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SigmaForex trading alerts should be used when you are away from your desk and need to be updated with any conditions you have set to be alerted for in relation to the forex markets.

SigmaForex trading alerts, software, and online services that use these types of alerts are meant to alert you, the trader, when a variety of events happen in the market. You control what service alerts you and when.

As a forex trader, you should use your own good judgment to decide when to enter and when to exit the market. The purpose of all of the possible forex trading alerts you have set is to keep you updated with the continual flow of information going in and out of the forex markets in order to make successful decisions.

In FOREX Market the news divided in two categories; technical news & fundamental news, after collecting the data about this news you have to distinguish between the previous news, forecasted (predicted) news & Actual news.

Then you will see a war between the bull (raise in prices) & bear (declination in prices) that cause fluctuations in prices according to the demand & supply between traders & brokers.

Michigan Senate approves more battery tax breaks aimed at auto industry

LANSING -- The Michigan Senate has voted to authorize another $200 million in tax breaks to encourage the development of batteries at the heart of next-generation electric vehicles.
Gov. Jennifer Granholm signed a law in January offering $335 million in refundable tax credits for developing, manufacturing and assembling advanced batteries in Michigan.

A bill approved Tuesday would let the Michigan Economic Growth Authority sign two more tax credit deals for the construction of integrative cell manufacturing facilities. And the deadline to reach agreements would be extended from August of this year to October.
The credits couldn't be claimed before 2012.
The tax breaks could reach Granholm's desk soon because the state House is working to pass similar legislation.


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Future residents reserve options to buy into Harbor Shores golf development

Although there isn't a groundbreaking scheduled yet for any of the planned condos, townhouses or single-family homes, Harbor Shores Community Redevelopment's owners already have put money in escrow for more than 120 potential residents of the Benton Harbor luxury development.

The $1,000 refundable deposits reserve places in line for potential buyers, said Wendy Dant Chesser, president and CEO of Cornerstone Alliance, one of the organizations that owns Harbor Shores Community Redevelopment Inc. When completed, the 530-acre mixed-use development will include 800 condos, townhouses and single-family homes.
"We are negotiating with two sets of developers for the high-density development and the cottages," Chesser said. "One of the developers is local, the other is Chicago-based."
Most property will be sold to developers, but a section of 30 single-family lots along the Paw Paw River will be sold directly to end users by Harbor Shores, she said. That arrangement shifts part of the financial risk to the developers, Chesser said.

In February, Harbor Shores Managing Director Mark Hesemann announced eight of 30 competing builders had won approval to buy no more than two lots each in the single-family home section. Those selected are Christe Construction of St. Joseph; Construction Service Associates of Benton Harbor; Cornerstone Builders of Berrien Springs; Drake Group of New Buffalo; Garden Homes of Granger, Ind.; Inovateus of South Bend, Ind.; Schmidke Construction of St. Joseph; and Shoreline Development of New Buffalo.
To date, about 70 percent of the reservations have been made by regional residents, but 30 percent have been made by Chicagoans, Chesser said. That's significant because the development hasn't advertised yet in that market, she noted.
The development is built around a Jack Nicklaus Signature Golf Course, which has been under construction for almost two years. Nine holes will be ready in mid-July for public play, Chesser said.

Financing for the project was in place prior to last fall's financial collapse. National City Bank [NYSE: PNC] loaned money for land acquisition and predevelopment work, and Chase [NYSE: JPM] led a consortium of banks to add financing for the golf course construction and improvements to Jean Klock Park, Harbor Shores Development reported last month.
Although much of the course is on land that was industrial brownfield, three holes are designed to be built on dunes overlooking Lake Michigan in Benton Harbor's Jean Klock Park. The design caused the National Park Service and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to deny permission to build, on the grounds public acreage would be taken for a private purpose. The 90-acre park was given to the city almost 100 years ago with the provision that it remain open to the public and used for public park and recreation purposes forever.

