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1/30/11 Two Day After Report: Protests in Egypt Cause Market to Take It in The Sphinxter
Holy(land) shit did the market sell off on Friday as civil (or more exactly, uncivil) unrest overran the streets of Egypt like Ben Bernanke overran the Fed’s printing presses or hepatitis C overran Pam Anderson’s liver. Protesters were apparently frustrated by government corruption, economic stagnation, a lack of political freedom, and Ehsan Hatem El-Kirdany‘s refusal…
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11/3/10 Midnight Report: What’s Black and White and Red all Over? Who the Fuck Cares, QE2 is Here
What do we get for $900B? Every-ting you want. Everything? Every-ting. So sock it to Bernanke because with QE2 the dollar got so thorny as the Fed loves printing money for a long time (note to any reader not brought up on bad rap music, this will make the prior reference marginally funny, it will…
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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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9/16/10 Midevening Report: Americans flash foodstamps in Poverty Gone Wild!
The market was remarkably flat today despite a flurry of economic news including new claims for unemployment, the producer price index, census data on poverty, and Craigslist officially shutting down its section for sex ads (thereby forcing wealthy scumbags to seek other arrangements). The most important, and frankly confusing, of the economic reports was the…