Emini Futures Podcast For Monday 08/20/12
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E-Mini S&P 500 Futures reacted cautiously to the rhetoric concerning the German Bundesbank’s view of the European Central Bank’s potential bond buying program! Germany has shouldered much of the debt crisis in the Euro Zone and may be a bit of the “lender of last resort” in this plan.
There is still a sentiment of prospective easing as traders await further indications of potential Federal Reserve action at the summit taking place at the end of the month and the European Central Bank meeting in September. This week, we look forward to housing data that is expected to show both the existing and new home sales climbing to 4.89 million unit annual rate from the 4.72 million unit rate in June.
On Wednesday, the Federal Reserve will release the minutes from the August 1st meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee meeting where they decided against further stimulus or monetary easing. The Kansas City Federal Reserve annual conference between August 30th to September 1st is now viewed as a potential time for the Federal Reserve to initiate further easing.
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) had a market capitalization today over $623 billion making it one of the most valuable companies of all time taking the stock up 2.63 % to $665.15. It was a very mild, light volume “risk on” atmosphere!
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