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The Collapse of the EURCHF and the Relation to the SP500

The Collapse of the EURCHF and the Relation to the SP500

The Euro/Swiss Franc (EUR/CHF) FOREX pair has collapsed over the last few months, and this is something many traders are not seeing.
Let’s take a look first at the long-term strong positive correlation with this FOREX Pair and the S&P 500 – stretching back to 2000 – and then look at the recent collapse – there’s [...]

End of the month chop

End of the month chop

Treasuries soared overnight to fresh highs but were unable to hold the gains. The 30-year bond futures traded comfortably near unchanged for the majority of the session to make the last day of the second quarter a non-event.

Payroll processor, ADP,…

S&P 500: Another Day, Another 2010 Low (Charts)

S&P 500: Another Day, Another 2010 Low (Charts)

●●●Uncertainy, even Fear, about the Viability of the USA & Global Economic RecoveryS&P 500 Scorecard at June 30The first half of 2010 is over. 2010 began with uncertainty about the USA economic recovery but data in Q1 was encouraging. As …

Writing For Savings.Com

Writing For Savings.Com

I am now writing for Savings.com! Please read my posts starting next week.

Significant Factors Impacting Financials – ETF Plays to Consider

Significant Factors Impacting Financials – ETF Plays to Consider

Financial ETFs have been among the most volatile sectors over the past few years, with the sector swinging from near complete collapse to euphoria over year over year comps for earnings (any positive earnings announcement compared to a year ago multi-billion dollar loss looks great).  With the the investment banks especially, able to borrow from [...]

Healthcare Updates: Dendreon, Exelixis, Santarus, Celgene, Abraxis, SuperGen, ADVENTRX

Healthcare Updates: Dendreon, Exelixis, Santarus, Celgene, Abraxis, SuperGen, ADVENTRX

Below is a list of the companies that made news in the healthcare sector on Wednesday, June 30, 2010. Dendreon Corp. (NASDAQ:DNDN) fell sharply in after-hours trading after the CMS (Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services) issued a report regarding coverage on cancer drug Provenge. The report on the CMS website said: “We are opening [...]

In The News Today

In The News Today

"The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded." –Charles-Louis De Secondat(1689-1755) Baron de Montesquieu – Source: The Spirit of the Laws, 1748
 
Thoughts For The Morning:
EU bank stress tests are a pile of garbage when the Western world allows financial [...]

06-30-10 Recap

06-30-10 Recap

Why not short the markets now that we’ve broken below SPX 1040? China PMI disappointed as well, apparently.

1) Jobs reports and earningsa on deck. Try to pivot if those go well? I might day trade an index short, but I don’t write about it.

2) Also,…

In the macro-economic model of national wealth building there are four key factors:

In the macro-economic model of national wealth building there are four key factors:

C = Capital = cash, property, real estate, physical assets (like derricks or tanks), financial assets, physical infrastructure fro highways to hospitals … but primarily the wealthy owning class

L = Salaries, the wage earning class

G = Government … Tax policy … Fiscal/revenue/spending policy, investment in physical or intellectual infrastructure (such as universities) or in war [...]

Mobile App Usage: An Apple and Android Story

Mobile App Usage: An Apple and Android Story

Apple and Google Android application development communities continue to flourish while others languish.
This has huge implications for everybody. Growth in application environments often represent key turning points in tech markets. If you think of Mi…

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