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Forex Trading Weekly Forecast - 09.24.2012
By David Rodriguez
John Kicklighter
Ilya Spivak
David Song
Christopher Vecchio | DailyFX – Sat, Sep 22, 2012 9:51 AM SGT
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Q&A: A mortgage exec reflects on housing market's challenges Associated Press - 1 hour 3 minutes agoFrom the outside, the housing market looks solid: Sales are climbing. So are prices. Mortgage rates are near historic lows. But the picture gets more complicated the deeper you dig into the data. U.S. ... … More »
- Iran introduces credit cards for first time Reuters - 1 hour 4 minutes ago
Iran is looking to bolster its oil production and economy after world powers in January lifted sanctions against the Islamic Republic in return for Tehran complying with a deal to curb its nuclear ambitions. Valiollah Seif, the head of the central … More »
- AP Top Extended Financial Headlines at 12:21 p.m. EDT Associated Press - 1 hour 4 minutes ago
Federal Reserve looking to limit banks' involvement with commodities like aluminum and coal … More »
- How to talk to your kids about college costs Associated Press - 1 hour 24 minutes ago
College tuition may be daunting, but so are the conversations about how to pay for it. Experts say it pays off for parents talk with children early and often about how to cover higher education costs. ... … More »
- Contagion Risks Rise as Chinese Banks Fund Each Others’ Lending Bloomberg - 1 hour 24 minutes ago
Wholesale funds, including those raised in the interbank market, accounted for a record 34 percent of small- and medium-sized bank financing as of June 30, compared with 29 percent on Jan. 31 last year, Moody’s Investors Service estimated in an Aug. … More »
- Singapore’s BandLab buys 49 per cent stake in Rolling Stone magazine e27 - 1 hour 38 minutes ago
In recent weeks, BandLab has announced itself with a bang on the Singaporean tech scene — but nothing is bigger than this It is the most iconic music magazine in American pop culture — it boasts covers featuring legends like Jim Morrison, Tupac … More »
- Sudan needs swift reforms to revive ailing economy: World Bank AFP - 1 hour 42 minutes ago
The World Bank on Sunday urged Sudan to undertake swift structural reforms to revive its ailing economy, which a top Sudanese official insisted had been adversely impacted by US trade sanctions. Rising ... … More »
- I take back everything bad I ever said about the Jaguar F-Type Business Insider - 1 hour 54 minutes ago
Hollis Johnson Oh my. I have not been … Continued The post I take back everything bad I ever said about the Jaguar F-Type appeared first on Business Insider. … More »
- Bank of Japan Positions for a Post-Kuroda Era in Monetary Policy Bloomberg - 2 hours 24 minutes ago
The Bank of Japan board on Wednesday ditched what had been lodestones for Kuroda since he took the helm in 2013 -- a two-year time frame for achieving 2 percent inflation, and a money-expansion strategy at the core of stimulus policy. With its new … More »
- Curve It Like Kuroda Spells Little Profit Relief for Japan Banks Bloomberg - 2 hours 25 minutes ago
By refraining from dragging short-term interest rates further negative and pledging to keep 10-year bond yields around zero, the central bank will give lenders room to protect their razor-thin loan margins. The policy will also help them to secure … More »
- The head of Yahoo’s popular finance app says he knew the redesign was going to ‘piss some people off’ Business Insider - 2 hours 55 minutes ago
Reuters/Robert Galbraith Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer The product … Continued The post The head of Yahoo’s popular finance app says he knew the redesign was going to ‘piss some people off’ appeared first on Business Insider. … More »
- BHP Battles Rating Risks as Easing Gloom Helps Rivals’ Outlooks Bloomberg - 3 hours ago
Credit metrics for the world’s biggest miner will be below limits for existing ratings in the current fiscal year, according to both S&P Global Ratings and Moody’s Investors Service, which grade BHP at their sixth- and seventh-highest rankings, … More »
- This is the one quality every startup founder needs Business Insider - 3 hours ago
Kimberly White/Getty Airbnb founder and CEO Brian Chesky. … Continued The post This is the one quality every startup founder needs appeared first on Business Insider. … More »
