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- Moscow Airports As A Paradigm For Competition?
Perry’s Law: Competition breeds competence.
Exhibit A: Moscow Airports
MOSCOW — A heated battle for passengers between the Russian capital’s main airports offers an unlikely model of competition for the aviation industry.In most cities, airports are monopolies. Even in cities that have more than one, including New York, Paris and Tokyo, airports are usually owned by the same operator. That means airlines can rarely make the kind of choices passengers take for granted, such … [visit site to read more]
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Переслать - Despite Terrible News Bulls Still In Control
The bulls have seized the tape for now. The news remains terrible but those that need to prop things find tidbits of news to rationalize buying. They cherry-pick what news they like, spin it in bullish fashion, and voila, up pops another rally to try to even things out for the week.
Ignoring Research in Motion’s disappointing numbers [it closed nearly 5% higher, DOH!] and focusing instead on Marvel Technology’s better than expected report demonstrated the point in the early going. Then … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - Stock Picks And Trade Ideas For Thursday - STX, RIMM, AAPL
Chart courtesy of www.stockcharts.com ( click to enlarge )
Apple (AAPL) - The stock has made a huge decline the past weeks and looks like a squeeze could be in play as price has reacted very well to its 20 day moving average. Looking at the daily chart price is forming a nice base which could possibly breakout to the upside and accelerate towards the resistance at $98,94. Keep your eye on this for tomorrow.
Chart courtesy of www.stockcharts.com ( click to enlarge )
Research In … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - Value Investors - Beware Of The Value Traps
Value investors, consider this your warning. With thousands of stocks down 50% (or more), investors are salivating over the bargains. But for every true deal, there are at least three “value traps” - stocks destined to languish at depressed levels indefinitely. Or worse, get cheaper still.
Think Kmart here. In late 2001, it became the poster child for value investors. They argued it was dirt cheap based on countless metrics like book value and sales. And it was destined for a historic … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - Buy And Hold Strategy - Revisited
After some early selling the indices turned around and the Dow was up over 100 points two hours into the trading day. As we have seen so many times in the past, the gains did not hold and by 2pm the Dow was at the low of the day, down over 100 points. But a late day rally sent the index to new highs as it closed up 172 points or 2.1%. The S&P 500 added 21 points or 2.6% and the NASDAQ rallied 2.9% or 42 points. Gold fell $8/ounce and oil closed down 17 cents near a new 4-year … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - Water And Energy Investments
Should utilities be required to use the best available technology in order to minimize harm to the nation’s waterways?
Most people with half a brain would answer that question affirmatively. But apparently the upper reaches of our judicial system don’t fall into that category.
So today the U.S. Supreme Court will hear a case that a five-year-old could decide in seconds.
It centers around the impact utilities have on waterways near power plants that use billions of gallons of water … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - Building Your 'Doom And Gloom' Portfolio With ETFs
What exchange traded fund (ETF) investors and Wall Street analysts have suspected for awhile is officially confirmed: the United States is in a recession, and it’s been going on for one year. The question now is, where does an investor go from here?
Aaron Siegel for Investment News reports that the National Bureau of Economic Research Inc. confirmed that, numbers and indicators aside, we are in a recession. The classic indicator of a recession is two consecutive quarters of negative … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - Are Fischer Rumors Indicative of A Major Israeli Economic Crisis?
Will current Bank of Israel head Stanley Fischer be leaving Israel for the New York Fed? According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, Fischer is considered to be a dark horse to fill the vacancy left by Timothy Geithner, who is joining Pres. elect Barack Obama as Treasury Secretary.
According to the Journal, “Outsiders who could be considered include Peter Fisher, a former Treasury official who is now a senior executive at BlackRock Inc.; Stanley Fischer, an economist who runs … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - Weekly Review Of The WilderHill New Energy Global Innovation Index
Each week I recap the results of the WilderHill New Energy Global Innovation Index, symbol NEX, and published by New Energy Finance Ltd. The index consists of approximately 90 stocks from 22 countries. The NEX is the tracking index for the PowerShares Global Clean Energy Portfolio ETF (PBD). For reference, the NEX has a 52 week high of 461.56.
The NEX gained 0.8% for the week ending December 1. Note this includes the big decline on Monday, 12/1. The NASDAQ (^IXIC) and the S&P … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - Canadian Ford Dealer Offers Ford Shares To Buyers Of Ford Vehicles
If you like the car, will you love the company?
