The layman's finance crisis glossary

The layman's finance crisis glossary via BBC Here is a guide to many of the business terms currently cropping up regularly, ... trade Chapter 11 Capitulation Chapter 11 Collateralised debt obligation Commercial paper Commodities ... Dividends Equity FTSE-100 Fundamentals Futures Futures GDP Hedge fund Hedging Inflation Investment bank [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 12:55:51

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Are We Courting a Populist Backlash?

The government is doing a lousy job helping distressed homeowners. And according to John Dugan, the Comptroller of the Currency, the little that's been done ... disappear. They're worried about the future and about their kids' futures. They never expected [more...]

Date: 2008-12-08 22:51:00

White-Knuckle Market Updates and Quotes (Updated)

The latest sightings: Money market rates doubled overnight: despite considerable central bank intervention: ... billion). The SNB also said it will offer overnight cash.. Stocks continued to fall. Dow futures ... . Futures on the Standard & Poor's 500 Index slipped 1 percent. UBS, the largest Swiss bank, lost 9.2 [more...]

Date: 2008-09-16 12:30:23

S&P/Case-Shiller Certificate Issued.... In Germany

The German exchanges Xetra and EUWAX have listed a security called "Open End Index Certificate on the S& ... be as an offer to buy or sell any futures contract, or security or option or other derivative instrument. Trading of all such futures, securities, options and other derivative instruments entails significant risk [more...]

Date: 2008-08-14 19:24:29

A new high at the silver ETF

If only the futures price would catch on to what has been happening over the last year or so at the world's largest silver ETF, ... in December of 2006. IMAGE While there have been many claims of manipulation in the silver futures ... the iShares Silver Trust (NYSEArca:SLV). With a massive addition of 218 tonnes on Friday [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 17:46:50

Roundtable Experts You Decide

This weeks Barron's has an article on whats in store for our economy ... years. The Roundtable discussion did not sound to optimistic  for the future, unless ... on the panel, but can they really see the future any better than you and I, Heck [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 04:09:00

Merrill’s Three ‘C’s for the Market

Could declining commodity prices be a major theme for the markets in the third quarter? Crude-oil futures are dropping like a stone this morning amid a strengthening dollar ... futures dropped as well, tumbling more than $12 to around $921 an ounce in recent Comex trading [more...]

Date: 2008-07-07 14:41:09

Exxon CEO doubts Obama's alternative energy goal

Tom Doggett, Reuters 8 Jan 09;WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson said on Thursday it would be difficult to meet President-elect ... ourselves."Despite calls for more alternative energy use, he said, "for the foreseeable future" the world ... to meet future energy demand.He said the company was sticking with its $125 billion capital [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 00:03:00

U.S. Payrolls Post Biggest Annual Drop Since 1945

Source: BloombergThe U.S. lost more jobs in 2008 than any year since 1945 as employers fired another 524,000 people in December, ... Stock-index futures rose and Treasuries fell amid relief among some investors that the drop in payrolls wasn’t even bigger. Futures on the Standard & Poor’s 500 Stock Index rose 0.4 percent [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 22:53:00

DrumBeat: November 20, 2008

Global Trends 2025: A Transformed World "Global Trends 2025: A Transformed World" ... years. On the final day of trading for the December contract, U.S. crude futures fell $4 to settle ... in prediction or crystal ball-gazing. Mindful that there are many possible "futures," we offer [more...]

Date: 2008-11-20 14:03:38

Rick Santelli Strikes Again

Interesting discussion of credit, liquidity and commodity corrections. Steve Liesman missed the opportunity to tell Santelli that the Fed Futures traders got rates wrong for over a year -- from January 2006 until the Fed began cutting in August 2007, futures traders [more...]

Date: 2008-09-03 09:30:00

Future of Financials

This is a great interview with Finance Analyst "Babe" Meredith Whitney of Oppenheimer ... ? The next question is if they do are there going to be enough buyers or will desperation cause future [more...]

Date: 2008-07-30 22:30:00

James Bianco on Possible Role of SemGroup Bankruptcy in Oil Price Drop

James Bianco, a respected fixed income analyst at Arbor Research, ... , down $5 on the day. Traders sold oil futures as news emerged that tropical storm Dolly was set to miss ... billion loss on July 16 after it transferred its New York Mercantile Exchange oil futures trading [more...]

Date: 2008-07-23 19:39:00

Nikkei Falls Nearly 10%, Asian Markets Tank on Opening

The bloodbath continues, largely in reaction to the bad economic news reports in the US ... caused trading in Nikkei futures to be temporarily halted. South Korea's Kospi Index retreated 6.3 percent. All benchmark indexes in the region sank. Standard & Poor's 500 Index futures fell 1.2 percent [more...]

Date: 2008-10-16 02:35:30

Mandy can’t see the irony- He stood for election has new labour- yet he’s a Fabian-Then speaks of Deceit

Mandelson: Make social justice case for European reform Monday, ... -ranging vision for how European debates about economic reform and the future of Europe’s social model ... . There have been many such crises before, and doubtless there will be more in the future. For make no mistake [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 14:38:06

Speaks of Deceit- The irony- Mandy stands as New Labour covers the fact he’s a fabian……….

