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    Thursday, July 17, 2008 From Grace Cheng's Forex Currency Blog - view blog entries - visit this blog
July 17, 2008 at 10:30 pm ET The chart above shows the subprime share of mortgage originations from 2001 to 2007, using data from Harvard’s “2008 State of the Nation’s Housing” study, available here.
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July 17, 2008 at 10:00 pm ET It has been a few months since I have discussed the procedure for how I treat any given trading strategy, today I am going to highlight how I trade flag patterns.
A flag pattern is a ... (more) From Grace Cheng's Forex Currency Blog - view blog entries - visit this blog
July 17, 2008 at 10:00 pm ET The Renewable Fuels Association contracted a pair of polling firms to survey voters beliefs on ethanol as a renewable fuel. Two firms were selected to get both Democratic and Republican opinion. The opening paragraph of ... (more) From Grace Cheng's Forex Currency Blog - view blog entries - visit this blog
July 17, 2008 at 6:28 pm ET My mistake, crude options expire today. This drop in oil prices doesn’t mean the end of a “bubble”, as I’ve heard some say. CNBC has been all over the “is this a commodity bubble bursting?” ... (more) From Grace Cheng's Forex Currency Blog - view blog entries - visit this blog
July 17, 2008 at 5:41 pm ET These past 2 days have seen a lot of choppy movements in the financial markets. US stocks embarked on the second straight day of massive gains on Thursday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average closing ... (more) From Grace Cheng's Forex Currency Blog - view blog entries - visit this blog
July 17, 2008 at 4:40 pm ET Better than expected second quarter earnings news from California-based Wells Fargo (wfc) and its unexpected ten percent dividend boost helped spark a hefty rally in the overall market—particularly beleaguered financials—on Wednesday. While the bank’s net ... (more) From Grace Cheng's Forex Currency Blog - view blog entries - visit this blog
July 17, 2008 at 4:20 pm ET Homebuilding exchange traded funds (ETFs) are up sharply in trading this morning after reports that single-family home construction fell while a new law in New York gave a boost to apartments buildings.
Single-family homebuilding lost 5.3% ... (more) From Grace Cheng's Forex Currency Blog - view blog entries - visit this blog
July 17, 2008 at 4:17 pm ET EURO
The euro appreciated vis-à-vis the U.S. dollar today as the single currency tested offers around the US$ 1.5890 level and was supported around the $1.5810 level. Traders erased some of the common currency’s losses ... (more) From Grace Cheng's Forex Currency Blog - view blog entries - visit this blog
July 17, 2008 at 11:01 am ET You knew it was coming…..you knew it was coming…you knew it was coming…..BAM! Yesterday it finally came. Macro Man refers, of course, to the dreaded short squeeze, which finally arrived with a bang ... (more) From Grace Cheng's Forex Currency Blog - view blog entries - visit this blog
July 17, 2008 at 8:39 am ET This is some interesting stuff against the backdrop of recent actions by the SEC to curb short selling:
From the Financial Times:
“The cost of borrowing shares for short sales on Wall Street has been rising steeply ... (more) From Grace Cheng's Forex Currency Blog - view blog entries - visit this blog
July 17, 2008 at 7:00 am ET When I first read today's post, "Mental Recession? Maybe. Economic Recession? No," by James Pethokoukis, "money and politics blogger" for U.S. News & World Report's Capital Commerce blog and the assistant managing editor of the ... (more) From Grace Cheng's Forex Currency Blog - view blog entries - visit this blog
July 17, 2008 at 5:20 am ET NEWS: The Dow closed the session with its best one-day point gain since 4/1. The closing numbers showed a gain of 276 points or 2.5%. The S&P rallied 30 points or 2.5% and the NASDAQ ... (more) From Grace Cheng's Forex Currency Blog - view blog entries - visit this blog
July 17, 2008 at 2:24 am ET All of the news will be good, anything bad will be buried (or dismissed) as much as possible. Maybe. This could be the start of the next bear market rally, or not. Don’t ... (more) From Grace Cheng's Forex Currency Blog - view blog entries - visit this blog
July 17, 2008 at 2:00 am ET The see-saw affair that is today’s markets went there and back again earlier this week and Wednesday, based on some encouraging news from Wells Fargo (WFC), saw the scales tip towards the Bulls.
