ForexYard: The Complete FX Trading Platform

Because of its 24 hour trading cycle and its liquidity, foreign currency trading (forex) is very popular today worldwide. This tends to eliminate those nasty “price gaps” which traders of the stock market fear. To make a living from forex trading, you need a reliable trading platform that is easy and convenient to use and offers the same tight spreads to large and small players alike. Moreover, it is best to have a system that can assess your trading strategy prior to investing funds. In tod

Where To Find Online Stock Broker

If you are interested in taking charge of your own investments, then you need an online stock broker. You will make more profits on your investment since you spend less and the fees are become reasonable by having a stock broker. TD Waterhouse, Scott Trade and Etrade are examples of reliable online stock broker you can choose You better shop around to find out which online stock broker offers the best deal for you, since many of them may be differences in the fees they charge. If yo

Gen-Probe Trims Guidance

Ockham Research submits: Gen-Probe Inc. ( GPRO ) is a stock that has had an interesting year so far in 2009, with shares wildly swinging between $38 and $48. Shareholders of GPRO must wonder why the market’s impressive rally of the March lows has largely missed their stock as shares are only up 5% from the market’s nadir and GPRO is down 2% year to date. Judging by the market’s initial reaction to this firms second quarter earnings release, Friday is shaping up to be another wild day.

The Paella Project: Artichokes

Paella with artichokes.(Ed’s paella goes Catalonian, er Catalunyan. – mb)When my friend Marta told me that her mother, who is from Tarragona in southern Catalunya and who now lives not far from Barcelona, makes rice with artichokes – l’arròs amb carxofes – I had imagined something austere, with few flavors, perhaps not even starting with a classic sofrito. But then Marta e-mailed me (from Catalunya yet) with the surprising information that “apart from artichokes, and apart from the sofrito, my m

Is This Really a Global Recovery ?

China! China! burning bright In a bubble, Day and Night Is it Bust or is it Boom That frames thy fearful asymmetry?* (click on pictures to enlarge) Can you feel it? That calm and soothing feeling of low volatility and heaven bound risky assets driven by green shoots and second derivatives. Well, if you can't you are excused since neither can yours truly, or more precisely; he has a distinctly difficult time seeing from where people get the idea that we are headed for

Stocks mostly rise as GDP shrinks at slower pace

NEW YORK -- Traders aren't making big moves on the final day of a huge month for the stock market.

Brad Robustness Determines How Much Companies Suffer in a Downturn

Victor Cook submits: A company’s brand name is among its most visible and valuable assets. So one would expect that the greater a brand’s value -- as a percent of its owner’s market cap -- the less its stock would suffer in a crash. Consciously or subconsciously investors are, like the rest of us, more comfortable and familiar with the better brands so they should naturally dump these stocks last on the way down. The crash of ’08 provides an opportunity to design “natural market experiments

Solar stocks slide on First Solar rebate plan

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Shares of First Solar Inc slid 10 percent, dragging down the rest of the solar sector, a day after the industry bellwether posted a quarterly profit that pummeled Wall Street estimates but said it would resort to rebates to defend its market position in Germany. The stock fell to $156.03 in early-afternoon trading on the Nasdaq. Shares of rival Sunpower Corp traded down about 4 percent at $32.00, while Evergreen Solar Inc fell about 13 percent to $2.07. LO

Microhoo Deal dips Yahoo share - Ballmer Surprised

Steve Ballmer had been looking into this deal with sky high hopes and desperation. But a bad news was awaiting to settle down his excitement. The Wall Street reacted negatively to Yahoo’s plan to hand over its Internet search and advertising reins to Microsoft. “ Nobody gets it ,” he said about the deal, unveiled Wednesday after more than a year in the making. Under terms of the 10-year deal, Microsoft’s Bing search engine and adCenter platform will power Yahoo’s search-based advertis

When Thrift Is Bad For The Economy

With the intense economic environment of massive job losses and an uncertain stock market, it’s not surprising to learn that people have hunkered down and increased their savings to help weather the storm. In fact, some experts suggest that the savings rate in the United States is at its highest point than it has been in the last 15 years. While that can produce some comfort to citizens that have to find ways to make ends meet in uncertain times, it can affect the stock market by impacting retai

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