- Oman Air disables inflight maps naming Gulf 'Persian' AFP - 4 hours ago
Oman Air has switched off an inflight map system that labelled the waterway between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran, the subject of a bitter naming dispute, as the "Persian Gulf". The decision ... … More »
- If Apple built a car, here are the companies it would probably work with Business Insider - 5 hours ago
AP Earlier this week, it came out that … Continued The post If Apple built a car, here are the companies it would probably work with appeared first on Business Insider. … More »
- Cracks showing in Germany's fragile truce with the ECB Reuters - 6 hours ago
Michael Stuebgen, a conservative member of the German parliament, was speaking with the head of a local savings bank recently about the European Central Bank's quantitative easing (QE) programme. Stuebgen, a spokesman on European affairs for … More »
- Britain to seek independent membership of WTO after Brexit - newspaper Reuters - 6 hours ago
Britain intends to become an independent member of the World Trade Organisation when it leaves the European Union, trade minister Liam Fox will say next week, according to a report in the Sunday Telegraph newspaper. The newspaper, without citing … More »
- European firms offer Britain scant support in divorce talks Reuters - 8 hours ago
More than 20 European business associations and companies interviewed by Reuters say they back their governments' position that Britain's banking sector can only enjoy EU market access post-Brexit if the country still follows the bloc's rules. … More »
- Is it a good time to buy gold? ZUU online - 8 hours ago
Is it a good time to buy gold? For any investment, it is hard to say when it is a “good” time, si... … More »
- Asia scoops top honours at San Sebastian film festival AFP News - 10 hours ago
Asian cinema dominated awards at the San Sebastian film festival, with veteran Chinese director Feng Xiaogang's "I am not Madame Bovary" taking the top Golden Shell prize while Fan Bingbing won the best actress gong for her role in the same film. … More »
- Marchers in Mexico City decry same-sex marriage AFP News - 11 hours ago
Thousands marched in Mexico City Saturday against same-sex marriage, which President Enrique Pena Nieto supports, while hundreds of gay rights supporters rallied nearby. "I think the government... wants to keep us from raising our children the way … More »
- Syria's Aleppo reels from air strikes, UN chief 'appalled' AFP News - 12 hours ago
UN chief Ban Ki-moon said Saturday he was "appalled by the chilling military escalation" in Syria's battleground city of Aleppo where residents cowered indoors as air strikes toppled buildings and killed at least 45 civilians. The Security Council … More »
- Riven by rivalries, OPEC heads to key talks AFP - 13 hours ago
Cartels only work when their members stick together -- but precious little unity is likely to be on show among OPEC producers at a key meeting in Algiers on Wednesday. Members of the Organization of the ... … More »
- Clinton-Trump Debate, Musk on Mars: Week Ahead Sept. 26-Oct. 1 Bloomberg - 14 hours ago
(Bloomberg) -- Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump will face each other, and likely a record television audience, in the first general election debate of the 2016 presidential campaign on Monday. Follow the TOPLive blog for real-time coverage here. … More »
- AP Top Extended Financial Headlines at 6:26 p.m. EDT Associated Press - 18 hours ago
Federal Reserve looking to limit banks' involvement with commodities like aluminum and coal … More »
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- Most Actives
Most Actives Name Price Change % Chg 0.136 -0.001 -0.73% 
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0.72 0.00 -0.69%
0.143 +0.004 +2.88%
0.96 0.00 0.00%
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% Gainers Name Price Change % Chg 0.275 +0.055 +25.00%
0.375 +0.045 +13.64%
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0.33 +0.02 +6.45%
1.085 0.000 0.00%
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% Losers Name Price Change % Chg 0.235 -0.055 -18.97%
0.136 -0.029 -17.58%
0.17 -0.03 -15.00%
0.09 -0.01 -14.29%
0.35 -0.05 -11.39%
Market Data
- Currencies
- Commodities
Commodities Name Price Change % Chg 1,341.10 -3.60 -0.27%
19.77 -0.32 -1.61%
95.76 -3.02 -3.05%
2.20 +0.01 +0.25%
43.85 +0.41 +0.94%
- Bonds
Bonds Treasury Yield (%) Yield Change 1.15 -0.02
1.62 -0.02
2.34 -0.01