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Happy New Year Message:

I just wanted to take some time out to say that I wish you a very happy new year and I hope that 2012 is the year you finally break through and kick some serious butt!

I will talk more about this in just a sec, but as the year is coming to an end, I want you to sit down and think about all the enjoyable moments that you had.

Gratitude is one of the biggest things that will take you to a deep level of happiness than anything else will.

How to Make Next Year the Best Year Ever

Let me ask you a question:

Why is it that some people can achieve 5-10 times more than the average person when everyone has 24 hours in a day?

It is because they have more money?

It is because they were born with those skills to get more done?

It is because they are lucky and they have everyone do the work for them?
I could go on and on but I can tell you that it has nothing to do with any of them.

The reason why some people make massive amount of progress towards their goals is because they have a system they follow.

I have spent more than the last decade learning all types of  systems on not only how to make massive amounts of progress in the shortest amount of time, but also how to fit in more and  enable me to juggle my career, investments and have plenty of time for holidays, family & friends.

Because at the end of the day there are only 24 hours in a day and how you manage those hours ultimately determines the quality of your life.

From all the other systems out there that I have seen, I have taken bits from all of them and my experience to put it into one systems that, in my opinion, is AMAZING.

My system has helped me achieve more in less time and it helps me focus on the 20% that produces 80% of the results and so much more.

This systems will, without a doubt, help you make 2012 the best year ever.

So to help you start making 2012 a fantastic year… in the 2nd week of January, I’m going to give away 4 FREE videos showing the systems I use and I’m going to walk through with you how you can use it to really take it to the next level in 2012.

So keep an eye out for that!

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Have a wonderful new year, rest up because next year is going to be the best year ever.

John Howell

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There was a big rally in all of the major United States indices and every sector in the United States was in the green. This sharp up move was followed by a steep fall in the US dollar index and a fall in the bond prices all over the world.

The Australian stock exchange opened about 2.5 per cent higher, rallying strongly on the back of a strong session on Wall Street where investors cheered initiatives from a number of central banks to lower short-term borrowing rates to banks.

China’s central bank decision, overnight to cut the reserve requirement ratio by 50 basis points, to 21 per cent, was also a positive for the world market, in particular the Asian markets.

There is another important United States unemployment data which will be out on Friday. This will show whether the economy is in stable condition or is weakening.

This reform by the central banks has made the world markets to jump and the bond yields which were soaring day by day, to take a pause. The dollar index also fell quite sharply after the news came out.

Almost all the currencies in the world are up against the dollar. The best performing sector was metals and minerals, up 3.87 per cent in the Australian stock exchange. Financials also were not bad with around 2.30 per cent higher. Rio Tinto and BHP were the lead gainers in the Australian stock exchange.

There was some local release of data which was not so encouraging, but all this was overshadowed by the good news from Europe.

Some analysts and brokerage houses think that this is the start of the reformation of the European debt situation and many countries will come up with such solutions.

The benchmark indices on Wall Street rallied more than four per cent during the offshore session, while benchmark futures prices for key commodities such as oil, gold and copper all settled higher.

All the major commodities were trading positively with some good gains under their name. On the other hand, the main losers were the United States dollar index and the bond yields of several countries.

In the past month we have seen that the bond yields of some European economies along with the bind yields of other major economies were rising so severely. We have also seen the sharp movement of the Dollar from a level of ‘72’ to the level of ‘80’. This all downtick could be seen as a retracement after making highs.

This major economic reform by the central banks made the world markets to jump and the United States dollar index to tumble.

On Thursday, central banks from the euro zone, as well as Canada, Britain, Japan, the US and Switzerland said they would take measures to lower the cost of borrowing and provide funds to cash-strapped commercial banks in Europe.

This is the first step taken by the banks to tame this euro zone worry. The markets greeted this with cheer and most of the markets rose along with the United States major indices.

The Australian dollar reacted strongly to the news, with the local unit reaching its highest level in almost three weeks before easing by around a half US cent. The United States dollar index fell sharply after the news with some huge upsurge in volumes.

This has been quite a good reform and almost all the currencies of major economies around the world rallied on this news.

The bond yields which have been flying high rested and took pause. In the previous month, the jump in the bond yields was quite scary and many analysts were thinking of a recession in many parts of the globe. But slowly that is fading out.

