Part of the reason for today’s bond market strength was the big paydown in the 4 week bill. The $18 billion paydown left investors with nowhere to go. With the weak earnings scare, the first option for those getting cash jammed back into their pockets was intermediate term Treasuries. Click here to...
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Posts Tagged ‘ Earnings ’
Treasury Gets Yields Down – Professional Editon Fed Report
Goldman’s Earnings Down On Security Costs
by Jorma
Dec. 1- (The Stool Pigeons Wire) Shares of Goldman Sachs fell this morning on the announcement that its earnings will fall significantly due to expenses related to providing security for its partners and facilities. A $20 billion dollar contract with Homeland Security will be administered by Xe, formerly Blackwater, who will provide security...
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Playing the Game with Psychos
“We are very early on in this credit cycle.” – Timothy Long, Chief Bank Examiner, Office of the Comptroller of the CurrencyMarketwatch has a thorough piece out on third-quarter bank earnings, suggesting that expectation are too high and plenty of credit losses are in store. There are numerous other issues laid out in the...
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The Pissanti Report
By Ags Nightmare
Oct. 6 (Stool Pigeons Wire) ” Folks…the bulls can do no wrong…Australia cut rates!!! ( yep he said that )….. just look at Mosaic…they missed by a country mile…sales down, revenues putrid, earnings non existent….but they said things will get better and it’s up huge pre market…everyone is celebrating the demise of...
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Trash and a Classic Top?
The stock market of late has been rife with trash rallies. The players have engaged in a classic late stage orgy of buying dogs and cats, zombies and caca. This has all the manifestations of a classic top.Among the trash rallying of late is Freddie Mac who reported accounting gimmick “earnings.” The real story however...
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Hurricane Backwall
One of the leading sectors of this rally have been the retail and consumer discretionary sectors. In part this has been an earnings expectation game with many of these companies able to beat a low set high jump bar. I have also been writing about the commodity rebate, and how disinflation, or what some...
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Actionable Hurricane Backwall
One of the leading sectors of this rally have been the retail and consumer discretionary sectors. In part this has been an earnings expectation game with many of these companies able to beat a low set high jump bar. I have also been writing about the commodity rebate, and how disinflation, or what some...
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Bank of America to take over GM at request of US government
by Trader Joe
Charlotte, NC (Stool Pigeons Wire) – Bank of America will take over GM at request of the US government. When asked, Ken Lewis, CEO of Bank of America stated, “We think that GM will be a good strategic fit for Bank of America. Along with our forced acquisitions of Countrywide and Merrill...
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Unnatural Production Levels
This Citicorp analyst report covers some of my thinking especially about unnatural production levels, and the rebound potential. The should sound familar. Unsustainable plummeting production trends are driven by rapid de-stocking. The intensity of inventory reduction is stunning as management teams are moving at high speed to generate cash. Under-producing final demand is...
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