* S&P 500 index records best month in 20 years* MF Global files for bankruptcy, hurt by Europe crisis* Greece calls referendum on EU aid package* Dow off 2.3 pct, S&P off 2.5 pct, Nasdaq off 1.9 pctBy …

* S&P 500 index records best month in 20 years* MF Global files for bankruptcy, hurt by Europe crisis* Indexes off: Dow 2.3 pct, S&P 2.5 pct, Nasdaq 1.9 pctBy Edward Krudy NEW YORK, Oct 31 (Reuters) – …

Following are some of the day’s biggest movers. Find out what’s going up, what’s going down and whether our traders would double down, fade or run in the other direction!

Investors continued to scrutinize the eurozone debt deal and reacted to Japan’s intervention in currency markets ahead of a week chock-full of economic events.

Wall Street suffers sharp losses on the final day of October. All three major benchmark indexes score hefty gains for the month, with the S&P 500 Index and Nasdaq Composite up 11% from the end of September.

Dow Sinks 276 Points

October - 31 - 2011

Dow Sinks 276 Points Stocks finished a historic month of gains on a sour note, as concerns about the plan to stave off Europe’s debt woes drove a selloff. News Hub: Big Loss at End of Winning Month More from MarketBeat Treasurys March Higher Stocks Going By the Book

We haven’t got enough confident with our bearish view on the USD/CAD and despite selling the pair at 1.0200 early last week, the strength of the rebound from 0.9990 scared us out and we exited the short with small profit at 1.0170. It was even more unfortunate that we turned

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