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    SNB Has Full-Year Loss of 19.2 Billion Francs on Currencies

    March 3 (Bloomberg) -- The Swiss Central Bank said it had a loss of 19.2 billion Swiss francs in 2010 ($21 billion) as the euro’s depreciation eroded the value of its currency reserves, forcing the bank to review its distribution policy. The Zurich-based SNB had a profit of 9.96 billion...
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    Trichet delivers strong hint for imminent ECB rate hike

    Trichet: ECB April rate hike 'possible'
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    Trichet delivers strong hint for imminent ECB rate hike

    LONDON (MarketWatch) -- European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet on Thursday said risks to price developments in the 17-nation euro zone are on the "upside" and that "strong vigilance" is warranted. The euro jumped in the wake of the remarks to trade at $1.3944 versus the dollar, a...
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    Bloomberg terminal?

    You should also add what kind of asset class you mean when you are mentioning 10M. Forex, Equity, Derivatives (F&O), FI? Combined? :)
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    Ron Paul: "The U.S. Government Must Admit It Is Bankrupt"

    The United States is bankrupt for years. Yet, the world and exporting countries like China, Japan, Germany, UK, Italy, Canada, Mexiko, Brazil, Russia etc. cannot allow that the US is being sent into the woods. Why? Take a look at foreign Treasury Bond holdings. Crisis in the US = worldwide...
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    ECB warns of high-speed trading

    Automated dealing could “trigger a number of risks for orderly trading and financial stability”, the European Central Bank has warned, in an unusual intervention in the debate over the role of “high-frequency” trading in markets. The comments come as the growth of high-frequency...
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    Hedge Funds Borrow the Most Since 2007 to Purchase U.S. Stocks

    Feb. 24 (Bloomberg) -- Hedge funds increased their net leverage in January to the highest level since October 2007, as they took advantage of record-low borrowing costs to bet that the U.S. equity rally will continue. Debt at margin accounts at the New York Stock Exchange minus cash and...
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    Audit the Federal Reserve

    The Federal Reserve is the chief culprit behind the economic crisis. Its unchecked power to create endless amounts of money out of thin air brought us the boom and bust cycle and causes one financial bubble after another. Since the Fed’s creation in 1913 the dollar has lost more than 96% of...
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    Apple CEO Steve Jobs spotted at Stanford Cancer Center

    Apple CEO Steve Jobs was spotted outside the Stanford Cancer Center in Palo Alto yesterday. The Stanford Cancer Center is part of the Stanford University School of Medicine. It is a world-class leader in cancer treatment and treated actor Patrick Swayze prior to the actor's death in 2009...
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    Jim Rogers

    You´re a lucky guy. I visited him lately in Sinagpore in his private house and he wants 50k for a live performance in SG, 100k oustide SG. GL+GT ;=) ASusilovic
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    Short DAX at 7740

    Full Tilt, you have a large problem and this is your ego. Every informed person here on this board knows that I am a professional CTA. Our managed futures programs are up + 105.53 % (end of November 2010) and +29.66 % (end of November 2010). Our Manged Forex Program is up + 552.50 %...
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    Single trader holds 90% of LME copper, WSJ says

    SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — A single trader holds up to 90% of the copper in London Metal Exchange warehouses, the Wall Street Journal reported late Tuesday. The news came after copper prices hit a record and other commodities surged. Read about metal gains here. The London Metal...
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    UK fiscal fail

    Anyone for Plan B? Or just for knuckling down on fiscal cuts? This is not what the market was expecting from the latest UK public finances data on Tuesday — £22.8bn of public sector net borrowing in November, versus consensus forecasts of £17bn. Which has left us with the biggest...
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    Green shoots....

    http://finviz.com/futures_performance.ashx?v=17 So much green, I need sun glasses - everything so "bright"... :cool:
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    Short DAX at 7740

    Buying ATM 7100.00, 7150.00,7200.00 Dec calls. Enough of this farce !
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    U.K. Budget Gap Swells to Record as Spending Jumps

    ec. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Britain’s budget deficit swelled to a record in November, underscoring the challenge facing Prime Minister David Cameron as his government prepares to implement the deepest spending cuts since World War II. Net borrowing was 22.8 billion pounds ($35.4 billion)...
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    Meredith Whitney is a "TRUE G "

    New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, faced with the prospect of budget deficits, wants a 20 percent cut in spending for construction and maintenance of city-owned buildings and infrastructure.... :cool:
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    Amazon will compete with Netflix...

    "Amazon.com Inc. is developing a Netflix-like subscription service that would offer TV shows and movies, according to people familiar with the matter. That service would be included as a bundle with its Amazon Prime shipping service, which costs $79 a year, those people said. An Amazon spokesman...
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    Downgrade U.S. Treasuries to Junk

    With the new tax cuts, rating agencies should downgrade U.S. government debt to junk. Economists, pundits and politicians had little choice but to endorse the tax deal between President Obama and Congressional Republicans, because snapping back to pre-Bush tax rates would crush the economic...
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