The Australian dollar was trading at 102.25 US cents in the evening on Thursday.

The Australian stock exchange too rallied on the back of this superb reform taken by the central banks. Almost all the sectors in the Australian stock exchange were in the green. The bond yields in Australia fell sharply.

Some analysts still think that this reform may not be able to overcome the European debt situation. The Asian markets too rallied on the back of this news and they Hong Kong index was up by around ‘5’ per cent.

The United States dollar index was the main one to be impacted on the downside. It had touched the level of ‘80’ in the past week, 2 times.

This has been a major resistance and this is the second time the dollar index was unable to cross this on the up side.  Ms Trinh said it was plausible the market would interpret this as a negative for the US dollar, which could give the Australian dollar a further boost.

The bond yields of major economies tanked down on this news. It is said that another reform of this kind would make the bond yields go even more lower from here as the rally was quite extreme in the past month.

There is also the meeting of the Reserve Bank of Australia in the next week and many are expecting a 25 basis point cut on the back of good inflation numbers. This might also cheer up the markets.

Last week, there was a good up swing in the Australian dollar and the United States Dollar index did fall to ‘77’ from the high of ‘80’. This made the Australian dollar to rise against the United States dollar.

Also the United States unemployment figures were good citing that the United States economy is not so bad and is out of troubles. There was a bit of reform going on with the European situation.

Some of the big banks in Europe came up with a plan which will slow down the European debt crisis. RBC fixed income strategist Michael Turner said the Australian dollar edged slightly higher on Monday following positive news from Europe.

The good news from Italy on Sunday also showed that there will be more reforms coming out from other nations to tackle this euro zone crisis. If that happens, the Australian will continue to rise and there will be problems for the United States Dollar index.

The dollar remained steady throughout the morning. “Since we got up to 102.30 (US cents) it has been pretty stable,” Mr Turner told AAP.

The local data was not so encouraging but that didn’t have much impact on the Australian dollar as well as the markets. Both the Australian stock exchange as well as the Australian dollar are up along with the world markets that have been trading with a positive bias.

There is an EU summit later this week which would pave the way for the global markets as well as the currency. That will be an important meeting and any bad news from there would make the global markets to fall and the United States dollar index to jump and cross the previous high of ‘80’.

It was not able to cross the ’80’ mark during the past 2 times. So, that automatically would become resistance and any bad news would help it to cross the ‘80’ mark with some good up surge in volumes. The Australian dollar, in the afternoon, was trading at 102.35 US cents, up from 102.21 US cents at 1700 AEDT on Friday.

This quarter, or more precisely, this second half of the year paved many problems for the world markets as well as the currencies of some major economies in the world. That was mainly due to the downgrades by the Standard and Poor’s and the European debt situation.

The Standard and Poor’s along with some other credit rating service companies have downgraded many banks and economies in the later half of this year.

Most of the traders are sitting on the sidelines waiting for the EU summit to be complete and get a conclusion from it. But, some analysts think that this EU summit will not be able to solve this problem.

European debt situation, United States data and many others are to come which will decide the movement of some important commodity prices. Oil prices moved higher on Friday, aided by rising tensions with Iran and Syria and some promising US jobs figures.

The problems in the Middle East don’t seem to be clearing and that is the reason why the oil prices are rising so fastly. The tensions in Syria are adding to the troubles. This is still going on and we think that oil will have all the possibilities to rise from here.

New York’s main contract, West Texas Intermediate crude for delivery in January, climbed 76 cents to $US100.96 a barrel. The January contract of Brent North Sea crude also moved up 95 cents to $US109.94 per barrel.

Friday had some important jobs data coming out and that made the United States market to rally. The United States employment data showed the national unemployment rate plunge to 8.6 per cent from nine per cent.

This is a big positive for the economy and this also has something to say that the United States is not in a recession. There were some harsh new sanctions on Iran, OPEC’s second largest oil producer which added to the tensions between the West and Tehran over its nuclear program.

This made the oil futures as well as the oil spot price to climb higher.

Metals prices ended the week sharply higher on confidence that the US economy will continue growing. The unemployment rate also helped the metal prices to end higher.

