Recent Commentaries tagged (qqq)

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Feb 7 2012

JOLTS: Job Openings Jump - Analyst Blog

We just got some important details on the Jobs picture for December from the Job Opening and Labor Turnover Survey, or JOLTS report. The big employment report, like the one for January we got on Friday, only shows the net number of jobs created or lost in a given month. In any given month, the n...


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Feb 7 2012

Factory Jobs Downright Robust - Analyst Blog

In January, the US added 50,000 manufacturing jobs, the largest amount since January 2011. However, the performance is even more impressive than that would imply. Since 1990, we have only seen that level of factory job growth matched of exceeded five times -- 2.3% of the time. Looking even furthe...


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Feb 7 2012

Manipulated Market: A Tale Of The Federal...

Sometimes it is scary to see manipulation in full swing in the stock market. Actually, it is always scary to think such blatant manipulation can occur and by the leading powers in the "free" world. Let's set the stage. The markets opened slightly lower. No big deal here. They slowly inched lower ...


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Feb 6 2012

Earnings: Better, but Still Not Good -...

Third quarter earnings season was a good one, unfortunately we may not be able to say the same about the fourth quarter. We got off to a very weak start, and while the last week was better, it just pushed the season from being very poor to mediocre at best. So far 290, or 56.0% of the firms have...


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Feb 3 2012

Which Comes First: Pullback vs. New New...

Starting in July, it was easy being bearish as our politicans were making a mess of the debt cieling debate. The European debt crisis was raging out of control. And US economic data gave strong indications of moving towards a recession. With that the market got as low as 1100 on the S&P. From tho...


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Jan 31 2012

Intra Day Support And Resistance Levels On...

The PowerShares QQQ Trust, Series 1 (ETF) (NASDAQ:QQQ) made a new 52 week high by $0.06 today. This minor high is also known as a classic double top. The technology index fell sharply off that level and is now trading near the lows of the day. The chart below shows the key support and resistance ...


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Jan 27 2012

Europe: Mission Accomplished? - Real Time...

Yes, the headline of this article is a bit of satire about when George W. Bush was standing on the aircraft carrier claiming "Mission Accomplished" in Iraq. That was a bit premature wasn't it? ;-) Certainly progress has been made to try and contain the European debt crisis. The ECB is loaning out...


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