20/Jun 2008 | Working Paper: Carry Trades, Risk Aversion, and Negative Betas | Economics, Business, and Finance , Japan , International Trade and Economics , Global Economy , Economic Theory and Acadmics . Sorry for the silence this week, but I have not exactly been sitting idle... Read » |
20/Jun 2008 | a piece on the USD/JPY | In a time where the USD continues its roller coaster ride and where analysts and other market sages are effectively predicting the USD/JPY to break 100 anytime soon I think it might be a good idea to ... Read » |
20/Jun 2008 | I said that I would finish | I am back in the saddle or more specifically I have now finished my studies for the year (only one year left now!). This means that regular services will now resume here at Alpha. Over the course of t... Read » |
20/Jun 2008 | Economic Theory and Acadmics | Sorry for the silence this week, but I have not exactly been sitting idle. In this way I have been scribbling on one of those papers I said that I would finish and what is more. The paper is a working... Read » |
20/Jun 2008 | Oil prices rebound on word Israel practised Iran attack | NEW YORK - Oil futures rebounded Friday on unease over Middle East stability and a growing doubt that China's government will be able to curb the country's appetite for fuel by pushing prices higher. ... Read » |
20/Jun 2008 | TradingMarkets Making Great Traders - The Best of This Week's Trading Lessons | Dear Trader: TradingMarkets' mission is "Making Great Traders." Each week we publish trading strategies and research from many of the best professional traders and educators in the world. Here are the... Read » |
20/Jun 2008 | Learn to invest by Recognising Our Mistakes | Some of you probably have heard of this experiment. It is an example of a failure to learn during a simple investment game devised by Antoine Bechara. They had to make a decision on each round of the ... Read » |
20/Jun 2008 | Letter: Cheap dollar means pricey gas | Republicans and Democrats do the demagogue dance around the oil debate, Republicans watering at the mouth for more drilling and Democrats blaming speculators and oil companies, the most pernicious r... Read » |
20/Jun 2008 | Hans Wagner | Print Each of us believes we learn to invest by recognizing our mistakes. When we make a losing investment, do we recognize our mistake and learn from it, or do we attribute it to some outside factor... Read » |
20/Jun 2008 | John Needham | Bankers around the World Banker s humour shines out with what is euphemistically referred to as The Great Moderation . Like most of these monikers it is another spin designed to put the mindless punt... Read » |
20/Jun 2008 | Weak Economic Numbers Help EUR/USD Post | EUR / USD. EUR/USD - Euro Dollar, American Session - 20/06/08. GBP/USD - British Pound Dollar, American Session - 20/06/08. USD/CHF - Dollar Swiss Franc, American Session - 20/06/08. USD/CHF - Dollar ... Read » |
20/Jun 2008 | Stocks Drop as Credit | Stocks Drop as Credit Woes Continue 06/20 17:09 Stocks capped a difficult week with steep losses Friday amid escalating worries about the financial and automotive sectors and a rebound in oil prices. ... Read » |
20/Jun 2008 | EUR/USD - Euro Dollar, American Session | Global TimeNew York 6:36 pm London 11:36 pm Zurich 12:36 am Dubai 2:36 am Shanghai 6:36 am Tokyo 7:36 am. The Week Ahead updated June 20, 2008 < Dollar posts a biggest weekly drop since March on fed ... Read » |
20/Jun 2008 | View Brian Dolan Archive | Currency traders are certainly having their patience tested as most major pairs continue to bounce around in relatively well-worn ranges. The outlook for a break of recent ranges is pretty weak at the... Read » |
20/Jun 2008 | FOREX NEWS - Dollar falls on credit jitters, Fed rate worries | 22:11:12 GMT: Forex Blog - US Dollar: First Oil Summit, then Fed Meeting22:02:56 GMT: Forex Market News - Canadian dollar ends lower after retail sales data22:00:54 GMT: FOREX NEWS - Dollar falls on c... Read » |
