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A DAILY round-up of economic news: The bailout saga continues to turn ... for oil yesterday. Traders buying October oil futures to cover earlier sales of the contract briefly ... by resurgent commodities prices and a tangled global financial situation. [more...]

Date: 2008-09-23 14:18:14

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A personal letter from Satan to Henry Paulson

January 6, 2009 — Stefan Fobes A Personal Letter from Satan to Henry Paulson3.31 ... of all financial instruments and assets at the close of the trading day, as is currently done with commodities futures and stock options the banning of “off balance sheet” accounting the banning of offshore [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 16:38:26

Measure So You Can Manage: Where to From Here?

In my previous life as a financial executive, I firmly advocated a saying attributed to Dr. Edward Deming ( ... , no one can predict the future and I'm not trying to do that here. What I am saying is that previous [more...]

Date: 2009-01-04 14:48:00

Chronicle of a death foretold (cont.)

A day of reckoning is fast approaching for the New York Times, owner of the Boston Globe (and other local properties) ... , the paper has announced a new financial patch: ads will now be appearing on its front page, at a special ... about the once and future Times, and lays out a nice survey of "possible futures [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 20:43:00

Snapshots from a gloomy morning

A broker on Wall Street just warned of "a historic fall" ahead; Another says the "great hedge-fund unwind" continues; Stock futures are down 550 points -- the maximum amount; Entire nations -- Iceland and Pakistan, Russia and Argentina -- are in financial trouble, if not on a financial precipice; The dollar [more...]

Date: 2008-10-24 13:00:51

Getting To Know Supreme Viceroy Sciortino

Ha! We are having some fun with the headline. It is in partial reference to a certain draft financial agreement:8 ... all made Henry Sciortino seem potentially very powerful in the sculpting of Pittsburgh's future [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 04:53:00

[IMG Plasma TV]

'Energy-guzzling' plasma TVs face ban Giant energy-guzzling flatscreens are expected to be banned under legislation due to be agreed by ... : Like-for-like sales 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 cr [more...]

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

Personal Finance For Freelancers, a Four Part Series

This series was written by a friend of mine, Sara Freitas Maltaverne, and originally published on April 7, 2008 ... for our futures. However, the best way to face an uncertain retirement scenario is to plan and prepare, which ... your financial house in order. Don’t run the risk of “outliving” your assets in retirement. Think of saving [more...]

Date: 2008-12-30 11:00:18

[IMG Barack Obama]

Worldwide economy reels under new blows Britain's manufacturing industry is in its worst decline for almost 30 years and US ... 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... - Oil prices - Interest [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 12:51:16

Zero - The Loneliest Number?!?

In The Secret Bank of Japan Lexicon, I attempted to demystify all things ZIRP for financial Japan-o-philes. But as we are all ZIRPers now ( ... that will depreciate less.ZIRPflation - The likely future consequence of ZIRP.disZIRPflation - The temporary state of purgatory where core asset and commodity prices are falling coincidental to ZIRP [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 03:28:00

The Last Financial Crisis of the Nineteenth Century

http://j-bradford-delong.net/2008_html/20080610_delong_situation.html | View | Upload your own [ ... prices. * CBOT futures: a 55 percent chance the Fed will raise the Fed Funds rate from 2 on Aug [more...]

Date: 2008-06-10 17:45:55

Thinkorswim- The Best Brokerage

by Walter Fox A time when the financial institutions because of their harsh conditions easily was not getting credit ... categories including equities, the fund currency, bonds, futures trading of mutual funds can help ... . More and more people jumped into the competition, introduction of online options trading systems. They are aware [more...]

Date: 2008-12-29 17:17:10

[IMG The Nissan UK factory in Sunderland]

Nissan axes 1,200 as car industry cull begins Nissan is to cut 1, ... 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... - Oil prices - Interest rates - FTSE [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 21:51:19

Probe starts on directors of CITIC Pacific

CITIC Pacific Ltd, predicting US$2.4 billion of losses from currency derivatives, said the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission is investigating its chairman and managing ... directors are not aware of any material adverse change in the financial or trading position of the group [more...]