Harbor Shores offered more than 38 acres of new park land to compensate for the 22 acres of wetlands and back dunes it wanted, and the federal objections were dropped. However, in keeping with restrictions the Corps of Engineers placed on the project, all land clearing must be completed by April 1, to avoid conflict with the mating season of the Indiana bat, Chesser said.
Work on the final holes, including the three in Jean Klock Park, began last week and construction began this week on public access roads on the Lake Michigan side of the dunes, Chesser said.


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Michigan businesses to avoid more unemployment taxes

LANSING -- Gov. Jennifer Granholm will sign legislation to keep about 34,000 businesses from having to pay higher unemployment taxes in 2009 and 2010.
The bill won unanimous approval today in the state Senate.
Michigan informed the employers last year that they would pay an extra $67.50 per employee this year.

That's for interest on money the state had to borrow from the federal government to pay benefits because of a shortfall in its jobless benefit fund.
The federal stimulus grants Michigan a two-year waiver from having to pay interest owed on the money it has borrowed.

The "solvency tax" affects businesses whose laid-off employees have collected more in benefits than the employers paid into the fund -- typically construction and manufacturing companies.

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Insurance companies denied rate increases in Michigan

LANSING --Â Seven auto insurance companies aren't getting rate increases in Michigan because they based their rates in part on drivers' credit scores, the state insurance commissioner said Tuesday.
The companies are being denied rate increases because premiums developed using credit scoring "are unfairly discriminatory," Office of Financial and Insurance Regulation Commissioner Ken Ross said.
Ross added that state rules ban the use of credit scoring to set rates, in part because credit information often has been found to be wrong.
Insurance companies have sued to keep their right to use credit scoring to set rates. They say the ratings are accurate and help many drivers get discounts on their insurance premiums. If they're taken out of the rate formulations, many good drivers would pay higher rates, they warn.
The case has dragged through the courts for years and now is before the Michigan Supreme Court.

Although the suit remains unresolved, Ross said Tuesday he can deny the rate increases. While his office is prohibited from enforcing the rule against using credit scoring, it's not banned from ruling against rate filings that use such a method, he said.
But Jeffrey L. Junkas, spokesman for the Midwest Region of the American Insurance Association, said the commissioner is wrong to deny insurers the right to consider credit scores when setting rates.
"Insurers have countless studies by state and federal agencies that validate the risk assessment power of credit-based insurance scores," he said in an e-mail to reporters.
In addition, he said Ross' comments that credit scores often contain faulty data ring hollow.

"Millions of transactions are successfully completed every day based on credit reports, and consumers have protections in state and federal law that allow them to get reports corrected and not be penalized financially," he said.
Ross said rates should be based on factors such as a consumer's driving behavior, number of miles driven and number of tickets rather than credit scores, which relate to debt and bill payment history he said is unrelated to the risk of having an accident.
"Insurance credit scoring does not in any way correlate to the safety of a driver," he said.
The seven companies denied increases are big players in the insurance market responsible for about 12 percent of the auto insurance policies issued in Michigan, Ross said.
Gov. Jennifer Granholm in last month's State of the State address asked auto insurers to freeze rates for 12 months so lawmakers have time to consider changes suggested by the state's insurance advocate he says will reduce rates. Granholm said the freeze would help Michigan residents hurt by the bad economy.
But only 13 small insurance companies accounting for 1 percent to 2 percent of the auto insurance market agreed to the freeze by the March 2 deadline.
That left nearly 100 auto insurers that haven't pledged to freeze rates, including many major insurers. Those companies now are getting close scrutiny from OFIR if they ask for rate increases.


