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1. A little hope for the festive season after a turbulent storm Tricky would be a choice world to describe global equity throughout the second
half of this year. Stock markets and economies appear to be balancing on a
knife edge with the chances of a global recession as high as 50/50 according
to some ... Read more... Mike Wright - Dec 25, 2007
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2. Best Fixed-Odds Financial Provider BetOnMarkets.com is pleased to announce being voted the 'Best Fixed Odds Financial Trading Provider' at this year's 2007 Shares Awards..... Read more... Mike Wright - Dec 15, 2007
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3. Bull Markets Climb a Wall of Fear After the party comes the hangover, and of course the bigger the party, the bigger the hangover. Over the last few years, financial companies have been gorging themselves on 'foolproof' credit trades, based on sub prime debt. Now the party is over ... Read more... Mike Wright - Nov 16, 2007
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5. Credit Crunch Craze Last week the credit crunch continued to dominate headlines with banks and
housing stocks being hit the hardest. The Bank of England’s Governor King
alluded to the situation being akin to a ‘run on the banks’. Specifically he
was referring to the ... Read more... Mike Wright - Sep 17, 2007
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6. Credit Crunch Springs Back into Action Citi group announced it will split in two after announcing an $8.29 billion loss. At the same time, Bank of America posted its first loss in 17 years while receiving a $138 billion bailout. Read more... Mike Wright - Jan 22, 2009
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7. Credit Crunch To Spill over the World A One Touch trade predicting that the Nasdaq Composite Index will touch 2395 at any time during the next 10 days could yield 15%. Read more... Mike Wright - Apr 08, 2008
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8. Dollar Dives Low Against Euro Last week the Euro hit an all time high against the US dollar after speculation intensified that the FOMC (US equivalent of the bank of England) will cut rates to ease the credit crunch which has plagued the equity markets and lending institution ... Read more... Mike Wright - Sep 16, 2007
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9. Dollar in the Doldrums The Dollar again grabbed the headlines last week as it hit all time lows
against the Euro and levels not seen in generations against the Pound &
Canadian Dollar.... Read more... Mike Wright - Nov 06, 2007
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10. Economic Crisis - No country is immune from the gloom After a volatile 5 days, world stock markets just managed to close last 5 days in the black. It was a week of two halves with the good work from the start of the week being undone in the second half as traders slipped into reverse gear on Thursday ... Read more... Mike Wright - Mar 24, 2009
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11. Experts Cast Doubt Over Darling's Budget Forecasts After a disastrous start to the week, financial markets rallied well on Friday to close the week unchanged or slightly up. The CAC, DAX and FTSE closed the week up 0.4%, 0.73% and 1.65% respectively. The S&P 500 and Down closed the week down 0.23% ... Read more... Mike Wright - Apr 27, 2009
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13. How to trade when you don't have a clue Wall Street made a reasonable job of reassuring investors that the economy wasn't as bad as feared last week. Blue chip companies such as Apple and American Express beat earning expectations and Google continued its meteoric rise says Betonmarket's ... Read more... Mike Wright - Oct 28, 2007
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14. Market Rebound? Many traders will be breathing a heavy sigh of relief this week as the
economic calendar lightens comparatively. The US interest rate decision
weighed heavily on trading action last week. The FOMC announcement had top
billing and it certainly ... Read more... Mike Wright - Sep 24, 2007
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15. Markets suffer their worst run for generations The final week of 2008 passed with many markets recording their worst annual performance for generations. Equities finished above their lows, but still finished down by at least 30%. The S&P 500 closed 2008 down 38%, while the Nikkei closed down over ... Read more... Mike Wright - Jan 05, 2009
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16. Oil finally made it to US$100, what next? While the media's focus continues to be on the mortgage and credit crisis, oil
has quietly been making its way back up to $100 per barrel. Oil has already
passed its inflation adjusted peak of $80. If oil continues to rise, it will
be more ... Read more... Mike Wright - Jan 09, 2008
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17. Pound Sterling Plunges Against the Yen For once it wasn’t just the Dollar that took a beating last Friday as the British pound fell sharply against the Yen, Euro, Swiss Franc and even the Greenback itself..... Read more... Mike Wright - Nov 14, 2007
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18. The Bear Awakes Wall Street suffered yet another big drop last week, with investors worried about the spreading fallout from the credit crisis at banks, and about a dollar that just keeps getting weaker... Read more... Mike Wright - Nov 11, 2007
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19. The Stock Market is trapped within the Yin and Yang phenomenon After a volatile 5 days, world stock markets just managed to close last 5 days in the black. It was a week of two halves with the good work from the start of the week being undone in the second half as traders slipped into reverse gear on Thursday ... Read more... Mike Wright - Mar 30, 2009
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20. Wall Street rallied once again Wall Street resumed its rally this week after new data showed the overall economy is holding up, but isn't so strong as to prevent the Federal Reserve from cutting interest rates says Betonmarket's Michael Wright. The Dow Jones industrial average saw ... Read more... Mike Wright - Dec 11, 2007
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21. Wall street Rally...Credit Crisis Over? Last week the ECB (European central bank) and MPC (UK central bank) opted to
take a ‘wait and see’ approach with interest rates. Both announced that they
would be leaving interest rates on hold, preferring to see how their
respective economies ... Read more... Mike Wright - Oct 08, 2007
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22. With Market Uncertainty Comes Market Volatility Last week world stock markets made a decent stab at recovering from the previous week’s rout. The strongest market was again the Nasdaq, with the new economy shrugging off the previous Friday’s wobble to finish near its highs. Interest rate rumours ... Read more... Mike Wright - Nov 02, 2007
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23. Yearning for the Yen The disease that has struck the dollar over the last 12 months has shown signs of spreading further. The US economy was the first to show signs of cracking with slowing growth and recession warnings; but if the Dollar was patient zero, the contagion ... Read more... Mike Wright - Jan 19, 2008
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