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London desk comment : US desk looking for the next fool to dump their inventory on.

NEW YORK (Reuters)—A former Societe Generale trader admitted he took home printouts of the French bank's speed-trading code, admitted sharing it with a prospective employer and that it was wrong — an odd twist in the criminal trial over trade secrets theft. The trial of Samarth Agrawal, a...

Britain will have to shut the door on up to 88,000 foreign students if it is to comply with its self-imposed immigration cap, according to a senior government adviser. David Metcalf, head of the independent Migration Advisory Committee, said the government would need to slash the number of...

Ireland´s corprate tax regime is at the heart of its "industrial policy". I don´t know what industrial policy means in this context. The only industries settling in Dublin´s Free Trade Zone are bank shell corporations and insurance companies. And IBM´s European call center.

I honestly think that several trading desks have lost their ph...ing mind. Todays session is an excellent example of how "volume" is created in a congestion area and a couple of desks are playing "ping pong" with each other. This is not a normal price distribution and is everything but a normal...

S T R O N G SELL after news about pressure from EU on Ireland to higher corporate tax.

French and German officials are pressing Ireland to increase its low corporate tax rate in return for an aid package, setting the stage for a showdown over a policy long resented by Dublin’s European partners. Ireland views the corporate tax rate, set at 12.5 per cent, as the cornerstone of...

1177.50 would´t be a bad number today.

Some old gaps closed, some new open....

Irrelevant. :)

Nov. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne says Britain “stands ready” to assist Ireland. What he didn’t say is that U.K. taxpayers have already funded the largest part of an 18.4 billion-pound ($29.4 billion) bailout for Irish lenders. The aid was used to prop up...

Let´s repeat a bit for the braniacs on Wall Street : 1) Greece bailout 2) Ireland bailout 3) Portugal targeted 4) Spain targeted 5) Austerity measures in Europe 6) China hiking rates 7) Capital controls in certain Asian economies ____________________________________________...

....that´s going to be fun when GM´s stock price declines back in a flash crash. :D

At 5 p.m. in the afternoon 535 lots bid @6836. You don´t need more signs of clear market manipulation attempt...Unbelievable

Exit 1192.50. Since when is a bailout of a second European country a "good thing" ? Short 1192.50 and better.

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FED High Opportunity Long/Short Vola Fund

Still holding over 1200 call options strike 6800.00. Will we receive some risk free money from London desks ? :D

http://www.handelsblatt.com/unternehmen/banken-versicherungen/europas-schuldenkrise-banken-und-versicherer-fuerchten-kreditausfaelle;2695049 I am actually surprised that her majesty´s BOE and Mr. Cameron have some sort of "golden moment" and make a contribution for rescuing the European...

I think 6800.00 or better is a sell.