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Friday, June 13, 2008
From Grace Cheng's Forex Currency Blog - view blog entries - visit this blog
June 13, 2008 at 8:00 am ET
Gold closed at $869.50 in New York and was down $10.50; silver closed at $16.48 down 29 cents. Gold rallied initially in Asia but has subsequently given up those gains and has fallen in Asia ... (more)

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June 13, 2008 at 5:00 am ET
Amazing how your financial situation can improve if you save $5,000 an hour by being faithful to your wife. Apparently, shamed former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer is flush with cash as he contemplates opening ... (more)

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June 13, 2008 at 4:00 am ET
Chart courtesy of stockcharts ( click to enlarge ) Shares of Evergreen Solar (eslr) rose Thursday by nearly 4% as analyst Mark Bachman from Pacific Crest began covering the stock with a “Buy”- equivalent rating on ... (more)

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June 13, 2008 at 3:00 am ET
In all of the recent discussion about opening up America’s vast energy resources, what has received the most attention is the potential effect on oil and gas prices. But there are two other important issues ... (more)

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June 13, 2008 at 2:00 am ET
 Is the time nigh for some exchange traded funds (ETFs) that short oil and gas? The answer seems to be mixed - while oil prices have retreated some today, down to $132 a barrel, gas is ... (more)

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June 13, 2008 at 1:15 am ET
Today’s big economic story is how retail sales “surged” in May, since I’m rather loathe to repeat myself I’m not going to dig into the usual around inflation, the use of nominal figures, how beating ... (more)

Thursday, June 12, 2008
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June 12, 2008 at 7:00 pm ET
As noted in our post of May 23, 2008, there have been rumors floating around about Anheuser Busch (bud) being acquired by InBev (inb.br). After the market closed yesterday, that rumor became fact as the ... (more)

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June 12, 2008 at 5:40 pm ET
Gold closed at $881.00 in New York and was up $13.20; silver closed at $16.84, up 27 cents. Gold has subsequently given up some of yesterday’s gains and has fallen in Asia overnight and in ... (more)

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June 12, 2008 at 5:00 pm ET
EURO The euro weakened sharply vis-à-vis the U.S. dollar today as the single currency tested bids around the US$ 1.5380 level and was capped around the $1.5565 level. The common currency gave back all of ... (more)

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June 12, 2008 at 11:50 am ET
The near to medium-term outlook of the US dollar in the currency markets is one of relative strength, particularly against the Euro, Swiss franc, British pound and Japanese yen. Ever since Bernanke indicated he has ... (more)

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June 12, 2008 at 10:24 am ET
By Keith Fitz-Gerald How will we know the credit crisis and banking fiasco are truly over? We won’t. But there’s a damn good indicator that will show us the way - the London Interbank Offer ... (more)

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June 12, 2008 at 10:13 am ET
The Wall Street Journal loves to poke fun at corporate execs living large on the lam. Kobi Alexander, Comverse’s (CMVT: 0.00 N/A N/A) Namibian-dwelling ex-CEO, is not spared any ribbing in today’s Page 1 ... (more)

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June 12, 2008 at 10:00 am ET
It ain’t getting any easier, is it? While Macro Man has escaped, if only temporarily, from the House of the Fat Tail (which has a lawn dotted with pink flamingos), he cannot help but ... (more)

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June 12, 2008 at 9:30 am ET
It’s time to put some more capital to work today. I am initiating a second (2) BUY recommendation of GeoEye, Inc. (Nasdaq: GEOY), a provider of space-based and aerial imagery and geospatial information. I’m pounding the table ... (more)

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June 12, 2008 at 9:09 am ET
Financials continue to feel max pain as major banks continue to be hammered by selling. The exotic forms of investment continue to haunt those firms who were careless and did not handle risk properly. ... (more)

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June 12, 2008 at 8:49 am ET
I grew up in a couple of small farming communities in Iowa and Minnesota. When I was very young my father farmed on rented land and when we moved to town he worked for the ... (more)

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June 12, 2008 at 8:38 am ET
In Egg on your face news, Citigroup is shutting down a Hedge Fund it bought last year that was co-founded by its current CEO: (From the WSJ) “Citigroup Inc. is closing a hedge fund co-founded by ... (more)

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June 12, 2008 at 7:12 am ET
Today’s US Dollar Trading • USD fails to hold gains • Stops run early • Two-way action suggests offers building Overnight Preview • Look for consolidation with a downside bias • USD likely to open lower in New York tomorrow Looking Ahead ... (more)

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June 12, 2008 at 7:00 am ET
I’m going to start right off by saying that there’s plenty I don’t know about the inner workings of the Federal Reserve and the day-to-day nuts-and-bolts of managing monetary policy. That said, I have to admit ... (more)

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June 12, 2008 at 6:00 am ET
While the NBA playoffs could be helping some exchange traded funds (ETFs), they sure aren’t helping me any. I grew up in Boston, and if you hadn’t noticed, we’re nutty about our sports teams. You’d have ... (more)

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June 12, 2008 at 5:14 am ET
The are many reasons why - and lots of people to blame - for the mess we are in now. But not everyone feels this way. “Politicos,” for example, try to frame the issue in partisan ... (more)

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June 12, 2008 at 4:00 am ET
Agriculture exchange traded funds (ETFs) shot up in trading today as a flood in the Midwest damaged the 2008 corn crop. Corn futures rose more than 4%, the fifth straight record trading session, reports Sam Nelson ... (more)

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June 12, 2008 at 3:07 am ET
That’s 1.238 trillion barrels of known oil reserves, or 1,238,00,000,000 barrels. And reserves have actually been growing, by 107.8 billion barrels since 2001, and 168.5 billion barrels, or 14%, over the last decade. Global reserves ... (more)

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June 12, 2008 at 2:08 am ET
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Wednesday, June 11, 2008
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June 11, 2008 at 5:46 pm ET
EURO The euro appreciated vis-à-vis the U.S. dollar today as the single currency tested offers around the US$ 1.5545 level and was supported around the $1.5445 level. Technically, today’s intraday low was right around the ... (more)

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