Wednesday, October 29, 2008

External Factors

I learned yesterdays runup was related to Japanese Yen stabilization. That took me buy surprise. I haven't been paying attention to currencies, but clearly they can be a factor for market fluctuations.

http://finance.google.com/finance?q=USDJPY

The good news is that this is right on the front of finance.google.com, so we don't need any additional sites to monitor.

Another thing causing a runup is anticipation for a fed rate cut in about an hour. I'm not sure if there is a schedule somewhere on when these cuts are possible. I have been bit by this before and I need to make sure I figure out when to anticipate this type of external factor on the market.

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