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9/9/10 Midevening Report: Government massages new claims for unemployment data and gives the market a happy ending
The market was up again today as it continues to rejoice that there are only “widespread signs of deceleration” and not whatever is worse than widespread, like “doublewidespread” or “assawful.” The big macro news was that new claims for unemployment were out and they demolished analyst guesses of 470k by coming in at a petite
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9/2/10 Midevening Report: Investors no longer need toilet paper as economy continues to slide along bottoms
It was a relatively quiet day in the market today as bears picked up their shorts and hoped the bad men would stop pulling their alpha after yesterday’s strong move higher left their portfolios with shrinkage. The big macro news of the day was that new claims for unemployment dropped by 6k to 472k and
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8/26/10 Midevening Report: Market continues to sag as it lost its benefits package and can no longer afford viagra
The market was down again today because it was open and because good news seems less likely than Nouriel Roubini going long FAS or Ron Paul posing as the centerfold for the Fed’s monthly newsletter (we hear his likes would be small government, long walks on the beach, and insanity). Investors anxiously await tomorrow’s latest
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8/19/10 Midnight Report: No work and no pay makes the market a dull buy
Look out belowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww as the market is falling faster than Eliot Spitzer’s pants at the Mayflower hotel. Investors have finally decided to ignore the marginally good earnings data this quarter which was a lot of bottom line growth with weak toplines and instead pay some attention to macro data which is trending worse than Club
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8/12/10 Midafternoon Report: Cisco getting mixed signals as customers not sure they want to go all the way
Stocks were down again today as the market is still reeling from yesterday’s crap trick (the crap trick being 3 large economies announcing things are getting crappier in a 24 hour period) and suffered further bad news with CSCO missing revenue targets, new claims for unemployment surging, and deflation taking over as the new inflation.
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8/5/10 Midevening Report: New claims for unemployment continue to claim the economy still sucks
The market traded down today like anyone who has ever broken up with the delightful Brooklyn Decker as new claims for unemployment were out and were much worse than analysts had guessed (and not just because analysts suck at their jobs like one-legged kick boxers, but because we’re in a fucking recession). Money McBags hates
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7/22/10 Midevening Report: Market shoots up on earnings, hopefully it wasn’t sharing a needle with Greece
The market raced up today as if it were Icarus escaping from Crete and rapidly approaching the tantalizing Sun, though with luck it used better wings and thus will avoid the same fate. Despite more negative macro news, a growing and unsustainable debt, and more longterm unemployed people than a fast food addict has bacne,
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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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7/8/10 Midday Report: More bulls hit
The market jolted up on unemployment news this morning before remembering it had already gone up yesterday and thus quickly settled in like an environmentally friendly squatter in Al Gore’s mansion. The big macro news is that new claims for unemployment dropped to 454k or some number higher than that depending on how much the
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7/1/10 Midafternoon Report: Market sucks again, swallows investor gains
It was another volatile day in the market as initial jobless claims came out and were much worse than expectations which is not surprising to anyone except for those who make those expectations. Claims were up by 13k to 472k while analysts had guessed that they would drop to 452k which means on average they