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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Weakening Federal Withholding Tax Collections Do Note Bode Well For Employment
This report is an excerpt from the permanent Employment Chart page. The edge that Federal Withholding Tax collections had held over last year continued to narrow last week, suggesting a weakening employment picture in May. The chart below compares current withholding tax collections with last year on the same date. This year collections have...
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As One Trader at JPMorgan Sold Risky Contracts, Another One Bought Them – NYTimes.com
For hedge funds that could smell blood in the water, it seemed to be an opportunity to take on JPMorgan Chase and win. It was, in fact, such a sweet trade that even another part of the bank couldn’t pass it up. Even as a trader for JPMorgan in London was selling piles of...
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Mutual Fund Flows Bearish for Stocks, Slowing for Bonds
The ICI reported today that US domestic equity mutual funds suffered outflows of $1.6 billion this week, compared with outflows of $8.6 billion last week. Domestic taxable bond funds had inflows of $4.8 billion, similar to last week. For charts and discussion updated weekly see the Mutual Fund Flows page.
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Mutual fund outflows are another example of the costs of ZIRP – Bernankecide
This is a short excerpt from this week’s Professional Edition Fed Report to be posted Tuesday. The ICI reports mutual fund inflows weekly with a one week lag. Domestic equity mutual funds had $8.7 billion of net outflows in the week ended 4/18/12, after net outflows of $1.5 billion the week before. Based on...
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Another gap up crushes more shorts
Sellers pile in at the close,but another first of the month Mutual fund jamfest for da boys.
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China to liquidate US Treasuries?
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/finance/ambroseevans-pritchard/100011987/china-
to-liquidate-us-treasuries-not-dollars/
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard details how "A key rate setter-for China's central bank let slip – or was it a slip? – that Beijing aims t...
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Investment Protection: These Dividend Stocks Yield Twice as Much as Treasuries
Do you know what the ultimate investment protection is?
It's not gold, and it's certainly not Treasuries.
It's dividend stocks.
Companies that pay consistent dividends are in better fiscal shape than the U.S. government and the payouts significantly outpace those of Treasuries. The advantage...
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Is the Mutual Fund ‘Safety Bubble’ About to Burst?
Is the Mutual Fund 'Safety Bubble' About to Burst?
With the equities market blazing a path higher, fixed-income fund investors may soon be hitting the exits
by Bernie Schaeffer 2/16/2011 11:32 AM
Keywords: SPYIWMstocksbondsetfmutualfundsweekly
Bill G...
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CDS Mutual Fund or ETF
In the tradition of BEARX, how come no one has started a portfolio of CDS protection for the retail mutual fund and etf investors?
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Kabuki Theater Brinksmanship
Well-known Internet venture capitalist Fred Wilson says that there is a new Internet bubble. I agree. The argument may be made that this is creating artificial wealth in some sectors. This dot-com bubble has crept on the scene, and now there are strong incentives for its corporate beneficiaries to monetize these fictitious gains. That means exercise...
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WSJ: Vast Insider Trading Probe Underway
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that in the aftermath of three-year investigation: “federal authorities are preparing insider-trading charges that could ensnare consultants, investment bankers, hedge-fund and mutual-fund traders and analysts acr...
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Russ Winter’s Actionable- Slicked Down to Nothin?
New data for mutual fund cash levels are in and checked in at 3.4%. I haven’t bother to go back more than 40 years, but this is lowest during that period. Put buyers are nowhere to be found and are now lower than at the 2007 top.
The personal income numbers are out and it...
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Putting Money into the Fire
Mutual fund cash level data is out and they have worked through a bit more of their cash reserves, bringing the number down to 4.6%. From AMG: flows into equity funds jumped to $5.1 billion from the previous week of about 193 million.
Interestingly very little margin fresh margin borrowing has been used in...
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Actionable Flows: Deer in Headlights
You may have to squint a little to view this chart, but it shows equity mutual fund flows. It is evident that fund holders liquidated in mass at the market bottoms. Like almost all great rallies this one came on like gangbusters and the easy gains were made early before the public got onboard....
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