"The Canary in the Coal Mine" for GSEs

John Jansen at Across the Curve ... trading tomorrow observing the movements in the rate at which agency collateral trades relative [more...]

Date: 2008-07-13 22:24:00

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Free fall continues

Nervousness gripped the market for the third consecutive day, as selling pressure since early trades saw the index remain weak all through the trading session ... . As correction continued unabated, the index tumbled below the 9,100 mark to touch an intra-day low [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 15:39:00

SEC Charges Mark Cuban With Inside Trading (Photos)

wenn838882 SEC Charges Mark Cuban With Inside Trading (Photos) In June 2004 Cuban sold off all 600,000 of his shares in Mamma ... this information, according to the complaint, Cuban called his broker and instructed him to sell ... price opened at $11.89, down $1.215 or 9.3 percent from the prior day’s closing price of $13.105 [more...]

Date: 2008-11-17 23:23:01

UD Celebrates National Hockey Day

Upper Deck Announces Plans for Massive Hockey Card Giveaway in Canada! ... Sole NHL and NHLPA licensee to launch historic hockey trading card promotion, giving away FREE packs of trading cards to celebrate country’s annual day devoted to hockey. ntnlhckyday North [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 01:02:16

Air China, SAIC, Shenzhen Bank, Sinopec: China Equity Preview

The following companies may have unusual price changes in China trading. Stock symbols are in parentheses, and share prices are as of the last close ... 4.1 percent. Corn, soybeans and wheat plunged the most allowed by the Chicago Board of Trade, crude [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 01:52:21

Four at Four: Wishing for Higher Oil Prices

The markets have a watery consistency to them now, and did not mix well with sinking oil prices Monday ... for the bounce said, ‘I’ll wait for tomorrow,’” says Joseph Saluzzi, co-head of equity trading at Themis Trading [more...]

Date: 2008-12-22 12:30:00

Dollar/Yen trade update

Well, that was close. Some of you may be following my Long Yen / Short Dollar trade that I put on in December.  At last update, the ratio was approaching my stop-out level - barely above water [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 02:40:08

Confirmation of the Role of Financing Difficulties in Collapsing Trade Volumes

One of our pet themes in recent weeks is that the fall in trade traffic, ... as an excuse for buyers to break commodities deals struck when prices were higher. However [more...]

Date: 2008-10-28 09:03:46

Sokhi Market Outlook for 13th Jan !

Yesterday markets plummeted due to sell off lead by FII due to Q3 no’s season and also IIP data could not cheer the markets ... in today’s trade. Oil and energy sector could fall more. Traders are to be very cautious ... s trade ahead of Q3 No’s. [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 03:06:00

Biotech Bash Opens Under Cloud

Getty Images We’re going to party like it’s 1991 ... of publicly traded biotech companies, have less than six months’ cash on hand, according to the trade [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 16:55:00

My Latest Instructional Trading DVD That Teaches My Research Methods: TIMfundamentals

Over the past few months, I’ve received thousands of emails and comments from people wanting to know how I research all the stocks I trade. How is it possible to narrow down the seemingly thousands [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 20:05:51

Jet Fuel Premium Set to Fall

A bit of cheery news for beleagured airlines: jet fuel, which of late had traded at a considerable premium to heating oil, ... to heating oil futures, said Mike Busby, manager of oil and refined-products trading for Northville [more...]

Date: 2008-07-15 08:22:01

Forex Trading Signals Profit on Japanese Yen Strength - What’s Next? (Daily FX)

Currency trading markets have started the New Year with a bang, as the US Dollar has already carved out major moves against the Euro and other key counterparts. Link to the original site [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 23:23:55

Why Is Sprint (S) Up 30% In Three Days? A Day-Trader's Dream

Three days ago, Sprint (S) traded at $1.79. Today, it hit $2.32 in early trading, up 30%. AT&T (T) and Verizon (VZ) are down during the same period, to some... ] [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 15:11:34

Creating “Mini-TARP” Bonus Pools Would Help

Good Evening: As 2008 bumps, grinds, and otherwise limps its way to a close, various asset markets can be expected to trade in narrow ranges ... in the future, they are faced with a doubt-laden present. Today’s economic statistics in the U.S. are a case in point. Consumer sentiment offered a mildly positive surprise, with a nice uptick in “future [more...]

Date: 2008-12-24 04:55:44

What Is Going on in Argentina

James Attwood and Drew Benson of Bloomberg: Bloomberg.com: Economy: Argentine Bonds, Stocks Sink as Takeover Fuels Default Concerns : Oct. 22 ( ... is undermining investor confidence that was already faltering as prices on the country's commodity ... for public trading, data compiled by pension funds show. The government's proposal to take control [more...]

Date: 2008-10-22 16:07:45

Gaming in Dark Pools

Rob Curran reports: Trading The rapid evolution of modern markets has caught securities regulators off guard in many instances this year, and they may be overlooking the scope of another problem in the rapidly growing alternative stock ... the price of the stock away from them, at least in theory. While estimates vary, most observers [more...]

