{"id":446797,"date":"2010-03-19T09:21:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-19T13:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"e2249889-c78b-43e3-9643-b1d7d4aa587b:409968"},"modified":"2010-03-19T09:21:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-19T13:21:00","slug":"quadruple-witching-canadian-dollar-boeing-rim-%e2%80%93-vialoux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/446797","title":{"rendered":"Quadruple witching, Canadian dollar, Boeing, RIM \u2013 Vialoux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. equity index futures are mixed this morning. S&amp;P 500 futures are up one point in pre-opening comments. Traders are girding for quadruple witching hour at the close today. Historically, volume and volatility in equity markets have spiked on quadruple witching day.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Dollar gained 0.62 to 99.33 cents U.S. following release of Canada\u2019s February Consumer Price Index. CPI on a year-over-year basis slipped from 1.9% to 1.6%. However, core CPI (ex food and energy) increased from 2.0% to 2.1%. The Bank of Canada has expressed concern about the possibility that the core rate could move higher than 2.0% implying that it may move to increase administered interest rates. <\/p>\n<p>Boeing added 2% on news that the company is increasing production to match rising demand for passenger aircraft. \u2018Tis the season for Boeing to move higher until June!<\/p>\n<p>Research in Motion gained 1% after the stock was initiated as a Buy at Wunderlich. Target price is $96. <\/p>\n<p>Palm is down 18% after announcing negative fiscal fourth quarter guidance. <\/p>\n<p>Best Buy gained 4% after Goldman Sachs upgraded the stock from Market Perform to Buy.<\/p>\n<p>TD Newcrest upgraded Telus from Buy to Action Buy and downgraded BCE from Speculative Buy to Hold.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p><i>Don Vialoux, chartered market technician, is the author of a free<br \/>\ndaily report on equity markets, sectors, commodities, equities and<br \/>\nExchange-Traded Funds. For more visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timingthemarket.ca\/techtalk\/\" >Don Vialoux&#39;s Web site<\/a><\/i> <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/network.nationalpost.com\/NP\/aggbug.aspx?PostID=409968\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. equity index futures are mixed this morning. S&amp;P 500 futures are up one point in pre-opening comments. Traders are girding for quadruple witching hour at the close today. Historically, volume and volatility in equity markets have spiked on quadruple witching day. The Canadian Dollar gained 0.62 to 99.33 cents U.S. following release of Canada\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4059,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-446797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4059"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}