Author: Andrew Horowitz

S&P 500 Chart – Fear/Greed Indicator and The Trender

Bloomberg Professional has a few very interesting built-in charting features. Two that can help to quickly discern the direction and sentiment are the Fear/Greed Indicator and the Trender.

The top portion of the chart shows the Bloomberg Trender and the RED indicates that the direction is obviously down. Overhead resistance at...

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Retail Sales Charts – A Bright Spot in a Dark Room

Retail sales continue to see better than expected reports. Consumers are definitely feeling a little better after the 2009 Armageddon warnings have been lifted.

For the most part, retailers have been reporting that they are using extreme measures to bring in customers in order to provide the sales. Interestingly, the high...

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Initial and Continuing Claims: Snow Job or No Job?

On the Economic front, there was some good news from the initial claims release that was taken well by investors for about 2 minutes. Then they turned away as they considered that some of the benefit to this week’s number may have been from the inability for claims...

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Links and Reading for February 11th

Some of the more interesting and important items for February 11th :

Motorola Plans Split Into Two Companies, With Jha Leading Phones, Set-Tops – Great! Now two crappy companies
Google Dangles 100 Times Faster Internet Speeds in Verizon, AT&T Challenge – How cool is this?
Lack of details hits euro –...

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