Forex rebates on every trade - win or lose!

Indeed Choccie. I'm just looking/hoping for a better entry.

Chocs....I like your accidental trading style. Only wish we can all do that!

Sshhhh!. Quiet please, everybody. Hil is a bear with a sore head this morning.

No. She's a bull with a sore head.

I feel decidely unwell having just made Salade Marco Polo for lunch. It's the smell of the crab sticks. Probably wasn't a very wise move.

Think you'll find she's a dizzy bull this morning.

Not to be emulated, BAk - I didn't mean to leave the order in :S
But yesterday was a good day to add :)

Oops Hils snap :o)

Looking for a break through the 70/80 level for a possible push up to 1.9050.
Well that's the plan :)

Looks like it could be turning down so I'm out.

I could do with another nap. I'd lay out in the garden for the afternoon, but the sun's a bit low.

I'd get blown away if I tried that.
Getting a smidge blustery.

Time for some beans on toast then :)

Beanz meanz fartz, Choccy. It would be more than a smidge blustery.

Bit of premature ejection there in offloading my long. And I missed a chance to get back in again.

edit. Managed to get some.

Oh I know Hils, but I have to get even with the boys here sometimes ;)

Roll on Philly Fed then :)
Oops and those pesky indicators

Not got a single pip today. Sat on the sidelines and watched it head north.

Soooo depressing :-((

Same here Bakko. Next week Rodney, next week.....

US weekly jobless claims up 7,000 to 318,000
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WASHINGTON (AFX) - The number of people filing new claims for unemployment insurance in the latest week rose more than expected to its highest level in four weeks, the Labor Department said Thursday.

First time claims rose 7,000 to 318,000 in the week ended September 16, the department said. Economists had expected about 310,000 new claims.

The four-week average of first time claims remained unchanged at 315,000.

Economists prefer the four-week average because it smoothes out fluctuations in the weekly data.

The number of people continuing to claim unemployment insurance fell 29,000 to 2.46 mln in the week ending September 9. That's the lowest level since July 22.

The four-week average of continuing claims fell 5,500 to 2.48 mln, the lowest level since August 12.

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NBG. Stopped flat.

Still with it - don't mind letting go of a few.
Stops just below 70.

Time for work :S

Choccie: I told you, wait 5 years . . .

[16:00 US ECON: Philly Fed Dips Below Zero, Quite Unexpected] Boston, September 21. The economy contracted in August according to the Philadelphia Fed's Survey. At -0.4, the latest survey result was much weaker than expected and showed the first contraction since April 2003.

Oh rats :o)

Thanks ever so MM - you didn't cheer me up the first time you told me ;)
Hope you're feeling better, Hils.

Philadelphia Fed: Contraction in Sept.
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NEW YORK (AFX) - Manufacturers in the three-state region surrounding Philadelphia saw their first contraction in business activity in over three years during September, the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia reported Thursday.

The bank's business conditions index, a gauge of the health of the region's manufacturing sector, lost considerable ground, and moved to a reading of minus 0.4 in September, versus the 18.5 it stood at the month before.

Negative readings denote contraction. The September reading was the first that signaled such a climate since April 2003, although the index did indicate flat activity in June 2005.

The report covers eastern Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey, and Delaware.

'Overall manufacturing conditions in the region are mostly steady, and indicators for general activity, new orders, and employment suggest little or no growth this month,' the report said. 'According to responses from this month's survey, input price pressures, though still evident, are less widespread than in the previous month,' it added.

Michael Trebing, an economist with the bank, said 'the suddenness of the drop into negative territory reflected a sizable and increasing share of respondents reporting declines in orders, shipments and some of the other components.'

The Philadelphia Fed report is widely viewed as a proxy for national manufacturing trends, and as such, it raises worry that the factory sector may be slowing more than anyone had reckoned. Broadly speaking, the economy is already in a process of moderating growth, driven largely by a cooling housing sector. This environment gave the Federal Reserve on Wednesday the latitude to hold interest rates steady for a second straight meeting.

Forecasters will now worry that the Institute for Supply Management manufacturing index, due at the beginning of next month, will also weaken from what had been solid activity gains. The Philadelphia Fed survey, on an ISM equivalent basis, stands at a reading of 49.7 in September compared with an ISM equivalent reading of 54.1 in August. In ISM terms, readings below 50 indicate falling activity.

Some observers were indeed concerned with what they'd seen. 'Generally, the Philly data (report) has the best correlation with industrial production of all the regional indexes, so needs to be treated seriously,' said Alan Ruskin, a strategist with RBS Greenwich in Greenwich, Conn.

Despite the ugly turn of the headline reading, the components of the report were a mixed bag. The bank said that inflation pressures softened in terms of input prices, but grew in terms of what manufacturers charged for their goods. The prices paid index hit 38.1, from 45.3 in August, while the prices received index came in at 21.6, from 17.1.

Hiring at Philadelphia factory operators improved, with the employment index at 10.7, versus August's 8.2. Meanwhile, the new orders index came in at -1.3, after the prior month's 15.7.