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Fitch Rates Wisconsin's $1B General Fund Annual Appropriation Bonds 'A+' & $495MM BANs 'F1'

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Fitch Ratings assigns the following ratings to the State of Wisconsin's (the state) 2009 series bonds:
--Approximately $1,028,340,000, general fund annual appropriation bonds of 2009 series A 'A+';
--Approximately $200 million general fund annual appropriation bond anticipation notes (BANs) of 2009, series 1 (six month note) 'F1';
--$295 million general fund annual appropriation BANs of 2009, series 2 (nine month note) 'F1'.

The bonds and BANs, which are expected to be sold through negotiation the week of March 23, 2009, are being issued to purchase tobacco settlement revenues that the state previously sold to the Badger Tobacco Asset Securitization Corporation. The transaction is expected to provide immediate and ongoing budget relief; the budget for the current biennium includes $309 million in savings from the transaction.

Fitch also affirms the following ratings:

--Approximately $1.9 billion in outstanding general fund annual appropriation bonds at 'A+';
--Approximately $6 billion of the state's general obligation (GO) bonds at 'AA-'.
The Rating Outlook is Stable.

The relative size of the bond and BAN offerings will depend on market conditions at the time of sale, with the goal of maximizing the size of the bond offering. It is the state's intent and Fitch's expectation that the BANs will be taken out with fixed-rate bonds as quickly as possible; the BANs will be callable after 90 days to facilitate this. The state needs no additional authority to fund or rollover the BANs.
The 'A+' rating on the appropriation bonds is based on the security provided from annual appropriations from the state's general fund. Under the indenture, the department of administration, which includes the state budget office, covenants to take all appropriate action within its power to assure that sufficient appropriations are provided each fiscal year by the legislature to fund debt service on the bonds. In addition, the state legislature has recognized a moral obligation to appropriate funds for debt service and expressed its expectation and intent to do so. Payments are due to the trustee on July 1 of each year for the full fiscal year's expected debt service, and appropriations are sized such that in the event of a late budget the continuing appropriation from the prior fiscal year will cover debt service.

Wisconsin's 'AA-' GO rating recognizes the state's considerable resources, diverse economy, and moderate but above average debt burden. Although progress in restoring fiscal balance had been made, a weak economy and revenue underperformance in the past year have required remedial actions.

Most recently, the state lowered revenue estimates in November 2008 and again in January 2009, projecting revenue decline in both fiscal 2009 and fiscal 2010. The resulting estimated fiscal 2009 shortfall of $594 million was brought down to $417 million in February 2009 through various revenue and spending actions as well as the elimination of the statutory balance requirement of $65 million. The governor's executive budget proposal to close the $5.8 billion total budget gap for the remainder of fiscal 2009 and the upcoming biennium includes $2.1 billion in funds from the federal stimulus package and $1.4 billion in revenue measures, including a cigarette tax increase, an income tax increase for high earners, and corporate tax changes. The proposal would result in a $216 million ending balance for fiscal 2009, rising to $269 million in fiscal 2011. These budgetary balances provide some cushion against the risk of revenue underperformance. The state carries a GAAP deficit due to the timing and treatment of local aid payments.

Fiscal 2008 results were better than forecast, with general purpose tax revenue up 3.4% over fiscal 2007 and 1.3% above estimates, although about half of this overperformance was due to improvements in tax processing procedures. Fiscal 2008 ended with a $131 million general fund balance. The January 2009 estimate projected that general fund tax revenues would fall 4.2% in fiscal 2009 and another 2.3% in fiscal 2010 before rising 4.5% in fiscal 2011.
Mirroring the nation, the state's economy has slowed and the state has lost jobs every month since March 2008, with the pace of loss accelerating. December 2008 employment was down 2.2%, in line with the nation's 2.1% decline, with losses in all sectors except for education and health services and government. In contrast, the state's unemployment rate of 5.9% in December 2008 was just 82% of the U.S. rate. The state forecasts non-farm employment down 0.6% in 2008 and another 2.2% in 2009 before rising 0.8% in 2010; unemployment is projected to peak at 7.9% in 2010. Since 2002, personal income growth rates have lagged the nation. Quarterly personal income gains in 2008 have been below the U.S. but generally in line with the region. Wisconsin's personal income per capita ranks 24th among the states at 94% of the U.S.

