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    Japan Fin Min Noda: Yen moves clearly one-sided

    Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda said Saturday he will take "decisive" steps against the yen if it becomes necessary—a word often used by officials in the past to signal that intervention could be imminent...
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    Feldstein Sees ‘Significant Risk’ risk in Treasury bubbles again

    Aug. 27 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. economy remains “weak” and “fragile” and has a “significant” chance of falling back into a recession, Harvard University economics professor Martin Feldstein said in an interview with Bloomberg Radio. “I would say there’s still a significant...
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    JS Global Macro Notes

    You forget about the fact that we have four major central banks around the world fighting deflation. USA, ECB, BOE, BOJ. Fighting alone on the deflation front is not as "funny" as with some partners on board. At some point China needs to decide what it wants - further playing the "fool"...
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    Latency problem from Europe to USA

    If I am not wrong, Schneider is executing and clearing through GNI Touch ( now MF Global, MAN Financial ).
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    Latency problem from Europe to USA

    That´s a good one ! 30 ms ? Thats slooooowwwwwwwww..... One company is marketing with the following introduction : "We registered a 130 micro second order latency in the first benchmark run, and expect this figure to drop by another 40 micro seconds when the final platform specific tuning...
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    German Bunds:120,000 DISTANT OTM call spreads have been bought

    Of corse Goldman´s research team has published coincidently their piece before the Bernanke speech : http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE67O2O720100827 ;=)
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    Forty percent of Japanese manufacturers would relocate factories if...

    I wouldn´t call yesterday´s move any kind of intervention. Rather some asset reallocation from bonds into equities or in other words some market participants taking again some risk on. Anyway, a clear statement of BOJ would "DO IT".
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    Forty percent of Japanese manufacturers would relocate factories if...

    Forty percent of Japanese manufacturers would relocate factories and development sites abroad if the yen continues to trade at 85 to the dollar, a survey conducted from Aug. 11 to Aug. 24 by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry found. The number of companies saying profits will...
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    Did Bernanke just change expectations today?

    I was a lucky guy today when I read about 120.000 OTM call spreads trading in the Bunds : http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?threadid=205717 But to answer your question : he did not change inflation expectations. He changed growth expectations. To talk about any sort of...
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    German Bunds:120,000 DISTANT OTM call spreads have been bought

    I am a lucky guy today...:) Forecast Reached, Risks Now Balanced August 27, 2010 1. The intervening weeks between this and the previous edition of the Bond Snapshot on August 6 have seen the release of weaker-than-expected US economic data, validating the view that the second half...
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    ES Journal Archive (2009 - 2010)

    I am working on this one...
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    ES Journal Archive (2009 - 2010)

    Possible gap closing 1070.50. 1 hour chart shows above average volume. Let´s see how Skynet decides. By the way : EUR/JPY up and away...
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    ES Journal Archive (2009 - 2010)

    1040,1045,1050 and 1055 puts still in place. Let´s see what gloom and doom has to offer. ;=)
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    How Foreclosure Affects Your Credit Score Future

    Foreclosure is far from the worst thing that could ever happen to you. If your home ends up in foreclosure, chances are there are lots of things you should thank your lucky stars for: your family, your health and your good looks. Foreclosure doesn't mean you are irresponsible or not deserving...
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    Japan Fin Min Noda: Yen moves clearly one-sided

    Aug. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Japan Prime Minister Naoto Kan said the government is ready to take “bold” action in the currency market when necessary. Kan, speaking today in Tokyo, said volatile foreign exchange movements are harmful to economic and financial stability. He said the government...
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    German Bunds:120,000 DISTANT OTM call spreads have been bought

    Always appreciated ! :)
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    German Bunds:120,000 DISTANT OTM call spreads have been bought

    And now for some fishy ‘how low can they go?‘ bond-rally business. Here’s an interesting development in the bund options market — passed along in a note on Thursday by Citi’s FX analysts (emphasis ours): There was a lot of activity in the Dec 138/140 call spread yesterday –...
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    Fed Model:Probability of US Recession Predicted by Treasury Spread

    http://www.newyorkfed.org/research/capital_markets/ycfaq.html Updated August 6th. July 2010 = 0.31 % http://www.newyorkfed.org/research/capital_markets/Prob_Rec.pdf
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    Nikkei

    Observing the Nikkei, the Japanese government seems to prepare something useful for the market...
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    Japan Fin Min Noda: Yen moves clearly one-sided

    TOKYO (Kyodo)--Prime Minister Naoto Kan will hold a press conference later Friday on what the government will do to deal with the yen's surge, Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Masayuki Naoshima said. http://e.nikkei.com/e/fr/tnks/Nni20100827D27JF648.htm A press conference is a good...
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