A tablet computing device may be launched by Apple this week that is said to do what the iPhone did to the telecommunications scenario and the iTunes did to the music world according to Kevin Grewal.
Steve Jobs, the Apple CEO expects the product to bring great deal of innovation into the media industry through the repackaging and reselling of media content. The main aim of this device is to take the media efficiency into the homes as it enables multiple users to watch television, read news and emails. As per ‘The Wall Street Journal’, Apple is negotiating with television networks such as Walt Disney and CBS for introducing a TV subscription service.
In addition to this, the company is also believed to be negotiating with NewsCorp and New York Times for making a deal for newspapers, magazines and books. The latest earnings report of Apple even took “The Wall Street Journal’ by surprise. The overall revenue and the sales of Apple phones beat the expectations of everyone. However, it is believed that their new product will revolutionize the media industry and thereby increasing the revenue considerably.
The ETF investors who would like to get the clear picture about this innovative company can do that by following the below mentioned funds.
The iShares Dow Jones US Technology or IYW
This investment normally seeks investment results, which will correspond with the ‘Dow Jones U.S. Technology Index’ in case of yield and price performance. The fund is known to invest 90 percent of the total assets in securities of underlying index as well as the depositary receipts that represent securities of underlying index. The raining assets will be invested in the securities that are included in the underlying index. However, these securities are the ones that the BGFA think that can fund track the underlying index, and also in the options on the futures contracts as well as futures contracts, options cash and the equivalents of cash and the options and swaps. The cash equivalents will include even shares of the money market funds that are advised by BGFA. These funds are also known to be non-diversified.

TOP 10 HOLDINGS ( 65.37% OF TOTAL ASSETS)
Company Symbol % Assets
Apple Inc. (AAPL) 9.46
Cisco Systems, Inc. (CSCO) 7.25
Google Inc. (GOOG) 7.47
HEWLETT PACKARD CO (HPQ) 4.85
Intel Corporation (INTC) 4.63
INTL BUSINESS MACH (IBM) 8.96
Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) 12.4
Oracle Corporation (ORCL) 4.47
QUALCOMM Incorporated (QCOM) 3.99
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS (TXN) 1.89

Technology Select Sector SPDR or XLK
This investment will normally seek the ones that correspond with the performance, before expenses and fees, of the equities of companies that are publicly traded in technology economic sector. This fund will typically invest at least 95 percent of the total assets in the companies in the technology sector. The sector of this fund will include companies present in the following industries: IT and internet services, computers, semiconductor equipment, software, electronics, peripherals and a large range of telecommunication products. This fund is also known to be non-diversified.
TOP 10 HOLDINGS ( 64.64% OF TOTAL ASSETS)

Company Symbol % Assets
Apple Inc. (AAPL) 8.35
AT&T INC. (T) 7.5
Cisco Systems, Inc. (CSCO) 6.52
Google Inc. (GOOG) 6.39
HEWLETT PACKARD CO (HPQ) 4.62
Intel Corporation (INTC) 4.52
INTL BUSINESS MACH (IBM) 7.82
Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) 10.64
Oracle Corporation (ORCL) 4.1
VERIZON COMMUN (VZ) 4.18

IShares S&P North American Technology or IGM
This investment will normally seek the investment results, which will correspond with the ‘price and yield’ performance, before expenses and fees, of the ‘S&P North American Technology Sector Index’. This fund normally invests not less than 90 percent of the total assets in securities that belong to the underlying index and in the depositary receipts that represent securities that belong to the underlying index. This Fund may invest remaining assets of the company in securities that are not included in the underlying index. However, these securities will be the ones that are belived to be helpful fund tracking the in underlying index and in the futures contracts, futures contracts’ options, cash and the equivalents of cash as well as options and swaps. This fund is known to be non-diversified.
TOP 10 HOLDINGS ( 58.84% OF TOTAL ASSETS)

Company Symbol % Assets
Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN) 2.07
Apple Inc. (AAPL) 8.42
Cisco Systems, Inc. (CSCO) 6.35
Google Inc. (GOOG) 6.6
HEWLETT PACKARD CO (HPQ) 5.47
Intel Corporation (INTC) 5.06
INTL BUSINESS MACH (IBM) 7.79
Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) 9.61
Oracle Corporation (ORCL) 3.95
QUALCOMM Incorporated (QCOM) 3.52

