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China’s stress tests of banks will assess the risk that a possible slump in property prices may strain developers’ finances and cause homebuyers to default, a person with knowledge of the matter said. The banking regulator told lenders to include worst-case scenarios of prices dropping 50...

No guns, no ammo, no canned soup - buy land. Especially cheap in Argentina. This is all you need : :)

This was a HFT fat finger...:D ...and unusual breakout in the chart formation ( do some research and check which S&P 500 heavy weights have been pushed during this timeframe ). Doesn´t happen often. Only when desperation settles in. 6300, 6350, 6400 calls still in place. Waiting for some fun...

US banks with Wall Street operations are bracing for a slump in trading profits this year after the third quarter got off to a poor start, with global economic uncertainty and Europe’s sovereign debt woes leading to a slowdown in market activity in July. Executives said volumes and...

Goldman Sachs could spin off at least part of its proprietary trading operations as early as this month to comply with new rules that limit Wall Street firms from betting their own money in financial markets, according to people familiar with the matter. http://www.cnbc.com/id/38557839 So...

It´s distribution time.

Deutsche Postbank hikes bad debt provisions...Loan-loss provisions rose to 175 million euros from 120 million euros in the second quarter.

And yes, all these calls still in place.

Last print 6363.00. I am looking for some really cheap puts out there. Usually, if it´s rally time, you get them for "peanuts"... :)

This would nicely coincide with 2 large gaps I see, you don´t even need magnifying lenses to see them. :)

Deflation concerns, China, "Mrs. Watanabe" Forex speculation restrictions and soon to come : JPY repatriations...

Private employers added 42,000 jobs in July, compared to a revised gain of 19,000 in June, a report by a payrolls processor showed on Wednesday. The June figure was originally reported as a gain of 13,000. The median of estimates from 33 economists surveyed by Reuters for the ADP Employer...

I have a good laugh here, too. As expected...Put / Call Ratio 1:4. So much optimism out there. :D

The financial world “seems upside down”, writes Michael Heise, chief economist at Allianz, in Wednesday’s FT, noting that the spectre of inflation haunts countless TV and radio debates while gold and other precious metals are the flavour of the moment – and yet, he notes (our emphasis)...

Unteachable fund managers accepting they are losing money. :)

More efficient would be AUD/JPY or EUR/JPY - ES correlation.

THE sovereign debt crisis may eventually cause some re-thinking in academia. In corporate finance theory, the risk-free rate (that paid by governments) is the basis for pricing other assets, which must pay a risk premium on top of that. But what happens when the government, like Greece, has...

What is basically your question if there is "somebody" trading more than 4k rt´s a day ? is it about scalping the DOM / slippage or what are you looking for ?:confused:

The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index and 10-year Treasury rates posted a correlation coefficient of 0.8412 in the 60 trading days through June 16, showing stock prices and bond yields were the most linked in Bloomberg data going back to 1962. ... The correlation level between the U.S. equity...

Euro-zone July composite PMI confirms rise to 56.7