Month: October 2010
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10/29/10 Midnight Report: GDP is the trick for Bernanke’s QE2 treat
The Commerce Department’s Bureau of Economic Analysis (the uglier, less douchey stepsister to the B(L)S) released their first take on Q3 GDP this morning and it was unsurprisingly relatively more benign than a testicular mole or even Henry the IV of France. With both the mid-term elections and Fed meetings slated for next week, every…
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10/28/10 Midnight Report: Investors debate size of QE2 and wonder if it will suffer from shrinkage
The market held steady today as headline-y good macro news was mixed with a dose of disappointing earnings news and topped off with a healthy heaping of who gives a shit. That’s because with mid-term elections looming and everyone waiting to see the details of QE2 (which is now the most anticipated market event since…
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10/27/10 Midafternoon Report: Quick Update as Money McBags needs some him time
Dear Readers, — Money McBags has been writing dick jokes and providing analysis at a furious pace over the past few weeks and he is in desperate need of a mental health day (well that and a rusty trombone from the uber talented Jennifer White, but baby steps). He takes the award winning When Genius…
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10/26/10 Midevening Report: New tune for market as it B flatter than Mozart concerto
First of all, apologies for the fuckawful headline pun, but some days you simply have to play the cards you are dealt. That said, the market was quiet today as it digested marginal macro news and even more marginal earnings news while it continues to wait for next week’s QE2 which promises to be a…
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10/25/10 Midnight Report: Show us your TIPS!
And now it has come to this. With the Fed set to print more dollars than there is available rag paper (though they will soon be able to use the tattered clothing of the homeless and long-term unemployed to make up for that shortage), the US Treasury issued TIPS at a negative yield for the…
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10/22/10 Midnight Report: Will Geithner’s plan at G20 hit the spot?
The market was mixed today as fears of currency wars formed the yin to earnings beats’ yang (or the teeth to earnings beats’ hummer if you will) and with macro data more non-existent than Mel Gibson’s career, there wasn’t much for the Street to manipulate. That said, a number of US officials were in the…
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10/21/10 Midnight Report: The market weebles and it wobbles but the Fed won’t let it fall down
A funny thing happened on the way to the frontrun today as after a huge opening driven by slightly positive relative macro data and NFLX’s jizztacular earnings, the market dove on no real discernible news other than maybe investors waking up to just about EVERY FUCKING PIECE OF ECONOMIC DATA released in the last few…
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10/20/10 Midnight Report: Market rallies again to the beat of algo-rhythm and Qs
The market rally was back on today with stocks shooting up faster than Ben Bernanke could chant “quantitative easing” over his bubbling cauldron (though he was heard incanting: “Double, double toil and trouble; Dollar burn, and assets bubble“) and faster than Sofia Vergara‘s son’s popularity on take your mom to school day. That said, with…
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10/19/10 Midnight Report: 50k iPads a day won’t keep the bear market away
Timberrrrr. The market sold off today as a result of tech companies posting earnings that failed to titillate the street, China raising their interest rates to try to stave off an asset bubble that soon may be only a prick away from popping, and the rent still being too damn high. Up until now, the…
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Small Company Update: JOEZ Blows
Money McBags promised he would get to JOEZ today and he finally had time to break down their terrible quarter where they once again managed to grow their top line faster than Heidi Montag grew her topline while shrinking their bottom line as if profits would give them whatever is worse than AIDS (and for…