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9/1/10 Midevening Report: Manufacture this!
Rally!!!!!!!!!! With the war in Iraq over, manufacturing data around the world showing more buoyancy than Archimedes’ “principle” in a bowl of jello, and warts finally shown to be unrelated to herpes (which means Paris Hilton now needs to look for two culprits as opposed to just one), the double dip has apparently been averted…
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8/11/10 Midevening Report: Market goes down furiously, swallows long positions
Timberrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. The market went down today faster than the Hummer Mom chaperoning a Boy Scout overnight. Given the months of bad macro data and the Fed warning about slower growth yesterday, the drop is about as surprising as learning that menstrual cramps may alter women’s brains (and for their next study, National Yang-Ming University will…
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8/10/10 Midevening Report: Fed quantitatively eases on down the road, hopes the road doesn’t lead to deflation
The market dropped in the morning like Ted Stevens’ plane (too soon?) which Money McBags read about on the series of tubes some people call the internets (perhaps if there had been a bridge going somewhere instead of nowhere, the plane wouldn’t have been needed, but Money McBags digresses), until Ben Bernanke got his quantitative…
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8/4/10 Midevening Report: Market continues moving on up, can now afford eastside deluxe apartment in the sky
The stock market crept up again today as the equity markets and bond markets continue to decouple like Bristol and Levi, Mel Gibson and sanity, or Carrie Prejean and her top. In terms of macro news, the ISM released their report on the services sector and it both beat analyst guesses of 53 by coming…
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8/2/10 Midevening Report: Market hits ten week high as meth lab in the basement finally pays off
The market ran faster today than Roman Polanski going to get his keys to pick the baby sitter up because the manufacturing sector grew at its slowest pace since December, private construction spend dipped for the second month in a row, and Ben Bernanke said shit still sucks out there. So rally fucking on like…
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7/29/10 Midevening Report: Fed warns deflation may be coming, investors run to buy protection as they don’t know who deflation slept with last
Oh shit. While most people have been spending their time worrying about the Fed printing up some inflation, Fed Bank of St. Louis President James “Jimmie B” Bullard got his academic on today and dropped some deflation all up in this bitch. And Jimmie B aint be one of those lame ass non-voting members of…
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7/23/10 Midafternoon Report: European banks pass stress test, results of colonoscopy still pending
The market was quiet in the morning despite a slew of solid earnings announcements as it waited for the release of the Europe bank stress tests which were more highly anticipated than Lindsay Lohan’s jail stint, Avatar’s opening weekend, or Mel Gibson’s next career limiting phone call. Well the results came out midday and were…
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7/15/10 Midevening Report: Senate approves financial reform only 5 years too late, next up, what to do about all of those indians
The Senate passed a sweeping financial reform bill today, though the only thing it is likely to sweep is more problems under the rug. After many compromises between Democrats and Republicans, the bill basically lets regulators feel the financial sector up but then caucusblocks them from going all the way. Sure there are now limits…
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7/12/10 Midevening Report: Hefner bid titilates Playboy stock, shares bust out
There was little news in the market today as investors waited for AA’s earnings tonight as a signal of things to come as everyone knows aluminum production is what really drives the economy (and yes that was sarcasm). Without much macro news other than shit continuing to get worse with temporary census jobs ending, republicans…
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7/7/10 Midafternoon Report: Bulls hit
The market was up today because we are due for a brief rally until we resume our fall in to the abyss like King Midas’ son Anchurus (only without saving the Earth) or like Alan Greenspan’s reputation. The market has reached the point where some stocks have simply been oversold and with the lack of…