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On the matter of China’s rampant April commodity purchases, interpreted by some as a recovery signal, Shan Shanghua, secretary general of the China Iron and Steel Association told Chinese media on Wednesday: “The amount of ore that small mills buy can’t be enough that it would result...

May 14 (Bloomberg) -- The cost of borrowing in dollars for three months between banks dropped the most in eight weeks as government and central bank efforts to unlock credit markets showed signs of bearing fruit. The London interbank offered rate, or Libor, for such loans fell almost three...

Total Put Call Ratio 0.7909 CALL 133,143 5,814,145 PUT 105,302 5,937,928

Land Securities, the UK’s largest property company, has warned that hopes for a recovery in the battered real estate sector are premature after it revealed a record £4.7bn fall in the value of its estate. The group reported a pre-tax loss of £4.8bn, the largest ever in the sector, against...

The rush of US homeowners to refinance mortgages at lower rates is creating a boom in the home lending business, prompting banks including Bank of America and Wells Fargo to hire thousands of new employees for extra shifts to process mountains of paper. Lenders could originate up to $2,780bn of...

Goldberg is known for his sentiment index. You should also be familiar with the methodology his indicator is calculated : http://www.boerse-frankfurt.de/DE/index.aspx?pageID=44&NewsID=376

Documents Reveal How Paulson Forced Banks To Take TARP Cash Remember the infamous meeting when then Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson had the heads of 9 major banks come down to Washington? It was then that he made them the offer they couldn't refuse. Take TARP cash, or else! Now Judicial...

Medallion Fund approximately 8 billion, RIEFF approximately 60 - 70 billion USD. Medallion = FUTURES fund. RIEFF = Equities.

Topsurfi, still believing in V shaped recovery ?

LOL ! :D :D :D

Deutsche Bank, Barclays upped at Morgan Stanley

4724.00 pivot.

Exiting some of my straddle and strangle positions.

MADRID (MarketWatch) -- New passenger-car registrations in Europe fell 12.3% in April on an annual basis, the 12th consecutive monthly decline, the European Automobile Manufacturing Association reported on Thursday. In Western Europe, new car registrations fell 11.6%, while Austria and Germany...

And he is quite eloquent in his wording "pro-cyclical negative effect". LOL ! About which cycle is he talking ? :confused: :p

Peer Steinbrück, Germany’s finance minister, on Wednesday attacked proposals to conduct stress tests on individual European banks and labelled the financing checks of US institutions “worthless”. The outspoken minister’s comments came after the International Monetary Fund on Tuesday...

Excerpts from the May letter (thanks to a disgruntled reader who would rather remain nameless): The RIEF strategy's preference for low volatility has been contrary to the voracious appetite for volatile stocks that has persisted for the past two months. This high volatility rally, which...

With a delay so as not to get shot. Previously.) - The first time I gave my real name and company. Oh, but they're wise to my game, and after 5 minutes, an operator gets on and informs me that "Ms. Levin, the administrators have requested that you be disconnected from this call." - I can...

Please see attached our latest WISH report. We remain overweight equities. We also attach a report looking at equity market re-entry strategies using derivatives. The key points are: We expect equities to provide the greatest return over the next 12 months as better macro data reduces...

Stocks that had most out on loan have outperformed There is evidence that a short squeeze boosted performance in this recent rally. Using Euroclear stock lending data for UK and Ireland, we find that those companies in the top quartile are up 55% from the low, vs. around 30% for the other...