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Jim Wyckoff's Morning Blog--Monday

JimWyckoff, TraderPlanet.com — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:31:59 +0000

* JIM'S MARKET THOUGHT OF THE DAY *

The European Union sovereign debt crisis is back on the front burner to start the new trading week, as many markets, including stock indexes, metals and crude oil are under pressure while the U.S. dollar index rebounds. While the EU debt crisis is in the spotlight today, which has caused risk appetite in the market place to shrink, many markets are just seeing good price corrections from recent trending moves.--Jim

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Federal Reserve Report: No Need for QE3

JohnMason, TraderPlanet.com — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:59:00 +0000

I keep reading that some people want to have the Federal Reserve begin a new round of quantitative easing...QE3.

I see nothing in the financial figures that calls for more quantitative easing.

For one, there seems to be no pressure on interest rates. Looking over the last 13-week period the yield on the 10-year US Treasury has remained relatively constant. The weekly average for the week of November 4, 2011 was 2.07 percent: for the week of January 27, 2012 the weekly average was 2.01. And, th...

Jim Wyckoff's Morning Blog--Monday

JimWyckoff, TraderPlanet.com — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:53:47 +0000

* JIM'S MARKET THOUGHT OF THE DAY *

The U.S. dollar index is posting a modest rebound to start the trading week. Crude oil is also weaker, which has several other commodity futures markets under pressure Monday. The U.S. dollar bulls need to step up and show good power this week, as this week will likely determine whether the recent sell off is just a downside correction in an overall uptrend, or if the uptrend in the dollar index has ended and a fresh downtrend is in place on the daily chart...