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1/21/10 Midday Report: With healthcare solved, Obama to take on banking industry
The big news spooking the market today is Obama’s unknown plan to try to regulate banks. He is now said to be giving former Fed Chairman Paul Volcker the keys to palace and Volcker is rumored to be getting all Glass-Steagall on bankers’s asses telling them they can’t trade financial securities using their own deposits.
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1/11/10 Midday Report: China: More than just putting pee pee in coke
The news on the markets today is that China’s economy continues to soar like the Netherlands did in 1637 thanks to tulips or like Money McBags’ johnson did earlier today thanks to two lips. China’s exports rose 18% and was up for the first time in over a year leading chelation therapists all across the
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12/31/09 Midday Report: Let the New Year’s party begin (Except for the 10% of you unemployed)
2009 finally ends tonight and what a year it has been. The market sunk to a low of 666 before being exorcised by a low quality rally and a bottle of jesus juice, the US goverment bailed out the financial system and printed enough money to make Bill Gates seem like a pauper, unemployment spiked
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12/29/09 Midday Report: Consumers more confused than Alan Greenspan in a housing bubble
Data came out today showing a rise in consumer confidence for the second consecutive month, despite consumers rating their current situation as the worst since February 1983 (and to give you an idea about how long ago February 1983 was, Tennessee Williams was alive for most of the month, Case had yet to mix his
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12/18/09 Midday Report: Earnings surprises abound as RIMM jobs naysayers and naysayers begrudgingly admit they kind of liked it
The big news moving the market up today is that several tech companies beat earnings. Leading the way was RIMM who destroyed analyst forecasts of $1.04 by dropping $1.23 to their damp bottom line and growing topline by 49%. They also raised guidance, margin forecasts, and the ire of PALM who once again fell short
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12/17/09 Midday Report: All the news sucks today, but will it swallow tomorrow?
A rash of negative news for the markets is out today. The dollar is rising thanks to the Fed saying they believe the economy is strengthening (they conveniently left out the part about the quadrillion dollars they printed over the past year to strengthen said economy, but I understand that is a minor detail) and
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12/08/09 Midday Report: Formidable headwinds, not as good as formidable head
The news driving the market down today comes from Ben Bernanke’s speech yesterday (apparently the joke about the rabbi, the priest, and the horse did not go over well) where he warned that there are still “formidable headwinds” to an economic recovery. And in an additional exercise of overstating the obvious, he also concluded that