- The S&P 500 Loses $1.8 Trillion in Market Cap for the Week
- Quick Market Stats: Week Ending 10/10
- Dow and the Depression
- Dow Loses over $300 Billion in Market Cap over 2-days
- Major Indices Set Record Losses
- One Year from the Highs
- Six Day Losing Streaks
- Best and Worst Performers in the Global Markets Crisis
- Trading the Volatility
- A Bad Case of the Mondays
Nearly 1.42 billion shares and $15.1 billion traded yesterday in CNBC's Million Dollar Portfolio Challenge. The top currency trader has more than doubled his money making over $242,000 since currency trading began. Check out Sue Herrera's currency tips here and for daily currency analysis, go to Currency Updates.
Contest Widely Helds and Actives:
- The most profitable currency trades in the contest were made in the EUR/USD [$$EURUSD
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] pairs. - Investors bought the EUR/USD [$$EURUSD
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] pair ahead of a widely expected 25 basis point rate hike during today's ECB meeting. - The US dollar fell broadly yesterday as an ADP National Employment report showed that jobs in the private sector fell by 79,000 in June, making it the biggest decline since November 2002.
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Industrials continue to represent 30% of the top widely helds followed by Financials at 20%.
Sample of Top Trades in the Leaderboard:
- Apollo Group [APOL
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] if you bought on Friday before 4pET and held/sold on Monday, you made 18.42% - Quimonda [QI
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] if you bought on Friday before 4pET and held/sold on Monday, you made 16.10% - Family Dollar Stores [FDO
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] if you bought on Friday before 4pET and held/sold on Monday, you made 8.18%
Sample of Losing Trades from the Leaderboard:
Hertz Global Holdings [HTZ Loading... ()
] if you bought on Friday before 4pET and held/sold on Monday, you lost 16.17%
Bets for today (July 1st): Dominated by Energy
- W-D40 Co. [WDFC
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] Continental Airlines [CAL Loading... ()
] Petrohawk Energy [HK Loading... ()
] Goodrich Petroleum [GDP Loading... ()
] Massey Energy [MEE Loading... ()
]Canadian Solar [CSIQ Loading... ()
]MF Global [MF Loading... ()
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