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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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Small Company Update: ZAGG me with a spoon
Money McBags apologizes for the delay in getting this up but he had a brilliantly written piece with prose that would have made even Roberto Bolano shudder but somehow he screwed up in saving it and all was lost (like Alan Greenspan’s credibility or Kelly Brook’s bikini in the upcoming Piranha 3D) so he’ll try…
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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…
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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…
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6/29/10 Midevening Report: Market searches for a bottom, hopefully it’s Brooklyn Decker’s
It was ugly out there today, real ugly, like a Lady Gaga– Alan Greenspan love child with a bad case of facial neurofibromatosis. Investors are worried that China is slowing down (they are), that Europe won’t be able to roll their debt (eventually they won’t), and that US consumer spend will shrivel up like Khagendra…
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1/29/10 Midday Report: Size doesn’t matter as 6% GDP expansion fails to stimulate the market
The market is bouncing around today even though GDP grew 5.7%, the fastest pace in 6 years and beat estimates of 4.7% growth. The upside was led by a restocking of inventories from their depressed levels (and inventories were more depressed than Kathy Griffin’s bikini waxer the time she ran out of rubber gloves). The…
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1/27/10 Midday Report: In bid to increase approval ratings, Obama to unveil Apple Tablet at State of the Union address as a panacea for US budget problems
The market continues to limp it’s way down as investors await tonight’s State of the Union address where President Obama is likely to whip out his small business tax breaks and smack them against a non-defense discretionary spending budget freeze. This budget freeze supposedly applies to 17% of the Federal budget and will have enough…
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1/26/10 Midday Report: An Apple a day will keep the recession away (especially if it’s one of those new tablets)
The market is bouncing around after Apple put up a ginormous quarter and is likely to announce their tablet on Wednesday while the global economy still sputters. In macro news, US consumer confidence rose to 55.9 from 53.6 and we all know how important it was to break that 55 barrier (actually, I’m just kidding,…
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1/25/10 Midday Report: Bernanke likely to get bipartisan support despite claiming he doesn’t swing that way
The market is trying to rally after last week’s sell off which was caused by Obama letting Paul Volcker threaten to open up a can of whoop ass on the banking system, the senate seemingly hedging on reaffirming Ben Bernanke as Chairman of the Federal Reserve proving once and for all that the Senate is…