Sunday, November 18, 2007

Not the Week to Go Long

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The underlying technicals of the market are deteriorating. According to Stockcharts.com's performance function, the best performing iind...
Saturday, November 17, 2007

The Longterm View of the Markets

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Perspective in investing and trading is very important. Long-term charts (multi-year charts) provide much needed perspective about where ma...

Weekend Weimar

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This is usually the space where I put up a Weimar picture and tell you guys to go do something else -- anything except thing about the marke...
Friday, November 16, 2007

This Week's Markets

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I'm going to do this one a bit backwards, but the daily charts are a bit more important in the discussion. So here goes .... First, not...

Why Transports Matter and What Inflation?

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One company and two, two TWO grand themes!!!! From the Street.com FedEx (FDX - Cramer's Take - Stockpickr - Rating) lowered its earnings...

S&P Earnings Down in the Third Quarter

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From The Street.com With the third-quarter earnings season nearing a close, the year-over-year profits for Standard & Poor's 500 com...

Hank Paulsen -- Comedian

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From the WSJ: Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson Friday said the U.S. continues to have a strong dollar policy and the value of the dollar wil...

Bonddad's Engaged

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Sorry for the lack of market update and posting. Last night I proposed to my girlfriend and she said yes. So there will be a Mr$. Bonddad....
Thursday, November 15, 2007

Has The Fed Ditched Core Inflation?

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Hat Tip to Larry Kudlow on this one From Bernanke's speech yesterday: Ultimately, households and businesses care about the overall, or ...

Retailers Facing Tougher Christmas Season

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From Marketwatch: J.C. Penney Co. reported Thursday a 9.1% drop in third-quarter profit, hurt by sweeping discounts to clear unsold merchand...

Everything You Need To Know About CPI

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The year over year percentage change from Econoday: Non inflation here. None at all. One of the main issues going forward is what the Fed c...

CPI Up .3%

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From the BLS: During the first ten months of 2007, the CPI-U rose at a 3.6 percent seasonally adjusted annual rate (SAAR). This compares wit...

This is What A Real Central Bank Looks Like

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Barry over at the Big Picture blog calls the US method of dealing with inflation as "inflation ex-inflation." What he's gett...
Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Keep a close eye on the Russell 2000

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From Investopedia An index measuring the performance of the 2,000 smallest companies in the Russell 3000 Index, which is made up of 3,000 of...

Today's Markets

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Both the SPYs and the QQQQs gapped higher at the open. Then both sold off to their respective support levels. Once they hit those levels, ...

And the Hits Just Keep On Coming

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From Business Week: AAA's Daily Fuel Gauge Report shows that motorists nationwide paid an average of $3.11 per gallon of gasoline on Nov...

The Only Thing You Need to Know About PPI

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From Econoday -- the yearly percentage change in PPI. I don't see any inflation -- or any kind of inflationary trend. Do you?

Follow That Lemming.....Redux

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From CNBC: Bear Stearns expects to write down $1.2 billion of assets linked to mortgages in the fourth quarter, but the worst of the bank...

Follow That Lemming.....

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From Bloomberg: Goldman Sachs Chief Executive Officer Lloyd Blankfein told a New York conference yesterday that the largest U.S. securities ...

Your Daily Loan Loss Increase Post

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From Bloomberg: HSBC Holdings Plc, Europe's biggest bank by market value, said emerging-market lending lifted third- quarter profit, off...