Confidence has risen among Scottish small businesses despite rising costs and weak trading conditions, according to a new survey.
Raymond James analyst Anthony Polini says he isn't going to change his buy rating based on the quarter's weak trading results.
In the financial sector, despite weak trading volume in Q2, results are likely to top consensus expectations on improving credit quality and large releases from loan loss reserves.
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The profit, Dimon said, was the product of markdowns on leveraged loans and mortgage trading positions, as well as weak trading results and deterioration in all types of loans.
This seems to contrast the bearish signals that can be gleaned from extremely weak insider trading data.
The very weak early trading on Wednesday was used as buying opportunity for many, because the Spyder Trust ( SPY) closed unchanged.
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After a weak start to trading Friday, the remarks from congressional leaders lifted stocks out of the red.
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Glencore's emergence, even if its share price proved a bit weak in subsequent trading, was further testimony to the rise--or return--of resources to prominence in world markets.
But if company B with weak financials is trading for 100x revenue, company A with the superior fundamentals is trading for 150x revenue, so you get this whole relative valuation game.
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It was weak again in trading on Wednesday.
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The yen was weak during Tokyo's trading hours, which helped the Nikkei end up 1.7% at 12546.46.
Wall Street finished mixed on Monday after record oil and a weak manufacturing report had stocks trading lower.
Liquidation of trading positions by weak-handed long gold traders was also featured Thursday.
But the U.S. currency has been weak agains the peso, trading at 10.28 during the day, the lowest level since 2003.
While they would naturally prefer to have exchange-rate stability with their major trading partners, our weak dollar policy threatens them with price inflation unless they let their currency rise.
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"The manufacturing sector continues to underperform the rest of the economy, reflecting its exposure to difficult overseas trading conditions and the weak euro, " said Ruth Lea, head of the IoD's policy unit.
Zoom Technologies shares are trading sharply lower Tuesday afternoon on weak Q3 results and disappointing guidance.
The Nasdaq, however, is weak heading into the open, with futures trading about 1.5 points below fair value.
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The U.S. dollar index is trading lower Friday morning on the weak jobs data and on some profit taking.
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The weak dollar has inspired a lot of rumor trading, including the idea that several Gulf states, along with Japan, Russia and China, are in talks to start pricing oil according to a basket of currencies.
Frank Lesh, broker and futures analyst with FuturePath Trading, said the technical charts look weak for gold.
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Crude oil prices are trading weaker Tuesday morning, pressured by the weak EU GDP data.
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The bank said the European debt crisis and overall weak economic indicators across the globe hurt client demand and trading.
Competitors Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern have seen their stocks recover after a weak September and have been on an upward trajectory since, both trading above their 200-day moving averages.
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True, increased financial trading might make prices more volatile, though the evidence is weak.
Crude oil prices are trading lower again Friday morning on the EU debt woes, weak U.S. economic data and slumping stock markets.
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Canadian Solar shares are trading sharply lower Wednesday morning on disappointing Q2 financial results and weak margin guidance for the third quarter.
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This second trading week of 2013 comes to a close with investors analyzed weak results from Wells Fargo (WFC) and higher inflation in China.
Yet no matter who actually placed the trades, this loss not only reflects poor risk management and weak internal controls but could also reveal fraud if it can be established that trading losses were intentionally hidden, as has been alleged (and is subject to investigation by regulatory authorities).
Informatica shares are trading sharply lower Thursday morning after the data integration software company issued alarmingly weak preliminary results for the third quarter.
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