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INTEREST RATE FUTURES – Part 2
Smc global Blog | October 15th 2009 by preet
Hello Friends, just an extension of our previous blog on interest rates futures where we touched upon the topic of interest rates future and what is it exactly. Now we would understand that why is there need for interst rate futures and many more re read more
Another tumble coming
The Sir Robert Bond Papers | October 13th 2009 by Ed Hollett
People may be cheering the rising loonie. Some people may be rubbing their hands with glee at the current and forecast prices for crude. Gold is wonderful, if you own it already. But, note the references in those articles to “weak fundamentals read more
INTEREST RATE FUTURES – What’s That?
Smc global Blog | October 13th 2009 by preet
Hello Friends, For past weeks we have been coming up with educational and informative inputs on topics like economic indicators, Positive Undertones in the Economy etc; In this Blog now we would throw light on “Interest rate futures”. Wha read more
Recession Hits The Hip-Hop Community: Slim Thug on the Daily Show…
TakePart Social Action Network | October 9th 2009 by Adriana Dunn
photodu.de's Flickr photostream/Creative Commons The recession has taken a toll on countless individuals and businesses, and if you thought the bling of hip-hop was impervious to the effects of the financial crisis, you were wrong. The rapper S read more
FX Market: Canadian Dollar Pummels Greenback
Online Forex Trading | October 9th 2009 by Rebekah
Continuing to appreciate and trading higher now at 1.0433 against the U.S. dollar, the Canadian currency has benefited from an uplifting employment report this morning. According to Statistics Canada, employment rose by a surprising 30,600 position read more
FX Market: U.S. Trade Deficit Narrows
Online Forex Trading | October 9th 2009 by Rebekah
Exports rose as U.S. consumption of oil declined, helping to narrow the trade deficit in the month of August. According to the U.S. Commerce Department report this morning in New York, the gap between imports and exports in the world’s largest ec read more
6,600 Foreclosures Per Day
Online Forex Trading | October 8th 2009 by Rebekah
For months the National Association of Realtors (NAR) has done its best to put forth a positive message about the housing crisis. During this time, the NAR has reported increased sales and improving home values. The Center for Responsible Lending read more
FX Market: U.S. Jobless Claims Report Falls, Bank of England Sta…
Online Forex Trading | October 8th 2009 by Rebekah
A busy morning in New York as U.S. employment indicators and announcements by both the ECB and BOE are setting the tone for the market. It seems that U.S. dollar weakness continues to prevail, given the momentum from last night’s positive Austral read more
FX Market: Australian Dollar Flies on Employment Data
Online Forex Trading | October 7th 2009 by Rebekah
Stunning market speculators, employment data in the Australian economy was far better than anyone would have guessed. Estimated to have shown a stabilizing loss of 10,000 positions, the Pacific economy actually added jobs for the month of September read more
Gold Prices Hit New Highs-Economic Turmoil
Politicol News | October 7th 2009 by Teriss
Gold prices are rising which indicates the economy is in for more down times. Gold has always been a good indicator of economic confidence, which means the US dollar is in for a beating. Other world countries are considering changing the monitary sta read more
Economic Stress Index
Community Indicators | October 6th 2009 by Ben Warner
Take a moment to play with the Economic Stress Index put together by the AP. It measures unemployment rates, foreclosures, and bankruptcy filings and combines them into an index using this formula:[1 - [(1 - unemployment rate) x (1 - foreclosure rate read more
Economic Indicators Part 2 :)
Smc global Blog | October 6th 2009 by preet
Hello Friends, just an extension of our yesterday’s blog on economic indicators where we talked about the categories of Economic indicators and relationship between various indicators. Now in this Blog, we would look upon issues like what cur read more
ECONOMIC INDICATORS WITH A FOCUS ON STOCK MARKETS – Part 1
Smc global Blog | October 5th 2009 by preet
An economic indicator is simply any economic statistic, such as the unemployment rate, GDP, or the inflation rate, which indicate how well the economy is doing and how well the economy is going to do in the future. Investors use all the informati read more
Will Unemployment Hit 15%?
