Friday, June 10, 2011

Daily Stock Alert - Barron's

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Daily Stock Alert
Barron's
Importantly, QE2 will be replaced by "extended period" language, which means the Fed will keep interest rates low for a long time. I don't see a bear market in Treasuries, but I see a very low-yield, low-return environment. The saver class -- not just ...

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Buy Low, Stay Nimble - Barron's

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Buy Low, Stay Nimble
Barron's
Importantly, QE2 will be replaced by "extended period" language, which means the Fed will keep interest rates low for a long time. I don't see a bear market in Treasuries, but I see a very low-yield, low-return environment. The saver class -- not just ...

The QE2 Final Trans-Atlantic Crossing

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Take a photographic journey aboard the QE2 on her final Trans-Atlantic Crossing, from New York to Southampton, October 16 -- 22, 2008. Cunard&39 ...

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Thursday, June 9, 2011

Wary investors ready to seek any port in a storm - Irish Times

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Wary investors ready to seek any port in a storm
Irish Times
The poor performance of risk assets in recent weeks provides an early warning as to what may lie in store for investors in a post-QE2 world. The Federal Reserve is scheduled to conclude its $600 billion Treasury-bond purchase programme at the end of ...

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Congress, It's Time To Bail Out The Fed - istockAnalyst.com (press release)

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Congress, It's Time To Bail Out The Fed
istockAnalyst.com (press release)
QE2, the Federal Reserve's second round of monetary stimulus, is about to return to home port from its eight month, $600 Billion cruise. While the large cash injection into the financial system did prop up equity and asset prices from last summer's ...

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Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Congress, It's Time to Bail Out the Fed - Tycoon Report

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Congress, It's Time to Bail Out the Fed
Tycoon Report
QE2, the Federal Reserve's second round of monetary stimulus, is about to return to home port from its eight month, $600 Billion cruise. While the large cash injection into the financial system did prop up equity and asset prices from last summer's ...

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Austan Goolsbee's Exit and Debating the Need for QE3 - Big Government

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Austan Goolsbee's Exit and Debating the Need for QE3
Big Government
One of the reasons why the stock market hasn't re-corrected (again, and badly) is because of QE1 and QE2 have pumped so much cash into the economy that people can't figure out where to park the cash, so they park it in the market. ...

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Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Markets throw back Bernanke life preserver - MarketWatch

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Markets throw back Bernanke life preserver
MarketWatch
Read more about Bernanke's speech As the Fed confronts the end of its QE2 policy at a time of weakness, the head of the Dallas Fed says no fresh support will be coming from the central bank. Bernanke's remarks were greeted by a wave of stock selling ...

US Economy: Down With The Ship? – OpEd - Eurasia Review

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US Economy: Down With The Ship? – OpEd
Eurasia Review
The truth is, QE2 has been a total bust and the BLS's report is just the icing on the cake. Just look at the data; it's as grim as anything we've seen in the last two years. Here's a clip from an article titled “Disastrous US jobs report points to ...

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Japan's Composite Economic Index Up In April - istockAnalyst.com (press release)

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Japan's Composite Economic Index Up In April
istockAnalyst.com (press release)
Thus it is likely that the US stock market has more downside risk at this juncture, seeing as how the S&P 500 has largely been ignoring disappointing economic news until recently on the comfort of QE2 support.

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How will the economy force Pres. Obama to change '12 campaign strategy? - CNN (blog)

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How will the economy force Pres. Obama to change '12 campaign strategy?
CNN (blog)
The resignation of his economic adviser indicates that his economic policy has done little to improve the economy, despite the bailouts and QE2 (printing money). However, he's in a good shape for reelection as long as his republican opponents keep ...

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Monday, June 6, 2011

Zacks Bull and Bear of the Day Highlights: Citrix Systems, Staples, McDonald ... - Sacramento Bee

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Zacks Bull and Bear of the Day Highlights: Citrix Systems, Staples, McDonald ...
Sacramento Bee
Instead, the Fed rolls out what comes to be known as "QE2," an open market Treasury bond purchase program along the middle part of the curve. Through it all -- we'll call that 2.5 years about six innings of this historic game -- the critics railed ...

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Down With the Ship? - CounterPunch

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Down With the Ship?
CounterPunch
The truth is, QE2 has been a total bust and the BLS's report is just the icing on the cake. Just look at the data; it's as grim as anything we've seen in the last two years. Here's a clip from an article titled "Disastrous US jobs report points to ...

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Down Goes Asia? - Minyanville.com

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Down Goes Asia?
Minyanville.com
At home, the US debt ceiling problem is quickly becoming "a lose-lose situation," and other issues -- the housing crisis, unemployment and the fast-approaching end of QE2 -- have investors "freaked." So this week Lloyd's Wall of Worry remains high, ...

Tuesday Morning: Watch "Cash" Grain Prices Falling Under Pressure - Inside Futures

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Tuesday Morning: Watch "Cash" Grain Prices Falling Under Pressure
Inside Futures
While the "Bears" continue to hammer on the problems in Greece, Portugal and Ireland; turmoil in Yemen, Libya, and Syria; the end of QE2; the current status of the US debt ceiling, etc... With second quarter earnings still a ways off the Bulls need to ...

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