Mandelson: Make social justice case for European reform Monday, ... -ranging vision for how European debates about economic reform and the future of Europe’s social model ... . There have been many such crises before, and doubtless there will be more in the future. For make no mistake [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 14:46:37

Expiration perspiration

All hell broke loose for me in the Program Portal and Xcode today ... these problems now and in the future. I’m sure that I’ll refer back to this essay on January 13th, 2010 ... in the future. If you don’t have the original CSRs, you’ll need to follow the steps on the portal [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 01:39:39

Oconomowoc doesn't want to be bamboozled on Pabst Farms

Last week, MMT posted a series of entries regarding the current status and future of Sendik's Fine Foods and the retail shopping center Shoppes at ... for the future. Oddly enough, the same day that was published, the Waukesha Freeman had an article [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 01:12:43

What’s For Dinner? Whatever’s On Sale!

Readers sugested a topic on future concerns. “I would like to know what future scenarios keep people here potentially awake at night. What kinds of unfolding events related to the housing bubble [more...]

Date: 2008-06-09 14:07:00

When Losing 525K Jobs Makes People Happy

Regardless of the market’s reaction, the December jobs data was awful ... s jobs figures, and that has futures showing a bit of life headed into the opening bell. The official ... futures, which were down 18 points prior to the news, were lately higher by 44 points. S&P 500 [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 16:42:00

Will Mary Schapiro Lead a Merger of the SEC and CFTC?

With startling revelations (yesterday and today) ... , with the CFTC, created in 1974 to regulate commodities futures and options markets. Schapiro’s service ... might be her stint as the chair of the Commodities Futures Trading Commission during the Clinton [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 14:15:49

From an Amateur's Angle: The Impact of the Visual Image in Defining Abu Ghraib

"In contemporary conflicts, any mention of culture may mask the sound of a revolver being drawn" Hermann Goering (Quoted in Paul & Bogler 1998: 35). Author George Orwell (1949) wrote about the future ... . 'Who controls the past' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past’ [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 21:53:25

EURO/USD Daily

Disclaimer: Trading Futures and Options on Futures and Cash Forex transactions involves substantial risk of loss and may not be suitable for all investors. You should carefully consider whether [more...]

Date: 2008-12-01 14:00:58

DreamWorks Animation Charging an Extra $5 to See 3D Movies!

... proclaimed it was the "future of cinema." There are people, like James Cameron, who are trying to develop 3D ... price and is a premium experience. Cameron believes that in the future, 3D won't be a technique [more...]

Date: 2008-12-09 23:40:45

HR Futures Conference

Just a short post to let you all know that early bird pricing for the Inspecht HR Futures Conference finishes in 3 days, 15th January ... I know some of you are, check out the venue details for accommodation options. ShareThis [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 08:13:53

Future Of Estate Tax Becoming Clear

President-elect Barack Obama and congressional leaders plan to move soon to block the estate tax from disappearing in 2010. . . ... . Uncertainty over the future of the estate tax has made it hard for taxpayers to engage in sensible long [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 22:36:00

Future Uncertain...

Hello friends, sad news today. It seems the sale of 1UP to UGO has been finalized ... now have uncertain futures? I don't know. What of my friends the bloggers who work or go to school [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 16:05:39

Reprieve

on Page 45: " ... when the death sentence had been pronounced there was a strong chance of a reprieve at the request of the ... to the recent credit crunch.Stock-index futures (期貨) rallied in premarket trading Friday, as did shares ... that it has approved a half-percentage point cut in its discount rate on loans to banks, the kind of [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 07:32:23

Blessing for the Anniversary of Roe v. Wade

This was emailed to me by Rev. Rebecca Turner, the director of Faith Aloud ... be to us all a vision of hope for our future and our children’s futures.  As we celebrate 36 years [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 18:15:09

Ask an Infantryman: Pining in Madison

Uncle Jimbo writes: Oh and yes I am totally hot for Kathy, I know she is anti-religion, I'm not but if you can get in touch with her let her know ... out there, my friendships would be analogous any other commodity, to be bought and sold on the CBOT ... . Should I risk burning up the expected future value of this friend -- we'll call him "July Soybeans [more...]

Date: 2009-01-02 02:14:10

Coming Soon: National Lampoon’s Litigation Vacation

So, this is way off topic, I know, but really, I couldn’t stop myself. As Bloomberg reports today, the SEC has sued National Lampoon (NLN) ... with the FBI who he believed had connections to “corrupt” brokers. Whoops! Fake mobsters! In the suit ... in the future, and is seeking to impose an unspecified fine against Laikin. Maybe Chevy Chase could play [more...]

Date: 2008-12-15 20:22:02

Bloodbath

I had warned readers against assuming that because we had a bounce in the equity markets, that life would soon return to normalcy ( ... that level). US stock futures trading has been restricted because it has fallen below 6%, its daily ... . A more aggressive than expected production cut by OPEC has done nothing to stem the fall of oil, down 5%. Gold [more...]

