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    Short DAX at 7740

    I call this a short massacre...
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    Chicago Firm Terra Nova linked to P&G trades...

    NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- The unusual trading action in Procter & Gamble(PG) stock believed to be at the center of the market's most volatile moments on Thursday is thought to have originated from Terra Nova Financial(TNFG), a Chicago-based provider of prime brokerage and clearing services, a...
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    EU close to €500bn boost for rescue plan

    The European Union was considering a massive emergency funding facility worth as much as €500bn in loan guarantees and credits on Sunday night to stabilise the eurozone before financial markets open on Monday. EU finance ministers and top officials meeting in Brussels were racing against...
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    Euro picks up after rescue packages

    (Reuters) - The euro gained 1 percent against the dollar in early Asia-Pacific trade on Monday, as it extended its recovery from 14-month lows after German lawmakers and the International Monetary Fund approved rescue packages for Greece. The euro traded around $1.2870 from $1.2715 late on...
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    Germany's finance minister hospitalized in Brussels

    German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble was "conscious" in a Brussels hospital on Sunday after suffering an allergic reaction during crisis talks to protect the eurozone, his spokesman said. "He is doing well under the circumstances," said Michael Offer, adding that Schäuble was...
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    Europe to start buying bonds Monday

    German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble was "conscious" in a Brussels hospital on Sunday after suffering an allergic reaction during crisis talks to protect the eurozone, his spokesman said. "He is doing well under the circumstances," said Michael Offer, adding that Schäuble was...
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    Germany's Merkel suffers important state election blow

    The Christian Democrats (CDU) on Sunday suffered a bruising election defeat in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, robbing Chancellor Angela Merkel’s centre-right coalition of its majority in the upper house of parliament. Merkel's conservatives won 34.5 percent, according to exit polls by...
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    Greece leaving the EMU: how would it work?

    Here is a piece of Deutsche Bank Securities WHY actually the Greek crisis accelerated sharply after March 25th : http://www.cre.db.com/sites/default/files/docs/research/acceleration_greek_gredit_crisis_2010-04.pdf
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    Greece leaving the EMU: how would it work?

    Second thing to mention is the comback of the Greek Drachma, or ? Different point is to formulate a "value" for any sort of "New Greek Drachma"...
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    Unpresidented VIX Spike Suggests A Positive Week Ahead

    Large short option seller strike 45 May. Markets will calm down in the next days.
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    Tradeworx' defense of their HFT strategies

    This comment by tradeworx is TOO FUNNY in light of the happenings on Thursday - especially this part : • How real is the risk of “runaway algorithms” in terms of likelihood? • Not very likely: empirically, this has been a non-issue thus far, and HFT is a mature business that has...
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    ISO's crashed the market

    The pivotal question is : where have been the market makers in this situation ? Even when an ISO cleared through Nasdaq. Why was the next bid at $ 5.54 ? Normally, I would expect a market maker to lick his fingers when Accenture trades at a 20 % discount...I cannot follow any of these...
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    How Accenture stock traded at a penny...

    http://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/acn After hours : 40.94...
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    How Accenture stock traded at a penny...

    Some traders say one culprit for the quick downdraft might have been a type of trade called an "intermarket sweep order," or ISO. ISOs, which some studies say account for nearly half of all trades, send trades to whatever exchange that has the best price. The order can remain there until it is...
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    Europe to start buying bonds Monday

    So, when will be the start to attack the British Pound ?
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    Blankfein Says Europe’s Leaders Will Move to Calm Debt Crisis

    European leaders agreed to set up an emergency fund to halt the spread of Greece’s fiscal woes, seeking to prevent a sovereign debt crisis from shattering confidence in the 11-year-old euro. Jolted into action by the sliding currency and soaring bond yields in Portugal and Spain, leaders of...
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    Blankfein Says Europe’s Leaders Will Move to Calm Debt Crisis

    May 7 (Bloomberg) -- Goldman Sachs Group Inc. Chief Executive Officer Lloyd Blankfein said he’s confident European leaders will find a way out of the Greek debt crisis, and they need to bolster flagging investor confidence. “The market needs to be calmed down,” Blankfein said in a...
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    ‘A 12th ’sigma’ event if there is such a thing’

    Dennis Gartman, author of the daily investment letter of the same name and contributor to CNBC, has been in the markets a while. But never in his entire trading career does he seem to have encountered anything like Thursday’s Wall Street plunge. On Friday, he called what happened a...
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    Parliament in Berlin is expected to approve aid for Greece

    Unlikely ?
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    Parliament in Berlin is expected to approve aid for Greece

    Lawsuit filed against German aid for Greece:report
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