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A stronger Greenback has been able to take some pips versus CAD today, a risk-appetite began to tail off ahead of the weekend. USD/CAD moved as high as 1.0300 but now trades just 10 pips off session highs at 1.0291.

Chinese Vase

Amazing Photos of China

The Aussie dollar has been well supported this session, aided by Golds resilience above $1130. The high-yielding currency benefited from a broad move to risky asset as markets ended the week far more bullish than they began. An improvement in the economic balance of both Europe and US has firmed market confidence and stamped a buy signal onto the riskier asset classes.

AUD/USD currently trades at 0.9076, just off five week highs 0.9091 flirted with earlier in session. For an excellent analysis of the key signals for this pair, with the annotated charts for guidance, please see this detailed report by CMS Forex.

people`s Building, Shanghai

Two arched bodies emerge - one on the ground, the other in water - in direction to the sky, united at the top and bounding in a unique monumental building of hurled forms, similar to a tube of perfumed action and bended by an immense force. Its profile suggests the Chinese alphabetic character which means "people". That's the way the People's Building will be at the Expo 2010, in Shanghai,China.

The Povo Building (codename: REN) is a project of a group of danish architects and designers named BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group). An oriental philosophical form, a symbol which goes beyond the similarity with the calligraphic sign with whom it identifies. That way, the body emerges from water and is dedicated to the activities of physical culture, sports, etc.; since the emerging body of land is destined to activities such as "spiritual enrichment" - conference center and others. At the point of encounter, where the building turns into one, is located a hotel of 1000 rooms! 250 000m2 of constructed area...

Amazing Shanghai Night

Harbin Ice And Snow World Town Made Out of Ice And Snow

Harbin Ice and Snow World is probably one of the world’s hottest entertaining destinations right now, even if it is made out of ice and snow.

Harbin is located in northeastern China. This is whole town made out of snow and ice and it is also called Ice-made Disneyland.

It covers more than 400.000 square meters and it is built of 120.000 cubic meters of ice and 100.000 cubic meters of snow.

You can find there hotels, bars, football and golf playing fields and all of that is made out of ice and snow. It is hard not to wonder how this investiment can be profitable if all of this is going to melt in summer.

Dollar was able to eek out small gains on a quiet Asian session ahead of Fridays labour figures. Gains we insignificant as the Greenbakc traded largely flat against its major pairs. USD/JPY yielded for the session, taking a break from its previous two significant green Asian sessions.

The other major pairs will be impacted heavily by the outcome of the NFP data on Friday, and as such trading is cagey on these pairs. Eurozone situation was stamped into focus again today as Iceland continued their refusal to budge on repayment agreement for historic defaults with UK and Netherlands.

The broad picture for the Greenback against its major partners as we head to the Asian close is as follows: EUR/USD 1.4397/99 (-0.07%), Swissy 1.0288/92 (+0.13%), Cable 1.6002/05 (-0.09%), USD/JPY 92.26/26 (-0.05%).

The wonders of China

Photographer Feng Jiang is taking us to an incredible journey to his homeland, China. Have a look at these beautiful and inspiring images and you’ll see how wonderful this country is. Lately there are only bad and ugly images of China on internet, so I felt the need to put this amazing collection and show this country from a different angle. I would like for people to see that it is not only the land of communism and pollution, but also a land of great beauty. Enjoy!


















On the results of the latest nanotechnology research, Reed said, “The real achievement here was demonstrating this with blood, which was a longstanding goal. It could not be done before because blood has too much salt and other stuff in it, which prevents this type of sensing. We developed a method to filtrate out specifically what we want to detect.” He went on to explain that this is the first time that scientists have been able to use the sensors with whole blood, which is a complicated solution containing proteins and ions and other things that affect detection.

For their analysis, the researchers developed a device to act as a filter to catch antigens specific to prostate and breast cancer on a chip, while the rest of the blood was washed away. These antigens built up on the chip, allowing for 10 percent accuracy of detection at an extremely small concentration of picograms per milliliter, which is equivalent to detecting the concentration of a single grain of salt in a large swimming pool.

The newly developed device can also be used to detect a broad range of other biomarkers for conditions such as ovarian cancer, and even cardiovascular disease. All the targeted biomarkers can be searched out at the same time, in just one simple test. In addition, there is a significant cost advantage in the production of the device. Reed acknowledged, “The advantage of this technology is that it takes the same effort to make a million devices as it does to make just one. We’ve brought the power of modern microelectronics to cancer detection.”