Friends Well, well, no one expected the EU summit to produce such a promising set of initiatives, now did they? Did Ms. Merkel actually blink first. It appears so, as the Italians and Spanish basically said- bail us out or else (you know the old adage- if you owe...
Friends The big story of the day was the Supreme Court’s ruling to basically uphold Obama Care. Stocks had already begun the day in decisively negative territory, so the ruling that hit the wires after 9:00 our time, really did not have that much of an effect on stocks....
Friends This morning we received a better than expected Durable Goods Orders number and for the 3rd day in a row we got good news on housing, with pending sales of existing homes looking better than expected. These reports combined with a quiet Europe, made for a good day...
Friends German Chancellor Angela Merkel said today that there will be no “shared liability” for as long as she lives. I wonder if she was referring to her political life? Anyway, it is difficult for anyone with even a smidge of common sense to disagree with Germans who believe...
Friends Led by surprisingly good earnings by two Dow components, stocks (at least measured by the Dow) were able to break the 3 day losing streak. Both Caterpillar and Boeing announced better than expected results and provided rosier than expected guidance for the year ahead. But because of yesterday’s...
Friends The week got off to a very rocky start, as market participants shrugged off Friday’s attempt to calm things, and instead focused on continued deterioration in the Eurozone. With the EU summit scheduled to start later in the week, traders are becoming more and more convinced that Europe...
Friends It was a rather quiet day of trading after yesterday’s drubbing of stocks, as traders did a little bargain hunting, but were not too interested in making a lot of new commitments before the weekend. I think more time was spent complaining about a little heat on the...
Friends, The day started with a lousy weekly unemployment claims number, then a rough Philly Fed number, and got worse as the news of the “not unexpected” downgrade of the credit ratings of 5 major U. S. banks by Moody’s (which will affect borrowing cost and possibly reserve requirements)...
Friends There was really nothing the Fed could do or Dr. Bernanke could say that would please all market participants. Some wanted more QE, some wanted less QE -there was just no winning today. They basically straddled the middle, the best that they could, and announced the continuation of...
Friends With Europe rather quiet today, traders took a “risk on” attitude and stocks rallied most of the day. At the close, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 95 points to close at 12,837. The S&P 500 was up 13 points to close at 1357. Gold was down...
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