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The yield on the US 10-year Treasury has dropped below 3 per cent, while the yield on the 2-year note has breached 0.6 per cent, a record low... 0.6 % on 2-year note. Ha, ha, ha. Sh.t pants de luxe...

June 29 (Bloomberg) -- Stress tests on European Union banks should assess sovereign-debt risks when calculating how lenders would perform against shocks to the banking system, according to a draft EU document. Finance ministers from the 27 EU countries, who will discuss the stress tests at a...

Siemens said Tuesday it expected "strong profitability" in the third quarter of fiscal 2010. Growth in new orders and revenue will exceed the prior-year figures, the first such development since the fourth quarter of fiscal 2008, Siemens said. "A recovery in the company's short-cycle businesses...

Dip buying opportunity. Puts placed at 5950, 5850, 5650 .....

Try this : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Interbank_Offered_Rate Basically it´s a good sign in the actual "sh.t your pants" environment if a Spanish bank is able to issue putable securities in order to secure its medium term liquidity in the market - that is without the necessity to...

They bought it also as a deflation "asset"...

Whatever happened to the dollar funding crisis? If you’ll remember — central banks restarted dollar swap lines in May, after fears of banks’ exposure to bad sovereign debt dried up liquidity in the market. There wasn’t exactly a stampede to use the facilities when they opened, though...

You mean intraday liquidity providers ? :D

So Kassz007, when can we expect the purchase of your next big ticket item ? :) Here´s a humble proposal : :p

Continue debt spending ? As I understand the new Japanese prime minister he´s not a fan of a strong YEN, yet he emphasized lately the urgency of Japan to cut it´s public debt. How shall this work in a global "austerity competition" framework - means lower GDP expectations ? Japanese...

Standard Chartered earned 82 percent of profit last year from corporate banking, led by Michael Rees, which added 450 employees in sales, support and control roles. The lender raised $540 million by selling shares last month in India, its second most profitable market after Hong Kong. Net...

Siemens AG the German electronics and electrical engineering conglomerate, said Monday it has applied for a license to conduct banking business with the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority, or BaFin. The authority is currently reviewing the application. "With the help of a licensed...

Germany's Aareal said Monday that it will pay a first tranche of 150 million euros to Germany's Special Fund Financial market stabilization. The real estate firm said that the payment will be made earlier than originally announced.

Desperate attempts by bears to "creat" downward drift...Doesn't work. Banks stock attracting fresh money...

Wave, I am waiting for these fireworks...:)

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- House and Senate lawmakers on a committee to work out differences in two different, sweeping bank reform bills approved early Friday morning the most significant change to the regulation of U.S. banks since the Great Depression, placing new restrictions on the...

Automakers were lower on Friday, with Daimler shares down 1.4% and Volkswagen shares down 1.4% after both firms were downgraded to neutral from buy at UBS on Friday. UBS = we missed the train and need to jump on...:cool:

June 25 (Bloomberg) -- Daimler AG, Bayeriche Motoren Werke AG and Volkswagen AG’s Audi unit are adding staff and cutting summer factory breaks to boost production as demand for luxury cars returns quicker than they had planned. Daimler’s Mercedes-Benz has hired 1,800 temporary workers and...

On Thursday, George Soros penned an op-ed in the FT arguing that Germany needs to engage in a thought experiment, one involving withdrawing from the European single currency: The restored Deutschemark would soar, the euro would plummet. The rest of Europe would become competitive and...

Really bad entry. One should follow daily SMA at 6108.50. This would have been a much better ...