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Queasy queuing

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May 23, 2012
Queasy queuing

Computer had a hissy fit this morning and I couldn't get any programmes working...belatedly realized time/date had reset to somewhere in 2002!  Fixed that and life has returned to normal.. Marginal green for the early openers: Kiwis +0.2%, A...
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Drop and Pop

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May 23, 2012
Drop and Pop

Massive intra-day rebound rally in all indexes..... The Dow's final number tells all.......
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Housing Bust was Just a Preview of the Coming Catastrophe

I first came to national attention back in 2008 and 2009 when the housing and credit markets imploded. I became known as the guy that other market “experts” laughed at when I warned of trouble brewing in the seemingly indestructible American econom...
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Philosophical penance

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May 22, 2012
Philosophical penance

Early openers taking it on the chin: Kiwis -0.1%, Aussies -1.2%, Nikkers -0.6% and Sth Korea -1.2%. All Aussie sectors red with Gold -2.7% down the most followed by Miners -1.8% and Materials -1.7%.
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CBO warns of US falling off ‘fiscal cliff’

CBO warns of US falling off 'fiscal cliff' [img]http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/oXh_6AJBHy_uEbdrklkymA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9Zml0O2g9Mjg-/http://l.yimg.com/os/152/2012/04/21/image001-png_162613.png[/img]By ANDREW TAYLOR | Asso...
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Pop and drop

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May 22, 2012

All over the place!
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Onerous overburden

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May 21, 2012
Onerous overburden

Early openers have a spring in their step: Kiwis +0.9%, Aussies +0.7%, Nikkers +1.2% and Sth Korea +1.2%. In Aussie sectors, Energy +1.6% and Miners/Materials +1% with Gold taking a rest, -0.3%.
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Everyone caught short

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May 21, 2012

Short interest has been skyrocking,This was coming sooner or later......
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China traders default on coal payments

13:12 21May12 RTRS-SOME CHINESE TRADERS DEFAULT ON THERMAL COAL SHIPMENTS ON FALLING PRICES - TRADE 13:12 21May12 RTRS-AT LEAST SIX DEFAULTED STEAM COAL CARGOES BEING RE-OFFERED IN MARKET AT SIGNIFICANT DISCOUNT - TRADE 13:40 21May12 RTRS-Chinese b...
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Notable notches

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May 20, 2012
Notable notches

An opening surge for most of the early birds: Kiwis -0.3%, Aussies +0.9%, Nikkers +0.7% and Sth Korea +1.1%. In Aussie sectors, Gold still on the move, +2.1%, Miners +1.9% and Materials +1.7%.
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House voted to kill the American Community Survey

On May 9 the House voted to kill the American Community Survey, which collects data on some 3 million households each year and is the largest survey next to the decennial census. The ACS—which has a long bipartisan history, including its funding in t...
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World Leaders at U.S. Meeting Urge Growth, Not Austerity

May 19, 2012 World Leaders at U.S. Meeting Urge Growth, Not Austerity By HELENE COOPER CAMP DAVID, Md. — Leaders of the world’s richest countries banded together on Saturday to press Germany to back more pro-growth policies to halt the deepening ...
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Wall Street’s immorality crux of crisis

Reich: Wall Street's immorality crux of crisis Robert Reich Friday, May 18, 2012 Some want the 2012 election to be about regulating America's bedrooms. But it really ought to be about regulating the nation's boardrooms. The bedroom regulators are...
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The Commencement Address That Won’t Be Given

Robert Reich. Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy, University of California at Berkeley; Author, 'Beyond Outrage' The Commencement Address That Won't Be Given Members of the Class of 2012, As a former secretary of labor and current professor, I...
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Faceplant

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May 18, 2012

Another rough day....
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Mottled misadventures

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May 17, 2012
Mottled misadventures

Early openers on a selling spree: Kiwis -1.4%, Aussies -1.8%, Nikkers -2.2% and Sth Korea -2.3%. In Aussie sectors Gold +3.2% is the only green with Energy -2.6%, Miners -2.3% and Materials -2.1%.
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Splat

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May 17, 2012

ouch!
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Leaky levitation

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May 16, 2012
Leaky levitation

Early openers nudging into the green: Kiwis +0.2%, Aussies +0.3%, Nikkers -0.4% and Sth Korea -0.2%. In Aussie sectors, Gold +1.5%, Miners/Materials +1.1% with Telecomms at the other end, -0.4%.
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QE3 talk still not enough to prop the market

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May 16, 2012

Late fade yet again.
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Will ‘Onshela’ save Europe?

May 17, 2012 THE ROVING EYE Will 'Onshela' save Europe? By Pepe Escobar History will register his plane struck by lightning on the way to Berlin, no fancy kisses, and asparagus with veal schnitzel on the menu. This is the way the eurozone ends (...
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Jilted jetsam

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May 15, 2012
Jilted jetsam

Stocks being tossed overboard by the early openers: Kiwis -0.3%, Aussies -1.2%, Nikkers -0.5% and Sth Korea -1%. In Aussie sectors, once again it's the resources deep in the red: Gold -2.7%, Miners -2.6% and Materials -2.4%.
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Sell in may or cry all day

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May 15, 2012

fugly
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Bill Gross: Euroland Is a Tumor and the Cancer is Going Global

PIMCO's Bill Gross says the debt-fueled global economy faces a big shift, in a new FT column. The always poetic Gross makes this argument with two metaphors. First, cancer: The world’s financial markets seem obsessed with daily monetary and fisc...
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Inordinate instability

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May 14, 2012
Inordinate instability

Early openers down for starters: Kiwis -0.5%, Aussies -0.9%, Nikkers -0.8% and Sth Korea -0.5%. Mostly red for Aussie sectors: Gold -3.1%, Miners -2.6% and Materials -2.2%.
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Another day of ugly

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May 14, 2012

Everything except treasuries sucked wind.
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Haphazard haggling

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May 13, 2012
Haphazard haggling

Early openers looking somewhat hopeful: Kiwis +0.2%, Aussies +0.3%, Nikkers +0.7% and Sth Korea flat. In Aussie sectors REITS and Consumer Discretionary both +0.7%, with Gold -0.8% the only down sector.
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Buy the dip,dump the rip….

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May 11, 2012

Big move about to take place in the coming days.....
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S&P: Here Comes The $46 Trillion Perfect Storm

In the first of a series of reports on corporate credit markets, S&P highlights a truly unsettling downside scenario that could derail the "fragile equilibrium" in credit markets. The title of the report: The Credit Overhang: Is A $46 Trillion Perfec...
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Taiibbi: Austerity can’t be just for regular people

Rolling Stone link Excerpt: This sounds like the beginning of what will be a very heated debate over who has to pay for the excesses of the financial crisis. It was previously assumed that everybody but the actual financial services sector would have...
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Gloomy gyrations

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May 10, 2012
Gloomy gyrations

Internet connection probs this am... Early openers doing a slide: Kiwis -0.1%, Aussies -0.3%, Nikkers flat and Sth Korea -1.2%. In Aussie sectors Gold hanging in, +1.3% down to Telecomms -1.2%.
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