Friday Morning Kick Off

Here’s some of the good stuff to read before markets open on Friday, provided by high5finance:

Top Stories:

* Trading Outlook: April 5 – 9, 2010

* U.S. Stocks Halt Global Slide

* Greece Plunges Deeper into Crisis

* Trichet Says He Doesn’t Expect Greece to Default

* Jobless Claims in U.S. Unexpectedly Increase

* Nerves Hit Boiling Point Over Greece

* Bank of England Holds Interest Rates

* Kyrgyzstan: Opposition Forms Interim Government

* Black Spot Adds to Threats to Florida Citrus

* EU suggests €50 billion bank tax idea

* Today in Commodities: Head Fake or Reversal?

Latest News:

* Investors Look Past Greece Worries to Retail Sales

* Early Easter boosts March retail sales

* China May Post March Trade Deficit

* Oil down to near $85 as 2-month rally stalls

* Fall in Japan Machine Orders

* Fitch Analyst: Greece Should Ask for EU/IMF Cash Now

* Thursday Options Recap

Latest Blog Posts:

Econotwist’s Blog: Euro Zone: More Fiscal Integration Or Not?

StraightStocks.com:Putin’s Almost Apology at Katyn

Seeking Alpha: A Berkshire Without Buffett

Zero Hedge: The Greatest Shell Game Ever Continues As The Whole World Is Now Insolvent

The Huffington Post: Baby Boomers, Fiscal Peril, and Peter Peterson’s Summit With an Agenda

The Collector: Break through at Large Hadron Collider

Wall St. Cheat Sheet: How to Save Capitalism: Matthew Bishop, Editor at The Economist

The EUobserver: A banker’s tax for the EU!

Latest Analysis:

* Are We Approaching a Turning Point in the Chinese Risk Premium?

* Earnings Growth: Too Good to Last?

* Which Way Is Inflation Headed? Time for a Third Opinion

* Buy-and-Hold Might Be Dead For Stocks—But Not Bonds

* Commodities Indicators: April 2010

* Trend: Investing in Retail Rebound

Recommended Reading:

* Citi’s Rubin: ”I Learned Late of Risky Bets”

* The IMF? Who Needs The IMF?

* What to Do When the Fed Puts Up a Fight

* Finance reform: How to end too big to fail

* How “Sub-Pennying” In Dark Pools Ignores SEC Rule 612

* Using Gold to Hedge the Greek Crisis

* China on ‘Treadmill to Hell’’

* Sports Betting Hedge Fund Becomes Reality

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Happy Trading !

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