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US Treasury curve steepens sharply -
fxstreet-com
- 3 hours ago
Markets: Fixed Income On Monday, the European and US yield curves steepened sharply, as supply concerns weighed on the longer end of the curve ahead of this week’s bond auctions and amid talk of more fiscal stimulus in the US and Germany. As such, investors ...
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US: Construction spending drops less than expected -
fxstreet-com
- 3 hours ago
In November, construction spending surprised on the upside falling 0.6% M/M, while the consensus was seeking for a drop of 1.4% M/M. The previous figure was upwardly revised from -1.2% M/M to -0.4% M/M. The decline was due ...
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Did Fair Value Accounting Play a Role in the Credit Crisis? -
seekingalpha-com
- 13 hours ago
Eric Fox submits:The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) just released its voluminous report totaling more than 200 pages that investigated whether fair value accounting was to blame for any or all of the credit crisis and financial dislocations ...
Securities and Exchange Commission
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Was Q4 2008 the Worst of It? -
seekingalpha-com
- 13 hours ago
Jim Kingsdale submits:Some companies are cutting compensation levels and hours rather than cutting employment. For example, here is a report on Visteon (VC) , the car parts supplier, that is putting 2,050 employees on a 4-day week and cutting ...
Google - Visteon
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So Much To Learn From Nordson's Conference Call -
seekingalpha-com
- 13 hours ago
From Nordson Corp.'s FQ408 conference call: (NDSN) Currency headwinds: How will Nordson's bottom line be affected going forward as currencies continue to fluctuate?Complete Story »
Nordson
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Indicator Update for January 5 -
seekingalpha-com
- 16 hours ago
Brett Steenbarger submits: Last week's indicator review concluded, "The low 900 area continues to serve as important resistance for the S&P 500 Index; a break above that level accompanied by strong sector participation and new high strength ...
SP 500
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Shorting to Take Advantage of Overbought Market -
seekingalpha-com
- 18 hours ago
Paul Singh submits: Market NotesThe market is overbought. I'll get back to that, but first let's take a look at the overall picture. The market, via [[SPY]] and [[SSO]] is putting in a healthy looking bottom pattern. RSI ...
Relative Strength Index
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The Trouble with Hedge Funds: Playing with Other People's Money -
seekingalpha-com
- 18 hours ago
Fred Wilson submits: Always treat money like it is your own.This should sound pretty obvious, but it isn't. And I think a lot of people have been violating this rule, particularly on Wall Street and in big corporations. The economic ...
Wall Street
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2009 Forecasts for Defense Spending -
seekingalpha-com
- 20 hours ago
Scott Sacknoff (SPADE Investor) submits: First of all, congratulations to [[FLIR]] for being added to the S&P 500.Secondly, although it was a brutal year for investors, hats off to the Index's Top 10 2008 performers (see page 2, full list ...
SP 500
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Hope Set to Outperform -
seekingalpha-com
- 21 hours ago
Gary Tanashian submits: Excerpted from the January 4 edition of Notes From the Rabbit Hole Since late November we have been following potential bottoming patterns in US and global stock markets with Inverted Head & Shoulders in the Dow and SP 500|S&P ...
SP 500
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Using the T2108 Indicator to Identify Overbought S&P 500 Conditions -
seekingalpha-com
- 21 hours ago
Dr. Duru submits: In my reviews of market health, I sometimes refer to a technical indicator called T2108, the percentage of stocks trading above their 40-day moving averages (DMAs) in price. The rule of thumb for interpreting this indicator is that ...
SP 500
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This Great Depression is Just Getting Started -
seekingalpha-com
- 23 hours ago
Edward Hugh submits: Well, here's the chart I think everyone really needs to see (below). The JPMorgan Global Manufacturing PMI hit 33.2 in December, a series record. More to the point, you can get a comparison between what is happening now and the 2001 ...
Recession
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It's a New Year, Is Anything Different? -
seekingalpha-com
- 24 hours ago
Alex Filonov submits: December was a month of dancing bulls. It looked strange, with the market, I mean the Dow, trading in the 8000-9000 range. Anyway, the investment world was full of dancing bulls shouting, "Stocks are so low, they can't get any lower, ...
Recession
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Fed Watch: Starting the Year on an Ugly Note -
seekingalpha-com
- 24 hours ago
Tim Duy submits: The only certainty for the New Year is that policymakers will continue to pull out all the stops to keep a floor under the US economy. And recent data highlights the difficulty they will face. Hope is high that the incoming Obama Administration ...
Federal Reserve
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Little House on PIMCO's Prairie -
seekingalpha-com
- 1 day ago
Michael Steinberg submits:The Wall Street Journal, in “Would You Pay $103,000 for This Arizona Fixer-Upper?”, reports on how a 576 square foot house not fit for human occupancy wound up as a foreclosure on a triple-A rated ...
