An Economic Sea Change

With all the doom in the markets, it's essential to get a bird's eye reading of economic conditions when expectations suddenly change ... in all markets - stocks, housing, financial, political - will be with us for the foreseeable future ... out of the blocks to recovery. Lower oil/commodity prices also contribute the dollar's rise. VIABILITY [more...]

Date: 2008-09-07 13:20:56

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Why Do You Hate Debt, In 5 Words Or Less

A couple weeks ago I asked Twitter followers a question that generated quite a few responses:  “Why do you hate debt, in five words or less? ... by bargainr “Limits freedom, binds to past.” by NCN “It limits our possible futures.” by Mrs. Micah ... by prosperousfool “Debt delays one’s financial freedom.” by LazyManAndMoney “Anchor weighing you [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 12:15:49

The Real Deal On Finding A Good Financial Adviser/Planner

The following piece is written by Free Money Finance reader BigBuddha ... take away most of the financial risks to your current and future estate through structuring [more...]

Date: 2008-10-01 17:15:10

Study Shows Speculators Helped LOWER Oil Prices

It was said to be the year of speculators gone wild ... , the Commodity Futures Trading Commission has offered hard statistical data that financial trading hasn't ... -month period. In other words, index traders and swap dealers were driving the future price of oil [more...]

Date: 2008-09-17 15:39:38

Hamilton ~ Negative real rates drive Gold bull

by Adam Hamilton It's been a tough year for gold investors ... futures. Since gold has been the financial-panic asset of choice for centuries, its lackluster trading [more...]

Date: 2008-12-05 23:36:22

No terror impact, Indian equities still in green

Despite a general nervousness pervading the investor community due to the global financial and economic meltdown, ... Thursday, the monthly settlement of futures and options trade had to be deferred to Friday. This also [more...]

Date: 2008-11-28 09:55:59

Other Markets (2)

Most of these exchanges operate on basically the same principle as the stock exchanges, ... of futures, for example, is regulated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) rather than ... , today’s computers and dedicated financial media are so broad that information on any [more...]

Date: 2008-12-31 08:43:51

17 Tips for End of Year Tax Planning

Time to get your financial house in order for tax season! ... into future tax years. Take your gains. This is the first year that you can pay 0% long term capital [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 14:29:16

Veteran regulator Mary Schapiro tapped to lead SEC - MarketWatch

Obama picks Mary Schapiro for SEC chief -Former Goldman Sachs official Gensler to head CFTC By Ronald D. Orol, MarketWatch Last update: 2:27 p.m ... and former Treasury undersecretary Gary Gensler to run the Commodities Futures Trading Commission, which regulates trading in the commodities markets. 'Financial regulatory reform will be a top priority [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 21:04:20

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

I'm Hurting

I'm Hurting by Steven D Fri Oct 24th, 2008 at 08:44: ... to be the currency of choice for cash hoarders. $1 is now worth around 93 yen. The dollar had been trading ... investors and sent world financial markets into a tailspin. The Dow Jones industrial average futures [more...]

Date: 2008-10-24 12:48:13

Should Mary Schapiro save the SEC or shut it down?

Mary Schapiro, reported to be the President-elect's choice to run the Securities and Exchange Commission, ... . She's been chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. She's currently CEO of the Financial [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 04:05:40

News Roundup: Geojit and Jhunjhunwala Set Up Commodities Broking Firm

Tata Capital Plans to Raise Rs 500 Crore for its PE Business - Non banking financial company, ... interface (API) from NSE for its currency futures segment. In fact Omnesys made a fresh allotment [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 04:11:01

Sex and Money: Are Women Different?

Sex and Money: Are Women Different? Dean Baker, writing in TruthOut “It is hard not to notice that two of the regulators who stand out for doing the right thing in this incredible financial mess are women. Brooksley Born, as chair of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission under President Clinton, wanted to regulate credit default swaps [more...]

Date: 2008-12-30 13:23:25

Sex and Money: Are Women Regulators Different?

It is hard not to notice that two of the regulators who stand out for doing the right thing in this incredible financial mess are women. Brooksley Born, as chair of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission under President Clinton, wanted to regulate credit default swaps and other derivative instruments back in the late 90s [more...]

Date: 2008-12-29 06:15:45

Herman Daly on the Credit Crisis, Financial Assets, and Real Wealth

Previously, Herman Daly wrote a guest post on the Steady State Economy, outlining core suggestions on how to overhaul our banking, financial ( ... carries a lien on it in the amount of future debt. The value of present real wealth is no longer [more...]