According to one of the consensus survey that was done by FactSet Research, Apple Inc is going to project $2.10 a share in their first quarter. At the same time of the quarter result, the company would unveil its new tablet PC.
There is been speculation that Google, the search engine giant would also make a very big move in coming days. After the closing bell on Friday’s trading, Google said that both Brin and Page would sell about 5 million shares each under their trading plan which was pre-arranged.
The sales of the Google shares would be extended over certain period of time in order to minimize the impact of market. Both Brin and Page hold about 57.7 million shares in Google which would roughly represent 18% of the total capital stock of Google.
In the fourth quarter of Texas instruments, the company is going post about 49 cents a share in the post earnings.
In the fourth quarter of this year, Amgen is going to post 26 cents a share in the post earning. Again, VMware is going to post about 26 cents per share in the fourth quarter.
Most of the analysts estimate that Zions Bancorp would loss about $1.70 per share in their fourth quarter.
AK steel holdings – 20 cents per share post earnings
Albemarle Corp – earnings of about 57 cents per share
Crane – 57 cents post earning
Eaton – $1.23 a share post earning
Halliburton Co – 27 cents per share post earning
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Motorola Inc has said that the company is going to complaint the USA international trade commission that RIMM (research in motion ltd) has infringed about five of its patents. The company said that the patents that were infringed by RIMM are the ones that were in the early stage of innovation in some of the key areas such as Wi-Fi, power management, user interface and application management.
Motorola is asking the ITC to begin the investigation as soon as possible and has also requested to issue an order on banning certain devices made by RIMM.. RIMM is the manufacturer of famous blackberry phones worldwide.
Rambus Inc has said that administrative law judge US ITC has ruled out that among the five patents applied by Rambus Inc, only three are valid which is in connection with the design of the ship with many companies including Nvidia Corp.
Rambus Inc has also asked the US ITC to ban the selling and importing of the Nvidia products that are infringed illegally one the company’s patents. The judges of ITC have found that only two patents were invalid. A spokesperson of Nvidia said that it is very much disappointing about the ruling of US ITC regarding the patents.

The sales at Google have become highly significant because they would eliminate both page’s and Brin’s control effectively of the company by cutting down the voting power by about 50%. Yet, the co-founders of the company will retain about 48% of the voting share and also would retain the sales nonetheless they constitute the formidable influence in the position.
In the filing that was done before the Securities & Exchange Commission of US, both Page and Brin who started the company some years back as graduates at the Stanford University have disclosed that that under the plan of diversification which was adopted in the Month of November last year, they are going to sell their 5 million shares each in the company.
Currently, both Page and Brin own about 57.7 million shares in the gain internet company or they own upto 18% of the outstanding capital stock of the company. The main intention of their diversification plan is to allow both Sergey and Larry to sell of their portion of their own stocks in Google over some time as part of their long term strategies that they have planned for both the purposes of liquidity and individual asset diversification and this will be done according to the filing of regulatory commission.
As of Friday, the company’s stock had the value of $550.01 and if the co founder’s stocks are sold, then they would get $2.75 billion each.
Both Page and Brin have highly significant ownership in their firm, Google. Even while relying on the structure of dual class stock, the company currently grants them about 59% of the voting share for the company’s capital stock.
According to the regulatory filing done by them, the voting power would be reduced to 48% after they have sold their shared over a period of five years. The shares of Google dipped to $545.25 during the trading and there was a loss of $6.47.
The stock price of the search engine giant has been on a roller coaster ride for about two years where it has veered to $250 and it stands at $545 per share
Last years, Google has taken some unusual step of selling the shares to their employees at lower prices and thus it made for the company to cash in the available equity.

High returns on low investments with benefits to all, this is what binary option trading has come up as. The day traders are a happy lot with the introduction of binary option trading. Before we move on to how to make money with binary options it is very important to understand what is binary option trading and how it works.

The term binary is a term related to computers where it means two that is there are two digits one or zero. When the term binary is applied to financial trading, it means that the trading option has only two outcomes, either zero or one or more specifically all or nothing. Again this means that the trader either gets cash or nothing. Simply, binary option trading can be defined as the contract where the trader receives the predetermined amount of cash if certain specified conditions or the relevant price movement occurs and his contract ends “in the money”, at the end of the expiry time. If the contract ends “out of money” he is not liable to receive anything.

One must remember that though there is an element of risk associated with binary option trading, as with other instruments of trading, yet with proper planning and execution, a trader can make good profits. Here the traders do not have to predict the exact price to be able to get the payout. Even if the prediction is correct by a single tick, it leads to the contract being “in the money” and hence liable for payout.

Money making strategies with binary options

1. The pairing strategy: the use of the pairing strategy is capable of yielding high returns. As per this strategy, the traders pair up the ‘an’ in the money call and money put. If at the time of expiry, the spot price is between the two prices as mentioned in the contract, the trader still makes money as a nested position had been created by the pairing.

2. Binary options betting strategy: another common strategy that is applied by traders to make money with binary options trading is by the betting strategy. Here the trader expects a big movement in the market and hence makes a call or put option. The strategy of betting depends on the fact that people choose indicators that affect the market price in a big way and put positions on these indicators.

