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A New Strategic Alliance Our Monthly Performance Update Incomes - A Four-Decade Long Report Card Will the Real Unemployment Rate Please Stand Up? It's ROC That Matters Will They Keep Buying Our Bonds? Rocket-Riding Stimulus Junkies (Part II) Paying the Piper Are You in "Old-Man Shape?"...
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Your Daily Profit October 8, 2009 *****Unemployment Down *****Alcoa Up *****Dow 10,500 Fellow Investor, U.S. Mint Suspends Gold Coin Production In an official--but quiet--release the United States Mint suspended production of the ever popular gold eagle coins until further notice. When companies see...
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What We See And What We Don't See The Statistical Recovery A Double-Dip Recession? Welcome to the New Normal Birthdays, New Orleans, and then the Road Trip from Hell Unemployment is high and rising. But if the recession is over, won't employment start to rise? The quick answer is no. We look...
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Normal 0 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Your Daily Profit September 21, 2009 *****The Dollar Index *****3Q Earnings Surprise? *****$50 Coupon Fellow Investor, The chart below demands our attention… There should be no doubt that the Cash for Clunker Stock Rally is directly related to the relative value...
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Normal 0 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Your Daily Profit June 30, 2009 *****Boring! *****Home Prices *****Earnings Season Fellow Investor, Talk about boring. On Monday, around 10:30 AM , the S&P 500 rose above 924. By 12:30 PM , it rose to 927.99. Ignore the first hour of trading (when the S&P 500...
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Normal 0 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Your Daily Profit June 29, 2009 *****As the News Cycle Turns *****Correction for Commodities? *****This Week’s Economic Data Fellow Investor, The positive headlines are everywhere this morning. On Bloomberg alone, we read that the worst is over for Treasury bonds...
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Normal 0 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Your Daily Profit June 10, 2009 *****“The Worst is Yet to Come” *****MetLife’s Gamble *****Newsletter Advisors Wednesday Fellow Investor, “The worst is to come…” That’s what MetLife’s (NYSE: MET ) Chief Investment Officer...
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Your Daily Profit June 9, 2009 *****Masterful Performance *****Recovery Illusion *****The Brilliant General Fellow Investor, Bravo. The government’s handling of the financial crisis and recovery should be recognized as a masterful performance. At least, so long as you don’t look too deeply...
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Normal 0 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 June 4, 2009 *****Government Doublespeak *****Deficits Threaten Growth *****As the News Cycle Turns Fellow Investor, Software developer Wind River (Nasdaq: WIND ) is the small cap leader today posting a 44% gain as of press time, 1:15 P.M. Eastern, on news of its acquisition...
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Your Daily Profit May 28, 2009 *****A Bottom for Housing *****Double-Dip Recession *****19% on BlackRock, Inc (NYSE: BLK) Fellow Investor, Yesterday, it was reported that median home prices fell to $209,700 from $246,400 in April 2008. That’s a steep year-over-year correction, even though prices...
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Your Daily Profit May 15, 2009 *****Government Intervention *****Sliding Into Socialism? *****Rising Gas Prices You know over the course of the past few months I’ve not held Wall Street or the banking executives in high regard. I hold them almost—that’s almost—singularly accountable...
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Your Daily Profit May 8, 2009 *****Stress Tests are In *****A Top for the Nasdaq? *****Unemployment Improves Fellow investor, The headline reads “Bank Stress Tests Lifts Clouds of Uncertainty.” And bank stocks are rallying. Regional bank Fifth Third Bancorp (Nasdaq: FITB) is up 40% in the...
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Your Daily Profit May 7, 2009 *****Retail Sales *****System of Beliefs *****Return to Risk? Fellow investor, Back before Christmas, you may recall I suggested a “Mom cancels Christmas” trade. The idea was that families would attempt to save money by buying gifts for the kids only. After all...
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Your Daily Profit May 5, 2009 *****Stress Tests are a Joke *****The New Bailout *****How to Profit from Toxic Assets Bank Stress Test Profits The Feds continue to leak info about the Stress Test on banks. Some will do fine, others will be forced to sell off mortgage assets for pennies on the dollar....
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Your Daily Profit April 3, 2009 *****Bailed-out banks may buy toxic assets *****G-20 *****23% Gains Fellow investor, There's a lot going on today. The unemployment rate “surprisingly” hit 8.5%. President Obama knocked ‘em dead at the G-20 meetings. OIL SHOCK 2009 If you missed the...