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Based on the statistics mentioned, one thing I have to note here is that these social benefits have not done anything to address the fundamental issues that cause poverty. To make an analogy, these programs are giving a man a fish instead of teaching him how to fish. In order to truly solve the...

My friend, it is refreshing to see people like you in this forum who are willing to seek honest answers. In my view, the "poor" in America live infinitely better lives than the those who are truly poor in third world countries. If you took a look at the homes of the "poor," you would find that...

The asset management team is supposedly the only golden goose left at Lehman. Perhaps they really are planning to sell it?

Speaking of headlines, what happened to the offers that Lehman received for their asset management division? Are those now off the table?

Hmm, what was the purpose of doing the netting trades this afternoon since it's 12:00 now?

That's part of the puzzle; why did they show interest in LEH in the first place if they were going to end up buying MER?

If you're talking about the special trading session they had today for counterparties, the trades are only official if Lehman declares bankruptcy tonight. That's why I'm curious about this.

They only have 1 hour left... personally, I don't think they'll be declaring bankruptcy. The FED has the option to temporarily backstop Lehman's liabilities for 48 hours? while they go and try to find another buyer.

Will the stock open up higher tomorrow or lower?

Adding onto that, how does short selling work with the T+3 settlement?

So if you have margin, does it mean that you don't need to follow the T+3 rule? Ex. Let's say you have $1000 in equities in your account. If you close out your position by market close, then can you theoretically buy the next day again and repeat each day?

I'm curious about the options part because at a typical "retail" broker they divide up options strategies into various approval levels with the lower levels needing only a cash account while the higher levels needing margin.

What are you allowed to trade with a cash account? (stocks, options, bonds, etc...)

Hello, I'm planning to open an account at Interactive Brokers but I have a few questions about how they operate. 1. Does IB have options approval levels like Etrade for example? 2. Does IB require a minimum net worth/minimum income, etc... any qualifications for trading futures...

Stick with spy as it is a proxy for the S&P 500 index.

As other posters have said, Bloomberg is much better than the others. I'm surprised that CNBC is such a large cash cow for GE.

I think OP is talking about how almost all stocks ended up close to 1 percent higher from close.

Why do traders say that you run into liquidity issues when you try to trade more than 100 contracts on ES for example? Are they referring to only scalpers and day traders? Couldn't you just broaden your time horizon (position trading) and accumulate contracts and put up more margin to reduce...

Yahoo Finance is free so you get what you pay for. NYSE's website is probably the best bet for finding accurate information. Just out of curiosity, why are you interested in the index volumes?

Thank you that's what I was meaning to ask. I thought the terminology for futures wouldn't be that different from stocks, but it looks like Futures for Dummies in the meantime for me.