Here are today’s gold stock screens and data, along with cycle conditions and projections for gold and HUI index, and Chart of the Day...
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This is not a new post, but nobody has brought up the "I" in FIRE yet, and Mr. Middleton has been ahead of the curve on the banks & sovereign debt, so . . .
You Can Rest Assured That The Insurance Industry Is In For Guaranteed Losses!
The insurance...
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NFLX just can't get a break. It had a nice deadcat bounce going today on back of the market rally, but just a few minutes ago, there was this headline.
15:13 CSTR Coinstar followup: CSTR and NFLX under pressure after Bloomberg TV headline suggesting...
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16:15 NFLX Netflix beats by $0.22, beats on revs; guides Q4 EPS below consensus, revs below consensus (118.84 +1.80)
Reports Q3 (Sep) earnings of $1.16 per share, $0.22 better than the Capital IQ Consensus Estimate of $0.94; revenues rose 48.6% year/ye...
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MUCH as some businesses whine about government intrusion, others do pretty well out of it. An index based on the amount of lobbying that American firms do has outperformed the broader market since its creation in 2008; data going back to 1998 show t...
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Rob Arnott says we're in the worst depression since the Great Depression and the Fed may be making things worse. Arnott, who oversees $80 billion at Research Affiliates, tells King World News:
When real interest rates are 2%-4% and inflation rates ...
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Bloomberg link
Stating the obvious. Love the author's contention that maybe the Asians will buy our (Boomers's) shares from us.
Excerpt:
Americans born between 1946 and 1964 are beginning to retire as the U.S. stock market is still recovering from ...
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17:36 CRM Salesforce.com on Conference Call- Asked if Q3 guidance takes into account a softening environment; says they have not seen any softening in their business; demand remains strong (114.06 -12.25) -Update
16:08 CRM Salesforce.com beats by $0....
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Moody's Warns Student Loans May Be The Next Financial Bubble To Burst
First Posted: 8/9/11 06:25 PM ET Updated: 8/9/11 06:37 PM ET
WASHINGTON -- Record borrowing by college students who are graduating without jobs may lead to the next financial cri...
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Thursday's stock-market sell-off has injected investors with more fear and uncertainty - but this is not the time to panic.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average on Thursday fell 513 points, or 4.3%, and regained only 0.54% Friday to close at 11,444.61. The Standard...
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Has Wall Street finally lost faith in the story they told themselves would unfold? -> Low interest rates + credit infusion = growth at xxx% rate base on previous cases in 1992, 1998, 2002 etc etc etc? (ie curve fitting with no real qualitative unde...
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U.S. incomes plummeted again in 2009, with total income down 15.2% in real terms since 2007, new tax data showed on Wednesday. The data showed an alarming drop in the number of taxpayers reporting any earnings from a job -- down by nearly 4.2 million f...
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The S&P closed today at 1267, and a feeling of doom has come over many investors. Yet Bank of America equity strategist David Bianco is sticking with his guns, calling for the index to hit 1400 by the end of the year.
Here's some of his reasoning:
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TXN lowering guidance. PE is only 12.3 X and dividend yield is 1.6%. Semiconductors/Semiequip are cyclical industries, and often the cyclical top in a stock after peak earnings are achieved for the cycle, and vice versa for the cyclical low. The stock...
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Last week, it looked as though a tide might have turned. The Dow fell another 97 points on Friday. And the 10-year US Treasury note rose to yield less than 3%. What will happen next? We don’t know. But it wouldn’t be a bad thing if investors too...
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June 2, 2011
Here is an overview and summary of the four market valuation indicators I regularly follow: The Crestmont Research P/E Ratio (more) The cyclical P/E ratio using the trailing 10-year earnings as the divisor (more) The Q Ratio — t...
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Might be a reason for that what the f@#$ rally from hell Lime Juice 2 opined in the post below.
DUD110526.pdf (140.37K)
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QuoteForeign-sourced earnings have pushed developed-market profits to above-average levels. Part of this reflects the ...
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May 2, 2011
Here is an combined perspective on three market valuation indicators I routinely follow: The relationship of the S&P Composite to a regression trendline (more) The cyclical P/E ratio using the trailing 10-year earnings as the divisor (mo...
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are up but stock is down??
What am I missing?
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Women continue to struggle for equal rights in the workplace. For at least two decades, they have earned 80% of the wages of men doing equivalent jobs. That should be a shock to most people since the feminist movement is several decades old. Sadly...
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The year 2011 is the year when inflation will play the role of wrecking ball. It seems to threaten everything from emerging markets to the pretty earnings narrative of the market as a whole.
I use the term “inflation” here as the man on the st...
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why did he do it yesterday and not after the close with earnings today?
was it his way of warning his beloved followers and giving them 1 last daily candlestick to sell in to?
http://mauibear.maui.net
sideways for another month, bounce t...
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SPX and Apple Updates: Is Apple Finally Ripe to Fall?
By now, most traders know that Apple had its tree shaken yesterday. It missed earnings and disappointed analysts, largely due to iPhone sales coming in much lower than expected. After hitting a new all-time closing high ...
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