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FRANKFURT (MarketWatch) -- The European Central Bank could act as early as next month to address risks to growth in the euro zone if economic data prove disappointing, Governing Council member Luc Coene said in an interview late Thursday in Washington, Bloomberg News reported. "The ECB has never...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The world's major economies on Thursday pledged to prevent Europe's debt crisis from undermining banks and financial markets, and said the euro zone's rescue fund could be bolstered. Under pressure from investors to show action, finance ministers and central bankers...

Investing all profits into 5200, 5150, 5100, 5050 and 5000 DEC puts. All "braniacs" selling will bring me trillions in EUR. Open your wallets and give it to me! :cool:

Billionaire investor George Soros said he believed the United States was already experiencing the pain of a double dip recession and that Republican opposition to Obama's fiscal stimulus plans was to blame for sluggish growth. ... "We have a slowdown and basically a conflict about whether...

Moody's downgrade of three major banks on the premise the U.S. government will not stand behind them if they fail is "absurd," said Rochdale Securities analyst Dick Bove. ... "That is so absurd I can't believe anyone would even write it. This is the largest bank in the United States,"...

Strong buy every tick below 1149.00. See you later. U.S. 10-year yields fell to a record low midday setting a new record low. They lately traded off 5 basis points to 1.89%. Japan’s 10-Year Bond Yields Touch 2011 Low After Fed’s Decision. Yields on German two-year notes...

If you understand this: In finance, the capital asset pricing model (CAPM) is used to determine a theoretically appropriate required rate of return of an asset, if that asset is to be added to an already well-diversified portfolio, given that asset's non-diversifiable risk. The model takes...

The minutes of the Septmeber’s MPC meeting are out and … -BOE – DECISION ON QE IN SEPTEMBER WAS FINELY BALANCED FOR MOST MPC MEMBERS - BOE – FOR SOME MEMBERS, CONTINUATION OF TRENDS SEEN IN AUGUST WOULD BE ENOUGH TO JUSTIFY MORE QE - BOE- MPC DISCUSSED OTHER OPTIONS...

Positioning in GBP/JPY becomes even more extreme:

Hungary is set to force lenders to swallow currency losses on Swiss franc mortgages. Financial stocks and the forint fell as the country’s banks and the Austrian government criticized the plan. Hungary wants to allow fixing the Swiss franc at more than 20 percent below market rates for...

Fitch affirmed Germany's top AAA credit rating on Tuesday but warned the economy still faces risks from the euro zone debt crisis. Fitch cited Germany's strong rebound last year, when its economy grew at a 3.5% rate, its falling jobless rate and a strong net investment position and said the...

Irving Picard, the court-appointed receiver in the Bernard Madoff case, is under legal siege north and south. A British Virgin Islands court dealt a potentially major blow to Picard's efforts to recover assets. In a preliminary ruling, the court ruled that the liquidators of Fairfield...

If the management of IB would have some long term strategy - which it has NOT - it would have bought other brokerage companies that would pretty much fit into its business model. But obviously Mr. Peterffy has no interest in expanding further... YAWN.

GBPJPY - The ratio of long to short positions in the GBPJPY stands at 26.26 as nearly 96% of traders are long. Yesterday, the ratio was at 1.54 as 61% of open positions were long. In detail, long positions are 207.8% higher than yesterday and 247.6% stronger since last week. Short positions are...

Italy’s credit rating was cut by Standard & Poor’s on concern that weakening economic growth and a “fragile” government mean the nation won’t be able to reduce the euro-region’s second-largest debt burden. The rating was lowered to A from A+, with a negative outlook, S&P said in a...

Most famous Darth Vader quote: "I find your lack of faith disturbing." :D :D :D

or? :confused:

China’s stimulus in any world economic slump is unlikely to be more than half the nation’s estimated 9.3 trillion yuan ($1.46 trillion) fiscal and monetary expansion from November 2008 through 2010, Deutsche Bank AG said. While highly speculative, a sketch of the government’s possible...

Buying 5431.00. Target above 5679.00.

ATHENS — Vasia Veremi may be only 28, but as a hairdresser in Athens, she is keenly aware that, under a current law that treats her job as hazardous to her health, she has the right to retire with a full pension at age 50. “I use a hundred different chemicals every day — dyes, ammonia...