Date: 2008-12-26 15:03:59

CONTOS DO VIGÁRIO

Ponzi's Original SwindleBy Michelle SingletaryOh, what a time we live in when fortunes of everyday folks are being wiped away in seconds ... to relieve people of their hard-earned money with schemes and scams that just amaze.The latest ... board of governors and served as chairman of its trading committee.It would not be surprising to read [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 21:09:00

EU Globalist Gurus Gather

By Terry JamesVibrations stemming from Planet Earth getting its bell rung by the economic earthquakes that struck late in 2008 continue to cause currencies and trade issues to jostle against each other. America’s loss of balance ... . French President Nicolas Sarkozy, leading a two-day conference with former British Prime Minister Tony [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 18:30:00

CNBC goes easy on Ivanka Trump

Filed under: Television, Housing Ivanka Trump -- the "executive vice president of development and acquisitions" ... the company's stock was trading at about 26 cents per share. When she joined the stock was trading [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 22:40:00

Bankrupt Energy Football

Having criticized politicians who ignore the option of letting failing industries go bankrupt, ... system. Which means that every unit of carbon or greenhouse gases that was emitted would be charged ... this is because he supports an emissions trading program with a grandfather clause—i.e., rights to pollute [more...]

Date: 2008-11-12 19:54:29

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

Niche Trading Firm Mergers Not Dead (AMTD, SWIM, OXPS, TRAD)

Money_stack_pic It seems that the appetite for online brokerage firms to do selective M&A deals is not entirely dead. TD Ameritrade ( ... shares are trading up roughly 40% to $7.94 on the deal. Jon C. Ogg January 8, 2009 [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 14:18:06

Mortgages Market Update: 01/09

Before I begin I would like to apologize for not posting anything in a while, it has been a little crazy here in the mortgage world (thank God) ... and a drastic change in income, I went back to trading a bit and am now up about 24% in my portfolio ... counties nationwide) you should contact your mortgage loan officer/broker to refi! If your mortgage [more...]

Date: 2009-01-02 16:45:46

Shocker More Bad News

Kevin Lane is one of the founding partners of Fusion Analytics, and is the firm’s director of Quantitative Research ... for developing their proprietary stock selection models and trading algorithms. Mr. Lane produced a broad range ... chance to go up I will employ long strategies. Conversely if the evidence suggests the market [more...]

Date: 2008-12-24 16:30:24

Wine as an Economic Indicator

Wine as an Economic Indicator By Catherine Rampell Earlier this week I wrote about how consumers appear to be buying less expensive, but more, ... . Liv-ex, a fine wine exchange, seems to have the answer. Merchants and collectors trade bottles ... fluctuating currency exchange rates) since September. But in terms of volume, he said, almost twice [more...]

Date: 2009-01-02 17:45:22

Morning Commentary

negative interest rates; FDIC thoughts on the housing bubble in 2004; Cecilia Rouse over Austan Goolsbee?; Greg Mankiw's Macro Quiz 1 ... of Treasuries. In theory, it might be cheaper for you to put up cash, but they don't have a system ... by adjusting trading practices. The more important point is that Treasury rates are being distorted [more...]

Date: 2008-11-21 15:18:57

Summers: "The global consensus on trade is unravelling"

Readers may know I am not much of a fan of Larry Summers' occasional comments in the Financial Times. He has a tendency to come forth with views of how things work that sound nice but too often are at odds with facts on the ground. His latest offering scores better than previous offerings as far as engagement with reality is concerned, [more...]

Date: 2008-08-25 06:15:56

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

Trade Deficit = Freedom Deficit

As you probably saw from Warren Buffet's lengthy example in our "Squanderville" A-Letter from a few weeks ago, the trade deficit can be a difficult thing to grasp. [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 23:06:46

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

MY two cents

After talking with all the principles involved in this Micheal Young to third base business, I've got a few thoughts ... him to go to third. They feel Young is a better option at this point than Travis Metcalf and they aren't convinced ... spring training. Either the club will find a suitable trading partner for Young or, if he's still here [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 18:17:38

Links 1/7/08

Diamond clues to beasts' demise BBC Old Gastrointestinal Drug Slows Aging PhysOrg Judge doesn't buy state secrets privilege, ... confession: your humble blogger's worst trade of 2008 was a long bond short (we did have a good year ... put in that category. Do read it. A homely parade in the currency ‘ugly’ contest FT Alphaville [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 07:55:01

Another Sad Quarter Ending for Brokerages

The coming end of August will bring to a close the fifth consecutive ugly fiscal period for major investment banking firms. In what has become an all-too-familiar pattern, the waning weeks of the three-month period are marked with jittery trading, rumors of asset sales, and steady declines in earnings estimates from analysts who managed, [more...]

