The Macro Trader’s view: We started the New Year bearish of bonds as we judged the global economic recovery looked on track and although a slow recovery was still expected, traders seemed confident enough to turn their attention to the debt build up in the major developed economies. This had the effect of hitting many major sovereign bond markets hard in the early days of January.

A remortgage as everyone knows is a home loan product and what it in fact is is the rearranging of a mortgage thet currently exists on a property. Both mortgages and remortgages are of course only available to homeowners as they are both secured on property, and as such they both appear to be sure fire concrete loans for which a mortgage lender will always receive the repayments.

Many day traders trade stock index futures contracts and make a successful living. Now days, almost every stock exchange in the world has got a stock index associated with it like the famous Dow Index, NASDAQ, FTSE, CAC, DAX, Hang Sen and so on. Currently more than 70 stock index contracts are traded on at least 20 exchanges in the world.

Over the years, traders have developed many different ways to manage their money. Most of these money management systems are based on different statistical probability theories. The idea behind a good money management system is that you should never place all your money at risk on a single trade but rather put an amount that is appropriate with the level of volatility in the market.

P resident Barack Obama phoned Senate allies Saturday as two key senators predicted that embattled Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke will be confirmed for a second term. Mr. Obama made calls from the White House to members of the Senate leadership and others and was assured Mr.

H edge funds and private equity could be surprise winners from President Obama’s clampdown on risk-taking by banks, as competition in trading is cut and star managers take their skills elsewhere. The proposals would stop banks owning or sponsoring a hedge fund or private equity fund, as well as so-called “prop trading,” where banks trade on their own account, forcing them to spin off such operations into stand-alone boutiques. “For some strategies, particularly many arbitrage-related and quantitative strategies, fewer parties chasing the same trades will improve margins and hence profits,” said Odi Lahav, vice president at Moody’s alternative investment group

S etting aside the rights or wrongs of the issue, U.S. President Barack Obama’s plan to strip banks of some of their clout is probably the last thing that world investors needed. It adds another huge dollop of uncertainty to markets already struggling with rising sovereign debt risk, a disappointing Wall Street earnings season and macroeconomic headwinds ranging from rising inflation to stubborn unemployment.