Online rally may sidestep newspapers

NEW YORK, Oct 26 — It was a good day for newspaper websites when Mercedes-Benz USA introduced its updated E-Class cars this summer. Mercedes bought out the ad space on the home pages of The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times, and had those sites create special 3-D ads for them, at an estimated cost of US$100,000 (RM350,000) a site.The days after were not as good. While Mercedes was happy with the newspaper sites’ performance, it shifted money to cheaper, more tightly

Asian stocks mixed, get little boost from Wall Street; Europe opens higher

Asian stocks mixed, Europe opens higher SEOUL, South Korea ? Asian stocks were mixed Friday, largely failing to follow through after the Dow Jones industrials closed above 10,000 points for a second day as a monthslong rally lost steam. European markets gained in early trading. Movements in Asia were mostly muted, but Thailand’s market rebounded after falling [...]

Between March and October, many questions rasied.

It pays to look at where we’ve been if we’re to understand where we’re going. The U.S. stock market bottomed in the first week of March 2009, beginning a vigorous bounce in the month’s second week. By late March a breeching of the midterm downtrend line suggested significant changes in store. Nevertheless, most members of the general public thought the March rally was nothing more than a dead cat bounce. Indeed, most market commentators expected the bounce to end no higher than technical resista

Asian stocks edge lower, get little boost from Wall Street, as rally loses steam

Asian stocks fall, little boost from Wall Street SEOUL, South Korea ? Asian stocks mostly edged lower Friday despite the Dow Jones industrials closing above 10,000 points for a second day as a monthslong rally lost steam. Losses were muted, however, with oil’s rise above $78 a barrel helping energy stocks. Thailand’s market rebounded after falling 7 [...]

Posts about Barney Frank as of October 13, 2009

Seattle’s LGBT Equality March – Youth Lead the Way - javacolleen.wordpress.com 10/13/2009 Sunday I headed over to Volunteer Park for a march and rally in support LGBT equality. It seemed especially important to be there given Initiative 71 made it on the ballot. Initiative 71 was written by religious (and maybe non-religious) bigots to take away the “everything but marriage” civil rights our legislature gave to the LGBT community (and our senior citizens,who often stand to lose to many o

Rosenberg: This Rally is Purely A ‘Money Illusion’

David Rosenberg believes the rally we are seeing in stocks is a ‘pure illusion” due to reasons other than the fundamentals. He says the market is graded in devalued dollars and has now become a race to outpace the other momo chasers. A TECHNICALLY DRIVEN MARKET “Well, you know...

Selling by corporate insiders in August has surged to $6.1 billion, the highest amount since May 2008.

The ratio of insider selling to insider buying hit 30.6, the highest level since TrimTabs began tracking the data in 2004. “The best-informed market participants are sending a clear signal that the party on Wall Street is going to end soon,” said Charles Biderman, CEO of TrimTabs. TrimTabs explained that insider activity is not the only sign the rally is about to end. The TrimTabs Demand Index, which tracks 18 fund flow and sentiment indicators, has turned very bearish for the first tim

Foreign Cenbank Holdings of US Obligations Weekly Update — to September 30, 2009

NEW YORK (Dow Jones)–U.S. stocks marked their worst decline in about three months as a disappointing report on manufacturing early Thursday led to a broad sell-off for many of the companies that helped pace a surging third quarter in stocks, including JPMorgan, Caterpillar and American Express. - WSJ 1 With Dow 10K receding like a toy helium balloon and equity investors looking over their shoulders at what well may have been the most astounding Bear Rally in Wall Street history, you’d

Treasuries gain amid slow recovery

September 27th, 2009 Goto commentsLeave a comment New York: The rally in US stocks, which stumbled in recent days on worries about the economic recovery and continued government stimulus, will be tested this week by crucial data on growth and jobs. I…Similar Posts:Wall Street sags on oil; SP ends worst week in 2 monthsPayrolls report keeps wind in financialsN.Y. stocks post 5 straight day of rise on hopes for economic recovery+N.Y. stocks post 5 straight day of rise on hopes for economic reco

Bonds equities: Expect a major shift

This post is a guest contribution by Dian Chu*, market analyst, trader and author of the Economic Forecasts and Opinions blog. The SP has skyrocketed 58% since its bottom in early March, while the Dow is up 50% and the Nasdaq has surged 68% during that time. Meanwhile, bond prices led a rally as rates on the benchmark 10-year note have declined some 40 basis points since early August. This is good news for business: higher bond prices make it easier to refinance debt and stay in busine

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