Date: 2008-08-22 08:23:00

Links 1/10/09

Roland Piquepaille Dies Slashdot In Memoriam for Old Vet Angry Bear Venomous mammal caught on camera BBC There is No Plausible Scenario in Which ... Reserve Assets Decline Calculated Risk Banks May Take Hit on FHLB Stock Holdings Housing Wire Why ... : "This Isn't Rocket Science" TPM City wrong-footed by buoyant Christmas trading Telegraph. Retailers [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 07:22:00

Screenplay: I am Switzerland…(with a French 75 chaser)

No.  Upon final rewrite, make that Lichtenstein, a  tiny cinematic metaphor freezing its alpine ass off smack in the middle of a much larger, tempestuous world money market.  I’ll declare the Swiss Franc my new currency—diminutive ... and quickly convert to cash.  Where do people in the South of France run to at the end of the trading [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 01:28:15

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

Links 12/23/08

Sorry few links to other blogs tonight, I am badly behind, with packing to get out of town AND having to reorganize stuff for painters! ... Foreign Automakers in the U.S. Cut Back New York Times Regulator Let IndyMac Backdate Capital ... to trigger a massive transfer of wealth from investors such as Parkes to hedge funds and the trading [more...]

Date: 2008-12-23 06:33:31

FSA to speed up compensation payouts of collapsed banks

Customers of failed UK banks could get their money back within a week under proposals outlined today. The Financial Services Authority (FSA) ... collapsed last year, the compensation scheme succeeded in getting payments to some people just one day ... recommends that banks and building societies should proactively tell consumers which trading names [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 15:49:12

Got a tip for a post?: Email us | Anonymous form Get PEEK in your mailbox! ... , there's reason to think it could be a lot. And current law means that a lot of oil futures trading is done ... like then Senator Phil Gramm (R-TX), Enron was able to insert language into the Commodity Futures [more...]

Date: 2008-07-28 12:05:05

Second Base: Young requests trade out of Texas

Rangers SS Michael Young told Ken Rosenthal of FoxSports ... the Rangers a small list of teams for which he would waive his no-trade clause.’ The Angels and White Sox [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 14:42:55

The Best Way of Encouragement

In organizations and companies, in addition to it’s best for the team to work must be competition among employees ... to the international trading partners to provide the possibility of awards. The price is, the benefits of saving money is negotiable. Their experience in the industry so many years, you can depend on their services [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 01:40:53

AI: Kurzweilian Utopia or Meatbags be Damned?

The Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies has published an essay on AI by Michael Anissimov titled, "Inevitable Positive Outcome with AI? ... in a monomaniacal day trading machine "thinking so far outside the box that it decides to take control of the entire stock exchange, or even the world economy, and manipulate it precisely to maximize [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 21:02:10

After Obama’s Victory, What to Expect in Stocks

Whether Tuesday’s rally was a relief move ahead of the expected outcome of the Election, won by Senator Barack Obama of Illinois, ... we see it in the economy, we’re nowhere near that point yet,” says Mark Madoff, head of trading ... , if only because the previous two months are generally pretty terrible. Novembers rank as the best [more...]

Date: 2008-11-05 16:22:45

After Obama’s Victory, What to Expect in Stocks

Whether Tuesday’s rally was a relief move ahead of the expected outcome of the Election, won by Senator Barack Obama of Illinois, ... we see it in the economy, we’re nowhere near that point yet,” says Mark Madoff, head of trading ... , if only because the previous two months are generally pretty terrible. Novembers rank as the best [more...]

Date: 2008-11-05 17:53:00

The First Ten Senate Bills of the Eleventy-First Congress

—Gabriel Malor You may want to fix yourself a drink before I go through them. At the moment these are placeholders on Harry Reid's wishlist ... out to Republicans on this one. Bully for them, but I'm with Ace about trading one-time tax relief for long ... health insurers to accept all comers. Don't forget the paperless health system! Or it could be [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 04:07:27

Lawton: Vinny is not untouchable

We'll have a bigger story on this in Tuesday's paper but, since it's Vinny, figured the debate was never too early to start. It is difficult to tell whatwill happen with Lightning captain Vinny Lecavalier. On one hand, it almost is unthinkable the superstar center could be traded, on the other hand, with Tampa Bay struggling as it has, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 03:03:32

Don't Mess with Rome's Trade Routes

I saw this piece about piracy at the HuffPo several days ago and wanted to link to it but didn't.   Thankfully, Corrente Wire has pointed me to it again and so here it is: You Are Being Lied to About Pirates.  Did we expect starving Somalians to stand passively on their beaches, paddling in our toxic waste, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 02:22:44

"Is America too big to fail?"

The headline of this International Herald Tribune article (hat tip reader Saboor) is a real sign of the times ... , that assumption is likely to be tested. Specifically, the argument goes, our trading partners ... mount if American homeowners suddenly couldn't borrow. The global financial system could find itself [more...]

Date: 2008-07-20 23:42:48

Four at Four: Speculating About Speculation

One of the easiest ways to avoid having to explain complicated situations is to find a group of nefarious types who can’t be named or ... in the last year. Crude continued to rise in trading today, gaining $1.38 to $136.74, and while speculative ... t like volatility now, they’re going to have the shock of their lives when they see these commodity [more...]

Date: 2008-06-23 11:44:00

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