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Print E-mail By PAN PYLAS The Associated Press LONDON — Markets were in a jittery mood Thursday as uncertainty escalated over whether Greece will get vital bailout cash to avoid defaulting next month. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi) Currency traders work under a screen indicating the exchange rate, above, of the U.S. dollar against Japanese yen and the Nikkei 225 index, at a foreign exchange firm in Tokyo, Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012. The dollar was at a three-month high...Read Full Story

Is Japan’s decision to boost its inflation target providing a lift for Asian ETFs ? After closing lower for three out of the past four trading days, the iShares MSCI Japan Index Fund ETF (NYSE: EWJ) soared by more than one and a half percent on Wednesday to finish near its highest levels since October 2011. But what may have been even more impressive was the fact that rallying in sympathy were Asian ETFs like the iShares MSCI South Korea Index Fund ETF (NYSE: EWY), up three-quarters of a...Read Full Story

By FXEmpire.com – Analysis and Recommendations: Gold put an end to three straight sessions of declines as ongoing uncertainty over Greece turned investors to the metal’s safe-haven appeal. Gold settled at $1,728.10 an ounce, up $10.40, or 0.6%. The USD continued to surge in afternoon trading as more and more worries about the future of Greece shook investors confidence and risk appeal. Economic Events: (GMT) 09:00     EUR      ECB Monthly Report The European Central Bank’s (ECB) monthly...Read Full Story

Forex News and Events: Events from Greece are still dominating the airwaves and FX positioning. The latest headlines indicate that the vote in Athens on the €130 billion package has passed in a 199-74 count. The next step, before any Troika cash is released, is for the austerity plan to be accepted by the EU in a Euro-zone FinMin meeting in Brussels on Wednesday. In the last few days, Greece’s ruling party officials made an impassionate plea to Greek parliament hoping to ensure that this...Read Full Story

Hey traders its John Howell here from trading and investing4u.com and in today’s video getting a mark update so what’s going on and we could see where we going. We’re probably moving forward on the short term anyway. Now look at this in SP 500 we’re looking at the daily chart right now and what’s happening is we can see here we are looking at the shorter timeframe here. We can see that we’ve had all the 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8… 8 days of continued sideways here. Now the interesting thing is...Read Full Story