CURRENCY EASED

SAO PAULO, March 26 (Reuters) - Brazil's stocks and currency eased on Friday as investors cashed in on sharp rallies made this week on the back of government efforts abroad and at home to combat the global financial crisis. Sao Paulo's main stock index .BVSP, the Bovespa, fell 1.63 percent to 41,896.17 points, in tandem with global shares.
But the index was still up about 4.5 percent in a week marked by hopes a U.S. plan to clean up toxic assets from banks' balance sheets would help the financial sector and that a $15 billion housing program at home would revive Brazil's economy. "The U.S. government measures for the economy gave markets a boost in recent days, but now investors are opting for taking profits," said Roberto Alem, an economist at M2 Investimentos. Brazil's currency, the real BRBY shed 1.6 percent to 2.277 reais as the greenback .DXY surged nearly 1.3 percent against a basket of major currencies. Commodity shares led the downturn in the stock market. State-run Petrobras (PETR4.SA) slumped 2.6 percent to 29.57 reais as oil prices eased more than 4 percent and mining giant Vale (VALE5.SA) shed 2.1 percent to 27.7 reais as copper prices fell. Lower metal prices also put steelmakers under pressure, with Gerdau (GGBR4.SA) down 1.9 percent at 13.44 reais and CSN (CSNA3.SA) 1.1 percent lower at 33.93 reais. Brazilian aircraft maker Embraer (EMBR3.SA) tumbled 6 percent to 7.63 reais after announcing on Thursday its fourth-quarter profit fell 44 percent because of large derivatives losses and slowing sales. Brazilian pulp producer Aracruz (ARCZ6.SA) lost 1.21 percent to 1.63 reais after posting a fourth-quarter net loss of $1.33 billion, due to foreign exchange losses. (Reporting by Ana Nicolaci da Costa and Aluisio Alves; Editing by Diane Craft)

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Stock Investment Trading: How Stock & Currency Trading Works, Where to Learn / Begin Trading Free - No Obligations, Free Registration, Training Accoun

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Brazil's stock, currency drop on profit taking

SAO PAULO, March 26 (Reuters) - Brazil's stocks and currency eased on Friday as investors cashed in on sharp rallies made this week on the back of government efforts abroad and at home to combat the global financial crisis.
Sao Paulo's main stock index .BVSP, the Bovespa, fell 1.63 percent to 41,896.17 points, in tandem with global shares.
But the index was still up about 4.5 percent in a week marked by hopes a U.S. plan to clean up toxic assets from banks' balance sheets would help the financial sector and that a $15 billion housing program at home would revive Brazil's economy.
"The U.S. government measures for the economy gave markets a boost in recent days, but now investors are opting for taking profits," said Roberto Alem, an economist at M2 Investimentos.
Brazil's currency, the real BRBY shed 1.6 percent to 2.277 reais as the greenback .DXY surged nearly 1.3 percent against a basket of major currencies.
Commodity shares led the downturn in the stock market. State-run Petrobras (PETR4.SA) slumped 2.6 percent to 29.57 reais as oil prices eased more than 4 percent and mining giant Vale (VALE5.SA) shed 2.1 percent to 27.7 reais as copper prices fell.
Lower metal prices also put steelmakers under pressure, with Gerdau (GGBR4.SA) down 1.9 percent at 13.44 reais and CSN (CSNA3.SA) 1.1 percent lower at 33.93 reais.
Brazilian aircraft maker Embraer (EMBR3.SA) tumbled 6 percent to 7.63 reais after announcing on Thursday its fourth-quarter profit fell 44 percent because of large derivatives losses and slowing sales.
Brazilian pulp producer Aracruz (ARCZ6.SA) lost 1.21 percent to 1.63 reais after posting a fourth-quarter net loss of $1.33 billion, due to foreign exchange losses.
(Reporting by Ana Nicolaci da Costa and Aluisio Alves; Editing by Diane Craft)

QuoteSee Stock/Currency plasmoid 0.2

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QuoteSee lets you track stock and currency quotes.format for symbols:usdcad=x - USD to CADyhoo - Yahoo!It was tested on Kubuntu 9.04 with Qt 4.5.2 and KDE 4.3.I appreciate any bug reports :)Known issues* Brings down the desktop on OpenSUSE 11.1/KDE4.3/Qt 4.5.2To compile, install:cmake build-essentialkdelibs5-devIf you don't want to compile:check out the info and grab repository or package here for Ubuntu for versions 0.1.2 and 0.2: https://launchpad.net/~samrog131/+archive/ppahere for OpenSUSE (v0.1.2 at the moment, seehttp://www.kdelook.org/content/show.phpcontent=101760#c319942):http://software.opensuse.org/search?baseproject=ALL&p=1&q=plasmoid-quoteseeChangelog:QuoteSee 0.2 [2009-08-10]New features:* Hovering over a widget causes a button for external link to show up, clicking on it opens a browser on yahoo page for the symbol* Hovering over a widget causes tool tip with trade time and date to show up* Configuration options for reading and saving a symbol list file* Configuration setting for increasing/decreasin update interval, this is for widget only, dataengine updates every 1 minute* Configuration setting for applet translucency* New Icon!!Changes:* Now plasmoid uses quotesee data engine* Improved processing for currency change fetching, grabs a smaller chunk of xmlQuoteSee 0.1.2 [2009-04-07]* Fixed currency rate change fetching if compiled with Qt 4.5* Currency rate change is displayed with 4 decimal places instead of 2* Stock names containing ',' display correctly, but are still limited to 17 charactersQuoteSee 0.1.1 [2009-03-30]* Fixed crashing when checking currency quotes if QuoteSee compiled with Qt 4.5 (works fine with Qt 4.4.3). Still won't work correctly but won't crash and take the desktop with it.

Personal Stock Streamer 9.6.5

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Foreign Currency Trading (Paperback)

Not recommended - not what you expect when you buy "Idiot Guides." I think other books are probably much better. It gave me very little understanding of trading currency, and definitely missed the mark in many areas. There are many grammatical errors, and the author constantly pushes his own website as being the best. He spends little time explaining what actually moves currency prices, which should have been a main topic. Instead, he spends much time discussing things like what kind of computer you need, what a bid/ask is, and how to pick a good broker (use his company)- which most people can figure out for themselves. His chapter on technical analysis is almost comical - it does nothing more than describe what a candlestick chart is, a bar chart, and what a trend is. The single useful advice I could come up with is his recommendation to cover a loss at a 30 pip decline, and shoot for a 100 pip profit. Otherwise, in many paragraghs he says interest rates boost a currency value and in one paragrapgh they lower a currency value, so I am left wondering which it is... At this point, I have to buy another book because I basically understand nothing. I still have no idea how brokers charge interest on your margin, or how long people hold currency trades. The author frequently mentions losing everything in a few minutes but does not explain how this happens -ie - why you cannot just wait for it to come back like with stocks and options. Overall, you will definitely need to buy another book. I think this book was very poorly written and does not convey information well at all.