When it comes to Ford Motor Co. (F), a Canadian car dealer bet a month’s sales on that premise.
Rose City Ford dealership owner John Chisholm offered 100 shares of Ford stock to anyone who bought a new or used vehicle from the dealership during the month of November, the Windsor Star newspaper reported. Chisholm, the president and general manager of Rose City, said he got the idea from a General Motors Co. (GM) dealership in Texas … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - Are Dividend Investors Betting That The Worst Is Over?
Last week was pretty weak in terms of major dividend cuts. The one notable sector where many high yield stocks were located, the tankers, keeps the wires busy with negative dividend news.
Frontline (FRO) declared a dividend payment of $0.50/share for the quarter, significantly down from the prior quarter’s payment of $3/share. This is the lowest dividend payment since March 2003. The current yield is still pretty decent at 6.77%. Investors didn’t like the dividend cut, sending the … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - Was Lehman CEO Richard Fuld Unfairly Vilified?
Some, not all, financial CEOs should be publicly and harshly vilified… not because they’re evil and money-hungry, but because they were dumb enough to leverage their companies by such great extents.
And sure, the Fed should have never allowed these companies to be leveraged by such amounts. But they weren’t responsible for the lies told by CEOs and in some cases, CFOs that allegedly mislead shareholders into the false belief that all was okay.
Take CEO Richard Fuld and CFO Erin … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - Services Stocks Lag Within Energy
During the most recent economic and market downturn the most unlikely of sub-sectors has been the worst under-performer within the Energy Sector. Services stocks, often time viewed as stalwarts within the industry, have been absolutely destroyed this year with some of the mega-caps like Schlumberger Ltd. (SLB) leading the way. This is extremely atypical of the energy sector, and many investors are still left wondering why exactly this happened. Obviously the horses are out of the … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - Sears Holdings: Retail Blues Equal Stock Greens?
A consumer environment at the apex of, what can only be described as the very definition of fragile doesn’t lend itself to positive business results at retailers. Specifically retailers which struggled even before the US went recession-official. Sears Holdings (SHLD) was one of those retailers. And after this morning’s quarterly results it still is.
While not suffering the doomsday fate of electronics retail specialty chain Circuit City, the department store giant and its approximate … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - Notable Citi, Wells And Bank Of America Tidbits
Like many of you I have 10s of thousands of saved press releases from the past couple of year I like to read back through occasionally. Beginning today I am going to start posting some of the stories that seem important to me but have been blown over by the mainstream. For a story to qualify, the content must evoke a feeling of overwhelming sickness or blind rage in me. Both below qualify.
Citigroup’s 'Capital’ Was All Casing, No Meat - Bloomberg, by Jonathan WeilCitigroup … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - Pictures Of Zimbabwe's Inflation Crisis
Hyperinflation has Zimbabwe in the throes of a financial crisis that makes the one we’re dealing with look like a walk in the park.
The monthly inflation rate in Zimbabwe is currently running at 13.2 billion per cent, and could reach an all-time world record within weeks.
The latest figures put Zimbabwe’s annual inflation rate at 516 quintillion per cent. That’s 516 followed by 18 zeros.
Consumer prices on everything from gasoline to glue are doubling on average every 1.3 … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - Video: Asian Markets Turn Green
After consecutive days of losses, the major Asian/Pacific markets all finally turned green this session for the first time this week. … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - Video: Euro Slides In Anticipation Of ECB Rate Decision
With all attention on tomorrows ECB interest rate decision, investors have continued to steer clear from risk appetite which has sent the euro even lower in trading this session. … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - Video: Stocks Post Moderate Gains
The Dow advances but trading is still volatile as investors grapple with weak economic data and a warning from Research in Motion. … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - Video: Frankel: Markets Are Putting Up A Good Fight
Jeff Frankel of Stuart Frankel and CO., says 2009 will likely turn around. The question is whether people are expecting worse while hoping for better. … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - Major Currency Pairs Likely To Consolidate Amid Event Risks
The US dollar is consolidating the trading intraday range after moving higher on the weaker EURO and UK data this morning (Wednesday). The declines were stopped however, when the US released their economic data for the day. True to form, the US employment data from ADP and Challenger, along with non manufacturing ISM data (37.3 versus expectation of 42.0) were weaker. This has the market confused as to currencies directions. So the bottoms remain secure for the GBP/USD and the … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - Four Currency ETFs That Are Affected By Rate Cuts
The U.S. dollar made gains against the euro as the currency lost its luster because the deteriorating market conditions and sent related exchange traded funds (ETFs) down.