Online Forex Trading | October 2nd 2009 by Rebekah
The hammer fell Friday morning when the Labor Department’s Non-Farm Payroll was released showing another 263,000 jobs trimmed from the U.S. workforce. Unemployment is now stated at 9.8%. Most analysts feel the rate is significantly understated read more
U.S. Employment: The Worst Has Happened
Online Forex Trading | October 2nd 2009 by Rebekah
In line with pessimistic “whisper” numbers, the U.S. non-farm payroll report has surprised to the downside. Today’s results are particularly disappointing as recent economic data had previously sparked glimmers of hope that one of the worst r read more
US Dollar: Flurry of Data Lures Traders Ahead of U.S. Non-Farm P…
Online Forex Trading | October 1st 2009 by Rebekah
Today it was revealed that all things may not be as rosy for the world’s largest economy. Economic data released in the early New York session continued to run contrary to previous speculation that the U.S. may be exiting one of the worst recessi read more
Find Your Nerve
When Growth Stalls | October 1st 2009
It's time we all found our nerve.That's the idea behind FindYourNerve.com, a micro/social/website that launches today based on the idea that re-igniting the economy starts on the inside of every company. At some point, we all need to get past what is read more
Scotiabank: Rise in Commodities Signals a Better Economy
BankNerd.ca | September 30th 2009 by Matt Goulart
With a modest rise in commodity prices this August, it is another signal that the global economy is beginning to revive from the recession, according to Scotiabank`s commodity price index. Scotiabank has noted its gauge of price trends in 32 of Canad read more
Defending GDP: WSJ Opinion
Community Indicators | September 29th 2009 by Ben Warner
On the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal Online, Brian Domitrovic poses a novel defense of GDP as a measure of national progress: President Sarkozy only wants to change the measure because he's "losing."The argument goes something like this: T read more
Why The FDIC is Nearly Depleted
Online Forex Trading | September 29th 2009 by Rebekah
FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair is the tough-minded, fiercely independent advocate of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Sheila Bair does not mince words. Bair makes decisive moves and backs them up with tough policy. Under her tenure the FDIC has se read more
Are bright colored clothes a sign of the economy?
Lucrative Investing | September 25th 2009 by Chris McClelland
Just like at a funeral, at the beginning of the recession people were mourning. The clothes told the story: people would be wearing black and other drab colors while going to work. It was like that for the past year, ever since the fall of Lehman Br read more
Another drop on the way?
The Sir Robert Bond Papers | September 24th 2009 by Ed Hollett
Could be, at least if David Rosenberg is right. Rosenberg, chief analyst at Glusken Sheff and Associates, thinks the current pricing in the markets is based on the false assumption that corporate profits and gross domestic product have already rebou read more
Has Growth Returned to US Economy?
Online Forex Trading | September 24th 2009 by Rebekah
On Wednesday, the U.S. Federal Reserve said that growth had returned to the U.S. economy. With congressional leaders and the Obama Administration locked in heated debates regarding health care and the War in Afghanistan, some of the momentum for fi read more
Decisive Leadership Lacking At the G20
Online Forex Trading | September 24th 2009 by Rebekah
Later today the G20 officially convenes but indications are that momentum on three key fronts is conflicted. At a time when give-and-take progress is necessary, the world’s economic leaders seem unable or unwilling to assert decisive leadership t read more
The employee morale index
Semantic Argument | September 23rd 2009
With all this talk about the (hopefully) improving economy and consumer confidence, and employment numbers as a lagging indicator…I’d be interested in seeing a national employee morale index and the relationship between morale and a natio read more
Pound Faces Choppy Trading as Traders Disect BOE Minutes
Online Forex Trading | September 23rd 2009 by Rebekah
The release of minutes from this month’s Bank of England monetary policy meeting headline the economic calendar in European hours. The announcement itself produced no surprises with interest rates left at 0.5% and the magnitude of quantitative easi read more
How Will the Dollar React to the G20?
Online Forex Trading | September 22nd 2009 by Rebekah
The dollar slid quickly in overnight trading as investors awaited today’s decisions from the Federal Reserve and the upcoming G20 summit in Pittsburgh. Meanwhile, equity markets surged and oil edged up after a slight trimming in Monday trading. T read more
Sheila Bair & FDIC Stand Alone
Online Forex Trading | September 22nd 2009 by Rebekah
The FDIC To Go It Alone Tough-minded FDIC Chairperson, Sheila Bair, has her own visions of the recession and the trajectory of the recovery. Her views rarely coincide with Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner or Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke. read more
Leading Economic Indicators Rise in August
Informasi dan Berita Harian Terbaru Online | September 21st 2009 by Bang Tanjung
A private forecast of economic activity rose in August for the fifth straight month, the latest sign the recession has ended. The Conference’s Board leading indicators point to an economy on solid ground early next year, though some analysts ca read more
Post Summer Trading
Futures and Options Advisory Service | September 20th 2009 by Jimmy Tintle
FAOAS has been quite for the past three months with vacations and light trading. Here we start off September with the USD reaching the lows off the year. “Commodity Boom of 2009″ that every analyst predicted sure hasn’t followed sui read more
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