Date: 2009-01-04 10:21:34

CNBC's Melissa Lee & Porn. Suddenly My Day is Looking Up!

I continue to gain respect CNBC as I maintain my semi-invalid status.  The financial reporting is still pretty atrocious, but it really is getting to the point where ... was, "Well, the Dow futures areup on this news, maybe this is some relief that the non-farm number wasn't [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 18:35:55

End The Ban On Short-Selling

End The Ban On Short-Selling Delicious Digg Facebook reddit Technorati Menachem Brenner and Marti G. Subrahmanyam | Oct 8, 2008 In an efficient market, the prices of financial assets should reflect all available information--good and bad--that may affect the magnitude and the risk of future cash flows from these assets [more...]

Date: 2008-10-08 15:26:09

End The Ban On Short-Selling

End The Ban On Short-Selling Delicious Digg Facebook reddit Technorati Menachem Brenner and Marti G. Subrahmanyam | Oct 8, 2008 In an efficient market, the prices of financial assets should reflect all available information--good and bad--that may affect the magnitude and the risk of future cash flows from these assets [more...]

Date: 2008-10-08 17:02:25

Green Ink: Oil?s Floor and Asian Demand

paper Crude oil futures surged past $84 early Tuesday on the back of optimism the world will avoid the worst of the financial crunch, ... reqd.). Despite the recent recovery, oil and other commodities are still well-off summertime highs ... not be unlimited, in the WSJ (sub reqd.). Just don’t tell small businesses the commodities boom is over— [more...]

Date: 2008-10-14 12:10:35

CME Owners Bracing For Earnings (CME)

CME Group Inc. (NYSE: CME) is set to report earnings after the close of trading today. The futures and commodities exchange giant estimates (from First Call) are $3.98 EPS and $644.3 million in revenues. Exchanges and financial companies do not offer guidance, but next quarter [more...]

Date: 2008-10-29 14:47:34

Porn. The new financial bubble?

Hedge fund invests in porn-related businesses, claims 50% gain last year. Whole new categories of financial derivatives are, no doubt, about to be launched to take ... shorts.” But heck, why stop there? How about a futures market on Afghan heroin production [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 13:30:07

The End of Newspapers - Hard to Predict?

Image via Wikipedia There has been a great deal of discussion about whether the financial crisis was foreseeable or not, ... markets (the company's debt was recently reduced to junk status), the paper's future doesn't look good [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 22:14:19

The McCain Economic Council

ECONOMY This weekend, the U.S. financial system faced what the Washington Post called its “gravest crisis in modern times ... , he was behind the Commodity Futures Modernization Act and the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act. The former [more...]

Date: 2008-09-16 22:21:30

Who is Behind the Financial Meltdown? by Michel Chossudovsky

on current Dandelion Salad by Michel Chossudovsky Global Research, October 11, ... . There are several instruments including futures, options, index funds, derivative securities, etc. used ... Stearns was in part due to short selling. Short selling has also been used extensively in currency [more...]

Date: 2008-10-12 01:47:33

Four at Four: Sell on Jan. 2 and Go Away?

For those who hinge their outlook on the year on its first few trading days, ... of Voorhees, NJ-based Ameriway Financial Services. VIX The trend in the Chicago Board Options ... a little more easily. Action in the near-term futures, however, shows the era of good feelings may [more...]

Date: 2009-01-02 12:19:00

Common Questions About Currency Trading

Although forex is the largest financial market in the world, it is relatively unfamiliar terrain to retail traders ... from other markets?Unlike the trading of stocks, futures or options, currency trading does not take ... .Until the popularization of internet trading a few years ago, FX was primarily the domain of large [more...]

Date: 2009-01-01 21:21:00

Capitalism comes to Wall Street.

An economic philosophy at war with the ideology of the financial world’s self-styled “Masters of the Universe” has seized Wall Street ... worldwide, most of whom now face an uncertain future. One can feel for the Lehman workers now typing [more...]