Date: 2008-10-07 14:08:52

How Main Street Will Quickly Feel The Fallout From Wall Street

In case you didn't think you'd feel the effects of the Wall Street meltdown in the short-term, you would be wrong: ... as investors dashed into commodities on concerns about the government’s plan to bail out the financial system. After a wild last hour of trading, crude oil futures surged as high as $130 a barrel before [more...]

Date: 2008-09-22 23:48:06

Financial-futures exchanges take hit from slowdown

, helped by energy and commodity futures [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 03:27:00

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

Local Reno Politician Scott Kelley

Politician Scott Kelley It was nearly a year ago when I became interested in Scott Kelley’s political ambitions ... monitoring the district’s educational, financial, and administrative performance… acting as a steward ... and cafeterias where children’s futures are planned, programmed, padded and prioritized to make the most [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 18:25:17

Anagram:Death Magnetic/It Changed Meat

December 29, 2008 – 7:39 pm Posted in Editorial, Hamas, Israel, Links, METAL, Metallica, Music, Politics, Quotes, War, news, oil, opinion, ... , Politics, Quotes, video, War           News from the financial front first.  Oil prices are going up due ... a barrel before futures prices went back down.  Even with a decrease in global and [more...]

Date: 2008-12-30 00:39:09

Obama to name woman as new head of SEC

The Obama transition's leaky pipe says that the chief executive officer of the Financial Industries Regulatory Authority, Mary Schapiro, ... commissioner. Schapiro also headed the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. The announcement is expected ... shop in July 2007. It the largest non-governmental regulatory organization for securities brokers [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 00:12:47

ARM and Hammer: Bailout Ascends Toward $2.25 Trillion

by anderson Barry Ritholtz at the Big Picture points to the ballooning size of the financial bailout, which is now leaning toward $2 ... requirements by the Commodity Futures Modernization Act. During the early 2000s, the Federal Reserve ... ratio. After the 2004 exemption, firms levered up as much as 40 to 1. Not surprising, the five brokers [more...]

Date: 2008-10-15 17:59:36

Oily, Day Two

Day two and the feeling of being dunked in oil hasn't lifted. In fact, given the financial news rocking Wall Street and the soaring price of oil futures, I'm ... , "If It Isn't Boring, It Isn't Green," Friedman quotes [more...]

Date: 2008-09-18 15:32:08

Hourly Action In Gold From Trader Dan

Dear CIGAs, Today’s action in nearly every single market that trades can best be described by one phrase – “It’s all about the Fed”. Their decision to basically print as much money as needed to liquefy the financial system ... as if we have been here before. Budget deficits into the future as far as the eye can see coupled with free [more...]

Date: 2008-12-17 18:49:34

Stocks in Europe, Asia Decline, Led by Banks; U.S. Futures Fall

By Adam Haigh Nov. 18 (Bloomberg) — Stocks in Europe and Asia declined for a second day, ... analysts who study charts of trading patterns. Stocks in Europe and futures on the S&P 500 recouped ... led by commodity producers and financial companies on concern the deepening recession will erode [more...]

Date: 2008-11-18 13:44:57

The Financial Modelers’ Manifesto

Emanuel Derman & Paul Wilmott have written a thought provoking article about the state of financial models and its implications with the global ... to complex ones like futures and options, subprime CDOs and credit default swaps. We build [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 06:00:02

Commodities Reprieve Coming to an End

A guest post from Frank Shump. Frank is a veteran from the financial services industry, and currently authors a blog called Thefinancecastle ... in the near future, as some oil fields out there aren’t nearly as cost effective at these prices ... are out there on the future of other commodities. The World Bank, for example, believes that the global [more...]

Date: 2008-12-15 16:54:45

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

Online Options Trading: Your Ticket To Financial Freedom

by Walter Fox Are you sick of hustling trying to get ahead of the game financially? ... work? As a matter of fact, many of them have experimented with futures and online options trading ... options trading systems is not rocket science. The conception of it may seem puzzling, but do not allow [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 13:48:05

Stock futures mixed ahead of auto sales data (AP)

Traders react as they eye financial charts and data on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Friday Jan. 2, 2009 ... proceeded warily into the first full week of 2009, trading mixed in premarket activity Monday ahead ... in light holiday trading (AP) AP - Wall Street rose modestly in light holiday trading...European stocks [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 12:00:27

Stating the Obvious

Seen in the "Funplex" — a warning sign that prepares those not used to losing that they may in fact obtain nothing for ... the institutions that are based on nothing but Trust —banks and other financial constructs that basically told us that they were the place to entrust our futures. This sign is a reminder in an odd [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 19:48:28

"The" Mansion had to Downsize...

