The Dollar Takes Flight
Flying high on global uncertainty
The World Wags The Dow
Warnings from Japanese government officials that theireconomy will deflate and worries that the US economic slowdown will ripplethroughout the world sent Japanese stocks to new 16-year lows and European stockaverages down 3.5% overnight. The negative overseas stock market performancessent S&P and Do
Global Wake-Up Call
Worries about a global economic meltdown
Boxed-In
European currency futures are selling off after freshinflation data made it more unlikely that the European Central Bank will sooncut interest rates to stimulate the continental economy. Fear that the economicslowdown in the US and Japan could lead to a global economic slowdown isdominating many tra
A Deal At Down A Few Trillion
Traders swooped in to scoop up beaten-down techs
Giants’ Footsteps Still Showing Path
Last weeks earnings warnings from chip Intel
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Read You–Loud And Clear
Stock index futures tanked to new contract or multi-month
NazDogs Roll Over
June Nasdaq 100 futures
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NazDogs Stretch It To The Limit…Twice
Chip giant wags the Naz
Free Money Buoys Bonds
Imagine that you can borrow money nearly for free
Bean Oil Posts Green Flags
Soybean oil
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Inviting Foreign Speculation
The Japanese Finance Minister, Kiichi Miyazawa, all butinvited currency speculators to short the yen, saying that he was not against anatural decline in the national currency. A cheaper yen would stimulateexports and help revive an economy stalled for a decade and facing anotherpotential bout of