Many analysts thought that the United States economy is in a recession and a good unemployment made all this wrong. Prices continued to rise through the week as reports indicated the US economy might grow more quickly than many investors thought.

The economic growth in the previous week also helped some material commodities like palladium and copper to rise quite heavily. Due to an expectation that the United States economy would be worse than the previous year, these commodities have taken a beating in the previous month.

Copper was the blockbuster commodity in the previous week due to its close of around 10 per cent higher. On Monday, too, copper rose adding to the previous week’s rally.

Precious metals also made their way in to the up side for the week on the back of some good reforms by the European banks and some good promising unemployment data by the United States, which proved that the economy is still going strong.

Gold for February delivery rose $US11.50 to settle at $US1,751.30 per ounce. Gold was up nearly four per cent for the week moving in tandom with the United States markets and the world markets. Silver also rose nearly six per cent higher in the previous week.

The expectation of a 25 basis points cut by the Reserve bank of Australia also added to the woes. The fall in the unemployment rate to 8.6 percent in the United states helped the world markets to move higher.

Interestingly, on Friday, The Dow Jones and all the major indices ended flat. However, ICAP senior economist Adam Carr said he expected the bond market to remain quiet on Monday, as traders wait for several major pieces of economic news later this week.

Also the rate cut expectation by many traders kept the bond rates low. Meanwhile, the Australian stock exchange is trading higher on this news. Many analysts and brokers feel that there will be a 25 basis point cut in the interest rates to ‘4.25’ percentage.

This would cheer the markets and make the bond prices to go even lower. On Wednesday, the Australia Bureau of Statistics (ABS) will release Gross Domestic Product (GDP) figures for the September quarter.

This figure will also show some interesting data and will help to decide the direction of the Australian stock exchange and in turn, the bond prices in Australia.

The main event is the EU summit, which is said to happen later this week on Friday. That will be the major thing that will decide which way the markets will move.

Last week, some of the banks made a step towards taming this European debt problem and this was congratulated by the markets. The markets took it well and rallied by 4 to 6 percent in the previous week.

This showed that any good news coming out of Europe or related to the Europe debt situation is making the bond yields to go lower.

Australian 10-year bond futures, in the morning, were trading at 95.935 (implying a yield of 4.365 per cent), down from 95.960 (4.040 per cent) on Friday. The 3 year bond futures were also weaker, opening at 96.710 (3.290 per cent), down from 96.730 (3.270 per cent).

The bond yields in Europe rose so heavily in the past month and then these took a pause in the past week on some good economic reforms by Europe and some of its banks. Some of the analysts still are saying that there is more for the bond yields to come and they will be rising if the EU summit which scheduled later this week will disappoint.

That is the case with the bond yields. So, a miracle to tame this European debt problem only will make the bond prices to fall and settle down.

Moreover, there is some hope and a good expectation that the Reserve bank of Australia will cut the rates by around 25 basis points on the back of some good inflation numbers and the world economic crisis.

The Australian stock exchange gained nearly ‘0.8’ % in the opening trade. There is also hope that Italy will make a certain move that will help the European debt situation to be solved.

In the last week, some of the big banks along with the Bank of England said that they will be delivering a package which would slow down the European crisis and stop it from creeping all around Europe.

This fantastic news made the indices rally along with the global markets. The Australian stock exchange gained nearly ‘6’ % in the past week. This rise in the Australian stock exchange took it to the highest level in around a month.

“There is a lot of optimism about the RBA tomorrow cutting interest rates by a quarter percent,” said E.L and C. Baillieu director Richard Morrow, referring to the Reserve Bank.

In the past few months we have seen that the mining industry have been on a good pace where as the retailers and other departments were losing down. Retailers were boosted by the rate talk, with department store Myer up 4 percent and electronics goods chain JB Hi-Fi up 1.7 percent.

A well known survey showed that the reserve bank of Australia will be cutting the rates down by 25 basis points to ‘4.25’ percentage points.

Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti unveiled a 30-billion-euro package of austerity measures on Sunday, raising taxes and increasing the pension age, ahead of a key European Union summit later this week.

Most of the European members are trying to solve the problem and they are making some good moves. This might temporarily solve the problem but that doesn’t mean that the European debt situation will be completely out of trouble.

