Situation: U.S. Markets: After exactly hitting major support zones, markets turned around and closed better than 1% up. Goldman and Merill predict, that US is in a recession already. Short covering ahead of today’s Bernanke speech and vague rumours od FED action today started short covering. Alcoa beat estimates and moved up more than 2% [...]

Situation: U.S. Markets: Markets sold off big time after the FED decision to cut rates each by 25bps … Nasdaq best performer with 2,4% loss, the Russell lost 3,7% … So, America followed the Dax, rebreaking the downtrends. But … reading the statement and trying to make sense of it … isn’t it positive, that [...]

The US keeps us busy, guessing, whether the consumer still is in the right spending mood (have a look at TechCrunch) to drag the market higher … First results show positive results, showing a 8.3% increase on last year and online traffic to merchant sites up 61(!!!)% compared to last year. Another possible good news [...]