February 04, 2012 -- Updated March 05, 2009 15:46 HKT
China flexes, and the US catches a chilly reminder
In the old days countries threatened each other by sabre-rattling – moving armies, positioning navies, making physical threats. In the past few days we have seen the modern way to intimidate another power. The Chinese premier, Wen Jiabao, expressed concern about his country’s $US1 trillion ($1.5 trillion) holdings of US government bonds. “We’ve lent a [...]
FOREX-Euro near 11-week high vs yen, risk appetite rises
* Euro nears 11-week high vs yen, 5-week high vs dollar * Rise in regional shares points to greater risk appetite * Yen dips broadly vs higher-yielding currencies By Masayuki Kitano TOKYO, March 17 (Reuters) – The euro climbed back towards an 11-week high against the yen and a five-week high [...]
Oil Improves
Oil prices rebounded from an early retreat Monday, as traders brushed aside OPEC supply-side issues and focused on higher stock prices. Benchmark crude for April delivery gained $1.10 to settle at $47.35 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Prices fell as low as $43.62 overnight after OPEC decided to forgo further production cuts [...]
It Gets Worse
World Bank says global economy to shrink for first time since World War II, dragged down by sharp decline in industry, trade. The world economy is on track to post its worst performance since the Great Depression, with developing countries bearing much of the economic pain, the World Bank said Monday. Those countries face a [...]
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The Red Roadmaster’s Technical Report on the US Major Market Indices + w/Little Gems and The Watch List™
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United States Marine Corps Deploys Critical Solutions’ MOJOs to Evaluate Hybrid Power in the Battlefield
Critical Solutions Inc. (Pink Sheets:CSLI), the designer of rapidly deployable, renewable energy tower systems, announces that the United States Marine Corps (USMC) is using two MOJOs for evaluating the use of hybrid power in support of mission critical communications for forward deployment groups. Patrick Gallagher, Critical Power Solutions International President, stated, “Because our mobile towers [...]
Sex in the Shower.
In a recent survey carried out for a leading toiletries firm , Brut, people from Detroit and Chicago have proved to be the most likely to have had sex in the shower! In the survey, 86% of Detroit ‘s and Chicago ‘s inner city residents (almost all of whom are registered Democrats) said that they have [...]
The Economic Clock
Timing In The Market Deciding what to invest in is difficult at the best of times. There is a lot of information in the press about the possibility of a recession, or at least an economic slowdown. If only there was a tool which regular people could use to understand the likely repercussions of a [...]
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