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Oracle’s Ellison is Number One CEO … Commodity Weakness Weighs on Miners … Weekly Forex Preview … Barack’s CEO Pick for VP … Byron Wein Talks Weak Recession, Weak Growth
Spend 3 Days with 21 of the Best Traders in the World!
Sounds too good to be true? It’s not. For a select group of traders, this will be a reality at TradingMarkets 2008 on November 14-16, 2008 at the luxurious MGM Grand Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Victor Sperandeo. Gil Morales. Raghee Horner. Gary Kaltbaum. Steve Nison. These are just a few of the top traders in stocks, forex, options, futures and exchange-traded funds who will be speaking and working with traders just like you at TradingMarkets 2008. Don’t miss the special event! Click here for more details!
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TradingMarkets 7 Stocks You Need to Know for Today |
Here are 7 stocks for traders for today from TradingMarkets.com:
- General Motors
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For a list of today’s highest PowerRating stocks, click here.
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TradingMarkets 5 PowerRatings Stocks for Today |
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| Live Nation Inc. | LYV | 9 |
| Cyberonics Inc. | CYBX | 9 |
| Symmetry Medical Inc. | SMA | 8 |
| JM Smucker Company | SJM | 8 |
| Proassurance Company | PRA | 8 |
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TradingMarkets Making Great Traders |
Trader Vic Joins TradingMarkets 2008! – TradingMarkets
Victor “Trader Vic” Sperandeo will be one of the 21 Best Traders in the World talking with traders at TradingMarkets 2008 this November. By way of preview, here’s the full and complete version of our conversation with the Market Wizard and author of Methods of a Wall Street Master from earlier this year.
Making Great Traders – TradingMarkets
The best of this week’s trading lessons includes a pair of articles just for forex traders, a new article from trader Don Bright, and the complete version of our interview with Trader Vic Sperandeo from earlier this year.
7 ETFs You Need to Know for Today – TradingMarkets
Oversold conditions from yesterday in Nasdaq-related ETFs resulted in strong gains on Friday, as a number of exchange-traded funds including leveraged funds with Nasdaq exposure advanced.
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TradingMarkets 5 Business Stories You Need to Know |
Oracle’s Ellison Highest Paid CEO in U.S – CEO Watch
Oracle Corporation has agreed to a compensation package that makes Larry Ellison the highest paid chief executive officer in the land.
Oracle is the Featured Stock in our Up or Down Stock Contest. You have until 4 p.m. EST today to tell us whether you think Oracle will be Up or Down on Tuesday. Click here to play our TradingMarkets Up or Down Stock Contest for your chance to win $1,000 a month by correctly guessing the direction of a stock!
Mining for Trouble – Wall Street Journal
Good times for basic materials companies look to be nearing an end as commodity prices begin to sag.
DailyFX’s Weekly Preview – DailyFX
The analysis team at DailyFX takes a look at the resiliency of the Euro, weakness in the British pound, and the fate of the greenback rally that got rattled last week.
BusinessWeek on Biden – BusinessWeek
Barack Obama’s selection of Joe Biden as his running mate reveals Obama’s “CEO-like” decision-making. How so? BusinessWeek explains.
Wein on the Economy – Barron’s
“Not too bad”, followed by “not too good” is the economic outlook of Byron Wein of Pequot Capital Management as revealed in this weekend’s interview at
Barron’s.
For more stories as they happen, go to our Breaking News section.
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