Wells Fargo, the ... (more) The Story Of Fannie And Freddie (1 click)
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July 17, 2008 at 1:20 am ET Well it happened. The big question that loomed in the air on Wall Street last week, as sinking shares of Fannie Mae (fnm) and Freddie Mac (fre) stole headlines from rising oil, was answered over ... (more) From Grace Cheng's Forex Currency Blog - view blog entries - visit this blog
July 17, 2008 at 1:00 am ET Canadian Solar Inc.’s (CSIQ) recent bullishness has been boosted due to the improving company fundamentals and a steep rise in the price of oil. Going forward, on the back of solar panel sales growth in ... (more) From Grace Cheng's Forex Currency Blog - view blog entries - visit this blog
July 17, 2008 at 1:00 am ET A rally like today’s was expected and also suggested as a possibility in yesterday’s last paragraph. Let’s face it; markets were oversold and ripe for some kind of bounce, large or small. ... (more) Some iShares ETFs Are Calling It Splits (1 click)
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July 17, 2008 at 1:00 am ET Barclays Global Investors has announced they are splitting shares amongst 10% of their exchange traded fund (ETF) line, iShares.
There are more than 160 U.S.-based products within this fund family, and they represent $327 billion in ... (more) The Burgeoning US Pension Fund Crisis (2 clicks)
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July 17, 2008 at 12:06 am ET By Martin Hutchinson
Welcome to the latest offshoot of the subprime-mortgage debacle: A burgeoning U.S. pension-fund crisis.
Since the global financial crisis struck last fall, the largest 1,500 U.S. public companies have lost a combined ... (more) From Grace Cheng's Forex Currency Blog - view blog entries - visit this blog
July 17, 2008 at 12:00 am ET Chart courtesy of stockcharts ( click to enlarge )
First Solar (FSLR) has had a hard time with resistance here, but may be ready to move higher. The level which the stock may have trouble moving ... (more) Wednesday, July 16, 2008 From Grace Cheng's Forex Currency Blog - view blog entries - visit this blog
July 16, 2008 at 11:40 pm ET Apparently, naked shorting isn’t “illegal”. The SEC even thinks it helps market liquidity, at certain times.
The SEC’s website has this, in part, to say about naked short selling:
Naked short selling is not necessarily a ... (more) From Grace Cheng's Forex Currency Blog - view blog entries - visit this blog
July 16, 2008 at 10:07 pm ET Many people seem to believe that there are some magic numbers out there that equate to stock-picking success. I hear two things in particular when I’m helping people with their screening strategies: P/E Ratios and ... (more) From Grace Cheng's Forex Currency Blog - view blog entries - visit this blog
July 16, 2008 at 9:10 pm ET Each week I provide a review of the previous week’s performance of the WilderHill New Energy Global Innovation Index (NEX). This information is provided by New Energy Finance. The NEX is the bogey for the ... (more) From Grace Cheng's Forex Currency Blog - view blog entries - visit this blog
July 16, 2008 at 4:25 pm ET If I could pick only one ticker to watch in order to gauge the market’s health in the current environment, it would probably be Financial Select Sector SPDR (XLF), the most popular of the financial ... (more) From Grace Cheng's Forex Currency Blog - view blog entries - visit this blog
July 16, 2008 at 4:20 pm ET Oil and related exchange traded funds (ETFs) have been volatile lately, so it stands to reason that there’s now an index that allows investors to track just that: the price volatility.
The Chicago Board Options Exchange ... (more) Items 26 - 50 of 1,137
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