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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

Breaking News - Case-Shiller Index

Breaking News – Case-Shiller Index higher for the 6th month.

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.

Master Card Could Be Poised To Move

After hitting its 52week high back on May 1st of this year Master Card (MA, quote) traded in a range from around $400 to $440 until it began to march higher back towards the 52 week high starting on September 6th.  Since then the last 7 sessions Mater Card has traded sideways and has now pulled back to the near term trendline and has held the trendline support for the

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

Selling Starbucks Premium

Those that just register to view the advance Starbucks option trade.

Starbucks - Verismo Brewing Machine

As we mentioned in the Morning Coffee Break Starbucks (SBUX, quote) will start selling its new Verismo single serve brew machine.  The Verismo will be sold online this week for $199 and will available in stores starting next month.

Breaking News - U.S. Initial Claims for State Unemployment Benefits

Breaking News – U.S. Initial Claims for State Unemployment Benefits

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.