20/Jun 2008 | Forex Blog - US Dollar: First Oil Summit, then Fed Meeting | The US dollar faces two major event risks next week the Oil Summit in Jeddah and the FOMC rate decision. They have invited executives from oil companies, leaders of nations and the world s largest o... Read » |
20/Jun 2008 | EUR/USD: Are European Businesses As Optimistic As Trichet? Probably Not | Euro: Has Inflation Hurt Businesses? . US Dollar Remains Range-bound As Falling Oil Offsets Weak Philly Fed . US Dollar Slips As Traders Cut Back Bets The Fed Will Hike Next Week . EUR/USD: Are Europe... Read » |
20/Jun 2008 | Forex in 60 Seconds - USD/CAD Recovers Follows Strong Canadian Retail Sales, What To Expect From The Fed Next Week | Forex in 60 Seconds - USD/CAD Recovers Follows Strong Canadian Retail Sales, What To Expect From The Fed Next Week . Carry Trade Rises As Rate Expectations Reinforce Yield Differentials . ECB Rate Hik... Read » |
20/Jun 2008 | US Dollar: First Oil Summit, then Fed Meeting | US Dollar: First Oil Summit, then Fed Meeting.Jun 19 - US Dollar: Unfazed by Mixed Economic Data.Jun 18 - Federal Reserve: A Rate Hike in the Third Quarter.Jun 17 - Pound Unexpectedly Drops On BoE ... Read » |
20/Jun 2008 | Valmont Industires: A High Flyer Crashes | Vault Minerals reports discoveries from Lebel drill program Jun 10, 2008 04:21 PM. Featured Stocks on Today's Edition of The Analyst's Review: AME, GDI, GGG, IEX, VMI May 12, 2008 02:05 PM. Valmont A... Read » |
20/Jun 2008 | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Apollo Management's $6.5 billion buyout of Huntsman Corp (HUN.N: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) is the latest leveraged bu | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Apollo Management's $6.N: Quote , Profile , Research , Stock Buzz ) is the latest leveraged buyout deal to land in a courthouse, and like other cases this dispute too is likely to... Read » |
20/Jun 2008 | Equis International Announces Three New International Dealers | Equis International, maker of the award winning line of technical analysis investment software MetaStock, introduced three new international dealers today: AlphaAlliance, Statica, and Elastic. "We are... Read » |
20/Jun 2008 | KCMH to Incubate Uranium Mining Company; Deal Includes Publicly Traded RUSSELL INDUSTRIES & KCMH Co-Development of Healthcare & Financial Businesses | KCMH to Incubate Uranium Mining Company; Deal Includes Publicly Traded RUSSELL INDUSTRIES & KCMH Co-Development of Healthcare & Financial Businesses Jun 20, 2008 05:43 PM. KCMH Completes Acquisition ... Read » |
20/Jun 2008 | Oil prices surge ahead of Jeddah meeting | Oil prices surge ahead of Jeddah meeting Oil stormed higher on Friday ahead of a weekend meeting of the major players in the market in Saudi Arabia aimed at discussing skyrocketing prices. UPDATE 3-G... Read » |
20/Jun 2008 | TODAY ON TAP ONLINE: TRADE, BUDGETS, AND RACISM | Robert Kuttner 's piece from the last print issue wonders why the media is stuck on a simplicistic and radical view of trade that even many ardent globalizers have abandonded. The next president can ... Read » |
20/Jun 2008 | Compound Your Returns with Value Stocks | Tracey Ryniec Jun 20, 2008 The value investing style is a popular style in volatile markets at it evokes stability over some of the other styles of investing. Value stocks are usually defined as comp... Read » |
20/Jun 2008 | How to Use the Tick Index in Your Day Trading | What is the Tick Index? The Tick index measures the very short term health of the markets by taking the difference between the number of stocks on an uptick and the number of stocks on a downtick. The... Read » |
20/Jun 2008 | Equis International Announces the Release of PowerStrike and Tactical Trader Advanced Trading Strategies | 04:02 PM. Analyst Comments: Juniper, Grey Wolf, Investors Real Estate, Lear Corp, Sappi Limited, Sonic Innovations, Procter & Gamble, Wyeth, Commerce Bancshares . Equis International Announces the... Read » |
