A couple of minor technical problems called “business” and “life” have now intruded on my increasingly bogged down publication schedule that, in the interest...
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Telegraph.co.ukHewlett-Packard just whacked the wrong executiveCNETIf you're looking for a scapegoat, Mike Lynch offers an easy target, but Meg Whitman ought to take a long, hard look in the mirror. by Charles Cooper May 23, 2012 6:20 PM PDT Follow...
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Tomorrow is a big day, with the FOMC announcement and the Fed revealing what it wants you to think about what it thinks it’s going to think it wants you to think. Or something like that. This Fed “tranparency” thing has been covered to death in the mainstream media. I think it’s another utter...
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On Friday, the market again performed in accordance with the expectations of the preferred count, with the Dow and SPX hitting their targets and reversing within just a few points. This does remain a difficult market to anticipate,...
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Pedro da Costa, maybe the smartest and best reporter covering the Fed, and who seems like a good guy, has a blog post out today suggesting that the $50 billion ECB dollar lending operation today will cause the Fed’s balance sheet to expand. He’s piggy backing on Mike Derby’s column in the Wall Street...
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The traditional wisdom is that light-volume holiday sessions, such as the sessions approaching on Wednesday and Friday, are bullish.
Since 1941, Black Friday (the day after Thanksgiving) has seen an average rise of 0.28%, and a positive close 70%...
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The SSEC is a bit of a challenge for me to tackle, as I have no access to detailed intra-day data. Without a look at a 30-minute chart at least (preferably a 5 minute chart), I am unable to differentiate between the short-term structures, an...
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With TZA now having dropped 50% in 15 trading days, the SP 500 has now retraced the minimum (.618) requirement that was necessary (from an EW perspective)following the 3 wave drop from 1340 to 1105.
I am half in with TZA here just below $33 and hope t...
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I got no clue
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We need weekly bailouts just to keep the system from collapsing,how anyone perceives this as bullish I have no clue.....
With each bailout it just shows how bad things are,and they really have no way to fix it.But i guess it's perception that matters.
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09/02/2011
Bear Market Rules Apply
by Carl Swenlin
It is a concept that we stress on a periodic basis, and we got another illustration this week. Technical indicators must be interpreted within the context of the overall market trend.
(This is an ex...
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I am not posting this so much as to encourage you to take the poll but to note that these guys don't seem to have a clue how to construct a poll without all sorts of embedded ambiguity. All the polls suffer from the same phenomenon...
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May 2, 2011 Analysis from Chris Kimble
Where is the market headed? Technical analyst Chris Kimble keeps an eye on high-yield funds for a possible clue.
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Chris comments: No indicator is perfect, yet high yields ha...
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“U.S. Homebuilder Confidence Rises in March to Highest Level in 10 Months,” screamed the Bloomberg headline this morning. It left out the fact that the readings were barely above 20 year lows. This is one of the most important indicators of the housing market because it represents the perceptions of direct market participants and...
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A Closer Look at Fed Propaganda: Even It Admits That It's Clueless
"It felt that "resource slack" would prevent most companies from passing on cost increases. But it also admitted to not having a grip on the mechanisms of price increase!...
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And from Andy Greenberg today: Is Bank Of America WikiLeaks’ Next Target?
n eagle-eyed reader has sent me a link to a quote from a Computer World interview with Assange from October of 2009, which, if true, may contain a clue to that bank’s id...
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The Fed has bought $45 billion of Treasuries in the first two months of QL1.5, including $7.3 billion last week. It’s been good for 80 points on the S&P 500, 650 on the Dow, and a 35 basis point decline in the 10 year yield. With QL1.5 working as well as it is I...
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John Hilsenrath at the Wall Street Journal does a nice job of reviewing and summarizing the dueling speeches of 3 Fed officials today. Not only are they in disagreement about what the Fed should do next, they don’t even seem to be able to agree on what exactly the economy is doing. What else...
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Well, I guess I nailed that one... Heh heh. Sort of, anyway. Here's what I wrote in last night's Professional Edition Housing Update-
QuoteTomorrow’s Commerce Department new home sales data should be very weak. According to Econoday and Briefing.com...
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Translation of the FOMC meeting minutes is a regular feature of the Wall Street Examiner Professional Edition Fed Report. However, the August meeting was so astounding in its implications that I wanted to share my interpretation of the minutes on wider basis for the purpose of inviting discussion. Please feel free to add your...
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While I still don’t know exactly how the Treasury built up that enormous cash hoard, we may have gotten a clue today how it intends to use it. Click here to download complete report in pdf format (Professional Edition Subscribers). Try the Professional Edition risk free for thirty days. If, within that time, you...
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The TBAC estimate of borrowing for this week missed by $33 billion, a sign that once again, the experts have no clue how badly things are spiraling out of control. For the week, the Treasury dumped $51 billion in new supply on the market, $28 billion of which settled today. As a result, the...
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Watching Secretary Tim “Stonewall” Geithner shuck, jive, and obfuscate before the Congressional Oversight Panel was sickening and disgusting to anyone who has a clue of what’s going on, but old “TurboTax made me do it” obviously impressed investors, who in the main continue to be clueless. Geithner even smirked that he had never worked...
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I like Obie, but he has drunk the Kool Aid. We are doomed. He’s listening to the advice of those very same world renowned egonomists who never saw the current mess coming. How could those who never saw it coming in the first place, and didn’t recognize it after it had already begun have...
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SPX and RUT Update: Market Has Reached the Topping Target Zone
I was watching CNBC last night, and it seemed like every other guest was predicting Dow 36,000 for 2012. Correct me if I'm wrong here, but don't bull markets start when everyone is bearish? In March of '09, AAII sentiment was over 70% bears...
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