Triple witching hour

Triple witching hour is the last hour of the stock market trading session (3:00-4:00 P.M., New York Time) on the third Friday of every March, June, September, and December.

Triple Witching Hour Press Articles

Journal Record, The (Oklahoma City) - Commentary: Spooky cocktails and bewitching brews

October 26, 2007 -- If your lips have never tasted a Widow's Kiss, All Hallows Eve might just be the witching hour. It is, after all, the time when all of the spirits...

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Palm Beach Post - TRIPLE TROUBLES

July 24, 2007 --

You could have written it as a dramatic script five or 10 years ago, and no would have believed a triple witching hour of sports scandals...

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Daily Mail (London, England), The - FTSE flies to a seven-year high

June 16, 2007 --

BUOYANT bulls were back in business as fears of higher global interest rates and a cessation of mega merger and acquisition activity were...

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Daily Mail (London, England), The - FTSE flies to a seven-year high; MARKET REPORT

June 16, 2007 --

BUOYANT bulls were back in business as fears of higher global interest rates and a cessation of mega merger and acquisition activity were...

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Daily Mail (London, England), The - Sceptics steady over FTSE rise; LONDON REPORT

June 15, 2007 --

Byline: GEOFF FOSTER

ALTHOUGH it was comforting to see the Footsie climb 90.3 points to 6649.9 following Wall Street's biggest...

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Daily Mail (London, England), The - Sceptics steady over FTSE rise

June 15, 2007 --

ALTHOUGH it was comforting to see the Footsie climb 90.3 points to 6649.9 following Wall Street's biggest one-day gain for eleven months on...

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Daily Mail (London, England), The - Sceptics steady over FTSE rise; MARKET REPORT

June 15, 2007 --

ALTHOUGH it was comforting to see the Footsie climb 90.3 points to 6649.9 following Wall Street's biggest one-day gain for eleven months on...

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Daily Mail (London, England), The - 30 Second Guide To… Double Witching

December 1, 2006 --

What is it?

IT'S when options and futures contracts expire at 'double witching hour' - 10.15am on the third Friday in March, June,...

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Evening Standard; London (UK) - Triple witching set to bring a torrid spell

June 15, 2006 --

HUBBLE, bubble, toil and trouble - that is what witchfinder general Richard Hunter at stockbroker Hargreaves Lansdown expects to find plenty...

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Evening Standard; London (UK) - Nerves are steadied as calm returns to Footsie

May 19, 2006 --

LONDON stocks marked the end of a volatile week with a period of calm, the FTSE 100 index rising just six points at 5677.6. Triple witching...

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