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Sure, last print 84.96. As expected. As long as bottom picking is the "play de jour", there will be further JPY strenghtening. BOJ doesn´t care too much, "new" government either. Rhetoric will not help. Well, no problem, selling US Dollars is a pretty simple play in this environment...

Still holding.

HONG KONG - China Construction Bank (CCB), the country's second largest bank, said Sunday its net profit in the first half of this year jumped 27 percent to reach 70.78 billion yuan ($10.4 billion) from a year earlier and its non-performing loan (NPL) ratio dropped to 1.22 percent. In a...

BEIJING - China, which is set to import more than 55 percent of its oil needs this year, should seek greater diversification of oil imports, build more stockpiles and improve conservation to enhance energy security, said analysts. The country will see a continuous increase in oil imports, as...

Brokers who allowed high-frequency traders to have access to the markets without undertaking proper checks on them face potential fines as part of a clampdown following the “flash crash”, the head of a US watchdog said on Sunday. The Financial Industry Regulatory Association is...

Beta: Know The Risk How should investors assess risk in the stocks they buy or sell? As you can imagine, the concept of risk is hard to pin down and factor into stock analysis and valuation. Is there a rating--some sort of number, letter, or phrase--that will do the trick? One of the...

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German Aug. composite PMI 59.3 vs. 59.0 in July

Long 1062.50. Target 1084.75.

Buying 6005.00 or better.

Aug. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Payrolls increased in 37 U.S. states in July, led by a jump in Michigan that may reflect a gain in auto making. Employers in the Michigan added 27,800 jobs last month, the most since October, figures from the Labor Department showed today in Washington. Massachusetts...

The Japanese government has stepped up pressure on the Bank of Japan to take measures to try to stem the rise of the yen amid concern that the economic recovery is running out of steam. Two cabinet ministers on Friday called on the central bank to tackle the yen, which last week surged to a...

Put / Call ratio 4:1. ouch, so much negativity out there...

Open gap number 6 forming. My pit session chart looks like Swiss cheese...:D

http://noir.bloomberg.com/apps/cbuilder?ticker1=BDIY%3AIND Aug. 19 (Bloomberg) -- The Baltic Index, a measure of commodity shipping costs, jumped the most in six sessions as a surge in iron-ore transportation costs led rents higher. The gauge climbed 86 points, or 3.4 percent, to 2,644...

Weber, 53, said the ECB is likely to raise its euro-region growth forecasts next month after the German economy, Europe’s largest, expanded in the second quarter at the fastest pace since records for a reunified country began in 1991. The Bundesbank yesterday lifted its German growth...

European Central Bank council member Axel Weber said the ECB should help banks through end-of-year liquidity tensions before determining in the first quarter when to withdraw emergency lending measures. “Most of these discussions about the continuation of the exit I think will be focused on...

Ping pong. :)