IDS World Markets Mon 18th January 10

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Found in Hiroshima, Japan.

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http://finance.yahoo.com/intlindices?e=asia

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http://money.cnn.com/markets/morning_call/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://www.kitco.com

 

 

 

http://www.kitconet.com/webcharts/base_metals.html

 

Energy futures

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US stock market closed for the next session which usually results in a fairly quiet market here. At the moment All Ords is heading south, -0.5% led by Miners -1.1%, Materials -1% and Consumer Staples, Energy and Gold all -0.7%. No green sectors although Financials is suffering the least, flat.

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A bit more green happening in the arvo. All Ords eked out +0.2% with Telecomms zipping up +1.6% followed by Financials +1.1%. At the other end, IT -1.7% and Healthcare -1%.

 

Somewhat limp in Asia: China -0.1%, Honkers -0.3%, India +0.5% and Nikkers -1.2%.

 

 

On to UK/Europe:

 

Footsie

 

 

 

DAX

 

 

 

CAC 40

 

[Speakeasy]

 

 

Found in Hiroshima, Japan.

Dear Sirs or Madams:

 

Please send me a dozen cans of your RC anti-lust spray. It's not for me, you see, but for the many women and girls here who have apparently contracted the Nymphomatic virus. Apparently, I am their only salvation.

 

Thank you for your expedited attention to my request.

 

Sincerely,

Speakeasy

[Drano]

Dear Sirs or Madams:

 

Please send me a dozen cans of your RC anti-lust spray. It's not for me, you see, but for the many women and girls here who have apparently contracted the Nymphomatic virus. Apparently, I am their only salvation.

 

Thank you for your expedited attention to my request.

 

Sincerely,

Speakeasy

You can dream....

they can have nightmares....

 

:lol:

[aussiebear]

Societe Generale Ordered to Stop Derivatives Trades in India

 

Jan. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Societe Generale SA’s Indian unit was ordered to stop selling or trading offshore derivatives by the nation’s capital markets regulator, which said the bank failed to provide fair and complete information about its trades.

 

The Securities & Exchange Board of India gave Societe Generale, France’s second-largest bank, 30 days to reply or file an objection to the order, according to a statement posted on its Web site Jan. 15.

 

The Paris-based company is the second overseas bank to be suspended from trading derivatives by the regulator in just over a month. Barclays Plc suspended sales of its exchange-traded notes linked to Indian stocks following a Dec. 9 order. Both banks gave incorrect details on the sale of so-called participatory notes, the regulator said.

[Jetlag]

The douches on the weekend thread photos must have taken this commercial seriously

 

[flash=425,344]http://www.youtube.com/watch/v/Y3qYT60DSKQ.swf

 

 

Too much anti lust spray?

 

[aussiebear]

Singapore exports jump 26 percent in December

 

SINGAPORE (AP) -- Singapore's exports jumped in December for the second straight month as global demand for the city-state's electronics surged.

 

Exports excluding oil rose 26.1 percent from a year earlier to 13.2 billion Singapore dollars ($9.5 billion), according to Trade and Industry Ministry figures released Monday. The ministry said sales abroad rose a seasonally adjusted 1.7 percent from November.

 

Electronics -- which account for 40 percent of non-oil exports -- rebounded strongly, rising 25.2 percent from a year earlier after falling 6.1 percent in November. Pharmaceuticals rose 76 percent while petrochemicals increased 64 percent, the ministry said.

 

Singapore's economic recovery slowed last quarter as gross domestic product fell by an annualized seasonally adjusted 6.8 percent. The government expects the economy to grow up to 5 percent this year after contracting by 2.1 percent last year.

 

Non-oil exports rose 27 percent to Europe and 20 percent to China from last year, the ministry said. U.S. demand for non-oil products grew by 6 percent after falling nearly 13 percent in November.

[Drano]

Peter Schiff says Poland is doing things correctly.

 

Swordfish, if you are not so busy with the new baby that you are reading this, any comments?

 

http://www.businessinsider.com/want-to-see...t-poland-2010-1

[Jetlag]

Arctic snug together for G7 + Trichet + Geithner

 

"The location “forces them to be intimate,” John Kirton, director of the G-20 Research Group at the University of Toronto, said in a telephone interview. “They are going to have a frank discussion about realistically what they can do given the internal obstacles they face.” "

 

"To protect officials, Canada has purchased 38 duck-down parkas from Canada Goose Inc., which also supplies coats to the U.S. Antarctic Program. The parkas, which retail for $675 at Paragon Sports Co. LLC in New York, were initially developed for commercial helicopter pilots. "

 

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=206...TOVIk&pos=4

 

Sounds fitting, where's Helo Ben btw?

 

[Drano]

Arctic snug together for G7 + Trichet + Geithner

 

"The location “forces them to be intimate,” John Kirton, director of the G-20 Research Group at the University of Toronto, said in a telephone interview. “They are going to have a frank discussion about realistically what they can do given the internal obstacles they face.” "

 

"To protect officials, Canada has purchased 38 duck-down parkas from Canada Goose Inc., which also supplies coats to the U.S. Antarctic Program. The parkas, which retail for $675 at Paragon Sports Co. LLC in New York, were initially developed for commercial helicopter pilots. "

 

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=206...TOVIk&pos=4

 

Sounds fitting, where's Helo Ben btw?

 

I guess that's one way to make sure there will be no protesters getting media attention, and discourage smaller media from sending their own reporters. No room at the inn.

 

Really. Why the **** else would you have a meeting in a place like that?

 

Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty will host G-7 finance chiefs and central bankers Feb. 5-6 in Iqaluit, a town 195 miles south of the Arctic Circle.

[Dharmaeye]

I guess that's one way to make sure there will be no protesters getting media attention, and discourage smaller media from sending their own reporters. No room at the inn.

 

Really. Why the **** else would you have a meeting in a place like that?

 

Might help end the global warming crap

[Drano]

Might help end the global warming crap

...or at least make them WELCOME it.