Posts Tagged ‘Questions’
1. Where will SPX be trading when Santa comes down the chimney?
a) above1250b)1150- 1250c) below 1150
2. What will Europe have pulled out of the hat by December 24th?
a) A Schengen-based fiscal union around which to structure mutual support.b) A battered can, to be place kicked into January.c) Sorry, don’t understand the question [...]

Quotable
“Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.”
Ben Jonson
Commentary & Analysis
Questions on Goldman’s Commodities Call
I was thinking how nice it would be to have an investment position distribution machine as powerful as Goldman Sachs. Besides the fact they see many of the positions of other traders in so [...]
TMM are immersed in research, so they thought given it is once again ECB day that a round of Twenty Five Questions was in order:
Does the Dollar Index trade 70 or 80 first?
When will they finally board up DFS (Dreadful F’in Sofas)?
If you were able to rescue only one Central Banker from a plane crash [...]

(MONEY Magazine) — Late last year you caught a break. Congress reached a deal that extended the Bush-era tax cuts for two years and renewed perks like the sales tax deduction and the tuition write-off for non-itemizers.
Through 2012, the top marginal income tax rate will continue to be 35%, and you’ll keep paying [...]

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Online content creator Demand Media filed for an IPO back in August, but the company is still answering regulators’ questions about its unorthodox accounting practices.
Demand CEO Richard Rosenblatt has been insisting for years to media outlets, including Fortune, that his company — which churns out vast amounts of low-cost content optimized [...]
By Warren Seah
Answer these 5 questions and you have the core components of a trading system. You are on the way to having your edge:
1. Which currency pair and at what time frame(Asian/UK/US) to trade? 2. Your Position Sizing and how much risk per trade? 3. How does the system determines when to [...]
Team Macro Man is sure they are not alone in struggling for inspiration in these summer markets, so it seems like a perfect time for another batch of questions.
Will the 10yr Treasury yield breach 2% this year?
When will the Japanese intervene?
Will the US finally get tough with China in the run up to the mid-terms?
When [...]
Luxembourg’s Mersch says he questions whether stress testing the largest banks is sufficient.
He’s not alone.
EUR/USD has dipped toward the base of the recent ranges, now at 1.2365. US equities are easing as well, now up 0.4% after opening up more than 1%. Small stops are seen below 1.2350 but central bank buying was rumored on [...]

Key News
German factory orders, adjusted for seasonal swings and inflation, rose 2.8 percent from March, when they surged 5.1 percent, the Economy Ministry in Berlin said today. Economists had forecast a 0.4 percent drop (Bloomberg)
China will apply its tighter second- home mortgage policies to loan applicants. (Bloomberg)
The 10-year German Bund yield hit a record low [...]