Date: 2008-10-24 10:46:40

Evening...

was just looking at a couple of old students of mine, profiles on facebook! ... and do they ever grow up!  These two are both beautiful girls with good futures ahead of them for sure ... Meryl fabulous in it?  Couldn't believe her energy.  I'm watching it thinking, wow- she can still [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 22:56:57

Truth or Consequences

Of those reading this website in the early days, many expected that by 2008 the world would begin to look like a different place ... in stealth mode: supply side investments are being crimped due to low commodity prices, and investment ... strapped, but gasoline at under $2 a gallon, (arguably the scarcest input into societies' future - see [more...]

Date: 2008-11-16 16:38:50

How are they doing now?

After yesterday’s less than stellar day on Wall Street, I couldn’t help but think of this post that I wrote back in October 2006. A mortgage broker had a suggestion for his clients on how to deal with a cooling housing market ... do so at lower prices. What does this mean to me? Now is the time to think about the future [more...]

Date: 2008-10-07 13:00:22

Derivative Bets Gone Bad May Worsen Shipping Industry Woes

When it rains, it pours. Amazingly, the list of possible casualties from positions on forward freight agreements includes not only ship owners, ... in charter rates for ships carrying coal, iron ore and other commodities. The sector’s Baltic Dry Index ... director in the futures division of London’s Simpson, Spence & Young shipbrokers, said the market’s [more...]

Date: 2008-11-04 07:26:33

Sellers Are Frustrated In California

The Union Tribune reports from California. “Almost two-thirds of property owners who sold homes in San Diego County this summer lost money on the ... up. She feared for her future and that of the 19-year-old granddaughter she is raising.” “‘So many Americans ... in business,’ said Shawn Harris, a mortgage broker based [more...]

Date: 2008-09-14 18:47:31

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

Let Them Eat Treasurys

Good Evening: Today the U.S. capital markets continued the slow healing process that began on November 21 ... . Many options will be considered, but in my opiniion, we’ll need to start thinking long term ... particularly peppy, and our index futures responded by rallying prior to this morning’s open. A drop back [more...]

Date: 2008-12-11 05:30:22

Lottery System Development

I've been working on a lottery system based on intuition rather than the more common strategy of analaysing patterns or distributions in historical ... out by 2,3,4,...49 (use the modulus operator when the number goes above 49).From the world of trading ... can be used to forecast future price levels in many products, ranging from currencies to commodities [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 11:34:00

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

No icebergs required

By David Roberts The following is an elaborated version of the brief talk I gave at my Netroots Nation panel. The U.S ... certain to continue rising for the foreseeable future. Our trade debt is enormous, as we, in Gore's ... into R&D, opening our absurd immigration system to engineers and entrepreneurs from abroad [more...]

Date: 2008-07-23 17:31:18

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

Forget About Mike Leach to the Vols or Huskies. Is There an NFL Job in His Immediate Future?

The following NFL teams are likely to either have a head coaching opening or an offensive coordinator position to fill after this season: Cleveland, Seattle, San Francisco, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Oakland, Detroit, and maybe though probably not, the Jets and Eagles. What are the chances that college football’s hottest coaching commodity, Mike [more...]

Date: 2008-11-12 17:30:59

He's writing again

I had a brief meeting with Steven on Thursday. It ended with him playing me parts of 3 songs. I offer photographic proof of just how cool my job is ... .  : )   No plans for a timeline on a future release currently, but you readers of the StevenCurtisChapman.com blogs will be the first to know. Writing again [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 21:06:06

Simple Winning Method Introduction

I first started trading when I was 15. I was fond of the stockmarket, but due to my limited capital I could only buy one share ... for myself I needed something more volatile with more leverage. I discovered options, futures an CfD ... models could make you very profitable in the long run.Over time, I started to adapt the systems [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 01:53:00

Re: What is a “Sustainable and Durable” Ceasefire?

Rick, it’s not a good sign when the State Department adopts environmentalist jargon to address military conflicts ... that we see in Al Gore’s plan to save the future of mankind through the use of “eco-friendly” light ... by a reporter, Rice said she had no plans to visit the Middle East to broker peace in the waning days [more...]

Date: 2009-01-02 18:07:48

Two Bright Spots in the Economic Darkness!

Since there’s all of the bad news being pumped out there daily by the media…I thought it might be refreshing to talk about two of the bright spots ... of an environment then you obviously feel strongly about your financial future. That company? T.D. ... ) ...trading just over a buck a share!). Ameritrade will also benefit from the expansion [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 17:38:53

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

Where's the Fire? Nowhere.

A relatively orderly and uneventful day so far, with an early selloff after expected job declines. Bidirectional risk persists ... (flight to safety) or nothing if the Fed is monetizing the debt (prolly)Trading account indicators ... .Breadth negative, but off its lowsVIX pretty much stuck in neutral with Feb VIX futures modestly [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 17:21:00

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