Forex rebates on every trade - win or lose!

Exactly.

B-)

Where are all the figures that were supposed to come out at 13:30?

Can't see any on MoneyAM news - am I in a parallel universe (again)?

It's OK I've found the jobless stuff - but obviously not dollar shifting - unlike choccie and hils staying away from the shops and leading to poor retail sales this a.m. I personally did my bit. Went to Aldi 3 times in January.

Which year was that meggers?

ANyway, it looks like the market's waiting for Nankypoo in the house.
Just in case he didn't get the words right yesterday.

Bit of a red hot poker there did you chuck the ice bucket on it?

FOS :

13:30 *US CONTINUING JOBLESS CLAIMS 4-WK AVG UP 18,500 TO 2.52 MLN, HIGHEST IN A YEAR AFXU
13:30 *US JANUARY IMPORT PRICES DOWN 1.2 PCT, LARGEST DECLINE SINCE OCTOBER AFXU
13:30 *US JANUARY IMPORT PRICES EX-OIL UNCHANGED AFXU
13:30 *US JANUARY EXPORT PRICES UP 0.3 PCT, THIRD RISE IN A ROW AFXU
13:30 *US JANUARY OIL IMPORT PRICES DOWN 7.3 PCT, LARGEST DROP SINCE OCTOBER AFXU
13:30 *US JANUARY NATURAL GAS PRICES DOWN 12.0 PCT, FIRST DECLINE SINCE OCTOBER AFXU
13:30 *ALERT: US NY FED EMPIRE STATE MFG INDEX 24.35 FEB VS 9.13 JAN AFXU
13:30 *US JANUARY IMPORT PRICES UP 0.1 PCT IN PAST YEAR VS 8.7 PCT RISE IN PRIOR YEAR

SOS
Don't you do any work?

Thank you lurker - how's yer Toaster?

Nice fillip for my long.

Well that was an ouch ;)
That nice Mr Poole must have had a bit of indigestion.

Nice one Harlosh - bit miffed cos it was telegraphed well enough but I failed to pull the trigger.

Excellent bit of trading down and up !!

Choccie must have dropped the ice crusher on her typing finger - if that's what she uses. Or did she give it a forking good blow?

FOS: No. Its fine thanks. Talking of the toaster - bags (Hils and Choc) my bruv in law invented and sells toastabags,http://www.toastabags.com/ might suit you on these cold nights :-) I have few u can have, make nice pressies for your other ' dropout friends' in Brum:-)

SOS

Oi SOS - this is a special thread for special people. We don't have strangers in these parts.

The ice crusher's just a little bit attached to the fridge, meggers.
It's sometimes quicker just to stick yer hand inside the box.

Just a little bit long from 1.9686 ;)

oops typo ... 586
fingers are still a bit cold :S

Has he gone?

As for the ice crusher attached to the fridge - can' see the point in it I'd need to stand on a chair to get my portion - prefer the hole in my back garden - the traditional way to keep it fresh. What was good for the Victorians is good enough for me.

As you may have gathered - no positions - only verbal diarrhoea whilst waiting to go for a check up with the prison doctor. Need a scrip to get off rock bashing.

What a load of messing about.
Reversed 1.9584.
Probably get stopped out again :)

Good luck with the rocks meggers ;)

Oh dear. I've been a busy girl lately and it's made me very tired. I had my lunch, put my feet on the desk ahead of the US data and just woke up two hours later.

Apart from 19 posts about ice crushers and a visit from Doris, have I missed anything?

:o)

Nobody seems to have mentioned this.
Is it a seasonal fluctuation, something like repatriation of capital
at year end?
Or something more sinister?

If buyers are turning into sellers, why is the US 10yr price going up
(yield Down) ?

U.S. sees first net capital outflow since June 2005.


Link to US Outflow

Daisy; Not missed anything, but it would be good if you can find MG a proper job, there must be something that needs regenerating somewhere, perhaps somewhere a long way away overseas!

doris

I rely on you to explain things like that to me Mel :-))

I'm just the newbie apprentice on this thread, Harlosh. :-)

I might have a read up on Petrodollars. The fall in the price of Oil
must mean that less of them are about to invest in US $ denominated
assets.
I did read somewhere that OPEC countries had less dosh to buy US debt,
and were actually selling some of it recently?
Maybe something to do with that causing the recent Bond yield rise, and
now maybe some see some value?
There's certainly still loads of liquidity still sloshing around, trying to find
a home, and dovish Ben, still reading the Goldilocks story, isn't helping
matters.

All above just thinking aloud. Not facts.

That didn't take long.
Good old Google. :-)


Oil's woes are a boon for the dollar

But a continued drop in oil prices may cut petrodollar investment in U.S.

Robert Sinche, currency strategist at Bank of America, noted that "there appears to
be a meaningful, and nearly coincident, correlation" between oil prices and holdings
of U.S. Treasurys by OPEC (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries)
members.

"It is in this context that the rise in oil prices and savings flows into relatively high
yielding U.S. assets may have helped support the [dollar] in 2005-06 despite the
rising U.S. external imbalance," he said.




Link to Petrodollars