Market Gawk

Crude oil prices are again breaking records, but not because of real issues with supply and demand

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What’s behind the new urge to merge? The November election, for starters

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As U.S. investors increasingly look overseas, S&P’s latest screen finds 20 attractive foreign companies with market-beating yields

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J.C. Penney slashes its outlook. Is the retailer being conservative in order to blow past the Street?s expectations?

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The US dollar crumbled today as it lost value against all of the other major currencies due to a decline in the Philadelphia Fed manufacturing release, and increased speculation that the Fed will resort to a 50bp rate cut in March.

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For the past two months, we have been unable to trade the Canadian retail sales report due to conflicting economic indicators that threatened to disrupt the reaction to the consumption indicators.

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Listen to our Evening DailyFX Forex Radio PodCast: http://media.dailyfx.com/podcasts/FXRadioPM022008.mp3

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Another day, another opening gap faded. We’re 3-for-3 this week with the market gapping one way and almost immediately reversing direction. This market is a gap-fader’s paradise. Despite what felt like a really bad reaction to the Philly Fed numbers today the indices are still just range-bound. It seems that the […]

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HONG KONG (MarketWatch) — Ping An Insurance (Group) , China’s second-largest life insurer, will scale down its share placement plan by 25% amid concerns over recent declines in its share price, according to media reports Friday. The insurer will pare its planned share placement to 120 billion yuan ($16.8 billion) from 160 billion yuan earlier, the South China Morning Post reported Friday, citing comments by company chairman Ma Mingzhe to fund mangers in Beijing and Shanghai this week. Ping An unveiled plans in January to sell 1.2 billion shares in Shanghai and issue 41.2 billion yuan in convertible bonds. Ping An’s Hong Kong-listed shares have slid 20% since Jan. 18 when the fund raising plans were announced.
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HONG KONG (MarketWatch) — Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party launched a study Friday to examine whether the nation should set up a sovereign wealth fund to manage its foreign-exchange reserves, according to a media report. The study headed by former financial services minister Yuji Yamamoto will take a look at how sovereign wealth funds operate in China, Singapore and the Middle East, according to the Nikkei business daily, which cited comments by LDP members Friday. The study group is aso expected to weigh opinions from academics and examine the impact such a fund might have on financial markets. Japan’s foreign-exchange reserves, the largest in the world after China, are invested mainly in U.S. treasuries and deposits.Market Pulse Stories are Rapid-fire, short news bursts on stocks and markets as they move. Visit MarketWatch.com for more information on this news.

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