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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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  • 7/28/10 Midevening Report: Rally comes to an end and unfortunately it’s not Jessica Biel’s

    The market sold off today as it couldn’t keep ignoring the data and finally had to come to grips with where the bad macro news had touched it.  The biggest negative was the Fed’s Beige Book report which failed to titillate the market like either Money McBags’ book report on the Kama Sutra (which he…

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  • 7/21/10 Midevening Report: Market “unusually certain” that it should go down

    The market was chugging right along today like a Kennedy at a sorority mixer after Apple titillated the market with sales stronger than the breath of either of the world’s foremost cunning linguists, the great Vladmir Nabokov and the greater Janine Lindemulder, until Ben Bernanke got up and threw his figurative Baby Ruth into the…

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  • 7/14/10 Midafternoon Report: Retail stales

    Ho fucking hum.  Retail sales fell again in June as stores keep trying to charge money for products and people keep not having any.  Sales dropped .5% in June, though if you exclude automobiles, sales only dropped .1%, and if you go one step further and exclude anything bought in a store other than ramen…

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