Investors are simply not taking any risks and European banks are considering yet another rate cut, by about 0.75% as early as Thursday, reports GCI Financial for Daily Markets. Next year is not expected to get any smoother, so the European Central Bank is ready to take action despite the earlier two rate cuts in … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - General Motors Wants My Support, But It's Barking Up The Wrong Tree
I was shocked to wake up this morning and find in my inbox an email from General Motors (GM). It was an appeal for me to contact my representatives in Washington and urge them to pass the rescue funding. Uh… hey GM, you’re barking up the wrong tree!
GM CEO Rick Wagoner says he will cut his salary to $1.00 per year if they get the bail out. Big deal, how much are you spending on Washington lobbyists? I bet that spending has skyrocketed
ADP released their projections for this … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - Forex Trading: EUR/USD Pressured By Weaker Data Once Again
Overnight Eurozone Retail Sales fell by a greater than expected 0.8% (-0.4e)for the month. The YoY came in at -2.1% versus a year ago. This was also weaker than expectations (-1.5%e). In addition, the PMI Service index came in at 42.5. this was donw from the previous estimate of 43.5. This is a new low for the index.
The EUR/USD was sold off on the increasingly bearish news. The ECB will of course meet tomorrow and although most think a greater than 50 basis point cut is … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - Global Investing Roundups: Ford, GE, Sears, Oil Prices
Ford and Toyota Sales Crash; Triple Airline Merger in Talks; GE Ponders Job Cuts; Sears Closing Stores; Oil Prices Hit 3-year Low; Discover Says More Credit-card Write-offs Likely
U.S. sales in November fell 31% for Ford Motor Co. (F) and 34% for Toyota Motor Corp. (TM) Every line of Ford vehicle posted falling sales, and the company responded by slashing first-quarter North American output for 38% to 430,000 vehicles, Bloomberg reported.
Crippled by global slowdown, British … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - The Governator, Munis And You
The states are in trouble and the water is beginning to flow over the dam. On Monday, the Governator - Arnold Schwarzenegger, declared a fiscal emergency in California claiming that the state could run out of money by February. As well, the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) and National Governors Association (NGA) released a letter pleading for the Congress to pass a stimulus package. The NCSL reported that 30 states have shortfalls totaling $30 billion, while California … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - Ways Financial Turmoil Will Reshape ETFs, Indexes
The government bailout of Citigroup (C) has lead the company to be booted from some exchange traded funds (ETFs) and indexes that track dividend stocks, such as the Dow Jones and STOXX dividend indexes.
One stipulation that came with accepting the bailout money was that Citigroup had to cut its dividend to one penny per share per quarter. This resulted in Citigroup no longer meeting the index eligibility requirements for either of the aforementioned indexes. In fact, the company … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - Ericsson Feeling Margin Pressure
Headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, LM Ericsson Telephone Company (ERIC) is a multinational company engaged in manufacturing and selling wireless infrastructure equipment for the telecom sector. It is a total network solutions provider, serving wireless and wireline operators, enterprises and consumers.
Ericsson reported slightly higher revenues but lower-than-expected earnings for 3Q08. The company experienced operator consolidation and delays in mobile telecom roll-outs across … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - Bernanke's No Help For FHA
Ben Bernanke tried to reassure investors Monday that the United States is in better shape than it was during the Great Depression… and that interest rate cuts might not be enough to jumpstart the depressed stock and housing markets. If they do drop interest rates to zero, the Federal Reserve does have other tools to influence liquidity - it can purchase Treasury bonds to increase the money supply.
But even low interest rates aren’t helping home sales much.
Homebuilder Beazer … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - There's Little Not To Love About The Brazilian Real
One of Macro Man’s favourite themes at the moment is the necessity and likelihood of EM policy easing in response to the global recession and disinflationary/deflationary dynamic. For sure, most EM countries have eased policy to one degree or another- some of them aggressively. But a few EM CBs have stuck to their guns…for now. Therein lies opportunity. One of the best out there at the moment is Brazil.