Forget the credit panic and sinking house prices!Ignore the melting ice caps and soaring food prices!Want a real sign that an Apocalypse is imminent? ... publishing pictures of naked ladies? Have futures contracts for garter belts skyrocketed ... I hear you ask.  Okay here is the financial snapshot ~    Revenues decreased $12.3 million [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 06:03:00

STOCK FUTURES MIXED AHEAD OF AUTO SALES DATA (AP)

Traders react as they eye financial charts and data on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Friday Jan. 2, 2009 ... proceeded warily into the first full week of 2009, trading mixed in premarket activity Monday ahead [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 12:00:27

[IMG Newspapers]

Newspapers A to Z of the Sunday newspapers Here's our summary of what the business papers are reporting from the financial world this Sunday | ... Raw material prices IMF bailouts Capital ratios Black Swan Theory Oil futures A to Z of all 30-second guides LATEST ON... shares and dice Summary of the financial crisis And the latest [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 10:16:52

Stock futures mixed ahead of auto sales data (AP)

Traders react as they eye financial charts and data on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Friday Jan. 2, 2009 ... proceeded warily into the first full week of 2009, trading mixed in premarket activity Monday ahead [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 12:00:27

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

CNBC VIDEO PPT Well, well, well … it’s early morning and a guest on CNBC’s Squawk Box blurted out in vociferous fashion about how The Working Group on Financial Markets, or the Plunge Protection Team, has been active in the S&P futures ... . *Scott Nations came back with the government is in the bond market, why not the stock market [more...]

Date: 2008-11-19 12:00:17

TIAA-CREF Computer System: Still the Default Excuse

In January 2006, thousands of TIAA-CREF customers experienced service problems with the financial services firm when attempting to transfer funds, ... t are very worried about the future. It is astounding that the Boards of Trustees have let [more...]

Date: 2008-07-08 16:07:43

No Bailout for Wall Street Billionaires by Prof. James Petras

Dandelion Salad by Prof. James Petras Global Research, September 28, ... s worthless private debts, saddling current and future generations of US taxpayers with worthless ... swindlers will lead to the collapse of the financial system. In fact, almost 200 of our leading economists [more...]

Date: 2008-09-29 08:12:29

Medvedev Grows a Pair?

The Financial Times reports, yesterday, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev took another apparent swipe at predecessor and future supreme leader ... and a sharp drop in global commodities prices that has hit the resource-based economy hard.Although [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 16:41:00

Bigger Problems Lurked Behind Deregulatory Measures

On November 12, 1999, President Clinton signed into law the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Financial Services Modernization Act, ... break in 2000, it got Gramm to tack the Commodities Futures Modernization Act onto an unrelated [more...]

Date: 2008-12-23 18:05:41

Menahem-Mendl on Wall Street

Sholom Aleichem on Financial Meltdown by Joachim Martillo (ThorsProvoni@aol.com)   In Did Financial Deregulation Serve the Neocons' Hidden Agenda? ... of the economy, in illicit speculation in commodity futures, or the infamous "trading in the wind [more...]

Date: 2008-11-16 13:37:00

Full text of the bailout bill (subject to revision) + Summary

Dandelion Salad Los Angeles Times 1:27 PM, September 28, 2008 The House Financial Services Committee has released a draft of the financial-system bailout ... s initial request for $700 billion and requiring Congressional review for any future commitment [more...]

Date: 2008-09-29 02:27:37

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

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

Facing Crisis, Obama Moves Quickly to Fill Economic Posts

In the face of the deepening financial crisis and the largest Wall Street swindle in history, ... Gensler to lead the Commodities Futures Trading Commission. Gensler spent 18 years at Goldman Sachs before [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 16:33:51

Banks Tank, Yet Most Still Above 52-Week Lows (BAC, C, GS, JPM, MS, NTRS, USB, WFC)

This is obviously one of our ugliest mornings in years with futures trading limit down ... and panic selling days. These are just the stronger banks and financial firms that are deemed [more...]

Date: 2008-10-24 12:44:48

Facing crisis, Obama moves quickly to fill economic posts

In the face of the deepening financial crisis and the largest Wall Street swindle in history, ... Gensler to lead the Commodities Futures Trading Commission. Gensler spent 18 years at Goldman Sachs [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 17:29:30

Selling decimates the markets; gold rallies, T-bill rates dive

Calamity rules in markets today after the House, in a shocker, voted down the financial-system bailout bill ... demand to dry up if the global economy contracts sharply. Crude oil futures are down $9.26 to $97.63 a barrel. The Reuters/Jefferies CRB index of 19 commodities is down 5%. The only major commodity [more...]

Date: 2008-09-29 19:36:55

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