Mid Week News 11Apr

Graphics

• China Trade Balance, 2000-Present. (Reuters/Scott Barber)
• Race To The Bottom. No, Not The Dollar: NatGas v 10yr Yield. (Bespoke)
• Oil Inventories. (Bespoke)

Energy

• Bearish API stats: another big jump in crude stocks, up 6.6 mil b (v 1.8mil exp).                  Gasoline up 1.2 mil b, distillates down 500k b. Runs dn 1.2 pct pts. (Platts)
• Oil Decline Amid Projected Supply Increase. (Businessweek)
• Crude Stocks. (Reuters)
• Crude: Post EIA. (Reuters)

Central Banks

• SNB As "Victim" Of A Decentralized Market Structure. (FT Alpha)

Politics

• Ethics Of The Welfare State. (Gary North/Lew Rockwell)
• Iran Escalates, Cutting Off Oil Shipments To Spain. (Zerohedge)

Markets

• Dark Pools Aren't For Market Benefit. (Points & Figures)
• 33% Of Trading Taken Off Exchanges. (SecTechMonitor)
• Bank Earnings Projections. (Bloomberg)

HFT/Algo

• Twitter-Based Trading Alerts Coming. (SecTechMonitor)
• NYSE ARCA Quote Lag. (Nanex)
• CL Liquidity Vaporizes Into EIA Inventory. (Nanex)