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By Takashi Mochizuki -- BOJ surveys banks to see if they can help with intervention, according to people familiar with the matter -- Survey asks if banks' overseas branches can undertake forex trading on BOJ's behalf -- The move is seen as another warning to the market TOKYO -- The...

Gonzalez-Paramo said there is a need for “more economic and financial integration for the euro area, with a significant transfer of sovereignty to the EMU level over fiscal, structural and financial policies.” He said the ECB’s role is to preserve price stability and the purchasing...

You are being supported by retail traders (and The European dream damage team Merkel and Sarkozy destroying more wealth than any other stupid politician in the last 4 years) long positioning in EUR/USD. EURUSD - The ratio of long to short positions in the EURUSD stands at 1.53 as nearly...

France and Germany to make joint proposal to modify EU treaty Agreed with Monti and Merkel to not make demands on the ECB Monti will be associated with the EU treaty proposals Why not bomb markets -35 % into oblivion, maybe then "Mutti" Merkel will understand her lesson?

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The UK's budget deficit As a country, we've grown accustomed to living beyond our means. The Government's tax revenues are rarely enough to fulfill its generous spending promises, so every year Britain runs a large budget deficit. The money we can't raise from taxation needs to be borrowed...

luck is when preparation meets opportunity :)

Exit 5750 puts, reinvest DAX longs. Last price 5520.

http://forex.fxdd.com/133821/forex-trading/german-ifo-106-6-vs-105-2-expected

Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti may press German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy to ease euro-area budget goals and assist growth as Europe’s economy comes to a standstill. Monti, whose non-elected government was sworn in last week, said he’s been asked to...

http://cftc.gov/dea/futures/deacmelf.htm Comparing long or short positioning with historical extremes can also be beneficial in identifying market extremums. Experience shows that there are absolute values which indicate a bought-out, or sold-out currency, and as the COT positioning hits...

Standard and Poor’s said Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda’s administration hasn’t made progress in tackling the public debt burden, an indication it may be preparing to lower the nation’s sovereign grade. “Japan’s finances are getting worse and worse every day, every...

http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2011/11/23/759801/the-bund-that-broke-the-bundesbank/ Interesting read.

European Commission Green Paper on the feasibility of introducing Stability Bonds The Green Paper published by the European Commission today structures the political debate in the EU on the rationale, pre-conditions and possible options of financing public debt through Stability Bonds. Such...

It´s always good to be short in a financial world where psychopaths of so called "chief economic strategists" at banks like Societe Generale are bashing and trashing their own governments and European bank peers. Too bad, I am not the CEO of these banks. Otherwise, I would imprison some of...

French fin. minster says ECB intervention could stop contagion in the Eurozone; crisis is accelerating fiscal and budgetary integration...

In how many currency markets are you "successful" with this strategy, and how much AUM do you invest and what´s your average ROI? One aspect is very interesting: 1 pip/ SEVERAL microsecond trades...Do you need several microseconds to "earn"/§arb" a pip?

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-11-23/london-banks-seen-rigging-rates-for-decades-losing-credibility-in-markets.html http://uk.reuters.com/article/2011/06/06/uk-markets-britain-ronia-idUKTRE7551OC20110606 http://www.wmba.org.uk/documents/wmba-ronia-specification.pdf

China’s manufacturing may contract this month by the most since March 2009 as home sales slide, adding to evidence the world’s second-biggest economy is slowing, a preliminary purchasing managers’ index shows. The reading of 48 reported by HSBC Holdings Plc and Markit Economics today...