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- Forex Trading: Eurozone Unemployment
- Portfolio Allocation: Rebalancing Reduces Risk
- Forex Trading Review For Monday 1 March
- Forex Trading: Eurozone Final PMI
- Video: Ford Invests In N. American Engine Plants
- AEI Says “Why Can’t We Be Like Canada”???
- Rising Wages In China = Re-Valuing China’s Currency
- Three ETFs To Watch This Week: VXX, FXA, ECH
- US Stock Market: Looking For Next Phase And Assembling A Watchlist
- Chile ETF (ECH), Copper ETF (JJC) In Focus Following Earthquake
- Stock Market Rallies Getting Weaker And Weaker
- More On Company Insiders
- 6 ETFs To Play A Financial Sector Recovery
| Forex Trading: Eurozone Unemployment Posted: 01 Mar 2010 02:03 AM PST Eurozone Unemployment came in at 9.9%, better than the 10.1% expected and prior reading of 10.0%.
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| Portfolio Allocation: Rebalancing Reduces Risk Posted: 01 Mar 2010 02:01 AM PST When determining the mix of asset classes to include in our portfolio - be it an IRA, 401k or Ameritrade - we consider many factors. As I see them, the basics of these are: Performance - what return we expect I put together four model portfolios considering the first two of those considerations. I really have not dived into time horizon yet, but that will come. I made the … [visit site to read more]
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| Forex Trading Review For Monday 1 March Posted: 01 Mar 2010 01:55 AM PST USD Dollar (USD) The Dollar weakened against most of the currencies on a volatile trading. The GDP came out 5.9% better than expected 5.6%. An unexpected drop in the Existing Home Sales data that came out 5.05M vs. expected 5.5M sent the dollar lower. The Dow Jones closed almost unchanged gaining 0.04% and the NASDAQ rose by 0.18%. The Crude Oil attempting to get back the 80$ a barrel and the Gold (XAU) jumped and closed at 1117$ an ounce. Today, The Personal Spending is expected at 0.4% vs. … [visit site to read more]
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| Forex Trading: Eurozone Final PMI Posted: 01 Mar 2010 01:03 AM PST Eurozone Final PMI came in at 54.2, slightly stronger than the 54.1 expected and prior reading of 54.1.
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| Video: Ford Invests In N. American Engine Plants Posted: 01 Mar 2010 01:00 AM PST Ford Motor Co. will be investing in engine plants in Cleveland, Ohio and Windsor, Ontario. … [visit site to read more]
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| AEI Says “Why Can’t We Be Like Canada”??? Posted: 01 Mar 2010 12:08 AM PST I sat here on a lazy Sunday night at my house in Vancouver, which is about 15 minutes away from Cypress Bowl, one of the venues of the Vancouver 2010 Olympics. I contemplated the friendly* but fierce rivalry in men's hockey between Canada and the United States. A change of heart?
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| Rising Wages In China = Re-Valuing China’s Currency Posted: 01 Mar 2010 12:01 AM PST NEW YORK TIMES — “Just a year after laying off millions of factory workers, China is facing an increasingly acute labor shortage. As American workers struggle with near double-digit unemployment, unskilled factory workers here in China’s industrial heartland are being offered signing bonuses. Factory wages have risen as much as 20 percent in recent months (see chart). Some manufacturers, already weeks behind schedule because they can’t find enough workers, are closing down … [visit site to read more]
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| Three ETFs To Watch This Week: VXX, FXA, ECH Posted: 28 Feb 2010 11:30 PM PST Equity markets were choppy last week as investors digested a slew of data regarding all facets of the economy. Consumer confidence was sharply lower, while unemployment claims rose and existing home sales sunk, calling into question the strength of a global recovery. Across the Atlantic, investors remained worried about the future of the euro as continued Greek troubles weighed on European markets after the EU rejected a Greek austerity plan, saying that it was about $5.4 billion short of what … [visit site to read more]
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| US Stock Market: Looking For Next Phase And Assembling A Watchlist Posted: 28 Feb 2010 11:01 PM PST In “Financial Stocks are Laggards” of March 20, 2009, I included a graphic depicting the various stages in a market’s life cycle guessing at that early date that the market was then moving into the accumulation phase: “Moving from Relief to Optimism” of July 27 included a similar schematic about the typical market cycle, this one depicting the the phases of market emotions: In that post, I wrote:
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| Chile ETF (ECH), Copper ETF (JJC) In Focus Following Earthquake Posted: 28 Feb 2010 11:00 PM PST Just weeks after a devastating earthquake sparked a humanitarian crisis in Haiti, another natural disaster has hit the South American nation of Chile. Early Saturday morning, a magnitude 8.8 earthquake, the fifth strongest ever measured in the country, occurred off of Chile's coast, causing massive destruction throughout the region. At least 100 aftershocks of magnitude 5.0 or greater have hit since the quake, complicating relief efforts significantly. The death toll has already topped 700, … [visit site to read more]
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| Stock Market Rallies Getting Weaker And Weaker Posted: 28 Feb 2010 10:01 PM PST This is a commentary on the SP 500 index and the broader NYSE index. As I often mention here for Partners, we try to work in probabilities and then plan accordingly with our investing and trading. I look at Elliott Waves, Fibonacci levels, oversold and overbought patterns, cycles, and other indicators to give me some clues. Today, we look at an indicator called The Force Index. The Force Index: Developed by Dr Alexander Elder, the Force index combines price movements and volume … [visit site to read more]
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| Posted: 28 Feb 2010 08:03 PM PST This week’s sentiment report highlighted company insiders and the fact that they have stepped up their selling. Some may question the wisdom of following company insiders. After all, they were buying at the October, 2007 top and have been selling for the past 8 months. Figure 1 is a weekly chart of the S&P500 with the InsiderScore “entire market” value in the lower panel, and here we focus on the 2007 topping process. Insiders were buying to an extreme degree and I have highlighted those … [visit site to read more]
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| 6 ETFs To Play A Financial Sector Recovery Posted: 28 Feb 2010 08:01 PM PST The financial sector’s recovery may ultimately be an uneven one. Regional banks may prosper while larger ones still struggle under the weight of TARP and increased scrutiny. There are exchange traded funds (ETFs) to play the recovery - wherever it’s happening. After a year of recuperating from the financial crisis, big banks may be healthy enough to resume the task of making big money. If not, there’s regional banks, which won’t be targeted in any limits on size that come down from the … [visit site to read more]
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