aussiebear Posted February 24, 2012 Report Posted February 24, 2012 Early openers thinking about it: Kiwis -0.3%, Aussies +0.2%, Nikkers +0.3% and Sth Korea +0.5%. In Aussie sectors, Consumer Discretionary +1.1% is the most favoured with Gold -2.2% at the other end.
aussiebear Posted February 24, 2012 Author Report Posted February 24, 2012 http://finance.yahoo.com/intlindices?e=asia
aussiebear Posted February 24, 2012 Author Report Posted February 24, 2012 http://money.cnn.com...s/morning_call/ http://www.kitco.com http://www.kitconet....ase_metals.html http://finance.yahoo.com/
aussiebear Posted February 24, 2012 Author Report Posted February 24, 2012 All Ords crawled up for a gain of +0.5% with Consumer Discretionary +1.7% remaining leader. Most sectors saw minimal gains and Gold -2.2% lost the most. Over in Asia, China +0.9%, Honkers +0.1%, India -0.8% and Nikkers +0.3%. On to UK/Europe:
Jetlag Posted February 24, 2012 Report Posted February 24, 2012 Found in Okinawa, Japan. Obama cracks down on hipster yakuza gangster "The U.S. government feels that the Japanese government is very tolerant toward organized crime" The Japanese can say the same about Golden sacks et al. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-02-24/yakuza-godfather-targeted-in-obama-crackdown-on-organized-crime.html
Jetlag Posted February 24, 2012 Report Posted February 24, 2012 New home sales and the stock market: http://www.cxoadvisory.com/9648/economic-indicators/new-home-sales-and-future-stock-returns/ "evidence from simple tests indicates that change in new home sales has little use as an indicator of future stock market returns. The most promising indication is that very weak new home sales indicate a weak stock market over the next couple of months."
Jetlag Posted February 24, 2012 Report Posted February 24, 2012 Germany one of the few EU countries that has a trade surplus and was growing its economy instead of contracting is running a 1% budget deficit "the government deficit ratio was –1.0% in 2011 when measured as a percentage of gross domestic product " link to german statistics bureau PR Europe is facing its second recession in two years and the only economy that could pull the other countries out of recession is battening down the hatches reducing internal consumption and the public deficit to absurd levels. Instead of using the real economy to turn things around the EU, like the US, is resorting to flooding the market with liquidity.
Trader Joe Posted February 24, 2012 Report Posted February 24, 2012 While I don't do much in the oil patch, other than watch Matt Simmons' bloated corpse float down the river Peak Oil I do follow these two little monkeys, and from time-to-time trade them Just sayin' RIG may be a buy here or on a pullback....BP looks to be entertaining a more longer term (multi year) move to the + side Thoughts from folks that actually know how to read charts, always welcome
Trader Joe Posted February 24, 2012 Report Posted February 24, 2012 One picture says it all Gas still available for under $3.00 in Denver area But probably not for long http://gasbuddy.com/gb_gastemperaturemap.aspx
Jetlag Posted February 24, 2012 Report Posted February 24, 2012 One picture says it all Gas still available for under $3.00 in Denver area But probably not for long http://gasbuddy.com/gb_gastemperaturemap.aspx http://www.energy.eu/ EU average = € 1.519 / liter, that's € 5.75 / gallon or 7.71 Dollah's per gallon!
DrStool Posted February 24, 2012 Report Posted February 24, 2012 Best places to buy gas on the East Coast- Florence SC, Chester VA, and South Jersey, where you don't even have to pump your own. The best place to buy gas in Canada is... wait for it... Northern Vermont.
dogsie Posted February 24, 2012 Report Posted February 24, 2012 Best places to buy gas on the East Coast- Florence SC, Chester VA, and South Jersey, where you don't even have to pump your own. The best place to buy gas in Canada is... wait for it... Northern Vermont. Best place I've seen it is the Detroit side of the Detroit/Windsor bridge. They even advertise it in litres.
Recommended Posts
Archived
This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.