20/Jun 2008 | Garson Gold Arranges Non-Brokered Private Placement | Nevada Chemicals, Inc. Announces Plant Expansion by Cyanco -5 Minutes Ago John T. Day, President and Chief Executive Officer of Nevada Chemicals, Inc., today announced that Cyanco, the joint venture c... Read » |
20/Jun 2008 | Bookkeeping: Rising Tide Performance Week 46 | Week 46 performance of the mutual fund Comments : Our furry friend to the right, after taking a week off, made a return to the markets this week. Nothing new really surfaced this week in terms of bad... Read » |
20/Jun 2008 | Oil futures end session 2% higher, but tally weekly loss | Oil ends session 2% higher, but tallies weekly loss Traders monitor dollar weakness, Israel's show of power, weekend oil summit By Myra P. SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Crude-oil futures closed Frida... Read » |
20/Jun 2008 | Key Energy Related Data Points | Hedge Funds Looking At Distressed Debt Jun 20, 2008 04:16 PM. Trading Ideas: A 5 Star Value Stock Jun 20, 2008 04:16 PM. NVIDIA to Host Guinness World Record Attempt by Gamers at NVISION 08 Jun 20, 20... Read » |
20/Jun 2008 | Forex Profit Accelerator Increases Your Profit | The Truth About Forex Profit Accelerator From Bill Poulos Discover how to spend as little time as possible actively trading while at the same time maximizing your profit potential Special announceme... Read » |
20/Jun 2008 | FX: The New Global Asset Class | Many investors think FX is a TV Channel or a nickname for movie effects. Many do not understand that FX is the most powerful market in the world.2 Trillion exchanged daily, it is the largest and mos... Read » |
20/Jun 2008 | Financial > Investment Services | Many investors think FX is a TV Channel or a nickname for movie effects. Many do not understand that FX is the most powerful market in the world.2 Trillion exchanged daily, it is the largest and mos... Read » |
20/Jun 2008 | Foreign Currency Ri | With regard to volatility in foreign currencies, corporate finance people are faced today with having to manage risk on a constantly changing playing field which is. foreign currency risk management,... Read » |
20/Jun 2008 | Stocks Drop, Credit Woes Continue | Stocks Drop, Credit Woes Continue 06/20 14:35 Stocks tumbled Friday on escalating worries about the financial sector and rebounding oil prices. The major indexes fell more than 1 percent, with the Dow... Read » |
20/Jun 2008 | FOREX-Dollar falls on credit jitters, Fed rate worries | The dollar fell broadly on Friday as fears of further write-downs in the U. financial sector raised speculation the Federal Reserve would not signal a shift toward tighter monetary policy when it meet... Read » |
20/Jun 2008 | Danger Room - Wired Blogs | Summer 1939 Alert: "U. says exercise by Israel seemed directed at Iran" by Michael R. Gordon and Eric Schmitt in the New York Times, June 20 (thanks to James): WASHINGTON: Israel carried out a major m... Read » |
20/Jun 2008 | U.S. Says Israeli Exercise Seemed Directed at Iran | Summer 1939 Alert: "U. says exercise by Israel seemed directed at Iran" by Michael R. Gordon and Eric Schmitt in the New York Times, June 20 (thanks to James): WASHINGTON: Israel carried out a major m... Read » |
20/Jun 2008 | Kathy Lien | Kathy Lien is an Internationally Published Author and Chief Currency Strategist of DailyFX.com, one of the world s most popular online websites for currency research. She publishes both technical and... Read » |
20/Jun 2008 | Canada Afternoon: C$ Ends Lower After Early Rally Fades | 19:46 GMT.Canada Afternoon: C$ Ends Lower After Early Rally Fades TORONTO (Dow Jones)--The Canadian dollar ended lower Friday after ceding early gains made in the wake of Canadian April retail sales d... Read » |
20/Jun 2008 | PRECIOUS METALS: Gold Gains Nearly 4 Pct on Week, Oil Soars | PRECIOUS METALS: Gold Gains Nearly 4 Pct on Week, Oil Soars Agriculture futures trade mostly higher on CBOT Dollar rose as Oil prices retreat - Jun 20 Holding Patterns Silver Two Sides of the Story Th... Read » |