Date: 2008-09-15 17:59:33

No Shame Crowd Deserves the Gulag

Good Evening: The news flow that affected our capital markets today actually started last night when Fed Ex and Texas Instruments posted negative ... joined this morning by Con-Way freight. U.S. stock index futures were under pressure for most ... were down 2% to 5% with 90 minutes to go in the trading session. Word that the financial aid package [more...]

Date: 2008-12-10 02:00:12

The insane GOP game of Deregulation Russian Roulette

Peter L. Bernstein, a financial consultant, economic historian and the editor of the Economics & Portfolio Strategy newsletter posed a significant ... to make good so many losses throughout the system, why would anyone set limits on future risk ... , and it needs to be put in place quickly. But at the same time, we need to ask how the financial system came [more...]

Date: 2008-09-29 19:28:16

Who saw this coming? Gas below $1.70

A handful of gas stations in Pierce County are selling gas for $1.69, according to TacomaGasPrices.com ... what today's AP story has to say: Oil futures have followed stock markets recently, using equities as a proxy ... of the year before we begin to decouple and various commodities and financial instruments begin to march [more...]

Date: 2008-11-24 20:43:02

Thinkorswim, The Best Broker

by Walter Fox There was a time when people have not been relaxed credit financial institutions because of its stringent conditions ... , its customers around the world. They are well-known consultants in the field of futures and options trading ... and found stock option trading and currency trading to be very fruitful. More people jumped into the fray [more...]

Date: 2008-12-19 09:09:37

Coping With Challenging Markets By Hedging Your Bets: Financial and Personal

Dear Readers, It really has been an amazing time; I've traded the equity markets since late 1977, ... quantitative ones: when negativity is pervasive, it affects future decision-making, with self-fulfilling ... from a leveraged world to a deleveraged one, as credit is unwound throughout the financial system, from banks [more...]

Date: 2008-10-22 12:23:29

Some Opening Comments October 8 2008

Prices of Treasury coupon securities are surging as the turmoil in the world financial markets deepens and resists the best laid plans of ... . European markets are down between 4 percent and 6 percent. Trading in equity futures indicates that the US markets will tumble sharply at the outset if trading were to begin now. The UK government crafted [more...]

Date: 2008-10-08 11:12:20

Financial Spreads: Oil Slick, Bonds Stick And Pounding Sterling

SPREAD Watch: Anorak’s look at the financial spread markets BUY much last month? The Office For National Statistics ( ... on this year’s highs. Meanwhile, US regulators at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission allege ... s civil complaint, traders said they would “hammer” [more...]

Date: 2008-07-25 09:34:38

Your Take: Trust A Financial Planner With Bad Finances?

A few years ago I met with a financial planner who was probably the same age, or a few years older, as me. We chatted a little, discussed some of my future plans, and basically he tried to sell ... t really have future plans. I had just graduated college, started getting my first few paychecks [more...]

Date: 2008-09-19 11:11:49

Daily Forex Overview

Previous session overview On Monday, the dollar declined across the board Monday, taking its cue from a drop in U.S. stock markets as financial shares sold off. The dollar was also feeling the heat from oil prices that crept back up toward USD125 a barrel on futures markets, indicating that any measurable relief [more...]

Date: 2008-07-29 07:20:34

A Good Look at How We Got Here

There are few economists who predicted the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression (and, quite likely, of all time) ... . This will be a dangerous moment. Behind the debates over future policy is a debate over history— [more...]

Date: 2008-12-11 01:51:26

Trouble in Banktopia By Mike Whitney

Dandelion Salad By Mike Whitney 09/27/08 “ICH” The financial system is blowing up. Don’t listen to the experts; just look at the numbers ... will not bounce back in the foreseeable future and the banks are unable to roll-over their short term [more...]

