Trading Markets

Gas Keeps The Pressure On High

Natural gas is having another wild day, rallying back tonear-contract highs with a gain so far of 7%. The January contract
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Will Chiefs Slash?

The market is entertaining the notion that the Federal Reserve will cut interestrates at its Open Market Committee tomorrow, spurring a rally in T-bond and Dowfutures. Many observers have been predicting an easing of the Feds policydirective. TradingMarkets bond honcho Tony Crescenzi has put the od

Bearish Freeze

Any traders holding on to natural gas shorts in hopesthat the futures would fall for a fourth consecutive day are getting squeezed asforecasts for cold weather across the Midwest are driving prices sharply higher.The January contract is in a Pullback From Highssetup and has provided two intraday Sli

Bonds Preempt Money Chief

Interest rate futures are rallying for a second day outof Pullback From High setups, encouraged by this mornings Producer Price Indexthat showed wholesale inflation remains tame. A slowing economy has increasedthe likelihood that central bank chief Alan Greenspan and the Federal ReserveOpen Market

Brits Pound Buck

Surprisingly robust economic data out of the United
Kingdom kicked

Bush 34% Solution Bucks Bonds

T-bonds
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The Bigger They Are

The bigger the gains, the harder the fall. Natural gas hasbeen logging spectacular gains, rallying nearly 50% in a week on forecasts forcold weather. But even as the Midwest shovels away the snow, meteorologistsforecasts for warming weather in coming days is sending natural gas futures fortheir big