The land of the Amazon has been a favourite target of macro punters for much of … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - Du Pont Trades Near Fair Value
E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (DD) is the world’s second leading chemical company. Non-G7 markets, agricultural chemicals and a focus on key customers and new products will drive growth.
Strong performance in the agricultural products market and emerging markets, regular increase in product prices, favorable currency and productivity are likely to outweigh increasing costs as well as weak auto and housing markets. The company is focusing on nearly doubling its earnings growth … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - GBP/JPY Hits Another Low On News That UK's PM Is Ready To Swap Pound For Euro
As the GBP is dropping hard across the board, the GBP/JPY has just hit another low. The pair fell down to a low currently of 136.38, which has not been traded since July 1995. The current weakness of the GBP is fueled by more poor data today with UK consumer confidence dropping and services PMI being released worse than expected. There is also high expectation for another large interest rate cut from the Bank of England later in the week. Furthermore, the following was noted:
Dealers … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - Video: Delta Cuts Capacity And Possibly Jobs
Delta cuts back on seat capacity as consumer cut back on flying, the result could be more job losses for the airliner. … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - US Dollar Recovers From Early Lows
Today’s US Dollar Trading
USD recovers from early lows
Two-way action driven by stops and cross-spreaders
Equities and Oil volatility an issueOvernight Preview
Look for a quiet overnight session
USD to stabilize ahead of US data in the morningLooking Ahead to Wednesday
All times EASTERN (-5 GMT)7:30am USD Challenger Job Cuts y/y
8:15am USD ADP Non-Farm Employment Change
8:30am USD Revised Nonfarm Productivity q/q
8:30am USD Revised Unit Labor Costs … [visit site to read more]Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - Wipe The Slate Clean - Let Banks And Automakers Fail!
We all know that any loan deal that the Goverment puts together for the Big 3 automakers is only going to delay the inevitable. Effectively, Ford (F), General Motors (GM) and Citigroup (C) are all bankrupt. Yeah…Bankrupt!
I said it. All we’ve done is talk about it and look at how bad it will be and how horrible it will be if these companies are allowed to fail. So what…Why should I care?
I don’t own any F, GM or C stock. Anyone that does ought to have their head … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - US Stock Market Returns: What's In Store?
Stock market movements over the past few months have been characterized by increased volatility as uncertainty became paramount. And as new pieces of the economics puzzle are added every day, investors are increasingly grappling to make sense of the most likely direction of stock prices.
It seems to be a case of so many pundits, so many views. Has the market started bottoming out, or are bourses still in the grip of the bear? Or is a “muddle-through” trading range in store?
It is one … [visit site to read more]Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - Forex Options: More Options For Spot Forex Traders
It doesn’t matter what medium you are using to get your financial news, one thing has been fairly consistent-extensive coverage of the US dollar. Whether you are on your favorite financial website, blog, newspaper or television channel, you have most likely stumbled across headlines saying: “US dollar rallying”, “US dollar slumping” or “US dollar holding steady”. The foreign exchange market was created as a mechanism to facilitate global trade; it is a relative market. For example, currencies … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - GMAC SmartNotes And LandAmerica Renamed "LandFraud"
Many readers have been following the GMAC bond saga - especially SmartNotes. The latest is that GMAC will restructure its debt to avoid bankruptcy, and that SmartNote holders (generally, mom and pop investors holding these through thick and thin for retirement) will be put at the back of the line to pick up the crumbs. Well, almost. I expect GMAC to suspend the dividends on SmartNotes, but, in the words of a GMAC spokesperson, the principal will not be renegotiated. I reckon that … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - Video: Pre Market: ISM Service
The stories, data, and stocks that may have the greatest impact during the next trading session. … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - General Motors (GM) Releases Their Restructuring Plan
The three major automakers will be appearing before Congress this Thursday in another attempt to pick the pockets of the American tax payer.
WSJ excerpt tonight…DETROIT - General Motors Corp. (GM), Chrysler LLC and Ford Motor Co. (F) on Tuesday presented turnaround plans to Congress that suggest GM is in a more dire situation than previously thought.
As part of a renewed bid to win backing for a government bail out, GM requested a total of $18 billion in federal loans - $6 … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - The Dark Art Of Assessing OPEC Oil Production Cuts
FINANCIAL TIMES - When the OPEC oil cartel met in Cairo last week, some of its most powerful members argued that the key action the group must take is to keep strictly to the 1.5m barrel a day cuts that it has already announced. Verifying whether OPEC’s countries do just that is far from simple. Knowing how much each country produces is mired in politically motivated dishonesty, secrecy and, in many cases, incompetence.
