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    Swiss tax rules lure McDonald’s from UK

    McDonald’s is to leave London for Geneva, joining the growing ranks of US companies moving their European headquarters to take advantage of preferential intellectual property tax laws. The fast-food group, which will open its head office in the Swiss city in the autumn, said the move had...
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    Arm Yourself For Earnings Season

    Earnings season begins in earnest next week with several sector leaders in technology and banking posting quarterly numbers. On Tuesday, Intel (INTC) and Goldman Sachs (GS) are due with results. Xilinx (XLNX) issues its numbers on Wednesday, while Google (GOOG), Harley-Davidson (HOG), IBM (IBM)...
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    S&P 500 Stocks With The Highest Short Interest as % of Float

    Below is a table of the S&P 500 stocks with the highest short interest as a percentage of equity float. For each name, we also provide its year to date performance, so you can see if the shorts have been winning or losing. Be on the lookout for these names as they report earnings this quarter...
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    Increase in Exports Bodes Well for Growth

    entative signs of life in global trade are emerging, buoying growth forecasts in the U.S. and China, two of the world's most important economies. U.S. exports grew in May, while imports fell, helping to narrow the trade deficit to its lowest level in nearly nine years. The report prompted...
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    Stimulus Aid Is Said to Be Moving Faster

    WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration says it has been on a "learning curve" with the economic-stimulus package but has now figured out how to spend some of the available billions more quickly. Many tax cuts, which account for a third of the $787 billion package, have already taken effect...
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    Japanese Finance minister "convinced" stocks will rise

    I like the start of his statement : “What you’re now seeing is profit and earning ratios are starting to get to the point where buying stocks is a potentially good deal..." :) :p :D Which other president of the USA ever mentioned the expression "profit and earnings ratio" while...
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    CIT on the rocks - FDIC Said to be Unwilling to Back CIT Debt on Risk

    Notes still worth 70 cents on the Dollar ? Company in contact with a bankruptcy law fiem ? Sounds to me like some tug-of-war between CIT and FDIC´s Bair... CIT bonds are 3 to 7 points lower across the board, according to quotes from online trading platform MarketAxess. Its 5.60% notes due...
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    Japanese Finance minister "convinced" stocks will rise

    Obama Says Now May Be Good Time to Invest in Stocks March 3 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama said falling share prices may mean bargains for investors with a “long-term perspective.” Obama, who is seeking to boost public confidence in his strategy to pull the U.S. out of...
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    ES Journal Archive (2009 - 2010)

    Time stamp : 01:51 p.m. "war of the machines" 5k market order from 874.00 / 875.00 answered by 4000 sell market 875.00-873.50. That´s the way nowadays suggestion areas are being "controlled".
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    GDP could turn positive in second quarter, say some

    WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) - A handful of economists sharply revised upward their estimates for second-quarter gross domestic product on Friday, with some even predicting GDP could turn out to be positive in the April-June quarter. The trade deficit in May - released earlier in the day by the...
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    ES Journal Archive (2009 - 2010)

    No more old school tough pit traders and locals running the show. I remember when a sole Merrill broker on the pit moved big S&P market returning from a visit to the restrooms in 1996 - he just lift his hand and shouted a market order. Boy, you should have seen the bounce and short covering...:D...
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    ES Journal Archive (2009 - 2010)

    Too many statistical arbitrage algos out there. Create volatility - only chance to generate "Alpha". Like the herds 2 years ago - nothing has changed.
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    Japanese Finance minister "convinced" stocks will rise

    Nikkei - 0,04 %. Mr. Yosano has no "weight" in his voice...
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    U.S. May trade gap falls on export strength

    WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- The U.S. trade deficit narrowed by almost 10% in May and this could help the second quarter look a lot better than expected. The trade gap fell 9.8% to $26.0 billion in May, the Commerce Department estimated Friday. This is the lowest level since November 1999...
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    ES Journal Archive (2009 - 2010)

    I see 4 upward gaps in big S&P . This must be resolved one way or the other. :cool:
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    The Cold War in high frequency trading turns hot

    The Cold War in high-frequency trading seems to have escalated overnight. July 9 (Bloomberg) — Citadel Investment Group LLC, the $12 billion hedge fund firm founded by Ken Griffin, sued three former executives and the firm they started, Teza Technologies LLC, over claims they violated...
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    Short DAX at 7740

    240 min SMA = 4626.00. Next target : 4698.00 For the bulls. For the bears : every day we are reading so many heartbreaking bad news. Chose what you need as an excuse for a sell off ! :p
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    China's June imports fall 13.2% year-on-year

    China's June exports drop 21.4% year-on-year
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    Sell Siemens Puts on Economic Support, Bank of America Advises

    July 9 (Bloomberg) -- Bank of America Corp. recommended selling Siemens AG put options on speculation an improvement in the global economy will help prevent shares of Europe’s largest engineering company from dropping further. The brokerage advised selling puts expiring in August at a...
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    Fed’s Bullard Says He Doesn’t See Economic Recovery Faltering

    July 9 (Bloomberg) -- Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President James Bullard said he doesn’t expect a U.S. economic recovery to falter or central bankers to make errors in their policy on inflation. “We are going to have just the right policy to get the right inflation rate,” Bullard...
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