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SPAIN’S ECONOMY WEAKENS
Dow tumbles 240 points to seven-week low
China’s manufacturing sector shows improvement
Facebook stock pops 12% as ad sales surge
Netflix plunges as subscriber totals disappoint
Dow Chemical cuts 2,400 jobs
Apple unveils smaller iPad mini
Apple’s iPad Mini event in 90 seconds
China slowdown may be overstated
Is China a friend or foe to the U/S.?
The five best stocks in Asia
Opinion: Earnings stink like a big pile of trash

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October 24th, 2012 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: All | Leave a comment

Steve Rattner: Buffett knows best – stocks will trump bonds

From FT:

Two reminders of the age old debate over the merits of equities versus bonds emerged almost simultaneously in recent days. First, Warren Buffett argued in his latest annual letter that shares are not only a better investment than fixed income instruments but are also superior to gold, the darling of many seasoned investors.

Just as that was being digested, the Financial Times reported that the Ford Motor Company had decided [...]

February 29th, 2012 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: All | Leave a comment

Five professional tips for knowing when to trade

From The Big Picture:

When should traders be in or out of the market?

There are times when traders should NOT be in the market. There are other times when the market is rocking and traders should get aggressive. How can you tell the difference? Here are five helpful tips.

Note: I’m a trader, not an investor. I am looking for superior out-performance by being in the best stocks I can find during [...]

February 14th, 2012 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , | Category: All | Leave a comment

POMO or Permanent Open Market Operations

by Jan Paul

Permanent Open Market Operations
Purchases or sales of securities on an outright basis that add or drain reserves and change the size of the System Open Market Account (SOMA) portfolio are amongst the tools used by the Federal Reserve to implement monetary policy.
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are only one of many things going on that impact the markets and the low volume of buyers who are either ahead of the pack or very [...]

October 11th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: All | Leave a comment

The reason the market is so volatile now is because it doesn’t know what it will be like in 6 months.

The European defaults caused the 2nd leg down in our great depression. The current rise in the dollar is hammering exports and earnings converted into dollars. The “austerity” plans of Europe, California, and other states hasn’t been figured out yet as to how hard they will hit earnings.

We have 900,000 layoffs in cities and states coming (Meridith Whitney says more like 1 to 2 million layoffs) and that will hit [...]

June 6th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | Category: All | Leave a comment