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简体中文 HONG KONG (AP) — Asian stock markets recovered Wednesday as better-than-expected U.S. data gave investors hope of a turnaround in the world’s largest economy and helped offset their fears of a swine flu pandemic. After two days of declines, most of the region’s major markets posted broad-based gains. Airline stocks, slammed in recent days amid [...]
Archive for April, 2009
Dollar, Yen Find Support On 'Swine Flu' Pandemic Fears, Adding To Concerns Over Bank Stress Tests
The Yen has been the main story overnight as the currency has re-established its safe-haven status with the potential âswine fluâ? pandemic sending cautious investors to the sidelines. The fact that the health concerns are based in the Western hemisphere has heightened concerns as it could negatively impact the U.S. economy where the most stimulus [...]
Dollar, Yen And Risk Appetite Await G20 Meeting And US GDP
Market sentiment has stabilized over the past week as traders wait for fundamentals to either catch up to optimism or draw the budding recovery to a grinding halt. Ongoing earnings releases, first quarter growth reports from the world’s largest economies and a series of meetings attended by global policy makers can decide the fate of [...]
Forget About Inflation… It's Deflation You Should Worry About
A consensus has formed that the government’s massive money printing and debt-powered spending binge will soon destroy the destroy the dollar, crippling the remaining savings of anyone dumb enough not to buy “real” assets–like gold. John Mauldin, president of Millennium Wave Advisors, thinks that’s ridiculous. He’s also author of the popular e-letter. The Fed is [...]
Banks to get stress test results Friday
(Reuters) – U.S. banks will be briefed by regulators as early as Friday on how they performed in government “stress tests,” before the results are made public later, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing government officials. Some estimates of likely losses that were used in the stress tests were tougher than expected, the newspaper said. [...]
Forex Trading Outlook – April 20st 2009
Forex Trading Outlook April 20th, 2009. Forecast for Dollar, Yen, British Pound and Swiss Franc. Also include a brief outlook of US Stock Markets in regards to Bank of America and IBM. [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBgecQlrIGE]
US Dollar, Japanese Yen Rally on Flight-to-Quality as Investors Fear Results of US Bank Stress Tests
- Euro Breaks Below 1.3000 – German ZEW Survey Could Impact Trade on Tuesday – British Pound Tumbles Against Safe-Havens – UK CPI May Fall Back Into BOE’s Inflation Target Range – Canadian Dollar Under Pressure Ahead of Bank of Canada Rate Decision – What to Expect US Dollar, Japanese Yen Rally on Flight-to-Quality as [...]
7 Killer Insurance Mistakes You're Probably Making
Why you should take out more insurance, not less For most people, talking about life insurance sounds almost as fun as eating rotten fish. And while ignoring it can compound a family tragedy by turning it into a financial nightmare, more and more people are doing just that. A recent survey by the nonprofit LIFE [...]
10 Secrets of Millionaires' Money Management
It turns out millionaires are just like us–but they have a lot more money. When asked about their secrets to success, they don’t cite anything magical or rare, but rather the steady application of wise investing strategies, hard work, and, believe it or not, a degree of frugality. Here are 10 secrets of millionaires’ money [...]
3 Technical Tools To Improve Your Trading
Technical analysis is the study of stock prices and pricing patterns that can help investors determine whether a stock is overbought (expensive) or oversold (cheap). By using various technical indicators together, called correlation, traders can bring the “big picture” about a stock into clearer focus. Here we’ll look at volume, the Aroon indicator and Fibonacci [...]
