http://www.stockmarketnewz.com Stock Market Research, Analysis & Commentary Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:05:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en CalculatedRisk The DOL reports on weekly unemployment insurance claims: In the week ending March 6, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 462,000, a decrease of 6,000 from the previous week's revised figure of 468,000. The 4-week moving average was 475,500, an increase of 5,000 from the previous week's ... http://www.stockmarketnewz.com/2010/03/11/weekly-initial-unemployment-claims-still-suggesting-job-losses/ Elliot Turner of T3Live A reader asked the following question in response to my post yesterday about Richard Posner's adoption of Keynsianism that I think opens up an interesting discussion: "Do you think he's converting because it finally made sense to him at 70? Maybe he was a great marketer of ... http://www.stockmarketnewz.com/2010/03/11/know-yourself/ Courtesy of JESSE’S CAFÉ AMÉRICAIN The Ugly American is a novel that was published in 1958, and later a movie starring Marlon Brando. It tells how America was losing the hearts and minds of the people in Asia through the predatory business practices and exploitation of US multinationals. The book ... http://www.stockmarketnewz.com/2010/03/10/wall-street-excluded-from-european-government-bond-sales/ By: Scott Redler of T3Live As is the case with any large move, the market could use some time to rest right about now. I would look to a few important levels on the S&P to gauge the strength of the market: 1,130 is the first support area, then 1,124-1,126 and ... http://www.stockmarketnewz.com/2010/03/09/digestion/ AC Investor ( click to enlarge ) THQI broke the horizontal resistance line on strong volume and could eventually rally up to test the October highs. Looking at the technical daily chart the near-term outlook is very positive and a move to the 6.95-7.05 range appears likely. In addition KD also indicate ... http://www.stockmarketnewz.com/2010/03/08/mondays-trade-ideas/ The Market Ticker I am constantly amused by those people who claim there is some vast "conspiracy" in this country when it comes to banks, balance sheets, and fraudulent lending and accounting. There is no conspiracy. It is, in fact, "in your face" fraud. The FDIC does us the courtesy of explaining it virtually ... http://www.stockmarketnewz.com/2010/03/07/all-you-need-to-know-about-bank-balance-sheet-fraud/ Courtesy of Phil’s Stock World, by Phil Commodities are a TAX.  They are the worst kind of tax because they flatly (not progressively) charge every man woman and child in this country more money for the same food, fuel, shelter and clothing that they had to have last week ... http://www.stockmarketnewz.com/2010/03/06/america%e2%80%99s-commodity-crisis-%e2%80%93-2010-edition/ T3Live.com On Monday, March 8th, Scott "RedDog" Redler will come full circle on CNBC and go back to where it all began--on Squawk Box. Scott will be on air at 9:25 a.m., be sure not to miss it! He first called the imminent pain faced by the stock market ... http://www.stockmarketnewz.com/2010/03/06/catch-reddog-on-squawk-box-monday/ CalculatedRisk From the BLS: Nonfarm payroll employment was little changed (-36,000) in February, and the unemployment rate held at 9.7 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Employment fell in construction and information, while temporary help services added jobs. Severe winter weather in parts of the country may have ... http://www.stockmarketnewz.com/2010/03/05/employment-report-36k-jobs-lost-9-7-unemployment-rate/ Courtesy of Joe Weisenthal at Clusterstock US debt levels are actually higher than Greece or Portugal. So why aren’t we in similar trouble? Simple, says Gluskin-Sheff’s Davied Rosenberg, the US has a lot of room to raise taxes. Greece here, Portugal there. Did you know that the structural deficit-to-GDP ratio is actually higher in ... http://www.stockmarketnewz.com/2010/03/04/rosenberg-the-only-reason-we%e2%80%99re-not-greece-is-that-the-world-knows-taxes-are-going-way-higher/