If you ducked out of the office for a three day weekend and missed the news regarding Goldman Sachs and Greece on Friday, you may be rolling up your sleeves to a few surprises that will cast a dark shadow on the April 19 week’s market action.

Mainly, Goldman Sachs (GS) has been charged with fraud by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), linked to a Credit Default Swap (CDS) mechanism known as “Abacus”.

The January 18 – 22 business week will begin one day late, due to Martin Luther King Jr holiday, leaving only Tuesday to Friday for market action to be staged. The most notable economic data releases will be the Housing Market Index (HMI) and Housing Starts numbers; while Treasury International Capital data, the Producer's Price
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The January 11-15, 2009 week will be crucial to the movement of equities and commodities over the next month. This addition of the Weekly Spectrum will recap the December Employment report and explain which economic reports will affect U.S. financial markets in the week ahead. The December Non-Farm Payroll report dropped traders' jaws as if they
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While the long weekend has hosted more than several 2010 financial outlook articles, the rubber will hit the road as the first week of actual trading commences this morning. Ahead of the bell it's Oil and Equities back on the offensive in U.S. markets after Nikkei and Kospi exchanges closed with solid gains and European
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A second shortened week of trading will carry U.S. financial markets into the new year amidst a wide spectrum of forecasts. In addition to the regular one, three and six month Treasury auctions there will be 2-year, 5-year and 7-Year Treasury Note sales, all of which will test interest rates which have bottomed in recent
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Monday Three and six month treasury bonds will be auctioned at 11:30 am Monday and will kick off the monthly test of the demand for short term investment security. The dollar is becoming stronger and rumors, spawned from the announcement of Bond King Bill Gross's "Lehman high" cash levels, are beginning to spur renewed debate
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The last five days before the shortened Christmas week may bring tidings of inflation, Bernanke rhetoric, and volatile Friday trading as investors unwrap both producer price (PPI) and consumer price indexes (CPI), foreshadowing Bernanke language, and a "quad witching" day on friday. We will get a taste testing of government debt as the 4 week, 3
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As Bank of America (BAC) recently announced plans to repay it's $45 billion borrowed under the TARP program, simultaneously news broke covering the request for deferral of nearly $60 billion of borrowed funds by the Dubai World sovereign fund. One could deem the global financial arena murky at best, as anticipated economic data will cover
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Market movers will get their fair share of economic data in the November 30, 2009 week, following a shocking deferral by the Dubai World fund of $4 billion last week. The event shocked debt costs around the world in a momentary relapse to the terror which gripped markets and sent LIBOR rates to smothering magnitudes. While
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The Weekly Spectrum The 2009 Thanksgiving holiday week will be brief, but crucial economic data to be released between Monday and Wednesday will leave marks on investors faced with the pivotal punches of where to put their money. With a spotlight on housing, economic data for the November 23 week will be highlighted by Existing Home Sales,
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