Net tax-supported debt totals $9.4 billion, or 4.7% of personal income, a moderate but above-average and rising debt burden. Excluding the general fund annual appropriation bonds issued for pension funding, Wisconsin's debt burden drops to 3.9% of personal income. The current offering will increase debt ratios to 5.4% and 4.6%, respectively. Pensions are well funded.

Fitch's rating definitions and the terms of use of such ratings are available on the agency's public site, www.fitchratings.com. Published ratings, criteria and methodologies are available from this site, at all times. Fitch's code of conduct, confidentiality, conflicts of interest, affiliate firewall, compliance and other relevant policies and procedures are also available from the 'Code of Conduct' section of this site.


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European stocks close mostly higher before US drop

European markets close mostly higher before US selling pressure resumes despite Merck deal

LONDON (AP) -- European stock markets closed mostly higher Monday, but Wall Street turned lower as investors fretted about the length and depth of the U.S. recession, despite the news that drug maker Merck & Co. was buying Schering-Plough Corp. for around $41 billion.

In Europe, the FTSE 100 index of leading British shares closed up 11.67 points, or 0.3 percent, at 3,542.40, while Germany's DAX ended 25.62 points, or 0.7 percent, higher at 3,692.03. France's CAC-40 was 15.16 points, or 0.6 percent, lower at 2,519.29.
By late-afternoon London time, the Dow Jones industrial average was down 65.15 points, or 1 percent, at 6,561.79, with Merck down 10 percent following the announcement of the Schering-Plough deal. Merck will be paying a premium of 34 percent to buy Schering-Plough, based on Friday's closing share prices.

Meanwhile, the broader Standard & Poor's 500 index fell 4.5 points, or 0.7 percent, to 678.88.
Earlier Europe's main indexes had traded sharply lower after Japan's benchmark tumbled to a 26-year closing low amid ongoing concerns about the length and depth of the global economic downturn and renewed fears about the capital position of the world's leading banks.
Those concerns were stoked over the weekend by the World Bank's forecast that the global economy will shrink this year for the first time since World War II, and the British government's confirmation that it was taking a majority stake in Lloyds Banking Group PLC in exchange for insuring potentially more than 260 billion pounds ($367 billion dollars) of shaky assets.
The bank saw its shares tumble more than 10 percent at one stage before the afternoon recovery saw it end nearly 5 percent higher. Barclays PLC was the worst-performing British banking stock, closing 5 percent down on fears that it may have to give up a stake to the government in return for participating in the insurance plan.
"Investors continue to shy away from banking stocks as the specter of creeping nationalization makes them wary of just how much shareholder value they would see in the medium term from the sector," said David Jones, chief market strategist at IG Index.

With the capital position of much of the financial sector around the world still a key source of concern, and no sign of a turnaround in the global economic news, the backdrop for shares remains gloomy.
"With economies around the world still producing grim data on an almost daily basis and stock markets having to continually revise expectations downwards, this particular bear market appears to be still in full flow," said IG Index's Jones.
Investors also will be mindful of remarks from American billionaire Warren Buffett, who said during an appearance on CNBC that the world's largest economy had "fallen off a cliff" over the past six months.

Earlier in Asia, Japanese shares, already among Asia's worst performing this year, fell sharply on the news that the world's second-largest economy posted a record current-account deficit in January, its first in 13 years.
Japan's Nikkei 225 stock average fell 87.07 points, or 1.2 percent, to 7,086.03, and Hong Kong's Hang Seng tumbled 576.94, or 4.8 percent, to 11,344.58 on the coattails of heavyweight lender HSBC, Europe's largest bank and a big component of the Hang Seng.
Elsewhere in Asia, Shanghai's benchmark plummeted 3.4 percent, while stock measures in India, Singapore and Taiwan also fell. However, those in South Korea and Australia gained 1.6 percent and 0.3 percent respectively.
In the oil market, benchmark crude for April delivery rose $1.84 to $47.36 a barrel as investors anticipated another OPEC production cut. The move back towards $50 a barrel helped oil stocks around the world rally strongly on Monday, with Britain's BP PLC up nearly 6 percent and ExxonMobil Corp. in the U.S. 2 percent higher.

