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Explaining Friday's Quad Witching

Seeded on Mon Mar 22, 2010 9:38 PM EDT (Diamond Slice)

A nice explanation of the Friday Witching phenomenon in U.S. financial markets. The expiration of stock options, index options, index futures, and stock futures on the same day provides for a wave of volatility.

business, options, stock-options, futures, stock-index, soap-box, witching, index-options, quad-witching

China's Growth: Blessing Or Curse?

Seeded on Thu Jan 28, 2010 6:33 AM EST (Diamond Slice)

Comparisons made between China's recent growth and U.S. growth in 2004-2006, make case for shaky global economic recovery. Can the global economy recover fully and more importantly could it have occurred without China?

business, japan, china, economy, macro, global-slice

Crude Going to $70; Fundmantals, Sentiment, and Technicals

Seeded on Wed Jan 20, 2010 8:28 PM EST (Diamond Slice)

This comprehensive report makes the case for why the price per barrel of crude oil is heading lower to $70 per barrel. The thesis is broken into fundamentals, sentiment, and techincal support and provides investors with a specialist's edge, regarding the black gold commodity.

business, energy, crude-oil, oil-price, trade-strategies, short-trade

Short Trading Week Prep: Econ Data & Earnings Preview

Mon Jan 18, 2010 9:16 AM EST

The January 18 - 22 business week will begin one day late, due to Martin Luther King Jr holiday, leaving only Tuesday to Friday for market action to be staged.

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business, bonds, stocks, tech, earnings, finance, stock-market, equities, u-s-economy, financials

Alcoa Miss Spells Trouble for Q4 Earnings

Tue Jan 12, 2010 7:28 AM EST

Earnings season officially began, as the first member of the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average to grab Q4 2009 earnings headlines, Alcoa (AA), reported a net profit of $0.01 EPS on Monday, January 11.

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business, bonds, stock, earnings, alcoa, s, aa, equities, income-statement

Housing Animal Spirits to Be Banished by Prime Foreclosures

Seeded on Tue Jan 5, 2010 3:02 AM EST (Bloomberg.com)

Bloomberg interviews Robert Shiller, who weighs in on the prospects for housing strength in 2010. Shiller forecasts weakness in white collar mortgages, specifically Prime ARMs, and suggests that resetting rates will be too much for many home owners to make payments.

business, arm, u-s-government, mbs, mortgage-default, u-s-housing-market

Manufacturing Not Enough for U.S. Recovery

Tue Jan 5, 2010 2:57 AM EST

The Institute for Supply Chain Management surprised the world on Monday morning, as they announced the results of their manufacturing managers survey. The report is essentially a survey where every manager is asked to respond to his own experience.

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business, manufacturing, recession, consumer-spending, u-s-economy, prime-mortrgage-defaults