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  • The End of 2008!

    * The dollar rebounds... * Home prices collapse! * Consumer Confidence finally rings true... * Chuck Speak to end the year! ** The End of 2008! Good day... And a Wonderful Wednesday to you! An end of the year Wednesday to boot! And end of a completely awful year financially and economically. Personally, it was great! I got good news from scans about the cancer I'm fighting, had a setback with the eye, but I'll get through that too, and if not, well, it will be just like my kidney... I lost one, but still have a good one, and if I lose the vision in one eye, I'll still have a good one! The currencies look like they'll end the year on a sour note, except Japanese yen, of course. The dollar rallied back overnight after spending most of the day yesterday range bound in euros 1.41-1.42... This morning, as I turn on the screens, and hear one of my all time faves on the radio, Leon Russell, "we're alone now and I'm singing this song to you" The euro has fallen to 1.3950......
  • Rescue plan not an instant fix...

    * Rescue plan to take time... * Pound sterling rallies (for now)... * Brazil supports the real... * Iceland cuts rates... ** Rescue plan not an instant fix... Good day...Another roller coaster of a day, as the dollar continued to slide through lunch but then rallied back up in the afternoon. As I walked out the door last night, most of the major currencies were trading right about where they were when I turned the screens on. The dollar has started to fall again in overnight trading, so the up and down of the past few weeks looks to continue. The news stories coming across the wires this morning seem to be as volatile as the currencies. I have now counted three different stories which state the markets are moving back into higher yielding currencies and riskier investments after the coordinated bank bailout plan which was announced yesterday. But several other stories are talking about how investors are moving out of the higher yielding assets because of concern that the bank rescue will take too much time to unfreeze global credit markets. I tend to agree with the latter of these....