20/Jun 2008 | Richard Gorton | In early morning trading gold, as traded by the EFT, GLD , rose while the overall US markets, VTI , and emerging markets, EEB , were strangely calm. We are on the precipice of a major stock and bond m... Read » |
20/Jun 2008 | John Lee | Disclaimer | Privacy Statement NOT ALL METALS ARE CREATED EQUAL Metals review for 2008 and 2009 (part 1) by John Lee, CFAPortfolio Manager, Mau Capital . Oftentimes I talk to investors, even sophist... Read » |
20/Jun 2008 | Supply Scares Ususally Trim Demand | Making an informed marketing decision requires knowing what bulls AND bears are looking for in price action. We ll share our key thoughts on each market followed by a verdict. So grab a cup of coff... Read » |
20/Jun 2008 | Jihad Watch | Summer 1939 Alert: "U. says exercise by Israel seemed directed at Iran" by Michael R. Gordon and Eric Schmitt in the New York Times, June 20 (thanks to James): WASHINGTON: Israel carried out a major m... Read » |
20/Jun 2008 | ECB Trichet: In State Of Heightened Alertness On CPI | European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet said Friday. Asked about soaring price pressures in the euro-zone, Trichet said: "I have nothing to retract and to add to what I said June 5, i... Read » |
20/Jun 2008 | Dow -110 S&P -11.5 NASDAQ -37 | European Market Update: BOE Minutes Show that Some BOE Members Considered but Ruled Out a Rate Hike in June. Market Update - It's Groundhog Day on Wall Street this morning: higher crude and weakening ... Read » |
20/Jun 2008 | Wheat, corn, oat futures trade higher on CBOT | Agriculture futures trade mostly higher on CBOT Dollar rose as Oil prices retreat - Jun 20 Holding Patterns Silver Two Sides of the Story The Daily Resource 06/20/2008 US dollar down in Europe Fundame... Read » |
20/Jun 2008 | Sunday Mirror | A shopping boom lifted sales by 3.5 per cent in May, the biggest increase in 22 years. As sunny weather brought the shoppers out, the spending spree reversed monthly falls in March and April. But it c... Read » |
20/Jun 2008 | ECB's Stark says inflation 'unacceptably high' | European Central Bank (ECB) executive board member Juergen Stark said euro zone inflation is unacceptably high and the ECB is ready to take whatever action is necessary to ensure price stability. 'The... Read » |
20/Jun 2008 | Stock options as performance incentive: Good or bad? | During the tech bubble employees and founders were given options as both compensation and incentive and because it helped conserve that cash of these start-up companies. Today, however, the granting o... Read » |
20/Jun 2008 | Anyone have an idea on best curr | Anyone have an idea on best currency play on the US dollar? EUR/USD - B or S? USD/JPY - B or S? Have a GREAT weekend!! Asked by NSB 5... Read » |
20/Jun 2008 | Invsting in Sliver- SLV Silver ETF | On April 28th, 2006 , Barclays launched the first silver exchange-traded fund in the US . Traded on the AMEX as SLV, the iShares Silver Trust was eagerly anticipated by silver investors ahead of its b... Read » |
20/Jun 2008 | ECB Stark Repeats In State Of Heightened Alertness On CPI | ECB Stark Repeats In State Of Heightened Alertness On CPI FRANKFURT -(Dow Jones)- Recent inflation developments are cause for concern and "heightened alertness" among policy makers, European Central B... Read » |
20/Jun 2008 | Dollar hammered on credit jitters, Fed rate worries | NEW YORK - The dollar fell broadly on Friday as fears of further write-downs at U. financial institutions raised speculation the Federal Reserve would not signal a shift toward tighter policy when it ... Read » |
20/Jun 2008 | Royal Roads announces graduation to Tier 1 of the TSX Venture Exchange | Analyst Comments: Juniper, Grey Wolf, Investors Real Estate, Lear Corp, Sappi Limited, Sonic Innovations, Procter & Gamble, Wyeth, Commerce Bancshares . The Next Hot, Bullish Trend is Beginning No... Read » |
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