Trading Markets

What The Market Is Weighting

Stocks staged a recovery after diving at the open, but remained relativelyunchanged at mid-day.The market continues to weigh the progress made in the first wave of attackson Afghanistan along with increased features of retaliatory terrorist attacks onU.S. soil. Many had speculated that that attacks

Oil Retreats On Relief

Todays Mid-day Futures Alert was written by Eddie Kwong. The fact that the U.S. attack was confined to bombing and took place only on Afghani soil served to temper fears of a disruption of the flow of oil from the Middle East. In a reassuring statement, OPEC stated that production would b

A Nice Comeback

Stocks are staging a nice comeback after diving early in the session on weak employment and earnings news.The Dow pared a nearly triple-digit loss and is up 50 at 9110.The shaky start began after the Labor Department reported the largest monthly drop in payrolls in 10 years. Despite expectations of

Not Holding Back

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Dell Rings The Bell

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PowerRating) sprang out of the gates on the opening bell, following up yesterdays expansion bar with a 10% gap opening. The strong opening from one of the biggest players in a beleaguered

They Went The Full Nine Yards

Nine cuts in nine months. The Federal Reserve showed it is willing to go the full nine yards with monetary policy in order to get the economy back on its feet. Yesterday, the Fed cut rates .50% to 2.5% in its fastest and most forceful easing of monetary policy in nearly ten years. Th

Bonds Boiling

Debt futures are rallying for the ninth consecutive session just one day after the Federal Reserve cut overnight interest rates to their lowest level in 39 years. Yesterdays cut in the federal funds target rate to 2.5% risks sparking inflation, a phenomenon that has occurred every