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Bankers are indulging in “blackmail” for threatening to flee the City of London for more business-friendly locations in Asia over tough new caps on pay and bonuses, European commissioner Michel Barnier has told UK MPs. The man in charge of internal markets and services, in his first...

Well, I hope to see the 12 sigma event, soon. S&P puts are very, very cheap. :D

480.000 contracts traded betwen 1239.50 and 1240.50. What a coincidence that all this buying and selling happends within a 4 tick range. So hundreds of desks worldwide have the same trading range, hum ? What a ridiculous market !

Buy Jan @19.90.

Since the credit crisis began, high street banks have lent less to customers, blaming a fall in demand for new loans, mortgages and other types of credit. However, in a research paper today, the Bank rejects that argument and says that demand for new loans has not shrunk by as much as lending...

Inflation in China has risen to a 28-month high, sparking warnings of new interest rate rises. The inflation rate, measured by the consumer price index, rose 5.1% year-on-year in November, an increase that was above market expectations. On Friday, China had reported much stronger than...

For quite a while (last several months) we are observing a very alarming observation in correlations EUR/USD, GBP/USD, S&P 500. Usually (last 30 years or so), if EUR/USD down, GBP/USD goes down in "sympathy", too. You should expect some pressure on S&P 500, because of diminishing foreign...

Something very strange happening : Sunday opening and 1000´s of contracts on bid / ask...and after 10 minutes all of the bids disappeared

Implementation When Congress passed the new reform bill this past July, it determined mandatory speculative position limits were required. Of the more than 40 rules that the CFTC is required to promulgate, most are required to be completed by next July. Only a few have shorter deadlines...

Many of us learned, however, that while there may not be such a thing as too much speculative money, that same money might be too concentrated. We saw very large concentrations of trader positions in 2008. That has continued. Since then, we saw one trader hold more than 20 percent of the...

So, who has the fire power worldwide to hold such a large position "overnight" and maybe needs even physical delivery of the stuff ? China....

Let’s just hope/assume this is nothing more than wishful thinking on the part of someone who hates fleece and hedge funds and all things magic. “There are some hard core rumors Steve in Stamford is going to be indicted. Rumor is spread by someone working in Manhattan’s Southern...

Dec. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Representative Ron Paul, a Texas Republican who next month will take control of the House subcommittee that oversees the Federal Reserve, said today that he will “not really, not right up front” push for an end to the U.S. central bank. “But obviously that’s the...

Nazz, in comparison to Ben Bernanke and his "dream team, I have a lot of respect for bankers and builders. Why is nobody from the political elite attacking this guy like Ron Paul ?Bernanke will lead us all into catastrophe.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/us-nov-budget-deficit-1504-billion-treasury-2010-12-10 A day to remember : S&P @ 1240.00.

You got hurt because you need what every good trader needs : good timing. Short 320.91. Target : pfff, I don´t know. Every $1 profit in this stock counts ! :)

Short ES March @ 1230.25. March calls also in place. Target 1178.75. First leg.

Dec. 10 (Bloomberg) -- JPMorgan Chase Bank NA is trying to force a $1.55 billion Las Vegas-area development into bankruptcy, saying affiliates of builders KB Home, Beazer Homes USA Inc., and Toll Brothers Inc. mismanaged the project. JPMorgan filed an involuntary bankruptcy in Las Vegas...

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