Situation:
U.S. Markets: Firmed a bit on interest rate cut hopes … seemingly everybody already is sure about the outcome. Today morning prices higher on Texas Instruments raised outlook for Q4 , the possibility of Motorola being a take over target soon and lack of fresh bad news form the financial sector.
Asian Markets: Higher across the […]

Situation:
U.S. Markets: Waiting for FED decision … down a bit this morning on UBS write off (10 bln $) and capital increase (total of 19bln chf) which highlightes struggling financial sector … BUT … a lot of money seems to be available for the big banks who take action on their problems.
Asian Markets: Slightly down, […]

All eyes on the FED … but don’t we know already, what they will do?
25bps for the FED funds and maybe even more for the discount rate … the discount rate cut can be bigger as they want to have it USED … fighting against the rising interbank rates.
The outlook of the FED will be […]

Market keeps gyrating, violating every single rule … waiting for direction … adding to that … rumours … FED to cut discount rate BEFORE meeting … news flashing up … then 10 secs later denied … China widens Yuan band … this means 5 mins bursts, which then are reversed … breaks, rebreaks, rerebreaks … […]

Situation:
U.S. Markets: Finished in the red … could have completed an ABC-Type correction … which could spark buying today. Fed seems to be trapped to deliver on a rate cut … 50bps seems a real possibility … even a bigger cut for the discount rate seems possible … OMG … Merill announced that they implemented […]

Situation:
U.S. Markets: Finished Friday mixed, Techs down on Goldman downgrade … despite last weeks rally, November still was the worst month in 4 years … showing losses of more than 4% , Nasdaq even close to 7%.
Asian Markets: Mixed, China railway dissappoints as it jumps only 56% above IPO price … funny people analysts […]

They lit the candles in New York … and not only the X-mas tree at Rockefeller Center is sparkling …
Markets providing the fireworks …
Situation:
U.S. Markets: Squeezed higher on weak economic outlook, falling oil and FED hints, interest rate cuts near … Markets now see a 94% chance of Fed cut in December … Financials outperform […]

Situation:
U.S. Markets: consolidating all day … last 30 mins down … Nasdaq after close further down on AAPL … MER up on new CEO … he led before his job as CEO of NYSE the mortgage business at Goldman
Asian Markets: cautiously consolidating …
Currencies/Commodities: Yen losing further ground against the Euro, now corrected around […]