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Global Trend Indicators

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The Weekend Read: Equity Rampopotamus!

There are comments that there are underlying flaws in the ISM number and that GM’s (GM – commentary – Trade Now) sales numbers are inflated by some channel stuffing, but the market continues to act as if it doesn’t have … Continue reading

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The Weekend Read: Greek Week

Everything depends on computers these days: the energy supply, airplanes, trains. I’m worried that the Net will soon become a war zone, a platform for professional attacks on critical infrastructure. – Evgeny Kaspersky,  anti-virus expert Bonds Munis Dithering in Wake … Continue reading

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Week in Review: Happy Father’s Day!

After another testy week for the global markets the major U.S. equity indices currently sit right at support around their 200-day moving averages.  The NASDAQ pulled down by weakness in Apple and Google closed the week below its 200-day for … Continue reading

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The Weekend Read: U.S. Open – Boehner v. Obama

Golf Digest estimates Mr. Obama’s handicap — perhaps generously, in the view of some golfers — at 17, meaning, theoretically, that the president would typically play 18 holes in the high 80s to low 90s. The magazine put Mr. Biden’s … Continue reading

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Week in Review: Streak Week

It was another tough week for the global markets. The S&P, Dow, and the major European equity indices closed lower for a rare sixth week in a row.   Next week could be historic as the S&P500 has initially closed lower … Continue reading

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The Weekend Read: It’s Moving Day for the Administration

No President since Franklin Roosevelt has won re-election with unemployment higher than 7.2%, and Obama’s own economists in February predicted 8.6% unemployment in 2012. That number may yet be revised upward in light of recent economic headwinds, including the Japanese … Continue reading

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The Great QE2 Flush Out

We’ve updated our Treasury flow charts with new data from today’s release of the Federal Reserve’s Flow of Funds Accounts.   The quarterly data are seasonally adjusted and annualized.    They reveal quite an interesting picture. In Q1 2011, the Fed’s … Continue reading

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Week in Review

We’re not going to say much as the nation (and Globex) celebrates the end of Bin Laden.  We were in Lafayette Park on September 10, 2001 and now watch thousands gather there and across the country to celebrate his demise.  … Continue reading

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