The dollar rose 0.5 percent to 98.85 yen, while the euro rose 0.1 percent to $1.2654.


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Major business events scheduled for Tuesday

Calendar of major business events scheduled for Tuesday

Major business events and economic events scheduled for Tuesday:
WASHINGTON -- Commerce Department releases wholesale trade inventories for January, 10 a.m.

WASHINGTON -- Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke speaks at the Council of Foreign Relations on overhauling the U.S. bank regulatory system.
RED BANK, N.J. -- Hovnanian Enterprises Inc. releases first-quarter financial results.
CINCINNATI -- Kroger Co. releases fourth-quarter financial results.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Brown-Forman Corp. releases third-quarter results.

RIO DE JANEIRO -- Brazilian government releases fourth-quarter, full-year 2008 gross domestic product results.
MUNICH -- EADS holds annual press conference including 2008 earning

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Constellation Energy's ACE Cogeneration Plant Recognized for Safety

TRONA, Calif.--Constellation Energy (NYSE: CEG - News) today announced that its ACE Cogeneration plant in Trona, Calif., has been recognized for its outstanding safety program by achieving STAR status under California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) Voluntary Protection Program (VPP). STAR is the highest safety designation given by OSHA and the federal government.

The facility celebrated its achievement in February with a ceremony, which included the presentation of the VPP STAR flag by a representative of Cal/OSHA.
Located in California’s Mojave Desert, ACE Cogeneration is a coal-fired power plant, which can produce 104 megawatts of electricity. Since the plant began commercial operation in 1991, safety has played a major role in the operation of the electric generating facility. ACE Cogeneration’s employee-driven safety culture includes an active safety committee, which develops and oversees general and plant-specific safety procedures and initiatives. The plant is operated by 34 full-time employees who drive the safety programs and culture that have contributed to an impressive safety record. That record includes ACE Cogeneration employees having recently worked nearly five years, without an injury leading to lost time from work.

OSHA’s Voluntary Protection Program is designed as a cooperative effort among industry, workers and government to ensure safer workplaces. By approving safely operating facilities such as ACE Cogeneration into the VPP, OSHA officially recognizes the outstanding efforts of employers and employees who have achieved exemplary occupational safety and health. Of the seven million private industries in the country, only 1,100 are approved for the Voluntary Protection Program. Approved facilities are designated under one of three categories, with the STAR designation being the highest. ACE Cogeneration is only the 72nd facility in the state of California recognized as a STAR facility.
“STAR status is extremely challenging to achieve,” said Iraj Pourmehraban, VPP manager for the state of California. “It’s especially challenging for a facility like ACE, considering the naturally dangerous work environment at a coal-fired power plant. Also, because it’s a relatively small site with few employees and limited resources, it takes a consistent team effort to operate at that level of safety. ACE Cogeneration is a solid example of what the Voluntary Protection Program is all about – employee-driven safety at the highest levels.”

Applications for OSHA recognition are accepted from various work sites and assessed based on established VPP standards for a managed safety and health system. Applicants are verified through a review process that includes a thorough on-site evaluation performed by OSHA safety and health experts.
“More than anything, the VPP STAR recognition is a testament to the employees at ACE – to their teamwork and commitment to safety and to each other,” said Steve Gross, managing director of asset operations, West Region, for Constellation Power Generation, a subsidiary of Constellation Energy. “They’re the ones looking out for each other every single day. They're the real stars in this.”


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