Hints and tips:
...As a result, some very interesting research by Vincent Deluard of INTL-FC Stone shows that mutual funds have gone in exactly the wrong direction....
...Matt Ammerman at brokers INTL FC Stone says that “the crowd is becoming bullish” over soyabeans....
...Others are using so-called “prime-of-prime” brokerages like FC Stone and GTX, which stand between funds and a credit-supplying broker, using their own balance sheets to take the first loss....
...The New York group, one of the largest independent futures brokers in the US, had seen the purchase of Cleartrade as a stepping stone for a push into Asia....
...Dave Smoldt, vice-president at broker FC Stone, says that when the reports hit “people may react to one number, then the other numbers follow and they realise overall the report isn’t quite as bullish or...
...Capital descended on the Grosvenor House hotel near London’s Hyde Park in late September, they had more to celebrate than having successfully swallowed the North American unit of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc...
...The moves come as this year’s crop in China, the largest producer and importer, has been threatened by heavy rain, said Gary Raines of brokers FC Stone....
...Gary Raines, of brokers FC Stone Fibres & Textiles, says: “The writing has been on the wall. The fundamentals have gradually gotten tighter, tighter, tighter....
...Bernie Madoff, now residing at the US taxpayers’ expense, could be set to work investing bankers’ bonuses – nicely killing two birds with one stone....
...How I loved Subbuteo soccer, with its plastic men and green baize pitch, gazed at contemptuously by modern, computerised children as if it were a stone age relic....
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