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    Broker recommendation for Sculpers?

    Why would you look for 0.9-1.5 spread in EUR/USD? Do you like to hand over "risk free" money to your broker? :confused: :eek:
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    The eurozone really has only days to avoid collapse

    In virtually all the debates about the eurozone I have been engaged in, someone usually makes the point that it is only when things get bad enough, the politicians finally act – eurobond, debt monetisation, quantitative easing, whatever. I am not so sure. The argument ignores the problem of...
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    Moody's Considers Bank Debt Downgrade in 15 European Nations

    Nov. 29 (Bloomberg) -- Moody's Investors Service said it's considering lowering debt ratings for banks in 15 European nations to reflect the potential removal of government support. All subordinated, junior-subordinated and Tier 3 debt ratings of 87 banks in countries where the subordinated...
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    How Henry Paulson Warned Hedge Funds In Advance About Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac

    Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson stepped off the elevator into the Third Avenue offices of hedge fund Eton Park Capital Management LP in Manhattan. It was July 21, 2008, and market fears were mounting. Four months earlier, Bear Stearns Cos. had sold itself for just $10 a share to JPMorgan Chase...
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    Ministers to Reject Pan-Europe Bank Guarantees

    European Union finance ministers at a meeting on Wednesday are set to reject calls for a pan-European system of bank-debt guarantees and instead are expected to back a plan for national governments to provide the guarantees. But EU officials and banking experts doubt such a plan will address...
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    France to be put on negative outlook in 10 days?

    http://www.latribune.fr/actualites/economie/france/20111128trib000667230/d-ici-dix-jours-le-triple-a-francais-risque-de-se-retrouver-sous-perspective-negative.html Translation...
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    UK faces 30 billion GBP bigger financial blackhole

    George Osborne, the chancellor, will be forced to admit that the black hole in UK public finances has increased by almost £30bn, requiring the government to impose years of further austerity on the public sector. His revised forecasts, to be spelt out in his autumn statement on Tuesday, have...
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    Fitch maintains AAA rating for US, lowers U.S. outlook to negative from stable

    http://www.marketwatch.com/story/newsviewer Every European country would have lost AAA rating long time ago...:cool:
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    ES Journal Archive (2011)

    200.000 contracts changing hands in the last 7 minutes near the closing. That´s what I call "banging the close".
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    High-frequency firm fined for trading malfunctions

    CME found that Infinium errantly sold 6,958 December-dated e-mini Nasdaq 100 Index futures over seven seconds early on October 28.... Errantly? Hardly to believe. This was an "intentional" live test, IMHO...
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    High-frequency firm fined for trading malfunctions

    He/she got HFT-fired? :confused:
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    Polish foreign minister in Berlin warns from “a crisis of apocalyptic proportions”

    Germany is the only country in Europe that can act to save the eurozone and the wider European Union from “a crisis of apocalyptic proportions”, the Polish foreign minister warned on Monday in a passionate call for more drastic action to prevent the collapse of the European monetary union...
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    Short DAX at 7740

    DAX Future up +4,5%. Psychopaths in one direction. Psychopaths in the other direction, too.
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    Short DAX at 7740

    Exit FDAX longs 5721.00. Reinvest 5500 puts.
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    Reuters:Germany mulls "elite bonds" with 5 fellow AAA nations

    (Reuters) - The German government is considering the possibility of issuing joint bonds with five fellow triple A euro zone countries that are being referred to as "elite bonds" or "AAA bonds," newspaper Die Welt reported on Monday. Chancellor Angela Merkel and her center-right government...
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    ICAP Testing Trades In Greek Drachma Against Dollar, Euro - Executives

    NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--ICAP Plc is preparing its electronic trading platforms for Greece's potential exit from the euro and a return to the drachma, senior executives at the inter-dealer broker said Sunday. ICAP is the latest firm to disclose such preparations, joining the growing ranks of...
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    Black Friday retail sales hit record

    Retail sales on Black Friday rose by their biggest margin since 2007 to hit a new record, while online sales grew even faster, according to initial estimates. Sales on the frenetic shopping day that follows the US Thanksgiving holiday expanded by 6.6 per cent from the previous year to...
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    Britain spending 40 billion GBP to "kick start" economy...

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/budget/8918617/Autumn-Statement-2011-Government-to-underwrite-40bn-in-loans-in-attempt-to-kick-start-economy.html Ha, ha, ha. LMAO! ROFL! British Foreign Office warning about a possible EU collapse and at the same time starting a 40 billion GBP "kick-start...
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    Short DAX at 7740

    Euro-area nations are considering dropping private-sector involvement from their permanent bailout fund as they discuss wider treaty changes, Reuters reported, citing European Union officials. German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy “confirmed their support for...
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    Short DAX at 7740

    Italy´s tax revenue this year - for the gourmets of you: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-10-14/italy-august-tax-revenue-accrual-basis-table-.html The increase in revenue from lottery and gambling is quite interesting...
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