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Forex: EUR/GBP reacts up after BoE holds rates unchangedFITITOL-->FXstreet.com (Barcelona) – The Euro is rising right now against the Sterling in the minutes following the BoE decision to maintain unchanged its interest rate and its asses purchase program. The EUR/GBP has risen from intra-day low at 0.9020 to test MA55 hourly chart at 0.9050. EUR/GBP is trading around 0.9040/50, 0.30% below opening price action at 0.9055. The Bank of England...  

Tom Lydon (ETF Trends) submits: Investors and ETF providers are still awaiting a decision on commodity funds by the Commodity Futures and Trading Commission (CFTC). One provider is pre-emptively hiking fees in the meantime.Deutsche Bank Commodity Services is raising rates on seven of their PowerShares ETFs. If the CFTC were to enact position limits on ETFs that trade futures on various commodities, it could lead to higher costs for investors...  

Michael Johnston submits:On the issue of currencies, investors are somewhat divided. Some prefer to avoid currency investing altogether, likening the activity to high-stakes gambling that can lead to big swings in fortunes in a matter of minutes. While this might be an accurate portrayal of leveraged forex trading, proponents of including currencies as an asset class within portfolios point out that unleveraged investments actually exhibit low...  

Hedge Fund Titan John Paulson Bullish On Bonds And Equities, Inflation Concerns Remain Stock-Markets / Investing 2010 Dec 09, 2009 - 09:59 AM By: Trader_Mark John Paulson... super bull? Goodness. To some degree I find "whale watching" a bit overrated, but after being the most obvious winner of the mortgage meltdown, and then piling into gold ahead of a huge run ... Paulson's moves are watched by the investment world very closely. One of the...  

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HIGHER; SPDR S Metals & Mining (NYSE: XME) up 1.81% to $48.28. Mining stocks benefitting from AK Steel Holding (NYSE: AKS) hiking prices today, citing stronger demand. Steel futures are also trading higher, January 2010 futures up $10 to $515, or about 2%. Financial Select Sector SPDR (NYSE: XLF) turning up this afternoon on lighter trading, marginally higher to $14.27, a gain of 0.07%. Financials are making a slight rebound as the TARP...  

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Oil futures climbed in electronic trading late Tuesday after the American Petroleum Institute crude-oil inventories last week dropped 5.815 million barrels. Analysts polled by Platts were anticipating a 600,000-barrel climb in crude-oil stocks. The API said distillate stocks gained 1.011 million barrels and gasoline stocks slipped 753,000 barrels. Analysts were expecting a decline of 400,000 barrels in...  

EUR/USD Current level-1.4765 EUR/USD is in a broad consolidation, after bottoming at 1.2331 (Oct.28,2008). Technical indicators are neutral, and trading is situated above the 50- and 200-Day SMA, currently projected at 1.4793 and 1.3523.    The downtrend is intact with a resistance at 1.4785 and crucial level at 1.4865. While the resistance holds, further depreciation is to be expected, towards 1.4623, en route to 1.4450.  

Country ETFs almost always are at the top of our list when markets sell-off and steep pullbacks above the 200-day moving average are plentiful. Take a look at these trio of country ETFs, which has the sort of high ETF PowerRatings that high probability traders look for.  

Investors dumped stocks and sought safe-haven assets like the dollar and Treasurys on signs that the global economy is still struggling. The Dow Jones industrial average lost 100 points in afternoon trading Tuesday but recovered some of its earlier losses. A disappointing earnings forecast from Dow Jones industrials component 3M Co. and a weak sales report from McDonald's Corp., another Dow company, pulled stocks lower. The reports...  

StreetInsider.com Notable ETF Movers: HIGHER; iShares MSCI Japan Index (NYSE: EWJ) up 0.50% to $9.96. Shares of the ETF are up after the Japan government unveiled a new emergency stimulus package worth $80 billion. iPath S 500 VIX Short-Term Futures ETN (NYSE: VXX) is up 1.47% to $38.68. The ETF is up as the Fear Index is at higher levels today, in midday trading. LOWER: SPDRs (NYSE: SPY) down 0.89% to $109.85. The S 500 is lower on...  

Well, it should be interesting to see what happens next for the price of gold. In just the last few trading days, nearly all the bullion that was added to the trust for the world's most popular gold ETF - the SPDR Gold Shares ETF (GLD) - has been summarily removed, almost 14 tonnes just this afternoon as indicated in red below.Down for its fourth straight day today to about $1,128 an ounce on the spot market, it's now about eight percent...  

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EURUSD The euro moved slightly higher on yesterday on dovish comments from Ben Bernanke but failed to rally, facing resistance near 1.4900. Now that it is trading just below the rising trend line coming from 1.3830 – July’s bottom, short-term bias is bearish and a potential continuation of the decline initiated last Friday may extend to the next bearish projections at 1.4700 and maybe 1.4600. A switch in direction requires a daily close above...