentiment, they are not the best indicator of future prices. The contract that we’re talking about right [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 15:31:26
Week Ahead: Ho Ho Hum
Visit the front pages of Wall Street Greek and Market Moving News to see our current coverage of economic reports and financial markets ... of Wall Street survivors still working will take an early look at futures, stick around [more...]
Date: 2008-12-29 18:15:00
It's Not The Cheese That Costs so Much
I admit that I can still be astonished. When I watched '60 Minutes' last night I saw a big surprise report that I was right all along about oil ... the commodities futures market. At the New York Mercantile Exchange, it's traded alongside cotton [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 19:28:09
Baruch College’s Schwartz Institute Featured in Higher Education Magazine Change-’Improving Communication is Everyone’s Responsibility’ by Fara Warner
In 2003, Terrence Martell, a finance professor at the City University of New York’s Baruch College, encountered a classroom of 80 seniors who could navigate the complex intricacies of the futures markets and commodities trading. But when he asked them to write a report explaining to a commodity [more...]
Date: 2008-12-18 17:12:05
London Gold Market Report
Gold Slips as Dollar Bounces; George Soros Rumored "Long Gold, Short Oil" as Wall Street Losses Mount; ... as world stock markets ticked higher. The US Dollar rose on the forex market. Crude oil futures jumped [more...]
Date: 2008-07-18 12:47:00
Oil Squeeze? Blame Yourself
The Journal’s Russell Gold reports: When it comes to the price of crude oil and gasoline, who is in the driver’s seat? One common answer is no one ... into the commodity futures market. All of this plays a role: the availability of supply, financial market interest in commodities, and don’t forget the strength of the U.S. dollar (the global [more...]
Date: 2008-09-03 18:43:00
While Greenspan Slept
This Bloomberg special report may have slipped by unnoticed last week during all of the market mayhem ... of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, to study regulating over-the-counter derivatives. In 2000, Congress ... on a company's debt, would grow to $62 trillion from $631 billion in 2001. While the swaps spread risk [more...]
Date: 2008-11-03 11:00:00
01/02/2008 Farm Bureau Market Report
Click here to view this report online. Grain & Soybean Date: January 02, 2008 Soybeans Local Elevators: (Jan) EAST AR: 947 to 970 (NC) Summ ... Futures:Jan '09down2 1/4at 970 Mar '09 down 3 at 977 May '09down3 at 988 1/2 Jul '09down2 3/4 at 1000 Nov ... 501 to 506; Bids to farmers at Local Elevators505-520;River Elevators516-555;Chicago Futures:Mar [more...]
Date: 2009-01-02 21:14:00
12/30/2008 Farm Bureau Market Report
Click here to view this report online. Grain & Soybean Date: December 30, 2008 Soybeans Local Elevators: (Dec) EAST AR: 923 to 946 (NC) Summ ... to 913Riceland Foods: (Dec) Stuttgart 946 ; Pendleton 946 ; West Memphis 971Chicago Futures:Jan ... ;Chicago Futures:Mar 09up 12 3/4 at 604 3/4 May 09up13 at 617 1/2 July 09up 13 at 628 3/4 Sept 09up [more...]
Date: 2008-12-30 20:37:00
12/29/2008 Farm Bureau Market Report
Click here to view this report online. Grain & Soybean Date: December 29, 2008 Soybeans Local Elevators: (Dec) EAST AR: 916 to 939 (NC) Summ ... ) 899 to 904Riceland Foods: (Dec) Stuttgart 939 ; Pendleton 939 ; West Memphis 964Chicago Futures ... Elevators498-536;Chicago Futures:Mar 09down 7 1/4 at 592 May 09down7 1/4 at 604 1/2 July 09down 7 [more...]
Date: 2008-12-29 20:09:00
Who let the oil market be manipulated?
For anyone who believes that speculation by energy traders explains at least a portion of the run-up in oil prices, the announcement that the Commodity Futures Trading Commission is investigating oil market ... some commodity trading exchanges to operate without oversight while others must report what's going [more...]
Date: 2008-05-30 15:51:47
Wall Street has job report jitters
Teaser: New York -- Stocks were set for a lower opening Friday as Wall Street prepared for an expected poor report on the U.S. jobs market ... about the manufacturing sector, the online service said. The Census Bureau's report, issued after trading ... . Story: Hours before the opening bell, Dow, Nasdaq and Standard & Poor's 500 stock futures [more...]
Date: 2009-01-09 17:45:56
Oil Slick: Crude Below $40 a Barrel
Crude Oil Carolyn Cui reports: Crude oil is bloodletting. One day after the OPEC announced the most aggressive production cut, oil dropped 4 ... s session, and traders on the long side in the futures market -– meaning who have the right to take ... barrels. Meanwhile, shipping agencies say that many refiners and oil trading companies are renting [more...]
Date: 2008-12-18 19:43:00
Futures Trading levels and Economic reports for Jan 8th 2009
*To be removed, please reply with remove daytrading in subject line Dear Trader, Market retraced 50% (898 FIB level ) from its move up to 943 yesterday. Some key reports over the next couple of days will provide a clue to what the market will do next: resume rally or make a deeper correction [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 21:03:00
Oil Slick: Crude Below $40 a Barrel
Carolyn Cui reports: Crude oil is bloodletting. One day after the OPEC announced the most aggressive production cut, oil dropped 4 ... to put the oil, so the longs are liquidating their positions,” said Jeff Grossman at BRG Brokerage ... s session, and traders on the long side in the futures market -– meaning who have the right to take [more...]