Wall Street
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Repairing a Broken Financial World -
seekingalpha-com
- 1 day ago
Eddy Elfenbein submits: The must-read article from the weekend is Michael Lewis and David Einhorn's two-parter (here and here) in the New York Times. For the most part, I think they describe the problems fairly well. My issue is ...
New York Times
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News and markets over Christmas holiday -
fxstreet-com
- 1 day ago
Overview • Equity markets staged a rebound towards yearend, rising 5% in the last two days. This did not change the fact, however, that 2008 was the worst year for financial markets since the Depression with the S&P 500 finishing down 38%. ...
SP 500
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2009 Outlook: Better Safe Than Sorry -
seekingalpha-com
- 1 day ago
Markham Lee submits:A couple of weeks ago I came across a Facebook group that seeks to mitigate if not nullify the recession through the power of positive thought. A few days ago I came across another that seeks to spread the word that ...
Recession
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Happy New Year From the Markets -
seekingalpha-com
- 2 days ago
Bill Cara submits: [Excerpted from Bill Cara's Daily Report]All traders needed was to open their presents under the tree and Santa Claus would make everything all right, apparently. Since Xmas Eve, the S&P 500 has put in gains of +0.58%, ...
SP 500
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Credit Started This Recession; It Will Also Help End It -
seekingalpha-com
- 2 days ago
Ray Hendon submits: Credit was at the heart of the current recession; it is also key to its recovery. The absence of a smoothly functioning credit system is life-threatening to a capital intensive economy. We saw that trust and confidence, two of the ...
Recession
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Why Can't the Dow Join the Party? -
seekingalpha-com
- 2 days ago
John Lounsbury submits:The Dow Jones Industrial Average, the S&P 500 and the NASDAQ Composite all made closing lows on November 20, 2008, which constitute, at least thus far, bottoms for the market decline from October 9, 2007. Since then, ...
SP 500
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S&P 500 Dividend Payers Outperform Non-Payers in December -
seekingalpha-com
- 2 days ago
David I. Templeton submits: For the month of December and the entire 2008 calendar year, the dividend paying stocks in the S&P 500 Index outperformed the non-payers on an average return basis. In the month of December, the payers returned ...
SP 500
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Double-Digit Dividends: Linn Energy, Dow Chemicals, 40|86 Strategic Income -
seekingalpha-com
- 2 days ago
Dividends4Life submits: Mango trees will settle into a cropping pattern by the third year after planting and reach peak production in six to eight years. The tree is long-lived with some specimens known to be over 300 years old and still producing ...
Linn Energy - Peak
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Reviewing Fortune Magazine's 10 Best Stocks for 2008 -
seekingalpha-com
- 2 days ago
Jake Berzon submits:A year ago, I reviewed Fortune Magazine's 10 picks for the best stocks of 2008. I passed my judgment on Fortune's recommended stocks based on their closing prices on the first Friday of 2008. Now, a full year later, I was curious ...
SP 500
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Blaming HGTV for the Housing Bubble Is Just Plain Silly -
seekingalpha-com
- 2 days ago
Michael Steinberg submits:Jim Sollisch, creative director at Marcus Thomas LLC, wrote what I presume is a satirical editorial in The Wall Street Journal: “Blame Television for the Bubble”. Sollisch humorously ...
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M2 Money Supply Indicates No Shortage -
seekingalpha-com
- 2 days ago
Calafia Beach Pundit submits: All measures of the money supply are at new all-time high levels. Since the Fed began its new "quantitative easing" program last September, the M2 measure of money supply has grown by over $400 billion, ...
Federal Reserve
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Currency Risk in Foreign Developed Markets -
seekingalpha-com
- 2 days ago
Kyle Waller submits: 2008 was a year of realized risk among many asset classes. It followed a period of lower volatility in many asset classes, like foreign developed and emerging markets. The foreign developed market index, EAFE (Europe, ...
Volatility
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Is the Long Bond Cracking? -
seekingalpha-com
- 2 days ago
Richard Shaw (QVM Group) submits: We have been saying recently that long-term US Treasury bonds looked toppy (see Dec 25, 2008). Long-bond funds gapped up, which is often an invitation to fill the gap later in a downward movement. T-bonds reached ...
Gap
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Shorting The Bond Bubble? Hold On -
seekingalpha-com
- 2 days ago
Larry MacDonald submits: The bubble economy has spawned another bubble. This time it's government bonds. The flight to safety during 2008 has pushed yields to lows never seen before in Federal Reserve records (compiled since 1962). ...
Federal Reserve
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ECRI: Recession Will Persist for Time Being -
seekingalpha-com
- 2 days ago
Steven Hansen submits: According to the U.S. Weekly Leading Index (US WLI) released on 01/02/09 published by Economic Cycle Research Institute ((ECRI)), the economy remains near the low point in the cycle. Lakshman Achuthan of ECRI states:Despite a three-week ...
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