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The Thursday Fed Update: German Bunds giving US a run for the money Euro translates into hard times for the Dollar

Dollar gets harder ith every Euro tick going don but the Aussie and the Yuan are catching on and that is keeping ( the latter) the US dollar from impoding on itself as US Trade keeps on improving with China

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Posted in Amitonomics, Bailout Nation, TARP, US

US Morning report: Ergo, this rally celebrates the recession’s stunted velocity, Bob Diamond’s on the sled going down

Auto sales are expected to make a mark in a couple of hours (Ford, GM sales up 7%, Nissan and Chrysler also report increase) and as production data falling below 50 becomes a moot point, a slew of global reports

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Posted in Amitonomics, Banking, Brazil, Emerging Markets, European Sovereign Debt crisis, Financial Markets

The Thursday Fed Update: That money machine called the U.S. of A.

The Fed will not be printing muchmpore money stock of course with US currency in ciruulation at $1.1T. Then there are the $1.6T in Treasuries the Fed will be using to lend to banks and extinguishing from its reserves to

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US Economy (The week ahead): June 24, 2012 – June 30, 2012 — H1 ends on the lowest notes

With the GDP numbers coming in on Thursday for a Q2 which was anyway expected to get worse, car sales incl uding imports are not bringing in any white hope nor counting to the cyclical recession US is looking in the face

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The Thursday Fed Update: 30 Y Bond Scare reignites QE, Gold and Silver firm up

The 30Y Auction Bid Cover ratio dwindled steeply to 2.4 from 2.7-3 levels of earlier with a low yield of 1.62% even as Fed Balance sheet assets expanded to $2.871 T. The money supply was under attack to from the

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US Economy: The more things change..(European inflation data)

Though Italian one year BOT on auction landed a cut off yield closer to 4% than the last 2.3% yield, the inflation thru the Eurozone more or less remained unchanged with a 1.9% for Germany and 3.2% for Italy overshadowing

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Posted in Amitonomics, housing, Retail Lifestyle, Social Media, US

The Deal Economy and US Economic commentary from week of April 22 : Facebook listing to help the NASDAQ 100

The week past had a lot of misplaced Housing “crisis” data and Jobless claims data so you possibly did not miss much as I forced myself on a holiday.  As expected April Jobless claims data tracked 400k. it has been

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Posted in Amitonomics, Financial Markets, Private Equity, Retail Lifestyle, US

US Economy (EoD Review): China reports a 8.1% GDP, Stocks continue northward trudge

Even as Nat Gas below $2 continued to find a final bottom and EIA inventories remained stable, China’s reports for a low Q1 GDP came in at 8.1% below the flash estimate of 8.4%. however the number ‘s blow was

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US Economy (EoD Review): Fed Balance sheet shrinks to $2.8 Tln

The Fed Balance sheet shrunk again, making it likely 7 times out of 10 in the last few weeks as the Fed stopped buying back MBS contracts to keep markets goin. The Liquidity situation though is not clear fromt he

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US Economy (EoD Review): 10.8% rise in the indices in the Quarter, The Deal Economy slump to continue

Facebook’s latest amendment to its S1 filed adds details of the patent litigation with Yahoo even as FoConn agrees to an Apple audit observations and decides to reduce working hours and protect wages at its facility while improving working conditions

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