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Today's Video Update: Z10, Tiffany, Gold and the Weekend Worry, Cyprus

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Hello traders everywhere! Adam Hewison here, co-founder of MarketClub with your mid-day market update for Friday, the 22nd of March.

Z10 - Does BlackBerry Have The Magic To Come Back?
Today's the day that BlackBerry begins to market its Z10 smartphone in the US. It's interesting that BlackBerry chose today, as it is the 50th anniversary of the Beatles and the first James Bond movie. Both the Beatles and the Bond franchises have performed extremely well over the years. The question now is can Blackberry resurrect itself as a leading contender in the smartphone market? The US accounts for 20% of BlackBerry sales and this number either has to stay or grow from here. The key to BlackBerry stock is holding onto and growing its customer base. I think that's going to be an awfully hard challenge given the Android and Apple's iOS stranglehold on the US markets. Today we will be looking at the stock of BlackBerry to see just how well our Trade Triangle technology did in capturing the moves so far in this once shining star. Continue reading "Today's Video Update: Z10, Tiffany, Gold and the Weekend Worry, Cyprus" →

Today's Video Update: March Madness may not be about basketball this year

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Hello traders everywhere! Adam Hewison here, co-founder of MarketClub with your mid-day market update for Thursday, the 21st of March.

March Madness, May Really Be, March Madness
The NCAA basketball "March Madness" season starts today at noon, ET, however the March madness I am referring to has nothing to do with basketball.

The events in Cyprus and the ramifications it could have for the rest of the EU could be chaotic. Suddenly, there are no adults in the room, and once again we are seeing Russia jump into the fray with all kinds of loan deals, gas deals and donkey deals. How does all this Russian input complicate Cyprus? In my opinion, it presents a massive complication as Russia is not part of the EU and yet they are in the thick of things meddling in what is majorly an EU problem. The Russian interest is from all the money that's deposited from Russia in the banks of Cyprus. This saga has a lot more room to play out and if it is not contained, it has the potential to create a real ripple effect through Europe. Continue reading "Today's Video Update: March Madness may not be about basketball this year" →

Today's Video Update: Cyprus, the mouse that roared

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Hello traders everywhere! Adam Hewison here, co-founder of MarketClub with your mid-day market update for Wednesday, the 20th of March.

Cyprus, The Mouse That Roared
On Monday, I appeared on CNBC Asia's "Cash Flow" program and discussed Cyprus as being the "mouse that roared." Cyprus geographically is a very small country and represents only .5% of GDP for the EU. However, the ramifications and the notoriety of what this small island country is/was trying to do by seizing savers bank accounts is a psychological bombshell that was heard around the world, especially in Europe. That leads us to Russia, which has a great deal of its money on deposit in Cyprus. It is also rumored that some of the largest deposited funds belong to the Russian mafia. If that is the case, we would not expect to see the proposed disastrous idea of stealing savings from individuals and companies get passed. Continue reading "Today's Video Update: Cyprus, the mouse that roared" →

Today's Video Newsletter: The Fed meets today and tomorrow … what to expect

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Hello traders everywhere! Adam Hewison here, co-founder of MarketClub with your mid-day market update for Tuesday, the 19th of March.

What Will The Fed Do?
The Fed will be meeting today and tomorrow to decide the future course of action for interest rates. I suspect the blowup in Cyprus, which could be the tip of the iceberg, will be weighing on policy makers' minds and that the Fed will hold steady. The Fed is on a tricky course to try to juice up the market and the economy with low interest rates. The strategy of keeping interest rates low and pumping money into the system to the tune of $4 billion every trading day has many detractors, who claim the cost of doing this is just too expensive and the nation cannot afford it. It would seem to this market observer that the Fed and the market are both addicted to cheap money. When interest rates begin to rise, and they will, expect to see a radical change in sentiment towards the equity markets as inflation will once again rear its value robbing head to a whole new generation of investors. Continue reading "Today's Video Newsletter: The Fed meets today and tomorrow … what to expect" →

Today's Video Newsletter: Et tu, Cyprus?

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Hello traders everywhere! Adam Hewison here, co-founder of MarketClub with your mid-day market update for Monday, the 18th of March.

Et Tu, Cyprus?
"Et tu, Cyprus?", meaning "Even you, Cyprus?" (or 'You too, Cyprus?') is Latin, often used poetically as "Et tu, Brute?" to represent the last words of Roman dictator Julius Caesar to his friend Marcus Brutus at the moment of his assassination.

Once again, the problems in Europe resurface not with Greece this time, but with Cyprus, the largest inhabited island in the Mediterranean. Is Cyprus the tip of the iceberg? Cyprus is a very small part of the EU economy, representing only about .5% of total EU output. What is really going on here is not so much what percentage Cyprus represents, but rather the seizure of bank funds and breaking the law to get them. According to law, every bank account in Cyprus is guaranteed or insured for €100,000. Here is the risk as I see it in the Euro equation, Continue reading "Today's Video Newsletter: Et tu, Cyprus?" →