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Fight or Flight: Get Ready for the Earnings Crush Markets in the week ahead will try to size up the economic soft patch that has spooked commodities investors and is driving buyers into Treasurys. Stocks, so far, have not shown much reaction to worries that the economy is slowing down, with both the Dow and S&P 500 at record highs in the past week. About a third of the Dow Industrials and 70 [...] Economic Calendar – MarketWatch 8:30 am 8:30 am 8:30 am 8:30 am 9:55 am 10 am
March Retail Slide, Miss Expectations, Post Biggest Drop Since June
Is This It For The Market Rally? The S&P 500 closed at an all-time high yesterday. Meanwhile, market watchers continue to look for a top. At the very least, people are looking for a 5% pullback or a 10% correction before the rally resumes. Earlier this morning, [...] This is interactive. Click on the item for charts and data as reported. By Irwin Kellner, MarketWatch PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y. — Monetary and fiscal policies are not as stimulative as they appear. Indeed, by some measures, they are actually slowing the pace of economic growth, rather than boosting it. Once again, the fledgling recovery appears to be hitting headwinds. Even though the pace of economic growth in the fourth quarter was just revised upward to a robust 3%, expectations for the current quarter [...] By Greg Robb, MarketWatch WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — Manufacturing activity in the New York region weakened again in September, according to data released Thursday, raising fresh concern over the strength of the factory sector in the third quarter. The Empire State index decreased slightly to negative 8.8 in September from negative 7.7 in August, according to the manufacturing survey released by the New York Federal Reserve. [...] This week’s financial and economic calendar culminates Friday with Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke’s policy speech at the Fed’s annual summer getaway in Jackson Hole, Wy. Will he or won’t he announce another round of quantitative easing? That’s the big issue facing financial markets. It was at this same conference last August that Bernanke cued in the markets about the second round of quantitative easing, which resulted in the Fed [...] From RanSquawk: Moody’s downgrade Greece’s sovereign rating by three notches, to Ca from Caa1, and warned that it is almost inevitable the country will be considered to be in default following last week’s new bailout package By Greg Robb, MarketWatch WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — The weak June nonfarm payrolls report will spur the Federal Reserve to launch a third round of asset purchases, known as quantitative easing, sometime this fall, said David Blanchflower, a professor at Dartmouth College. “QE3 looks increasingly on the table. What are they going to do, let unemployment start rising again?” Blanchflower said in a telephone interview. Blanchflower, a former member [...] The euro struck a 16-month high against the dollar and the Swiss franc notched a record high versus the US unit Tuesday amid heightened investor nerves over this week’s busy economic calendar. The European single currency hit $1.4653 in morning trade, the highest point since mid-December 2009, as many dealers returned from a long holiday weekend. It later stood at $1.4619, compared with $1.4572 late in New [...] Via Pension Pulse. The December rally may be reaching its climax, with just two weeks to go before Santa Claus makes his midnight run. Dwindling volume, excess optimism, and history all point to a stock market that could be running out of steam. Investors appear to have grown complacent as the CBOE Volatility Index, or VIX .VIX, has fallen to levels [...] PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y. (MarketWatch) — The umpire of the business cycle has called the recession over but the players want to review the tape. According to the National Bureau of Economic Research, the U.S. economy stopped falling in June of 2009. This implies that business conditions bottomed out some 15 months ago and have been improving ever since. See full story on NBER. Hello? The real world would [...] |
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