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Debunking the Summer Stock Market Crash (QQQ, AAPL, GE, DOW, CAT, XLE, XLI, SLV)

Posted: May 11, 2011 at 5:07 pm

Certainly by now you have heard the term "Sell in May and go away!"  This was just one of the ten reasons that we noted why investors might need to worry ...
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A Double Dip Recession May Be Inevitable

Posted: April 27, 2011 at 4:30 am

A potential double dip recession was a large concern a year and a half ago. There was a belief that the deep economic downturn of 2008 and 2009 could not ...
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Today’s Winning Trade: The Impoverished Consumer Returns (WMT, MCD, DG, DLTR, FDO)

Posted: March 10, 2011 at 3:23 pm

On a day when lower oil has not prevented a triple-digit drop in the DJIA and a larger 1.7% drop in the S&P 500, we wanted to see what was ...
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Immense Pain in Jobless Claims

Posted: January 27, 2011 at 8:40 am

The Labor Department just delivered the weekly jobless claims and the numbers are startling even if seasonality is a large issue in January as retailers and transport companies trim back ...
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FOMC/Bernanke Outline Quantitative Easing Measures

Posted: November 3, 2010 at 2:26 pm

We already got past the election news in a hurry.  Now we know what the FOMC's version of quantitative easing, or QE2 by many in the press, will look like.  ...
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Elections and Quantitative Easing Look Price In (DIA, SPY, QQQQ, USO, GLD, TLT, TBT)

Posted: November 1, 2010 at 2:16 pm

It is no secret that the elections are Tuesday, November 2, and it is no secret that the FOMC under Ben Bernanke will begin the November FOMC starting November 2 ...
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Investing in Bubbles: ETFs for Quantitative Easing and QE2 (GLD, DGP, FXF, CYB, CNY, UUP, TLT, TBT, SPY, DIA, QQQQ, FAS, FAZ)

Posted: October 27, 2010 at 8:31 am

Quantitative easing, or QE2, is coming to a head.  What we will see depends upon whom you ask, and the verdict seems to depend on the direction of the wind ...
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IMF Downgrading 2010 & 2011 Growth Forecasts, No Double-Dip Recession

Posted: October 6, 2010 at 9:07 am

The International Monetary Fund is out taking the wind out of the sails of growth.  Not just in the United States.  Elsewhere too.  The good news is that this is ...
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Two-Thirds Of Americans Expect Double Dip Recession

Posted: September 10, 2010 at 7:47 am

Two-thirds of American expect a double-dip recession. A number of experts have observed that economists who have called an end to the recession are out of step with the public. ...
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Beige Book: Decelerating Growth Prevails

Posted: September 8, 2010 at 2:13 pm

The September 8, 2010 Beige Book release came from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, and the data is based on information collected on or before August 30, 2010.  ...
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S&P: On Deflation & Double Dip Risk at 25% Chance

Posted: August 19, 2010 at 1:45 pm

The arguments and debates over deflation versus hyper-inflation continue.  The argument over real slow sluggish growth versus a double-dip recession also continues.  Standard & Poor's has issued a report called ...
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The Stimulus Debate Gets Ugly

Posted: August 6, 2010 at 5:23 am

The debate about whether the Congress and the Administration should push through another stimulus bill has gotten uglier. Some of the president's advisers, including Christina Romer, the departing Chair of ...
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GDP Will Finally Hit Earnings

Posted: August 2, 2010 at 5:02 am

The weak 2.5% GDP showing for the second quarter has brought dozens of new theories into the shopping bazaar of explanations about America's growth prospects. One school says that the ...
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PIMCO’s Bill Gross Confirms Slower Growth Ahead, For Years

Posted: July 30, 2010 at 2:26 pm

It is month-end, and bond magnate Bill Gross of PIMCO is out with a new round of predictions.  The bond guru's August Investment Outlook often has quirky ways of explaining ...
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The Silly Notion of Deflation

Posted: July 30, 2010 at 10:14 am

Deflation... Bah humbug!  The arguments are still relatively new over whether the global economy is headed for a double-dip recession or just an extended period of slow growth.  There is ...
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