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In his 2005 tome, "The World Is Flat," Thomas Friedman made the case that globalization has leveled the international playing field. But Smick contends the free flow of capital has actually rendered...
India is growing a middle class that will eventually exceed a half-billion people. To both create this middle class and support these people financially, the Indian economy is rapidly moving from a...
Market Analysis
The euro enjoyed a huge run up against the British pound, approaching parity in late December based on weak British fundamentals, including weak job and housing markets, slowing growth and huge...
Joe Victor, vice president of Allendale Research, says price action in soybeans this time of year is based on U.S. export demand and South American production levels. And estimates of first quarter...
U.S. Treasury bond prices took a hit around New Year’s, but two-year Treasury note prices continue to trend higher. “The two-year addresses the security issues that people have,” explains Richard...
Managed Money
That Bernard L. Madoff was running a massive Ponzi scheme wasn’t news to many industry professionals who were skeptical of his amazingly consistent returns during inconsistent markets. But what is...
As crude oil rallied to unprecedented levels, experts set a moving new floor for crude. First it was $40, then $50, then $60 and eventually $80. Once the correction in crude turned violent, the price...
Doing business in the United States is a lot different from doing business in Asia,” says Hong Kong native Chris Tam, co-founder of Future Gate Consultants Limited, a three-year-old Hong-Kong-based...
Options Strategy
The exponential rise in Treasuries at the end of the year foretold a correction, possibly as violent as the move up (as of press time, U.S. Treasury bond futures corrected nine handles from their...
New For Traders
CME Group now lists hardwood pulp index futures and options on futures on CME Globex. Average price options on the Singapore fuel oil 180 cst swap Singapore gasoil calendar swap, Singapore jet...
People
Mary L. Schapiro was nominated as chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. She is currently CEO of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority and served as chairman of the Commodity...
News
The FSA announced in January that it will not renew its emergency ban on short selling financial stocks. The controversial measure was introduced in mid-September in conjunction with the SEC in an...
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Profiles in Options
There has been an abundance of commentators, analysts and even government officials explaining the causes of our financial meltdown and, to be sure, there are many. But the one that bears the...
Barry Kosoris went from owning a soccer arena to scoring stellar profits in his own options trading business. “My early career had nothing to do with trading,” he says. Early on, he worked for Texas...
A properly planned and executed option selling strategy can provide steady gains in all kinds of market conditions. There are a variety of approaches with various degrees of complexity and risk; the...
Profiles in Forex
“As a venture capitalist, I looked at business plans for market opportunities. A multi-million dollar market would be worth investing into. One day, I was reading something that said forex was worth...
Currency trading is fundamentally an issue of supply and demand. This will be a familiar concept to any experienced futures trader. For example, with the global economy contracting, there is less...