Reuters U.S. holiday season sales were expected to rise 3.8 percent to a record $469.1 billion, the National Retail Federation said, slower than last year’s growth but stronger than its preseason forecast. The potential brisk …
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Risk Reversal wishes you, your family and friends a wonderful Holiday season.
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Marketwatch November consumer spending was up slightly, better by 0.1% Personal income was also up 0.1% in November. In October, it had gained 0.4%. Durable-goods orders for the month advanced 3.8%. Corporate news ran light …
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As we head into the end of the year, volatility is down, the market is up, volume is light. There’s not a ton we can deduce from this type of light volume year end action, …
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NYT “Talk tough, and open the vaults.” The European Central Bank, seen above in Frankfurt, is lending $640 billion to 523 banks to ease the credit crisis. That should be the slogan of Mario Draghi, …
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The purpose of this series will be to explain the background of why we do what we do on this site. We will start with the basics and work up. Options enable the trader to …
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Here’s highlights of some of the better questions we’ve received across email or the Twitters with answers from the team. If your question wasn’t featured it’s most likely because it was dumb. (Kidding! There are …
Continue readingTrade Update Dec 21st, 2011 at 10:20am: Well this trade was a total bust, even with generally uninspiring results with eps and sales that only slightly beat expectations, and with margins weaker as a result of …
Continue reading2nd Update Dec 21st, 2011 at 9:53am: When you back the chart out a little, back to about 2008, you see that $25 level is huge support. Frankly I am fairly surprised by the magnitude of the …
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Marketwatch Shares of Oracle fell more than 9% in thin pre-market trading. The shares tumbled late Tuesday, after the business-software maker’s second-quarter adjusted earnings and sales came in short of analysts’ consensus expectations. Oracle’s news …
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