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The GBPUSD has surged through 1.6130 and is testing the former neckline from the September head and shoulders breakdown. There is Fibonacci resistance...

A House committee approved over-the-counter derivatives legislation that closely tracks the Obama administration's proposal by moving some products traded by financial institutions onto exchanges or electronic platforms.

Weaker than they lookAS STRIKING workers assembled for a protest march in front of DriveTest, a privatised government agency that conducts driving tests for Ontario, Marie Derane, a strike leader, grabbed a megaphone to say that the march would not start until all the journalists present had finished their interviews. Too few people were paying attention to the strike by 550 members of the United Steelworkers that began on August 21st, she explained later. And not all of those who did were supportive. “They tell me: ‘This is a recession, get back to work’.”These are hard times for Canada’s trade unions. When car plants and factories close, union jobs go. The public has turned hostile, even in traditional blue-collar towns. When municipal workers in Toronto and Windsor went on strike this summer, leaving rubbish piled up in the streets and head-high weeds in parks, residents had little sympathy. Some have lost their own jobs, or their savings. The unionR

It is a known fact that the Forex Megadroid is creating quite a stir in the market. Many investors, new and not so new are warming up to this product and finding it a good work companion. Yet, let us ask ourselves whether this robot is right for the newbie in the forex market who has absolutely no idea on how it all works but is willing to give it a shot in any case.

CLEVELAND, Oct. 15/PRNewswire/ -- With organizations tackling mounting workloads with fewer resources, many are being forced to find ways to become more efficient and cut costs. Enterprise content management (ECM) software, like OnBase, can help by eliminating paper, manual tasks and sometimes entire steps from processes (http://onbase.com/English/Products/OnBaseProductModules). But for some organizations - government agencies, healthcare providers, insurers, and even mountain resorts - OnBase is more than just a cost cutter and way to improve efficiency. It also results in better run businesses with happier and more satisfied employees and customers. For applying OnBase in new and unique ways to do these very things, 12 organizations were honored with RealSolutions awards at Hyland Software's annual OnBase Training & Technology Conference (OTTC).

ProStor's InfiniVault update is aimed at cost-conscious businesses seeking an integrated storage appliance to aid with data archiving and compliance. - Removable disk storage specialist ProStor Systems announced the launch of InfiniVault Model 5, an integrated storage appliance in a tower design with 5 slots for RDX removable disks and a 1.8TB file area that can manage 250 million files. The product is aimed at small to medium-si...

Intel and other technology stocks helped lead the way as markets climbed out of the trough they fell into in March -- even as the recession kept many big corporations and consumers sitting on their wallets instead of spending on computers and other high-tech products. Wary investors could find much to like about technology companies, including solid profits.

Apple's Mac computers have steadily gained market share over the years, a winning streak that may be tested by next week's launch of Microsoft Corp's new Windows 7 operating system. F...

This paper examines the forecasting ability of the dividend-price ratio for international stock market returns. Hitherto, existing research has only considered this issue in sample and in a linear framework. Hence, this paper provides the first systematic study of non-linear forecasting within the present value model context. Using an asymmetric variant of the popular exponential smooth-transition (ESTR) model we demonstrate the superior forecasting ability for the G7 markets over both a linear and symmetric ESTR model on the basis of a variety of forecast performance tests. In particular, the asymmetric-ESTR model provides improved mean forecast error metrics that are largely significant on the basis of forecast equality tests. Furthermore, in a trading rule exercise this models provides superior trading returns. As a final exercise we compare the forecasting performance of the individual models with those obtained through forecast combination. These results support the individual mod

Catalyst Development Corporation that provides market components for software developers has released another useful product: ChoiceAnalyst. It provides developers an affordable decision making software that helps them make important decisions associated to businesses and keeping them a step ahead. The idea is to make sure whatever decision a business takes or plans to prove beneficial in the market by assisting the limited quantitative limits that human minds are barred with. Some of the ways in which it can be helpful include: Organizing priorities, revealing the big picture. Defining the problem, clarifying the goal, clearing the mind. Providing consistent structure for decision making. Eliminating bias, identifying erroneous assumptions. Mathematically calculating the best choice. Documenting the process, justifying the outcome. Apart from that it provides other key features which include organizing decision data in three different categories which include Choices, Cr