Message-ID: <29178975.1075857105057.JavaMail.evans@thyme> Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 06:07:00 -0800 (PST) From: editorconsensus@aol.com To: editorconsensus@aol.com Subject: TRADING ONLINE...In An Online World Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-From: Editorconsensus@aol.com X-To: Editorconsensus@aol.com X-cc: X-bcc: X-Folder: \Andrew_Lewis_Dec2000\Notes Folders\Discussion threads X-Origin: Lewis-A X-FileName: alewis.nsf CONSENSUS Market Advisory Newsletter Each Tuesday the CONSENSUS Newsletter will feature a leading selection from 225 +/- weekly articles from CONSENSUS National Futures and Financial Weekly appearing online at http://www.consensus-inc.com/ or in print. ============================================================= TRADING FUTURES...In An Online World "e-Commerce is about to change every rule of business in the commodities futures market." 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Partial Outline of leading articles in current issue of CONSENSUS. ============================================================= FEATURED SELECTION: THE JANUARY EFFECT DID IT START THIS SPRING? by Kansas City Board of Trade, Kansas City, Missouri (December, 2000) When we embarked into the year 2000, industry analysts questioned whether the phenomenon known as the January Effect would occur as many changes were in store. There were many questions about Y2K and any technical glitches that might appear. Thankfully, there were not any problems, but a very different year was in store for the markets... 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(December 4, 2000) For millions of Americans familiar with hotly contested presidential election campaigns and then the concession speech by the loser, either election night or the following day, the current morass in Florida is astonishing. Surrounded by seemingly battalions of lawyers of whom many are nothing more than town-hall hangers-on, the battle in various courts seems to stretch to the horizon... SOYBEAN PRICES: HEADED HIGHER by Richard A. Brock & Associates, Inc. (December 1, 2000) Despite the fact a record amount of soybeans were harvested in both North and South America in 2000, and Brazil and Argentina are both set to produce another record crop, soybean prices have been working higher the past few weeks. How can prices move higher if the world is awash in soybeans?.. OPTIONS FOCUS by Salomon Smith Barney (November 2000) Stock index futures and options provide investors with efficient tools to help minimize losses in a declining stock market. 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