Cesarnc's market talk, gossips, rumours & fun

haha ! yes I escaped - many a slip between now and completion day on the house - if my buyer sees the news he will pull out and wait for another 15% drop - but he is a hard worker without time for the news and we know they get slaughtered first - so fingers crossed. Hey you don't worry about the Uk and your house - you will either make mega rent or get another price upswing - not like the US where you can't win - I am renting a luxury furnished condo including utilities for little more than the property taxes and insurance which are included. I feel sorry for the owner and I keep buying nice things to leave behind !

Looking forward to swapping stories of gloom and doom and HUGE opportunties with you guys - if we read these events correctly it will give us some real winners

This recession is like waiting for haley's comet or a total eclipse - it could be a real EVENT in our lifetimes or a damp squib - we will know soon

That's what makes this thread fun. You have the Gossip, Rumors, News and Cesars / BWR's inspirational pictures to help everyone during their day.

Welcome!

I did Ash - i was listening, onist i was,


i was in from 1.98xx to 2.0200

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_aversion

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_aversion

I wonder where BullRock is? He is the resident expert on cable (imvho).

De123, Do you trade Chinese Equity futures? If you do, could you please send me the name of a broker that offer's them through PM?

Thanks!

Ooohh!
Some of my favourite topics

May I add?
http://www.forexfactory.com/showpost...97&postcount=4

Where's Bravado? Bullrock? Bernanke Sr?

thats what i was reading ...., thansk, that will be sure included in future plans, and no i cant let u know the broker, i tried evrything, and forex is the only thing i will trade...but check here...
http://www.forexfactory.com/showthread.php?t=51752

Although I am a great fan of Cesarnc I cannot do with his bird photos - they look like a bunch of boney putas if you pardon my french..

they need a bit of meat on em
http://www.weirdspot.com/images/uploads/puta.jpg


now you get the idea !

I bet the US interest rates go down before these do

Commodities Hit by Broad Selloff

GOLD, COMEX, NYMEX, OIL, RICE, WHEAT, METALS, COPPER, COFFEE, COCOA
By Reuters

Reuters
| 17 Mar 2008 | 03:45 PM ET


Most commodities tumbled Monday as investors sold assets ranging from oil to coffee to grains to cover deepening losses in stocks and bonds. But gold ended slightly higher, as safe-haven buying kept it above the key $1,000 level.

The Reuters Jefferies CRB Index, which tracks 19 commodities futures, fell about 5 percent, its sharpest single-day slide in almost 40 years.
The selloff in energy, base metals and crops coincided with margins calls on global financial markets and a dire need for cash in almost every financial industry as the near collapse of Wall Street's Bear Stearns shook the global economy.

Crude oil futures took their hardest tumble in almost two weeks, sliding more than 6 percent. Copper, one the most economically sensitive raw materials, was down 5 percent.

Coffee and cocoa lost as much 10 percent during their worst moments in Monday's trading. Other key crops like wheat, corn and soybeans also slumped, many hitting limit-down for a session.

Most of these markets had rallied for months now due to a weak dollar. The U.S. currency fell again on Monday, plumbing new lows against other major currencies. But commodities prices fell anyway.

Shares of MF Global , the world's largest broker of exchange-listed futures and options, fell as much as 78 percent and company officials scrambled to reassure investors that it had enough funds for normal business.


"I think a move toward liquidity, aside from the longer-term fundamentals, is driving this," said Bart Melek, Global Commodity Strategist at Toronto's BMO Nesbitt Burns.

"Credit is difficult to get and if you have an asset that has made money, and commodities certainly have, you sell what you need to sell to get liquidity.
While markets like gold -- which has risen over 20 percent in three months -- and wheat -- up almost 30 percent in the same span -- still seemed dangerously overbought, many analysts said they were among the best places for investors now.

"The returns in all asset classes, if you aggregate them, pale with what investors get now in commodities," said Adam Sarhan, a Florida-based commentator on global markets.

"Where else can you put your money? You can't put it in the money market with the way interest rates are falling. You can't put it in the stock market because the stock market is going down everyday. You can't put it in emerging markets because those are going down with Wall Street as well. And you can't put it in Treasuries because they are yielding practically nothing."

Investors in five of the world's top commodity indexes saw returns of almost 30 percent on average for 2007 against the 4 percent from Wall Street's S&P Index 500 and the 6 percent from the Lehman Aggregate bond index.

Sell-Off Hits Markets from Crude Oil to Rice
U.S. crude settled at $105.68 a barrel, down 4.11 percent after touching a record high of $111.80 during Monday's session.


Copper for May delivery on the New York Mercantile Exchange's Comex division lost as much as 17 cents to hit an intraday bottom of $3.6540 a lb -- its lowest since Feb. 19. It settled at $3.6850, down 14.30 cents.

Comex gold for May rose early to a record high of $1,033.90, then pared gains but still managed to close up $3.10 at $1,002.60.

On the Chicago Board of Trade, wheat fell the 50-cent limit-down for a session; corn the 20-cent limit-downand rice the 50-cent limit-down.
Analysts said the cash-driven liquidation in commodities may continue even after Monday and it was hard to estimate how much froth needed to come off these markets.

"Wall Street hates uncertaintly. They'd rather get bad news than uncertainty, because who knows who else will be next to fall?" said Ron Lawson, managing director at logicadvisors.com. "If we go a couple of weeks and no one else pukes, maybe we'll get some more solid footing under us."

