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4/12/11 Midnight Report: Macro News Blows, But Will it Swallow the Market’s Momentum?
The market traded down today as earnings season began not with a bang, or a whimper, but with a Kirstie Alley-esque thud as AA missed revenue guesses (and the 6% drop in the stock likely caused some AA investors to fall off the wagon), Japan’s market fell again as the severity of the nuclear disaster…
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1/1/11 Midnight Report: Data Speaks Softly, Will Earnings Carry a Big Stick?
It was a fairly quiet day on the market as investors get ready for earnings season, brace for an East Coast snow storm, and actively try to bet on which porn star Charlie Sheen will bang next (and for the record, Money McBags is taking Gracie Glam, in the kitchen, with his lead pipe). That…
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7/13/10 Midafternoon Report: The market is AA-ok as Alcoa foils bears
The market was off to the races today as if it the races were going to feature Usain Bolt taking on Sara Jane Underwood in the 100 meter dash with the loser having to run a lap in the buff. The big news of course was that Alcoa started off the earnings season by destroying…
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6/21/10 Midafternoon Report: China drops its peg, exposes its growing yuan
The market rallied today in the morning like a chubby chaser with a bottle of crisco on his way to a Peter Paul Rubens exhibit until it faded in the afternoon thanks to common sense and volume. Rallying the market in the morning was news that China is going to unpeg their currency from the…
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4/13/10 Midafternoon Report: Alcoa opens earnings season not with a bang but a whimper
The market sold off at the open today but is climbing back like a Phoenix from the ashes or Paul Volcker’s economic reputation. Alcoa’s earnings initially brought the market down as they were a bit disappointing and Alcoa is considered to be the first bellweather company to report in this critical earnings season where baked…
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4/12/10 Midday Report: S&P approaches 1,200, asks if it can come up and see it sometime
Earnings season is about to begin and Money McBags is more excited than Thomas Malthus at a pro-abstinence conference or Tiger Woods at a sleepover in Charlie Sheen’s house. The Street is going in to this earnings seasons with expectations higher than those of Elin Nordegren in October of 2004 so a few slip-ups could…