Date: 2008-09-28 00:14:57

Obama Selects Three Financial Regulators

Getty He names Mary Schapiro as SEC head, Daniel Tarullo to the Federal Reserve Board and Gary Gensler as Commodity Futures Trading Commission head during Thursday presser. Mentions Wall Street [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 14:10:17

Emerging Markets: Stumble or Fall? Economist

Will the global financial crisis halt the rise of emerging economies?NOBODY talks about “decoupling” any more ... by exports to American consumers, easy access to cheap capital and high commodity prices. All three props ... more, they will import less over the coming years. This could reduce emerging economies’ future growth rates [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 18:57:00

“I have found a flaw”

Searching the Web for overviews of our current financial crisis — accounts of how we got to where we are — I came across two very useful and ... important challenge was that posed by derivatives. In 1998 the head of the Commodity Futures Trading ... of the causes of the crisis in Vanity Fair. Some choice Stiglitz quotes: As we stripped back the old [more...]

Date: 2008-12-11 07:02:14

Soda Popping

Soda Popping by John ~ January 11th, 2009 | (0 views) Financial bubbles have burst all throughout the financial industry ... with the fallout from a volatile stock market. Beverage manufacturers have seen those costs passed ... by Americans) there is no fall in soft drink prices… Or Corn futures for that matter. Another quirk [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 16:15:53

OTC Derivative Growth Since 1998

As the world financial markets head into complete meltdown, it is worth taking a moment to look back to see where much of this began ... are meant to monetize risk of default. Futures contracts, options, swaps, and many others allow one party ... for interest rate contracts, commodity contracts, and credit default swaps. Though commodity [more...]

Date: 2008-09-18 20:14:31

Pay it Forward! Donate Your Settlement

Defend Activists Against State Repression! Did you get beat up by the cops at a protest, but were able to beat the state back in court? ... 8. As activists, we always seem to be in a constant, financial flux. In between organizing for mass ... you can occasionally find yourself with some secure financial footing. The story goes the same for many [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 21:46:51

Seven Scandalous Financial Bugaboos

…that you may not have heard of. The big news this year was about the CDO (collateralized debt obligation), MBS ( ... not bonds, they’re derivatives… and the only thing “mini” is the value when you consider that many ... out in cash, which, to be honest, is how 99% of us deal with our options and futures in practice - seriously [more...]

Date: 2008-12-26 17:59:21

Another Wall Street casualty

This Wall Street Journal report($) detailing one more casualty of the financial crisis really makes you stop and think ... Stearns manager. Barry Fox, a research supervisor who worked for nine years at the brokerage firm ... weeks later, a Chicago futures trader fatally shot himself after reportedly sustaining big losses [more...]

Date: 2008-11-06 17:35:00

Employment Woes Imperil Stocks? Nascent Rally

ALCOA’S OUTLOOK, JOB CUTS REVIVE ECONOMIC CONCERNS Fresh fears about the labor markets - the visceral manifestation of corporate health, ... to the task of tamping down recessionary troubles. S&P 500 futures indicated a half-a-percentage point loss from the open Wednesday, after Alcoa fell 5% in premarket trading on its outlook. While [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 14:25:35

Oligarch Loyalty No Longer a Given

From the Lex Column of the Financial Times: The crisis has highlighted that Russia is hardwired into the global economy ... foreign policy has a cost in terms of battered confidence and capital flight. That may restrain future ... adventurism undermined that grand bargain. Lower commodity prices, slowing growth, will make [more...]

Date: 2008-09-19 13:39:05

Late Selloff Seals Stocks’ Drop

A grim employment report and a late bout of across-the-board selling pushed stocks lower on Friday, bringing a tough week for stocks to a queasy end ... , which was also said to be looking to sell its Smith Barney brokerage business. Its shares ended down ... woes and energyStock futures slide after Wal-Mart disappoints [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 21:28:46

The Financial Proposals At Poznan

The ongoing global climate negotiations in the Polish town of Poznan are all about financing, insiders say. So what proposals are on the table? ... the system more effective. Insiders in CDM trading circles are lobbying for new rules to judge projects ... A roundup of some headline generating plans: The future of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM [more...]

Date: 2008-12-10 13:49:17

All signs point to explosive rise in the gold price: Part 1

“Downside protection and potential extraordinary upside participation” With more than 20 years of experience in the investment industry, ... s got to stimulate. Is it going to be enough and what will that mean for commodities? Or, if it doesn ... it was in ’02, but there’s less gold around, ostensibly because the rise in all the other commodities [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 16:28:26

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