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Friday, March 6, 2009
Media Appearance
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I'll be on Air America at 6:05 CST to talk about the latest employment disaster report.
The Employment Situation in Pictures.
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Click on all for a larger image. There are presented in no order of importance. All have been updated with today's information.
Employment Down -651,000
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From the BLS: Nonfarm payroll employment continued to fall sharply in February (-651,000), and the unemployment rate rose from 7.6 to 8.1 pe...
Forex Friday's
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Click on all images for a larger image The weekly chart is very positive. Notice the following: -- The MACD is giving a buy signa -- The RS...
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Today's Markets
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Click for larger image The 5-minute chart shows a clear downward trajectory interrupted by bear market flag patterns. In other words, peopl...
Fed Sees A Damaged Economy
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From the most recent Beige Book: Consumer spending remained sluggish on net, although many Districts noted some improvement in January and ...
Anecdotal Job Market Information
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Mr$. Bonddad is the HR director and an architectural firm in Houston. 1.) Last Friday she went to a recruiter event at an architectural sch...
Thursday Oil Market Round-Up
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Click on all charts for a larger image On the weekly chart notice that prices have been in a triangle consolidation pattern for the last thr...
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Today's Markets
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Click on all for larger images Today the market opened higher but then moved down to the 50 day SMA. The market repeated this several times...
Are We Going to 600 on the S&P?
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Tim Knight makes a strong case that it's possible. Watch the first half of this video.
More Signs of Credit Thawing
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From Bernanke's testimony yesterday: The measures taken since September by the Federal Reserve, other U.S. government entities, and fore...
20% of Homes Are Underwater
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From the WSJ: Twenty percent of all U.S. residential properties that had a mortgage on them were underwater at the end of December, with mor...
Wednesday Commodity Round-Up
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The main issue with copper is prices are near their lowest levels in three years. However, also note the 20 and 50 day SMAs are moving lowe...
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Today's Markets
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Although prices gapped up at the beginning of the day, they made three moves lower. Note that each successive move was higher -- which is ...
You Are Here
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The Bad Asset Plan
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From the WSJ: The Obama team announced its intention to partner with the private sector to buy $500 billion to $1 trillion of distressed ass...
Treasury Tuesday
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Despite hitting a high at the end of last year, the short term end of the Treasury market has been falling since. Prices are now in a downw...
Monday, March 2, 2009
Today's Markets
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Click on all images for a larger picture. Wow -- what a bloodbath. Let's see what the charts say: The SPYs broke though lower resistance...
Some Happy News
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From New Deal Democrat over at Economist Populist: The DJIA fell to 6825 this morning. That means that the Oct. 2007 - present bear market i...
Fourth Quarter GDP Looks Terrible
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Click on all images for a larger image There are four components of GDP: personal consumption expenditures, gross private domestic investmen...
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