The most reliable data, used even by OPEC countries themselves, … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - The US Dollar Is Going Down The Path Of Argentina
Something I’ve touched on before but have not elaborated too much on is the similarities between Argentina in 2001 and 2002 and the US now. Here is a fantastic analysis of this subject. Below is a breakdown of the key events:
1. In 1997, Argentina experienced a recession. The government response was to ease credit — i.e. lower interest rates — and increase government spending, which for Argentina, would mean increasing deficit spending (i.e. borrowing and spending rather than taxing and … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - It's A Sloppy Market Propped Up By Vested Interests
Not only is it a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, we also got the Big W today as well. Stocks rose sharply early, fell abruptly by an almost equal amount only to be propped into the close. It’s volatility on steroids combined with desperate “stick saves” by the powers that be.
Major indexes made back a third to half of yesterday’s decline.
If you’re an average investor you just look at all this craziness and want nothing to do with it.
Volume was a little higher than yesterday while … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - Buy And Hold A Flawed Strategy
A late-day rally helped the indices close near their highs of the day. The Dow finished with a gain of 277 points or 3.4% after losing nearly 700 points yesterday. Over the last 7 sessions the Dow is still up 860 points. The S&P 500 rallied 4% today and recouped 32 of the 80 points it lost yesterday. The NASDAQ, which fell an amazing 9% yesterday, bounced 3.7% or 51 points today. Oil fell to a new multi-year low and gold gained $5/ounce.
It was not surprising to see the market … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - Choppy Day In The US Stock Market
Tuesday was a day loaded with volatility. Markets made a nice move higher only to be followed by two violent pullbacks. When Google (GOOG) got down to 265, I went long @ 268.77 and trailed a stop up to 271 or so. I got stopped out on one of the really strong pullbacks. I also tried to trade the QQQQs today and basically broke even on the trade. Tuesday’s market was not for the faint of heart.
The charts below show some serious overhead resistance coming on the S&P 500 … [visit site to read more]Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - Ways You Can Cut Down On ETF Costs
For all their strong points, trading exchange traded funds (ETFs) may prove to be a tricky endeavor in these volatile markets. There are a few things investors can do to lessen their risk of trading in these tumultuous markets. The credit crisis has kept things interesting, with extra trading costs creeping in an unpredictable prices.
Ian Salisbury for The Wall Street Journal explains that there is no one certain way an investor trading ETFs will get perfect treatment every time. Trading … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - Holiday Trading Volume Is Always Light, Be Prepared
Almost everyone knows that market volumes always tend to dry up close to the holidays. I highlighted some charts of the SPY (SPY), which give an indication of the volumes during the holiday period over the last 3 years. This year Christmas falls on a Thursday; New Year’s day on the following Thursday, so Wednesdays of both weeks will be a washout with very little trading, light volume etc. After Friday Dec 19th, we’re effectively done for this year. The volume leading up to the … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - Where ETFs Are Going From Here
As the popularity of exchange traded funds (ETFs) has surged, they have developed into an excellent investment tool. When first introduced, ETFs were used to track equity indexes.
Today they track equity, fixed income, commodities and currencies.
ETFs were relatively quiet until they grabbed global attention. Today, it is estimated that $700 billion in assets reside in ETFs listed worldwide, and this number could get as high as $1 trillion by the end of 2009 and $2 trillion by … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - Monetizing The Debt: US Economy Is Likely To Collapse Once Again
Deflation won’t happen here; at least not if Federal Reserve (Fed) Chairman’s Ben Bernanke’s plan pans out. Deflation is considered a persistent decline in prices of goods and services; in a speech in 2002, Bernanke outlined the steps he would take if the U.S. ever faced the threat of deflation. Deflation is suffocating anyone holding debt as the debt burden becomes more difficult to finance with shrinking income; in contrast, inflation bails out those who have a lot of debt. In our assessment, … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - Harvesting Cash: Even Foreigners In Saudi Arabia, UK, Hong Kong Get US Farm Subsidies
WASHINGTON - A sports-team owner, a financial-firm executive and residents of Hong Kong and Saudi Arabia were among 2,702 millionaire recipients of farm payments from 2003 to 2006 - and it’s not even clear they were legitimate farmers, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) reported Monday.
