Situation: U.S. Markets: sold off on revived fears that subprime and CDOs problem bigger than “thought” … analysts are soooo intelligent … bounced a bit in the last minutes related to today’s expiration. Asian Markets: selling off as well … with Hongkong taking the hardest hit Commodities: sideways Currencies : Yen strenghthens again Events: US [...]

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 [...]

Situation: U.S. Markets: up bigtime but facing first resistance … Carrytrade and shortcovering leading the way Asian Markets: up … Currencies/Commodities: Yen losing further ground against the Euro … Oil stabilizing a bit after losing 4$ yesterday Events: US … PPI, Retail Sales, Bernanke speaks Dax: underperformed yesterday … 7850 7830 should lend support today [...]

Situation: U.S. Markets: down heavily, especially in the last 30 mins. as reversal attempt in the financials faded … again … Techs hammered … esp. the former leaders like AAPL and RIMM. Asian Markets: Bank of Japan holds interest rates … carry trades recover … Yen itself weakens a bit … recovery of stock markets [...]

Situation: U.S. Markets: down heavily, especially in the last 30 mins. as reversal attempt faded … Financials tried a reversal but not very successful on renewed subprime fears, Tech hammered as interest rate cut fantasy goes out of the market Asian Markets: Japan down on firm Yen … rest of Asia … “profit taking” (-4%) [...]