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NBT Gets Lunar

Without a telescope, nor any other form of advanced optics, I wasn't ready to miss something that I wouldn't get to see for another 80 years. Hype aside, it is after all just a lunar
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Old Map Gallery

With the holidays near, I thought it would be fun to spread a little holiday link cheer to a friend if anyone finds interest. Old Map Gallery has an arsenal of original antique maps from
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ECB Increases Capital Requirement to 10.76bb from 5.76bb

As expected, an increase in capital requirements just shot in from the ECB follow staunch rhetoric from Trechet last week showing his “now or never” face and quoted, stating the need for “maximum flexibility and
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Quick US Morning Update – AUD, EUR, GBP & NZD

The risk we saw coming into the market yesterday carried through to today and the dollar index continued to take a beating early on, though certainly not as hard as just hours ago. Some quick
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The Euro Crisis In Numbers

Spiegel provides a big picture view of European Debt: Click here to view the entire gallery (9 images total).
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North Korea / German Finance Minster's Comments Rattle Euro

German finance minister says: Euro is at Stake Germany is not swimming in money, but rather drowning in debt Hearing any kind of claims such as these from Germany poses a threat as Germany is
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EURUSD Pennant Pattern Forex

NBT Quantitatively Eases Back Into Motion

Please don't get too excited by the title — we haven't decided to print money to give to our readers (though would not be a bad incentive….we'll let the U.S. Fed be our test dummies,
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Non-Farm % Payroll Change, This Recession vs. Past

Just another wake-up call in terms of this recession, chartoftheday illustrates the trend of % changes in nonfarm of recessions spanning 1950-1999 versus the current. Unemployment picture at 9.5% today yet most leading indicators coming
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The Rise and Fall of the Euro

Interactive graph from Spiegel Online highlighting some key movements for the pair. Click the chart to go to the source. Also related from the same site is the following showing ECB shares according to capital.
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