Recent Commentaries tagged (tlt)
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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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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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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ETF Rewind – Bond Smackdown | Week 5 | 02.03.12
The bond complex took it on the chin as equities screamed higher into broad short-term overbought territory. Inspired by the Jobs report, the S&P 500 (SPY) finished a full +2.1% higher, while Twenty-Year U.S. Treasuries (TLT) were conversely taken down by roughly -1.0%. The small-cap focused Russ...
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Free Money Thursday – Quoth Bernanke...
But where's my Trillion Dollars? Federal Reserve officials said they expect to keep short-term interest rates near zero for almost three more years and signaled they could restart a controversial bond-buying program in yet another campaign to rev up the disappointing economic recovery. The Centr...
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