Volatile S&P 500 ends positive
Financial Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
Gains by General Electric, Starbucks and the world's biggest video games company, Activision Blizzard, helped Wall Street shrug off disappointing jobs data in choppy...
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Volatile S&P 500 ends in positive after jobs figures
Financial Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
Gains by General Electric, Starbucks and the world's biggest video games company, Activision Blizzard, helped Wall Street shrug off disappointing jobs data in choppy...
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An Options Play? "Berkshire Hathaway in the S&P 500? " (BRK.A)
Climateer Investing (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
From Barron's 'The Striking Price': An options play on Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway's possibly gaining inclusion to the index. Video: Baby Berkshire Is Growing Up OF ALL THE HONORS AND adulations bestowed upon Warrren Buffett, one has eluded him these many years. His company's stocks, Berkshire Hathaway (ticker: BRKA) and the so-called Class B Baby Berkshires (BRKB), have never been included...
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Berkshire May Join S&P 500
Top Stories from Newser (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Could Warren Buffett finally be headed to the S&P 500? For years, Berkshire Hathaway’s stock—both the A shares and the so-called “Baby Berkshire” B shares—have been too expensive for the index, at $101,000 and $3,380 each, respectively. But now that Berkshire has acquired S&P component Burlington...
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Desmond Sees S&P 500 Gain Lasting
normxxx ruminates... (Free subscription) | yesterday
Desmond Sees S&P 500 Gain Lasting: [Technical Analysis] By By Elizabeth Stanton, Bloomberg | 7 November 2009 Sept. 29 (Bloomberg)— U.S. stocks are probably in the early stages of an advance that will last three more years, according to Paul Desmond, president of Lowry Research Corp. Desmond says he sees no signs the rally will end after expressing doubt in June about the sustainability of...
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Perspective: SP 500 Rally From the First Bottom of the Financial Crisis
Jesse's Café Américain (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Here is a longer term chart of the SP 500 showing the decline with the unfolding financial crisis, and the rally from the first major market bottom in equities. The rally has been a nearly perfect 50 percent retracement. Here is the same view of the SP 500 but deflated by the Euro. This puts the rally into a slightly different perspective, which is not nearly so dramatic, about a 38.2% retracement...
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Richard Snow Top Stocks: JPM, BAC, CYH, GPS, XL, GE
GuruFocus Updates (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
By guruek. (GuruFocus, November 6, 2009) Investment Guru Richard Snow has a rough 2008, as a matter of fact, he had a rough 2006, 2007, and 2008, beaten by the S&P500 three years in a row. (see table below). According to a document from the Snow Capital Management website, their asset under management suffered as well: firm wide asset dwindled from $6.0 billion as of the end of 2007 to $2.5 billion...
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Financial Markets Retreat, Domestic Economy Continues Rebounding
Radon Mitigation Pittsburgh (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
November 7, 2009 (FinancialWire) (Via TheRidgefieldPress.com ) (By Lloyd H. Dotson) Financial markets retreated a bit in October, taking a breather from their rapid ascent and causing many investors portfolios to give back some of the gains they had racked up in recent months. The domestic economy, however, continued to show signs of rebounding from the longest recession in decades, as both an improvement...
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Moving Markets Weekly Round-Up
Radon Mitigation Pittsburgh (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
November 7, 2009 (FinancialWire) Moving Markets news last week included ML Macadamia Orchards, L.P. (OTC: NNUT), the PowerShares DB US Dollar Index Bearish Fund (NYSE: UDN), the iShares S&P Agressive Allocation Fund (NYSE: AOA) and others: OTCQX Watch: Tuesdays Advancers & Decliners : The OTCQX Exchange closed Tuesday with a total volume of $ 33,510,197 traded on volume of 1,984,138 shares...
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The Recession Is Over My Ass
Truth In Our Time (Free subscription) | yesterday
If you listen to the propaganda spewed forth from the Mainstream Media you might be inclined to believe that this recession is like all the rest and the worst is behind us. I can assure you that nothing is further from the truth. Take this chart for example. That shows the Price To Earnings ratio for the S&P 500. For those that aren't familiar with investing P/E ratio can be found here. This chart...
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"Obama rally" stronger than many presidents' first year
Denver Post (Free subscription) | yesterday
President Barack Obama has already enjoyed a stronger stock market during his first year in office than presidents typically get. Things may get even better, if the market follows its historical trend of rising in November and December. Since 1933, presidents have overseen an average 4.4 percent rise in the S&P 500 during the first year of a term, according to S&P data.
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07/11/2009 Market Reports
UK Market Reports (Free subscription) | yesterday
The banking sector must be overhauled as profoundly as in the wake of the Great Depression or financiers will "game the state" over and over again, the head of the Bank of England's financial stability arm has warned. Bank of England says financiers are fuelling an economic 'doom loop' Concerns that the UK property market is entering a bubble have been exacerbated after new data showed yields...
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Getting the Berger Picture: Why Josh McDaniels is Smarter Than You
Mile High Report (Free subscription) | yesterday
More photos » by Gail Burton - AP 5 days ago: Denver Broncos head coach Josh McDaniels gestures in the fourth quarter during an NFL football game against the Baltimore Ravens, Sunday, Nov. 1, 2009, in Baltimore. Baltimore won 30-10. (AP Photo/Gail Burton) Browse more photos » If you were inside the head of Josh McDaniels, you might be tempted to tell everyone how smart you really are. Then...
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Launch of a Risky and Perhaps Very Profitable Emerging Markets ETF
Everyday Finance (Free subscription) | yesterday
What do you get when you mix India with Small Cap Stocks? Well, that would be the Market Vectors India Small-Cap ETF according to this week's BusinessWeek print copy. If a broader emerging markets ETF for small caps is any barometer, the SPDR S&P Emerging Markets Small Cap ETF ( EWX ) is up 80% YTD . Compare that to 59% for iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Index ( EEM ) a comparable proxy for emerging...
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US Market at 6 November 2009
Money Market News (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Market at 6 November 2009 DJIA Open 10001.35 High 10044.50 Low 9936.81 Close 10023.42 NASDAQ Open 2094.61 High 2117.62 Low 2088.24 Close 2112.44 S&P500 Open 1064.95 High 1071.48 Low 1059.32 Close 1069.30 October Nonfarm Payrolls released a higher payrolls than last release. October Unemployment Rate released a higher unemployment than last release, while October Average Workweek and October Hourly...
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Discount OLYMPUS LI-40B digital camera Lithium-ion battery pack for OLYMPUS LI-40B
discountbattery | 27/07/2009
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Sony Ericsson S500i White Unlocked
petercruise | 06/04/2009
The Sony Ericsson S500i is a stunningly beautiful slide phone, available in green, yellow, copper & purple. It features beautiful wallpaper artwork and specially-designed themes that change with the time of day and the season.