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Recent Commentaries
The Trend Trader For Futures Trading on Friday, February 17, 2012
The Trend Trader helps to identify the current trend status of your favorite futures markets. It not only helps us to stay on the right side of market direction, but also helps us avoid those without a trend. You can even use the grid as a spread matrix too - buying strength and selling weakness....
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Tags: futures | gold | index | Indices | interest-rate | currencies | livestock | grains | energy | metals | foods-and-fiber | softs | e-mini | day-trading | cme | cbot | derivative | spread | money | markets | investment | commentary | economy | market-news | economics | education | diversification | leverage | liquidity | speculation | hedge
The Trend Trader For Stock Trading on Friday, February 17, 2012
The Trend Trader helps to identify the current trend status of your favorite stocks. It not only helps us to stay on the right side of market direction, but also helps us avoid those without a trend. You can even use the grid as a spread matrix too - buying strength and selling weakness. Before y...
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Tags: stocks | nyse | new-york-stock-exchange | securities | market-capitalization | dow-jones | money | markets | investment | commentary | economy | market-news | economics | education | diversification | leverage | liquidity | speculation | hedge
The Trend Trader For ETF Trading on Friday, February 17, 2012
The Trend Trader helps to identify the current trend status of your favorite ETF markets. It not only helps us to stay on the right side of market direction, but also helps us avoid those without a trend. You can even use the grid as a spread matrix too - buying strength and selling weakness. Bef...
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Tags: etf | exchange-traded-fund | mutual-fund | closed-end-fund | index-funds | market-capitalization | derivative | money | markets | investment | commentary | economy | market-news | economics | education | diversification | leverage | liquidity | speculation | hedge
Coffee Spreads To Narrow On Strong Robusta Coffee Futures
We start our discussion by defining the term Coffee first and learning more about it, if you are not familiar with what it's all about. Coffee is a brewed beverage with a dark, acidic flavor prepared from the roasted seeds of the coffee plant, colloquially called coffee beans. The beans are found...
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Tags: coffee | bull-spread | commodities | futures-spreads | spread-trading
Fitch Avows Allstate's Credibility - Analyst Blog
Yesterday, Fitch Ratings affirmed the debt and credit ratings of Allstate Corp. (ALL) and its subsidiaries namely, Allstate Insurance Group, Allstate Financial and Allstate Life Insurance Co. Accordingly, the ratings agency has affirmed issuer default ratings (IDR) of "A-" and debt ratings for ...
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Tags: analyst-blog | all | brk-a | pgr
Goldman's Nadel Suit Settlement OK'd - Analyst Blog
Recently, a $9.8 million settlement by Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) related to a Ponzi scheme was approved by a federal judge, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. The settlement, in particular, was reached by Goldman's clearing and execution division and the Ponzi scheme refers t...
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Tags: analyst-blog | gs | wfc
Mitsubishi UFJ Stays Neutral - Analyst Blog
We maintain our Neutral recommendation on Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. (MTU) based on the company's recent results. Mitsubishi UFJ provides a broad range of domestic and international financial operations to individual and corporate customers. Moreover, the company is successful in expan...
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Tags: analyst-blog | ms | mtu | rbs
ViroPharma Extends Buccolam's Reach - Analyst Blog
ViroPharma Inc. (VPHM) recently announced that the Scottish regulatory body has approved its epilepsy drug, Buccolam to be used as a treatment for prolonged, acute, convulsive seizures in infants, toddlers, children and adolescents, aged 3 months to less than 18 years. Earlier, in December last...
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Tags: analyst-blog | vphm
Citi Settles Mortgage Mess - Analyst Blog
Citigroup Inc. (C) has agreed to pay $158.3 million for settling claims that its unit has fraudulently misled the government by submitting risky mortgage loans to a federal insurance program for a period of over six years. Citi's unit, CitiMortgage, had been accused of ignoring the underwriting...
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Tags: analyst-blog | bac | c | jpm | wfc
Brazilian Port Accident Could Cause Soybean Complex Spreads to Narrow
Late on Monday, the dry bulk carrier MV Milagro, under the Maltese flag, knocked into the water one of the four grain loaders at the Guaruja Grain Terminals (TGG) complex at Santos, Latin America's largest port, a TGG representative said on Tuesday. Brazil, expected by the USDA to displace the Un...
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Tags: bull-spread | soybeans | grains | futures-spreads | spread-trading
