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IT’S MONDAY: The Fed purchase program is quite a workout for the Market

Fisher seems to have kicked things off immediately with his comments positing that slowing down the $85B monthly bond purchase program could do US some good, Then Chicago Fed reported an ever worsening Midwest CFNAIdata for the month of April

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IT’s MONDAY: Eurozone comeback isn’t but Euro’s comeback is

As a Rabobank strategist put it in today’s Reuters insider videogram, because of the fragmented euro bond markets in 2010 and 2011 , the current strength in the Euro is much more than a euphoric pick up on German manufacturing

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India Morning Report: markets tinker with 6000, shorts fail again

Shardul kulkarni, despite his hanging on to the short trade on the indices since 5800 for the 5600 mark or thereabouts is a pretty chastised man as he leads the discussions of the index topping off at any time and

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Of Buffett and Soros: The magic of thinking big (April 2013)

13F filings are here and one could easily be challenged to rite one’s investment ideas and/or the 13 F’s investment ideas into a cogent workhorse and like it or not 13F s a re a great motivator to keep undergraduates

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IT’S MONDAY! Jobs report and superb results put a positive spin on mixed Economic data (US Economy – May 06-10, 2013)

The deflation risks in a negative reported inflation or falling retail sales and even jobs and hours worked seemed to be forgotten for the week on Friday after the headine numbers of the Jobs report pushed the Dow to 15k

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US Economy:(April 2013 Jobs report) Productivity increases to carry GDP recovery?

Though deeper data slices have yet not been attended to at known blogs( the best yet at calculatedriskblog.com), tonight’s Jobs report was more than an optimistic prediction of continuing recovery int erms of the 165k jobs added. Figures for women

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US Economy: Fed may modify Treasury/MBS purchase programs(increase it too), ECB cuts rate by 25 bp (May 1-2, 2013)

Yesterday’s Fed Statement is largely a repeat of the situation it reported in March 2013 when Chairman Ben Bernanke met the press later and did not let on the Fed’s wavering on maintaining the $85 B in purchases of Treasuries

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IT’S MONDAY: European banks follow up with more losses, Fed and European Central Bank decisions (The week ahead April 29-May 3)

Markets headed down, last weeks result impact Dow near 14.5K and its quite ready for a rocky road down the mountain, though it’s still not “Sell in May and go away” especially with Apple already ruling below 400 before the

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IT’S MONDAY! Apple reports earnings, Euro still trying the stratospheric trade (US Economy April 22-26, 2013)

The week has a lot of quality big pharma earnings lined up for Thursday with expectations high after J&J’s beat last week but the week starts with a 20% expected downtick in Apple (US:AAPL) at just above $10 against last

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Bank Results Season: Q1 2013: The trader Goldman Sachs turns in another undisputed leadership in investment banking

With leadership in completed M&A esp in fee rich United States, Goldman Sachs powered ahead to a $1.57bln revenue in Investment Banking Fee Advisory income esp as it also capitalised on the bullishness in debt markets to get bragging rights

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