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BEIJING -- Anglo-Australian mining company Rio Tinto has asked its foreign staff to leave China or not return to the country after four of its employees were detained earlier this month and accused of stealing state secrets, a person familiar with the situation said. The espionage case --...

Did you ever read an article suggesting "intelligent" software counting small sized trades ? That´s in order to hurt "small players"...

uly 16 (Bloomberg) -- CIT Group Inc. bondholders are holding calls today to discuss whether to swap some of their claims for equity to reduce the 101-year-old lender’s indebtedness, according to a person familiar with the situation. Pacific Investment Management Co., CIT’s largest...

Buying 940.00 calls "protectionswise", short 935.50.

Thanks to our "All Star American Team" high frequency trading desks - all gaps closed. Time for some profit taking ! That´s how nowadays ES price action works.

Hank Paulson, the former US Treasury secretary, returned to Capitol Hill on Thursday to defend his actions at the height of the financial crisis when he told Bank of America to complete its acquisition of Merrill Lynch or face management change. Mr Paulson told a House oversight committee...

60 min SMA still 924.75. 240 min 911.75...

CIT Group May Need $6 Billion to Avoid Bankruptcy, Analysts Say July 16 (Bloomberg) -- CIT Group Inc., the 101-year-old lender running short of cash, may need as much as $6 billion to avoid seeking bankruptcy protection after the U.S. wouldn’t give the firm another bailout, CreditSights...

CIT stock is trading again after being suspended over the course of what now appear to be failed government bailout talks. Here’s how shares in the beleaguered corporate-lender have opened: That’s a drop of some 70 per cent to 40 cents — a market cap slide which increasingly ups...

Bulls fighting for 60 min SMA to hold. A lot of effort put up to hold 924.75. That may change for the next 60 min bar...if for example our friendly neighborhood investment, hum...wholesale...hum...holding bank GS buys 30k market a lot of stops might be hit...especially with kind support of...

Present the whole picture, marketsurf. Snapshots do not count ! Although Superfund might have some performance problems, they still have an impressive track record. Show me a mainstream futures fund surviving over 13 years ...

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The anti-Goldman website www.goldmansachs666.com will be allowed to live. The bank and www.goldmansachs666.com proprietor, Mike Morgan, had been engaged in a legal scuffle, centring around copyright issues, since April. Now, however, the site will be permitted to continue — albeit with one...

FDAX 4975.00. Entering into some strangles. I am not sure about profit taking here or further short squeeze. Futures flat.

One could expect some profit taking. Maybe before we close the gap above 935.00...who knows ?:confused:

July 16 (Bloomberg) -- Prime Minister Gordon Brown said the U.K. government will adopt plans forcing banks to hold back half of all bonuses of senior traders for up to five years to discourage excessive risk taking. Brown today told lawmakers that he is supporting proposals by David Walker...

Nokia posts 66% drop in second-quarter profit Sony Ericsson swings to a loss as sales plunge 40% LONDON (MarketWatch) -- Shares of Nokia Corp. fell nearly 10% on Thursday after it posted a 66% drop in second-quarter profit, said it no longer expects to gain market share in the second...

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The pay and bonuses of hundreds of high-flying City traders and dealmakers will have to be publicly disclosed under a Treasury-backed plan to curb excessive and risky remuneration. Alistair Darling, chancellor, wants banks to be more transparent about what they pay their top earners to expose...

July 16 (Bloomberg) -- Rising retail sales and record profits at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. are outweighing insider selling and bearish stock-options bets as the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index stages its biggest rally in four months. The benchmark gauge for U.S. equities climbed 3 percent...