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Tonight, Auntie Yellen will appear with her group report after FOMC meeting.

Rates hikes in 3 months? Yes or no? 

Another once-in-a-blue-moon trade for everyone.

If you have no idea what I am talking about, go investopedia to knowledge yourself up a bit.

Got the grouper... not big but it is one. Right out of the gate, XLE pops to 78... and I flushed it.
Took two days (from 76) from that little fingerlings to turn into a fish.

Good enough for now. 

Separately, Fed officials maintained their forecast that the benchmark interest rate would rise to 0.625 percent this year, and lowered their projection for next year.
The median estimate for 2015 implies two quarter-point increases. Next year, they expect the rate to climb to 1.625 percent, lower than a March forecast of 1.875 percent.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/201...-2015-rate-rise

Yanis Varoufakis pushes away from his desk and strides across his office overlooking Syntagma Square in the heart of Athens. Dressed entirely in black, Varoufakis looks more like a hit man in a Quentin Tarantino movie than the finance minister of Greece. On this April afternoon, the economist is spoiling for a fight.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/201...europe-s-future

latest ...

German Merkel wont give any more leeway for Psateras.
Psasteras also said the policies attached to the further $$$$ is CRIMINAL !!!
His cabinet minister last night said the earlier loan of 1.3b was odious (bad will) and therefore greek no need to pay .....

The Greeks will be punished kau kau if they exit Euro.
What will they do? Go back to drachma?  Who wants to take drachma from them?
Going to end up like Zimbabwe currency. 

wooo ... .things are greenly healthy.

The European Central Bank told a meeting of euro zone finance ministers on Thursday that it was not sure if Greek banks, which have been suffering large daily deposit outflows, would be able to open on Monday, Reuters reported.
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The 2 billion euros taken out by savers between Monday and Wednesday represent about 1.5 percent of the total household and corporate deposits of 133.6 billion euros held by Greek banks as of end-April. Prior to this week, withdrawals had been running at 200-300 million euros a day.
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The ongoing crisis has prompted an outflow of deposits of about 30 billion euros ($33.84 billion) from Greek lenders between October and April, the central bank says.

let the beggars bankrupt. kick them out of eu. stop the funding.
these are the best 'policies' to be given to them and let them know what is poverty. kacau kacau my portfolio population every night ...

Markets in focus as Greek crisis nears zenith
http://www.cnbc.com/id/102769772

maybe big rally after Greek exit. 

rally. yeah ! go go go !!!

haha! red then. now red. 

xle nearing 76 again ... any takers?

i like to see 75. 

just last week i keep on hearing aunty/uncle saying China is strong now, just buy 

i guess ecb and merkel wont let the big mouth beggars die. look at the dows futures now ....