Copyright 2008 Reuters. Click for restrictions.
URL: http://www.cnbc.com/id/23677813/

Hey Cesar, He's outdone you!

The worst, most humiliating baby namesAncestry.com shares the silliest, craziest and downright cruelest


What would compel a parent to bestow a newborn with a name like “Tiny Hooker” or “Fanny Large”? Or an amusing choice like “Wanna Towell"? It’s not just Hollywood’s elite opting for unique, embarrassing names—throughout history, normal people separated their offspring from the masses with truly terrible names. In “Bad Baby Names,” Michael Sherrod and Matthew Rayback, of the genealogy Web site Ancestry.com, share thousands of shocking names given to real people, as recorded by the U.S. Census Bureau. Discover the funny names based around common themes, like diseases (Fever Bender, Cholera Peace), food (Bread White, Pomegranate Purple), pets (Good Dog), and if you thought Wednesday Addams was unfortunate—wait till you meet Monday Monday

Diseases
You'd have to be really sick to infect your offspring with virulent names like these:
Fever Bender (born 1856)
Leper Priest (born 1929)
Cholera Priest (born 1830 during the second cholera pandemic)
Rubella Graves (born 1814)
Typhus Black (born 1897)
Hysteria Johnson (born 1881)
Emma Royd (born 1850)
Kathryn E. Coli (born 1894)
Mumps Sykes (born 1891)

Professions
With names like "Mayor Bland," it seems like some parents had high, ambitious hopes for their children's future.
Cook Cook
Governor Bush
Lawyer Low
Doctor Love
Teacher Blackbear
Judge Savage
Editor Honeycutt
Mayor Bland
Sales O. Justice
Gamble Moore

Sins
The authors found 149 records for people named Lust, 70 for Greed, 12 for Sloth, and 830 for Pride. Which of the 7 deadlly sins was missing? Only gluttony.
Lust Garten
Greed Sister Mancini
Avarice Sullivan
Sloth Washton
Wrath Gordon
Envy Burger
Pride Saint
Greed McGrew
Pride Saint
Lust T. Castle

Irish luck
Plenty of parents must have thought that naming their child Lucky would translate into a bright future. In 1930 alone, there are 463 Luckys.

Some lucky favorites:
Lucky Green
Lucky Jewell
Lucky O’Brien
Lucky Pleasant
Luck Fortune
Shamrock Hardeman of Illinois
Shamrock Dates of Mississippi
Shamrock Holland of Texas
The religious types:
Saint Patrick Blan
Saint Patrick Forrest
Saint Patrick
The patriotic:
Ireland England
Ireland Green
Irish Sea
Ireland Brew
Whimsical:
Rainbow Green
Emerald Jewel
Clover Field
Clover B. Green A St. Patrick’s Day feast:
Beef Cooper
Guinness Dack
Cabbage Haywood

Foods
Some parents loved eating so much, they named their kids after favorite meals, snacks—and even condiments:
Lunch Magee
Dinner Ware
Bread White
Hero Brat
Mayo Head
Mustard M. Mustard
Pickle Parker
Plum Sellers
Banana Bowdy
Cherry Grant

Celebrities
Forget Suri or Shiloh – celebrities have given their children far stranger names! Discover the stars' oddest, most bizarre baby names:
Apple (Chris Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow)
Moxie CrimeFighter (Magician Penn Jillette)
Hopper (Sean Penn and Robin Wright)
Pilot Inspektor (Jason Lee and Beth Riesgraf)
Sosie (Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick)
Destry (Steven Spielberg and Kate Capshaw)
Aurelius Cy (Elle Macpherson)
Kal-El Coppola (Nicolas Cage)
Bluebell Madonna (Spice Girl Geri Halliwell)
Audio Science (Actress Shannyn Sossamon)
Sage Moonblood (Sylvester Stallone)
Tallulah (Bruce Willis and Demi Moore)
Kyd (David Duchovny and Tea Leoni)

Bart Simpson pranks
Bart Simpson's prank calls to Moe's Tavern are nearly legendary, but the sad fact is that some people actually go through life with those goofy names. The following Bart creations all exist within the Ancestry.com databases:
Al Caholic
Oliver Clothesoff
I.P. Freely
Seymour Butz
Mike Rotch
Hugh Jass
Amanda Hugginkiss
Ivana Tinkle
Anita Bath
Maya Buttreeks

So I guess you experts are of the opinion that I need to use this system with Stop Losses in place? (Believe me, the decision to remove them was a difficult one, as it went against everything I read, but the results, so far, have been better without them.)

Shouda put those 2 badboys to run Fed and the US Treasury. Let's call them Ben and Paulson

This is very funny... We should suggest names for Britney's kids, you know like

- Pills Rock
- Vodka Martini (shaken, not stirred)
- Mamma Spankme
- Popwreck Legacy

That's good, very good!

Lost in translation (mathamatics) did i say heads for long or tails.

he's around, he's always around, one of the reliable things on FF.

he'll drop by later just to give me SH*t for the h&T's line

"History repeats itself, first time as comedy, second time as tragedy". *

http://www.thephoenix.com/SlopCultur...y/Stooges3.jpg
http://media.cnbc.com/i/CNBC/Section...arns_img_3.jpg
* sorry about that, Marx. But you also screwed up, anyway.

Lots of info on the Bear Fuckup here
http://www.cnbc.com/id/23671015