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FN: On the way down there is volume. On the way up, there is less... waaaay less (especially for this time of the year). Can you say algos? So what does this low volume melt up mean? Can we make new highs? Will this be sustainable? Or will it all come crahsing down again...
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"The unemployment assumptions used in both scenarios have in fact already been exceeded." -Oversight Panel FN: The $301 billion federal guarantee on Citigroup's (C) crappy loan book is expected to cost taxpayers $43.9 billion in losses... IF the unemployment rate peeks at 9.5%. Doh. We're at ...
Stocks
Citigroup
US Treasury
“This is going to be the mother of all jobless recoveries.” -David Rosenberg U.S. Joblessness May Reach 13 Percent, Rosenberg Says (Update1): "The U.S. unemployment rate may rise to a post-World War II high of 13 percent in the aftermath of the recession, said David Rosenberg, chief economist ...
Commodities
Unemployment
Depression
FN: Sounds like Japan v2.0 to me... The recent change in U.S. and U.K. monetary policy is very similar now to what the Japanese tried, where Quantitative Easing (QE) was forced onto a captive debt market. The full consequences of which will only know become obvious: De-facto sovereign ...
Commodities
Warren Buffet
FN: Upon closer inspection, yesterday's rally was not nearly as impressive as it first seemed. Four up days in a row could not re-capture one down day. Volume on the way was continued to decrease. Breadth was not not strong either. The two Major Distribution Days stand.
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Yesterday I wrote that we were Passing Thru the Eye of the Storm . Evidence that the sky is darkening once again with financial storm clouds is the sudden increase in bailouts. While a bailout is in itself disheartening and just the absolute wrong policy choice in general, what really hurts is ...
Government
Wilbur Ross Sees ‘Huge’ Commercial Real Estate Crash (Update3): "Billionaire investor Wilbur L. Ross Jr,, said today that U.S. is in the beginning of a "huge crash in commercial real estate." On Friday 9 banks failed and were seized by the FDIC, the largest number of failures since the crisis ...
Government
FDIC
We've been in the eye of the storm for months now. The relative calm and tranquility had lulled everybody into complacency.... until last week, when the cracks became too large to ignore. On Friday 9 banks failed and were seized by the FDIC, the largest number of failures since the ...
Stocks
VIX
Last Saturday afternoon I accidently crossed paths with a reporter... and managed to get myself into the news. Rise of the Kitchen Trable Traders “ This world is not for the casual guy who thinks he can beat Wall Street, because he can't. ”— Ben Bittrolff, CFO of Cyborg Trading Systems
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Mrs. Ninja and I are expecting our first Ninja baby. As this is our first, things have been pretty hectic... To complicate matters, I've been involved in a financial software technology startup. We've now gone from 3 to 7 employees and officially launched our product in September. Starting ...