3. Hedge and double position: this strategy of hedging and double the position is very helpful in making huge profits for the traders. Under this strategy the traders pair the call with the put into a hedge and double position.

4. Stop-loss strategy: probably the most popular strategy followed by traders to make profits is the stop loss trading strategy. Though the strategy looks simple but it needs experience and expertise for proper implementation. The trader should be able to judge the correct time of stop loss. The strategy depends on many factors like:

• Trading vehicle: the success of the strategy depends on the market tool being used by the trader because each tool follows its own stop-loss strategy. This can be gauged from the fact that a stock trader looks for constant stop loss levels but an options trader can select a two dimensional stop loss strategy.
• Risk tolerance: the stop loss strategy of any trader depends on the capacity of the trader to bear risks. There are numerous traders in the market all having different temperaments and hence the strategy of risk tolerance depends on the personal preference of each trader.
• Behavior of the market: the behavior of the stock markets also has a bearing on the strategy being adopted by a trader. Volatile markets mean flexible strategies whereas quiet markets invoke tighter strategies.
• Trading style: the trading style of different traders is different and hence the stop loss strategy followed by these traders is different.

Bungee option strategy: this strategy is based upon the fact that binary option trading has only two possible outcomes and therefore the turnover is quick. High returns in quick time lure the traders to adopt this strategy and at times the trades offer returns as high as 60 to 70%.
Besides these strategies, the following are some of the tips that can be followed to make money with binary options:
1. Choice of securities: as a trader you must choose the companies that have been posting positive results. This means that if a sector is doing well, then the companies under the sector would do well.
2. Quantity over quality: under binary options trading, quantity is considered better than quality. This is because the traders have to just predict the direction of the price movement and are not concerned with the magnitude of the movement of the price.
3. Hedging: the simplest way to make money with binary options is by hedging. This means that if at a time before the expiry there is a favorable price movement, the trader should hedge his contract either fully or partially to lock in the existing profits .

You finally can open a real trader account with anyoption and earn up to 71% an hour !

An early attempt by the USD to push higher failed to gather much traction as the European session got underway. EUR/USD failed to sustain a dip below USD1.4500 despite a EUR negative FT report that Portugal faces the risk of a downgrade. While USD/JPY remains off its overnight lows it continues to struggle to pull back to 92.50. Friday’s US payrolls data proved that the market had got too far ahead of itself with respect to optimism on the US economy. The slowdown in job losses did slow markedly during Q4 (to a monthly average of -69K from -199K in Q3), but the USD was priced for a return to job creation in December to sustain its view that the Fed is on the cusp of changing its policy stance.

Comments from the Fed’s Bullard in Asian hours that rates would remain low “for quite some time” were another blow to sentiment to the USD. Going forward, the market is likely to come to terms with the outlook that while the worst is likely over for the US economy, 2010 will likely prove to be a tough year for economic growth. The USD, however, is likely to garner some support from the outlook that the Fed is likely to be out of the starting blocks well ahead of the BoJ and the ECB with respect to rate rises this cycle. Now that payrolls data are out of the way and with this week’s data calendar relatively light attention can be expected to turn towards US earnings session which kicks off today.

Strong Chinese exports data overnight underpinned risk appetite. Exports rose 17.7% y/y in December boosting expectations for economic growth in the region. Chinese lending data was also strong. This will ensure fears remains about the potential for asset price bubbles in China though these fears will be soothed to some extent by measures announced by the State Council aimed at cooling the property market. AUD/USD has clawed its way up to USD0.9319 this morning aided by a rise in job vacancies to a 2.5 year high. The strong labour market is rekindling expectations that the RBA could hike rates again in Feb. Strong house price data in NZ has helped push the NZD above USD0.7400. USD/CAD, however, has backed off from a test of 1.0250.

The improvement in risk appetite has fed through into sterling. The pound found additional encouragement from a survey indicating a rise in private business confidence. However, a warning from the BRC in this morning’s press highlighted that risk that while pre-Christmas figures were good that consumer confidence could dip in 2010. The Dec BRC survey is due tonight. EUR/GBP has pushed back below the 0.9000 level allowing cable to climb back towards USD1.6180.

EUR/CHF surged higher early in the London session following a warning from SNB President Hildebrand that it would continue to act to prevent “excessive appreciation” of the CHF. The return to economic growth in Q3 in Switzerland has increased speculation that EUR/CHF will be allowed to weaken in the coming months. The CHF has appreciated by 2.4% since mid Dec vs the EUR, but clearly the pace of the appreciation is of concern to the SNB.

Source: forex.com