rather than pick out individual stocks to trade, it can often be worthwhile to trade the indices themselves, especially in times of high volatility.

for those so inclined, i attach below charts for FTSE and FTSE 250, though one might equally be tempted to trade Dow or S&P, which is significantly broader in its coverage, or even NASDAQ

for ease of reading, i have attached 1 year and 3 month charts in each instance

USD Core CPI m/m 0.1%n consensus 0.2% previous 0.2%

USD CPI m/m 0% consensus 0.2% previous 0.0%

USD Empire State Manufacturing Index -5.9 consensus 6.6 previous 7.4

USD Industrial Production m/m 0.6% consensus 0.5% previous 0.4%

minor resistance for dow at 13200 ..... stalled there a few days ago, but may be having another crack at it ...... expect more strong action once that is breached

GBP Retail Sales m/m 0.3% consensus 0.0% previous 0.8%

USD Building Permits 0.81M consensus 0.77M previous 0.76M

USD Unemployment Claims 366K consensus 365K previous 361K

USD Philly Fed Manufacturing Index -7.1 consensus -4.7 previous -12.9

Thanks Skinny - you're very good at posting all the latest data!
Sort of middling then?

Yep - still undecided if "we are there yet"!

Toying with 13,200 again.

Yes I was noticing that. I wonder if it will expire at this point, and retrench? Could go either way from here ... think I'll wait awhile

Looks like it wants to hang on up there. I hope Cynic is awake...

Unleashing facebook shares going well (not) - currently -6.1%.

i don't need to be awake for i placed my bet when the index broke firmly through 13005 - as i intimated at the time
come to to think of it, i then took the profit as a precaution but bought back in again at a slightly higher level - 12274 for those doubters of my integrity

I'd estimate another 80 points or so to at least match the April high.

I suppose it should retrace a bit from there, but who knows, could fool everyone and make a new high for 2012, which in itself is weird.

confess i now have the luxury problem of when to take profits

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German PPI m/m 0.0% consensus 0.4% previous -0.4%

EUR Current Account 12.7B consensus 7.8B previous 10.9B

EVerything looks better than expected. What happened to Euro crash, parity target with $, as Bloomberg TV was talking about? Jus bottom fishing or destruction of the xx..

meanwhile
AAPL keeps rockin' n rollin' - yippee! ...... and GOOG is bringing in the dosh too, though AMZN is a tad disappointing evn if in the money