The “bond king” of PIMCO, Bill Gross, tells Bloomberg and the world his strategy on the issue of Greek debt… “Stay away!” In the interview, Gross explains recent moves of the Absolute Return PIMCO fund, including record low holdings of Long Term U.S. debt and increased holdings of “core” European bonds, most notably Germany. Having
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What is Quad Witching? Generally there’s a great deal of confusion concerning the term “quad witching” and what this day may constitute in financial markets. As a result, we would like to take this Quad Witching Friday, March 19, 2010, and demystify the phenomenon once and for all. “Witching” signifies the expiration of an entire group of
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Bernanke and the crew will get started bright and early behind the collasal locked mohagany doors of the FOMC board room Tuesday morning, while traders will ernestly focus on the information at hand. A slew of earnings from Ashland (ASH) (0.71 EPS est.), Corning (GLW) (0.42 EPS est.), Delta Airlines (DAL) (-0.24 EPS est), DuPont (DD)
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Supporting our highest conviction trade yet, we now see fundamentals, sentiment, and technicals aligned for a significant correction in Crude Oil prices. While DS partners already hold a position in DTO, we are moving to formally call a short term WTI Crude Continuous Spot price target at $70. Below we explain in detail our thesis
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Earnings season officially began, as the first member of the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average to grab Q4 2009 earnings headlines, Alcoa (AA), reported a net profit of $0.01 EPS on Monday, January 11. The shortfall to the $0.06 EPS market consensus was explained by CEO Klaus Kleinfield by the unexpected weakness in the dollar,
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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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Is anyone else sick of the montage of blog posts and articles titled "yada yada yada 2010"?  To institutional investors who have to decorate their books to look "pretty" for investor relations meetings, the end of the year is important, but to actual investors, traders, analysts, etc., (i.e. readers of this blog, Seeking Alpha, WSJ,
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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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Amidst all the hypotheses and strategies of guys like myself "probing for profits", the most recent security to have stolen the limelight must be currencies. It's no secret that the U.S. Dollar has been falling against nearly every major currency throughout the world over the past six months, however it's soon to become a bigger issue,
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The Direxion 10-Year Treasury Note 3X Bear ETN (TYO) is a leveraged ETN which is designed to move in tandem with the yield on the 10-Yr Treasury Note, opposite the price, and with three times leverage on a daily basis. Like many leveraged and inverse ETNs this one carries risks, especially when holding the product
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