Despite Risks, Bonds Still a Have Role

dianchu.blogspot.com - Sat, 2012-02-11 17:46
By Charles Rotblut Had this piece gone out earlier, it would have opened with a summary of a conversation I recently had with an AAII member about bonds and interest rates. This morning, after reading Warren Buffett’s arguments against bonds on Fortune’s website, I felt the need...

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Stock Market Outlook: No Torture in 2012

dianchu.blogspot.com - Sat, 2012-02-11 16:00
By Louise Basenese of Wall Street Daily Back in March 2008, I shared an odd piece of research with subscribers from Bespoke Investment Group. The extreme reading at the time preceded a 54% drop for the S&P 500 Index from mid-May 2008 to early March 2009. Why bring this all up today,...

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The Impact of the Gloomier Global Outlook on Latin America

dianchu.blogspot.com - Sat, 2012-02-11 14:00
By Nicolás Eyzaguirre(Version in Español) The IMF has sharply marked down its forecast for world growth and it now expects a mild recession in the euro area. Naturally, weaker world growth will affect economic activity in Latin America and the Caribbean. Concretely, the...

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Will The The REAL Economic Indicators Please Stand up?

dianchu.blogspot.com - Sat, 2012-02-11 13:29
By  Karim Rahemtulla of Wall Street Daily I’m always on the lookout for new and different economic indicators that help decipher the direction of the market and the economy. Most of the common ones are lagging indicators. They show what has happened a month or two back. By the...

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The Spark of U.S. Economy? A Different Look at Corporate Tax Revenue

dianchu.blogspot.com - Sat, 2012-02-11 13:20
By Frank Holmes Friday’s employment data was the latest of a series of data showing marked improvement in the U.S. economy. ISI counted 18 straight weeks of stronger U.S. data including better vehicle sales, same store sales, homebuilding and manufacturing. Also, U.S. money supply is...

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Spotlight on China: Electricity Consumption, Real Estate and Oil Imports

dianchu.blogspot.com - Thu, 2012-02-09 16:00
By Mike "Mish" Shedlock Inquiring minds are tired of the spotlight on Greece (believe me I am as sick as anyone of Groundhog Day).  Given the world will not end when Greece defaults, whether in March of this year or next, let's turn our attention to a country far more...

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What's Behind the Sinking Global Shipping Sector?

dianchu.blogspot.com - Thu, 2012-02-09 14:00
By Michael Snyder If the global economy is not heading for a recession, then why is global shipping slowing down so dramatically?  Many economists believe that measures of global shipping such as the Baltic Dry Index are leading economic indicators.  In other words, they change...

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Portugal in Deep Trouble

dianchu.blogspot.com - Thu, 2012-02-09 10:00
By Russ Winter  Pobre Portugal, without the ability to rig and manipulate markets, see its bonds being trashed. The ten-year hits 17%, and the 5 year over 22% in Monday’s action. Portugal yields are about where Greece was four months ago.  The conventional wisdom...

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A View of U.S. Economy from Corporate Tax Revenue

dianchu.blogspot.com - Wed, 2012-02-08 19:15
By Russ Winter  There has been much ado about the US employment numbers both from surveys and the BLS.  Most of this centers around bogus numbers from the BLS, but I prefer to jump to the quick, and look at withholding taxes. Really what difference does it make if there...

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European Choices

dianchu.blogspot.com - Wed, 2012-02-08 16:00
By Cees Bruggemans, Chief Economist of First National Bank Last week, the Euro area Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) rose for the second month in a row, topping out above 50, surprising market analysts who had expected 48. It suggests no EU recession, or at least the possibility of already...

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Forget Financial Collapse, Get Ready for an Economic Horror

dianchu.blogspot.com - Wed, 2012-02-08 14:00
By Michael Snyder The people out there that believe that the U.S. economy is experiencing a permanent recovery and that very bright days are ahead for us should have their heads examined.  Unfortunately, what we are going through right now is simply just a period of "hopetimism" between...

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Those Tantalizing Housing Market Bottom Calls

dianchu.blogspot.com - Wed, 2012-02-08 13:39
By Tim Iacono While the debate about whether the U.S. housing market has hit bottom is certainly heating up, hopefully it won’t rise to the current temperature of the brouhaha over whether last Friday’s labor market report was good, bad, indifferent, or just an outright fabrication by the...

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Shale Gas Reserve Estimates Continue Downward

dianchu.blogspot.com - Wed, 2012-02-08 11:40
By Kurt Cobb Estimates for recoverable shale gas just keep falling. Last year, the Potential Gas Committee, an industry consortium that focuses on long-term projections, estimated that recoverable natural gas from shale deposits in the United States would amount to 687 trillion cubic...

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ECRI Leading Indicator: Is U.S. Economy Turning The Corner?

dianchu.blogspot.com - Tue, 2012-02-07 21:42
By Prieur du Plessis The latest smoothed annualized growth rate of the ECRI Weekly Leading Indicator in the week ended 22 January improved from -7.6% to -6.5% published last week – the 23rd consecutive week of contraction since August last year. Sources: Dismal Scientist; Plexus Asset...

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Scenario: Should Israeli Attack Iran

dianchu.blogspot.com - Tue, 2012-02-07 21:25
By Russ Winter  “Unity is the cure to lots of ailments in our country.” -Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei The threat of U.S. military presence and western economic sanctions in itself seems unable to detour Iran from wrapping up its nuclear program. In fact they seem only...

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Was Gold Action Signaling a Top in the S&P 500?

dianchu.blogspot.com - Tue, 2012-02-07 12:00
By Chris Vermeulen and JW Jones “You can’t feel the heat until you hold your hand over the flame.You have to cross the line just to remember where it lays.”~ Rise Against. “Satellite” Lyrics ~ Friday morning traders and market participants awaited the key January employment report...

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Natural Gas & Gold Bubbles

dianchu.blogspot.com - Tue, 2012-02-07 10:00
By Willem Weytjens Bubbles Come, Bubbles Go.The chart below shows us the “classic bubble pattern”.Most money is made during the latest phases of any bubble, as price goes nearly vertical. When something goes straight up, I tend to get worried. All good things come to an end, eventually. When...

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Money: Forever Free from the Federal Reserve

dianchu.blogspot.com - Mon, 2012-02-06 19:00
By Kurt Cobb The following story was processed on a computer that may contain traces of salty tree nuts and even a little truth. The U.S. Federal Reserve Bank announced last week that it would make money available for free forever. This was in response to a persistently weak...

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JP Morgan Making Money on America's Poverty?

dianchu.blogspot.com - Mon, 2012-02-06 18:48
By Michael Snyder How would you feel if someone told you that one of the largest banks on Wall Street makes more money whenever the number of Americans on food stamps goes up?  Unfortunately, this is something that is actually true.  In the United States today, one out of every...

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Robo-signing Is Just the Tip of the Iceberg

dianchu.blogspot.com - Mon, 2012-02-06 16:00
By Ellen Brown  A foreclosure settlement between five major banks guilty of “robo-signing” and the attorneys general of the 50 states is pending for Monday, February 6th; but it is still not clear if all the AGs will sign.  California was to get over half of the $25...

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