Thursday, September 2, 2010
The S&P futures surged higher yesterday, posting a remarkable defense of our previously highlighted key long-term uptrend line and the psychological 1050 level.  Buying in the4 S&P futures returned with a vengeance after U.S. manufacturing PMI data came in at 56.3, topping analyst expectations of 53.2.  Considering investors have only been receiving [...]

Thursday, September 2, 2010
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October sugar closed up 65 points at 20.40 cents yesterday. Prices closed nearer the session high and hit a fresh six-month high yesterday. The key “outside markets” were in a bullish posture for the sugar market yesterday, as the U.S. dollar index was solidly lower, while crude oil and [...]

Thursday, September 2, 2010
ISM into the wild blue yonder flying high into the sky. Where the heck did that come from? The Institute for Supply Management gave the market just what the doctor ordered with a shocking good reading on manufacturing. Why was it so shocking? Well some of the regional manufacturing reports like the [...]

Thursday, September 2, 2010
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JIM’S MARKET THOUGHT OF THE DAY *
Gold prices have been trending higher for the past six weeks and set a fresh two-month high on Wednesday. It’s my bias that in the coming weeks gold futures prices will establish a new all-time record high. The present record high is $1,270.60 [...]

Thursday, September 2, 2010
Stocks surged today on the back of positive US and China manufacturing data,even though construction spending was down in the states.  Amidst all the market pessimism today’s data was obvisouly greeted with open arms, however you shouldn’t be getting bullish just quite yet.  Technically we took out the previous high and stopped [...]

Thursday, September 2, 2010
[Alan Geik, whose razor-edged essays on our sordid political culture have gained him a loyal following at Seeking Alpha and other popular web sites, has been a lifelong student of frauds and scams, and so writing about this Era of Bailouts comes naturally to him.  In the essay below (which contains some [...]

Thursday, September 2, 2010
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EUR/USD
The Euro found further support near 1.2650 against the dollar during Wednesday and strengthened to above the 1.2750 level ahead of the US economic data releases with reports of Far East central bank Euro buying providing some underlying support.
The US ADP employment report was weaker than expected with a [...]

Thursday, September 2, 2010
The bastion of safety that Muni bonds held in the past might not be that safe any more. All one has to do is use a little common sense. In this economy sales tax, income tax  and property tax revenues are declining. The question is can we expect more defaults like Harrisburg, [...]

Thursday, September 2, 2010
Asian stocks had a good night as the US manufacturing PMI report gave some confidence about the world economy.  The ECB announced it will extend emergency lending operations to aid lending; this gave equities and the Euro a short term boost.  In the US, jobless claims fell to 472K, this close enough [...]

Thursday, September 2, 2010
Wednesday was a big session with better than expected manufacturing surging the market 3%. In this article I will do a quick technical take on the current situation for the SP500 and gold as they are both trading at a key resistance level. also its important to know what type of price [...]

September 1st, 2010
 
What are the true costs of trading futures and options?  Carley Garner and Karen Gibbs discuss…. http://www.aweber.com/archive/decarleystock/.MPm
 
 Back and fill Thursday in stock index futures?
 
Although this month is known as “Black September” because of its propensity to provide negative stock returns, the first trading day of September has now posted gains in 12 of [...]