Sunday Night Markets and Futures

Published on: 2011-08-29 06:50:56

If you are finishing up your weekend and ready to start a new week, sometimes it can be interesting to see if you can predict how the week will start. I wanted to give you a few resources that might help you. Monday's can sometimes be busy for people at work, and opportunities might be missed. If you take a quick survey on Sunday, you'll be at least mentally prepared for what might take place on Monday.

If you want to get a feel for how market futures are doing before you go to bed on Sunday, Forex Pros has a Real Time Stock Indices Futures page. It isn't perfect, but is kept updated pretty well. By the way, I would recommend you DO NOT invest in currrency exchange or Forex stuff. You are in essence giving money to people who are then betting against you. Don't bother. Just look at their futures page. :)

Bloomberg has a market futures page too. It isn't updated quite as well, but is worth a quick check. There are a couple of other worthwhile pages to check too on Bloomberg on a Sunday night. Many people don't know this but many Middle Eastern countries' markets are open Sunday through Thursday and closed Friday and Saturday, so that means you can go to their Europe, Africa and Middle East page and see how some of the Middle Eastern countries like Israel, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Greece did today. Then you might also want to look at Asian Markets, because they are probably already open before your bedtime. 

To get a summary of the week ahead as well as any developments that happened over the weekend, I would highly recommend the Calculated Risk Blog which is updated several times per day including weekends. A couple of other good ones are Economist's View and Econbrowser

Finally, if you like charts, dshort's charts are quite viral and well updated, and Calculated Risk's Graph Galleries are great too. 

Best Wishes!

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