Year: 2010

If You are Asking… 10 Reasons For The Shift In Sentiment

You want reasons for a sell-off ? Well there are reasons today for sure…

Aside from there being several indicators that have been raising some very troubling flags, here are a few that might make any market skittish.

1. President Obama has signaled that a scaled back healthcare bill will be looked...

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Initial and Continuing Claims: Worse Yet AGAIN!

Just when you thought that economists were starting to get it right, we see this. A rise in the initial claims to 484,000 from an estimated 440,000. That put the jobs “improvement” scheme back in its bottle.

Now that the Obama Administration is feeling a tad bit different about the healthcare...

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Microsoft’s (MSFT) Bing is …. Donged

Surprise! Google (GOOG)   continues to take market share from its competitors.   Baidu (BIDU) may see a change and uptick in the next monthly reading as there is talk of Google pulling out of the China market. But that remains to be seen.

Where Google remains they will dominate.

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Links and Reading for January 21st

Some of the more interesting and important items for January 21st :

China Losing to U.S. as Investment Choice on Bubble Concern in Global Poll – How weird is this?
E.C. approves Oracle’s buyout of Sun Microsystems – Was there thought of anything else? EU wants to have the opportunity to...

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U.S. Dollar Rally – See Why….

Well, it has to be said: We live in interesting times. Looking at the Massachusetts election “upset” proves that point rather vividly. The result of a Republican elected to the Senate, taking away the super-majority from the Democrats helped spark a sharp rally in the U.S dollar.

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