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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.  

Breaking News - Pending Home Sales

Breaking News – Pending Home Sales Report.

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.

Breaking News - American Greetings

Breaking News – American Greetings Receives Offer

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