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A fairly muted reaction (at pixel time anyway) from the UK banking sector to the new ConDem coalition. Surprising because the Conservatives look likely adopt the aggressive anti-bank policies of the Liberal Democrats manifesto (although everything is subject to negotiation in this new...

Very strange FDAX behavior indeed today...

May 12 (Bloomberg) -- European Central Bank Executive Board member Juergen Stark said the bank will hold the government bonds it buys until they mature. The purchase of government bonds won’t fuel inflation, because the ECB will “neutralize” the additional liquidity, Stark told...

Germans are celebrating GDP growth. They will not have enough time to do so taking into consideration that all of a sudden every EU government is keen to be cut spending. Spain just annunced more aggressive cuts, i.e. cutting €6 in investments, 5 % cut in government wages and pension freeze...

35802.D. Position Limits 3 A person shall not own or control more than 20,000 Standard and Poor’s 500 Stock Price Index contracts or equivalent contracts net long or net short in all contract months combined. For purposes of this rule an E-Mini Standard and Poor’s 500 Stock Price Index...

FDAX / ES decoupling...

It is still used. :)

The CFTC is examining the 10 traders holding the biggest long positions in the S&P 500 E-mini and the 10 traders with the biggest shorts on the contract, Chairman Gary Gensler said. The agency sent letters to market participants seeking data on their positions and “all communications related...

May 12 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Mary Schapiro said the agency’s enforcement unit has issued subpoenas in an investigation of last week’s stock plunge. The division is “fully integrated in our review of the events of May 6 and will recommend...

Total and utter nonsense. Distraction from the most important question and I repeat myself again : where have been the classic market makers like Goldman, J.P. Morgan, BoFA/Merrill, Morgan Stanley, Citi, Deutsche Securities, UBS, Credit Suisse on Thursday ???????????

Machines in full control of action - as usual...:D

Journalistic nonsense de luxe.

So Kathy is then a "hot bookseller" ?

Michael Gallagher, director of research at IDEAglobal, said he believes the UK will be alright due to its ability to sell government bonds internally. Steven Barrow, the head of G10 Research at Standard Bank agreed. “I am confident about the prospects for the pound,” Barrow said. The...

VIX has a large gap, too...

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The trading operations of Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase made money every single business day in the first quarter, a feat that was a first for the companies and underlines the boom in Wall Street’s investment banking revenues. Goldman’s trading desk recorded a profit of at least $25m...

Yawn. Yawn. Yawn.

Wait a minute, is this trade some sort of "herd mentality ? :cool: :D :D :D Did you see any European politician lately complaining about EUR/USD ? Guess why not looking at these figures ..:: Published: 10 May 10 09:54 CET Online: http://www.thelocal.de/money/20100510-27093.html...

MAHWAH, N.J. -- The future of the New York Stock Exchange is inside the red-brick building that is rising from the ground here about 35 miles from Wall Street. Right now, the mammoth facility being constructed on the site of an old quarry is a largely empty shell with a jumble of high-tech...