According to the report, the 2,702 recipients exceeded the $2.5 million and got less than 75% of their income from these activities. The payments to them totaled more than $49 million.
GAO … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - Here Are A Few Solid Tech Plays
Waking up to the markets could make some feel as if the sky falling and the world around them is plummeting into a deep abyss with no promise of return. Although the immediate future looks glum, there is no need to mope around, chum. Even bear markets such as this one present investors with opportunities. I feel that everyone is so wound up in the present that they fail to look forward beyond this crisis. I will admit the current situation is quite grave, but it is time to wipe away … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - Dividend Capture Strategy: The Illusion Of Getting Something For Nothing
Dividend Capture strategies are gaining popularity among speculators who don’t want to be too exposed to market risk, while also being able to pocket the dividends. My reader Ammar Husami asked me about my opinion on the subject. The dividend capture strategy is very different in comparison to my dividend growth strategy. Before we go any further, there are four important dividend dates that investors need to understand well.
Dividend Declaration Date - This is the date on which … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - Mortgage Applications Likely Soared Last Week - But Not Really
When we get weekly Mortgage Bankers Loan Applications survey tomorrow morning it is going to show an explosion that will make everyone think the entire nation is refinancing all at once. That is what the Wall Street analysts and media have been pushing for the last week as well. This is an incorrect assumption.
Below is a note I wrote to clients about IndyMac when they put out a press release saying they locked $1 billion in new loans last January. This is a very misleading press … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - GM, Ford, Toyota, See U.S. Sales Tumble
After being soundly criticized earlier for taking corporate jets to Washington D.C., the CEO’s of the Big Three have decided to road trip it this time.
Of course, whether their newfound disgust their own extravagance will be enough to save them is whole another matter. Congress, after all, just loves its show trials and for some reason car guys are among their favorite whipping boys.
In the meantime, however, the auto industry continues to collapse which will probably make for some … [visit site to read more]
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Canadian Solar (CSIQ) - The long-term chart shows an under performer when compared to other stocks in the same sector. Canadian Solar seems to have a remarkable support around the $4 level but the medium-term chart shows a clear downtrend channel. If this stock breaks out above $5,82 its very probable that we will see a decent upside move for the bulls.
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Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - Video: Nokia N97: Nokia's New Smartphone Gets Unveiled
Nokia unveiled to the world today its newest member of the high-end “N Series” phones, the Nokia N97. With a touch screen, full keyboard, & an array of programs and capabilities, the N97 may give the iPhone and Storm a run for their money. … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - Four Currency ETFs That Are Affected By Rate Cuts
The U.S. dollar made gains against the euro as the currency lost its luster because the deteriorating market conditions and sent related exchange traded funds (ETFs) down.
Investors are simply not taking any risks and European banks are considering yet another rate cut, by about 0.75% as early as Thursday, reports GCI Financial for Daily Markets. Next year is not expected to get any smoother, so the European Central Bank is ready to take action despite the earlier two rate cuts in … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - US Markets Retrace Some Of Monday's Losses
Markets regained some of their losses from Monday’s enormous sell off with a solid trading session owned by the bulls. The Dow was in the green 270 points, and closed at 8,419 points. The Nasdaq and S&P gained 51 and 32 points respectively. The Nasdaq finished the day at 1,449 points, and the S&P finished at 848 points. Smaller companies fared well as the Russell 2000 was up 15 points and closed at 432 points. In international trading Britain’s FTSE 100 rose by 57 points and … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - Video: A US Recession Pushes Oil Prices Even Further Downward
Yesterdays announcement of the US officially entering a recession has led oil prices to continue their plunge this past trading session. … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - Big Three US Auto Companies Looking To Shed Weight for Gov't Bailout
Two days before the chief executives of Detroit’s Big Three - General Motors Corp. (GM), Ford Motor Co. (F), and Chrysler Corp. - march back to Capitol Hill to again petition Congress for a $25 billion bailout, details about each company’s plan to scale back operations are emerging.
Each CEO - GM’s Richard Wagoner, Ford Chief Executive Alan Mulally and Chrysler’s Robert “Bob” Nardelli - left Washington D.C. two weeks ago scolded, and with a clear understanding that the government … [visit site to read more]
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