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CME Group Forex E-Mirco futures contracts are priced at one-tenth the size of the existing CME currency futures contracts and provide a cost-effective way to access the dynamic foreign exchange market with the security,...

Treasuries, stocks and commodities from soybeans to silver staged big breakouts after the Federal Reserve announced plans to buy $300 billion in Treasuries and $750 billion in mortgage-backed securities. April gold futures...

The Federal Reserve kept interest rates unchanged but said it will buy $300 billion in long-term Treasury bonds. The Fed also plans to buy mortgage-backed securities and the agency debt of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The move...

By Jim Barrett I’ve been involved with the Treasury bond market since 1979, originally as a floor trader, and recall how bond trading was king back then. However, the spotlight dimmed as the U.S. government began to get...

Join us today for a webinar on how to treat your trading like a business. Lind Plus Senior Market Strategist Richard Ilczyszyn will cover the most important risk management principles that you need to know in order to become a...

Join Lind-Waldock for two free live webinars this week. On Monday, March 16 at 3:30 CT, Lind Plus Senior Market Strategist James Barrett takes a look at how China’s comments about their lack of confidence in U.S....

Here’s a calendar for key financial market repports due out the week of March 16, 2009, with consensus forecasts. DateCTRelease For Consensus/Prior Mar 1607:30Empire ManufacturingMar-32.0-34.65 Mar 1608:00Net Long-Term...

The Swiss franc has taken a nosedive this morning, and at the same time, gold has sparked. It appears to us that some of the safe-haven buying in the franc is being unwound rapidly amid a Swiss interest rate cut and likely...

MF Global Research Senior Equity Index Analyst Nick Kalivas said in a research note this afternoon that technically, the CBOE put-to-call ratio and the VIX (CBOE Market Volatility Index) have not exploded to levels or shown...