Date: 2008-12-18 16:43:27
Green Ink: Big Oil Waits for Obama, and What About All Those Green Jobs?
paper Crude oil futures elbowed their way above $62 Friday on the back of rising stock markets, Bloomberg reports ... . Environmentalists can expect some horse trading on issues like coal and nuclear power, but expect [more...]
Date: 2008-11-07 13:24:40
Closing Comments June 05 2008
Prices of Treasury coupon securities slipped in a lively session in advance of the monthly labor report tomorrow ... . The underperformance of the belly of the curve stemmed from a mini debacle in the swaps market. Swap ... ber Euribor futures are higher by 30 basis points while December 2008 and March 2009 contracts are hig [more...]
Date: 2008-06-05 20:14:41
Futures Trading levels and Economic reports for Jan 6th
*To be removed, please reply with remove daytrading in subject line Dear Trader, Market has rallied the last few sessions, mostly on thin volume, yet the shorter term upward bias is still in tact as long as we hold above 900 level. need to see the SP breaks and holds above 938 in order to see another leg up, [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 21:02:00
Refineries Paying Record Premiums for Top Grade Crude
The Financial Times reports today that refiners are paying prices higher than those indicated by the futures market for the lightest, meaning best, grades of crude oil. This points to an issue raised [more...]
Date: 2008-06-12 21:49:35
Been Down So Long, It Looks Like Up To Me
The gold market managed to recover from another downside extension early in the trading session but the reversal seemed to come off a setback in the ... the US economy.”- The Hightower Report, Futures Analysis and ForecastingDavid Hale: Only [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 01:20:00
Futures Trading levels and Economic reports for Jan 7th
*To be removed, please reply with remove daytrading in subject line Dear Trader, Volume returned to the market and along with volatility picked up a bit. Choppy session today and below is an hourly chart with my little analysis. If we can break down below 925, I can see this market visiting 898-908 [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 21:38:00
ONN.tv's Mark2Market: CME Trader Peter Yastrow Describes Today's Massive Central Bank Actions to Keep Money Flowing
CHICAGO-(Business Wire)-September 18, 2008 - Mark2Market, ONN.tv's newest programming on futures and commodities, goes to the CME/CBOT trading floors every morning for special reports on financial markets and currency trading. On Thursday morning's edition [more...]
Date: 2008-09-18 11:58:00
HMS Walmart Warns
StreetInsider reports on Walmart December sales. I will grant one excuse I usually dismiss. The weather was bad in some regions ... futures and the stock tanked in pre-market trading. More evidence of containment not being ... market share or I don't know, Princess Ponies pooping pillow mints. It can only be hoped that bad news [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 12:33:00
Not All Hedge Fund Strategies Stink This Year
Geoffrey Rogow reports: Although losses and redemptions are drastically shrinking the entire hedge fund world, ... % at the end of 2007. “They trade in liquid markets, like futures, with an event horizon of two hours [more...]
Date: 2008-12-18 14:44:27
Not All Hedge Fund Strategies Stink This Year
Geoffrey Rogow reports: Although losses and redemptions are drastically shrinking the entire hedge fund world, ... of 2007. “They trade in liquid markets, like futures, with an event horizon of two hours and two weeks [more...]
Date: 2008-12-18 14:50:28
Green Ink: Gas and Policy, in Short Supply
paper Crude futures rebounded on hopes Congress will salvage a bailout package, climbing to $99 in early trading, Bloomberg reports. Oil-market volatility—record spikes and collapses in one week— [more...]
Date: 2008-09-30 12:40:54
Not All Hedge Fund Strategies Stink This Year
Geoffrey Rogow reports: Although losses and redemptions are drastically shrinking the entire hedge fund world, ... They trade in liquid markets, like futures, with an event horizon of two hours and two weeks [more...]
Date: 2008-12-18 15:39:10
Indian Stock Market Report, 12th Jan, 2009
Key benchmark indices, remained in negative zone throughout the day, ... Shares of Wipro, India’s third largest software services exporter in terms of sales, tumbled 10.63 ... % at 2,773.10. Nifty January 2009 futures were at 2748.15, at a discount of 24.95 points [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 20:06:47
Obama Hates Oil Speculators, Hearts Ethanol
Bloomberg reports that Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is proposing new rules to increase government interven... err... oversight in energy markets. He wants to "require the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission to regulate trading in energy futures contracts and direct the commission to investigate ways [more...]
Date: 2008-06-23 16:04:51
Opening View
Opening View January 7th, 2009 The market is starting off the session with a triple-digit loss. The Dow is down 109 points to 8905 after a worse-than-expected ADP employment report. The futures ... $4.78) is also trading lower and the January 2010 40 calls (YPWAH, $17.00, down $1.00) could [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 14:14:19
Green Ink: Oil Fields Decline, and Gov. Palin Talks Energy
paper Crude oil futures rebounded over $66 on the back of resurgent equity markets and further talk of OPEC output cuts, Bloomberg reports ... will have no option other than to get it under way today [more...]
Date: 2008-10-29 14:43:00
Futures Trading levels and Economic reports for Jan 9th
*To be removed, please reply with remove daytrading in subject line Dear Trader, ... market view provided by Cannon Trading Inc. Any statement of facts herein contained are derived [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 21:05:00
