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CurveAheadMarketStrategies.com Morning Coffee Break

Welcome to Friday’s Morning Coffee Break – U.S. futures are moving lower on the last day of the week and quarter on fears from the Euro Zone fears and U.S. economic data. After mix data from the U.S. economic calendar traders are looking towards Consumer Income, Spending and Sentiment reports.

Afternoon Brief

Welcome to the today’s Afternoon Brief- Four hours into the U.S. session equities continue to climb after Spain released its 2013 budget.  According to a release from Deputy Prime Minister the budget will focus on spending cuts and not raise taxes.  

CurveAheadMarketStrategies.com Morning Coffee Break

Welcome to Thursday’s Morning Coffee Break – U.S. markets struggled the first 3 sessions of the week as its on pace for the largest weekly move in 4 months.  However, in today’s pre-market U.S. futures are pointing to bounce higher at the open as traders approached not only end of the week but the end of the 3rd quarter.

CurveAheadMarketStrategies.com Morning Coffee Break

Welcome to Tuesday’s Morning Coffee Break – U.S. futures are holding their own going into the Wednesday’s session amidst Asian and European markets solidly in the red.  Both the Asian and European regions are selling off on concerns from yesterday’s U.S. session and comments from non-voting FMOC member, Charles Plosser comments that QE3 will not provide the stimulus that the Federal Reserve is looking to obtain. Market participants will get

Energy Report

The overnight markets have attempted once again to recover from some of the punches it has taken in the gut over the past few weeks. It’s amazing to look back at seasonal trades and think “why didn’t I respond to what history has taught me”? One of the biggest seasonal trades in grains is to sell the market through September, this has been no different yet on September 1st the perception was that this year is different. Well if we look back at history again there is typically a quick 50% retracement of the September losses during the first few weeks of October.

CurveAheadMarketStrategies.com Morning Coffee Break

Welcome to Tuesday’s Morning Coffee Break – History repeated itself as the Dow Jones dropped for the 15th Monday out of 16th weeks.  U.S. futures are suggesting positive opening in early electronic trading with the Dow Jones fair value at 18.08, S&P 500 fair value 1.66 and the NASDAQ’s fair value coming in at 4.12.

Introducing The Daily Energy Report by Tom Pawlicki

Curve Ahead Market Strategies is proud to introduce the EOXLive Daily Energy Report by Director of Market Research, Tom Pawlicki at EOX Holdings wholly owned subsidiary of OTC Global Holdings.

CurveAheadMarketStrategies.com Morning Coffee Break

Welcome to today’s Morning Coffee Break –despite losses last week U.S. markets are firmly in the green as market participants head into the last week of September and the final week of the 3rd quarter. Markets are in the green as well for the 3rd quarter putting markets on target to be the best year since 2009.

CurveAheadMarketStrategies.com Morning Coffee Break

Welcome to today’s Morning Coffee Break – hold on tight as today is “quadruple witching”.  For those unsure of what quarterly “quadruple witching” is, it’s a period of time simultaneous expiration of various options and futures contracts that happens once each quarter.  Doing a little digging we found that the last 8 times this has occurred in September, the Dow Jones has traded higher.  The Dow Jones also has been

CurveAheadMarketStrategies.com Morning Coffee Break

Welcome to today’s Morning Coffee Break – U.S. futures are under pressure today as traders become fearful once again of global growth outlook after China reported its 11th consecutive disappointing Purchasing Managers Survey (PMI) of 46.3 for the month of August.