Trading Markets

Cocoa Comes Back

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PowerRating) is rallying out of aPullback From Highssetup, triggered above the high of Fridays low bar (day three) day. Cocoa fellas many as 85 points Wednesday and Thursday of last week. The market is rea

Naz Hits Fib Level

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Euro Thrashed

Weaker-than-expected industrial production and corporateearnings numbers from Europe, coupled with an unexpected up-tick in continentalinflation, is putting currency traders on the defensive and sending thesingle-currencyeuro FX futures
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In The Cross-Hairs

Traders scrutinized new economic data from Europe and trained their sites on

Yen Dives

The Japanese yen took its biggest one-day tumble in over a month on a reportthat business confidence in that country declined for the first time in 11quarters. Currency traders are also looking ahead to tomorrows revised Q3 GDPfigures and calculating that expected lower figures will show that the

Panning For Gold

A volatility burst to the downside in silver (seeyesterdays Mid-Day Futures Alert), a relatively strong dollar, and disrupted demandin one of the largest consumer markets of bullion (India), have all conspiredfundamentally to undermine gold prices. Technically,April gold
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Quake Shakes Silver

Weakening demand due to a devastating earthquake in India, one of the worldslargest consumers of silver, is pressuring silver. Fridays Commitmentof Traders report also showed an unusually high number of funds and specslong the metal, setting up a situation ripe for a bull squeeze, a developmenthig

All Shook Up

Weakening demand due to internal disruptions caused by a devastating earthquake