The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index advanced 33.3 points to 4,321.3. The benchmark on Friday capped its strongest weekly gain in three years. The 4,350-4,360 mark will be the next big resistance according to some leading technical analysts.

This has been a hurdle for the index to cross in the previous months and so, this level will be of a good importance. But any bad news from the EU summit later this week, will throw the market down to the previous lows.

The main optimism is coming from the expectation that the Reserve bank of Australia will cut the interest rates.

But, if that doesn’t happen tomorrow, I think the markets will see some trouble or be in the sideways region until the big event, EU summit, happening on Friday.

This news came in the midst of the United States trading and all the three major United States indices feel down to their lowest point in the trading session and were a way below their highs.

Germany is the major European country that will be mainly affected by this news, because there the problem seems to be more severe than the other European countries. It also clearly gave a warning that the European summit will not be able to reform the European crisis and there, in most cases, will be a downgrade.

Nearly all the countries in Europe are feeling the heat and almost all of them are in for a downgrade. This downgrade could be huge negative news for the world markets.

There are some talks that the United States along with Europe are in a recession. This will add to the woes.

They also say that the EU summit will not be able to solve this debt problem and this debt problem would creep to more countries in Europe. Some of the big countries like France and Germany are also on the list and these markets would be affected the most.

Reacting to the news that the Standard and Poor’s has all the chances to downgrade the euro zone, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said that the S&P warning was the “best incentive possible” for the EU summit, but the head of the euro zone finance ministers, Jean-Claude Juncker, expressed anger while acknowledging that the warning was a setback.

The Standard and Poor’s also cited that there is a high possibility of a recession and inflation could well be a problem, both for the Europe and the United States.

Reacting to this news, Asian markets opened with deep gashes as well as the Australian stock exchange. The bond yields of many countries soared higher and this helped the United States dollar index to jump up.

Recently some of the big banks in England have come up with a package that would help the Euro zone recover and this helped the markets to jump in the previous week.

The dollar index fell and the bond yields in several countries took a pause. The world markets jumped up with some good gains in the previous week.

Earlier, there had been many downgrades from the Standard and Poor’s and this led to a brief fall in the world markets during the month. But, during the past week, a small reform made the markets to fly high.

This may seem good news to the Australian stock exchange and a bad news for the Australian bonds, but that was not the case. The Australian bonds rose and the Australian stock exchange fell around ‘1.3 %’.

This was on the back of Standard and Poor’s which is in talks to downgrade most of the European economies and this will lead to a big fall in most of the European stock markets along with the world.

Most of Asia was in the red today and even the European markets opened up with some gashes under their name. Yesterday, in the midst of trading in the United States markets, this news has come out and this led to a fall in the Dow Jones and other major United States indices to drop from their highs.

The Australian bonds rose keeping this in mind along with the dollar index. The December three-year bond futures contract was at 96.870 (3.130 per cent), up from 96.750 (3.250 per cent).

The rate cut by the Reserve Bank of Australia was on the back of less inflation in Australia. The inflation numbers have been slowly decreasing.

On the other hand, the global economy is weakening which is another major cause for the down fall in Australian stock exchange as well as the rate cut by the Reserve Bank of Australia.

“Financial markets have experienced considerable turbulence, and financing conditions have become much more difficult, especially in Europe,” RBA governor, Mr Stevens said.

Last week, all the world markets rose from nearly ‘3 – 7’ % on the talks that some big banks will be helping to solve this financial crisis going on in Europe. But many analysts along with some big brokerage companies feel that this Debt situation will not be solved so easily and has more to come.

The ECB along with some big European banks came out with a package which tried to solve the European crisis and this helped the world markets to put on a big show in the previous week.

This week, after this news that the credit services agency, Standard and poor’s will downgrade some of the big European countries once again started to pour in the bad news and the mood and sentiment has changed to negative. This has helped the bond markets in a great deal and they rose.

Normally, this rate cut by the reserve bank of Australia will have a negative impact on the bonds and a positive impact on the Australian stock exchange.

But, here due to the Standard and Poor’s downgrade, the markets have become jittery. This shows that this news of the downgrade has overshadowed the news that the RBA has cut the rates.