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  • Bad Earnings From CNBC, Bloomberg and You?

    http://www.cnbc.com/id...

    This page at CNBC titled, "Dow Earnings Season Complete" reports in no uncertain terms that Caterpillar (CAT) had a .39 profit in Q1 2009:

    It's very clear. The estimate was for .04 so they are reported to have "beat" by 875%.

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    Tags: CAT, DOW
    May 27 01:06 pm | Link | Comment!
  • The Conference Board LEI's are Down in March by 0.3%

    This data was released on April 20th, 2009 yet I heard nothing about it from the media. You can read more at www.conference-board.o...:

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    Tags: SPY, LEI, leading economic indicators, economy, 2009
    May 03 10:24 pm | Link | 1 Comment
  • Are Earnings Improving?

    No. Data does not lie. Click the following link to see earnings data directly from Standard & Poors:

    http://www2.standardan...

    "341 issues (76.15% mkt val) rptd: initial good reports fading, actuals are 2% behind of estimates, and -36.1% behind last year...

    Sales down 12.8 with 89 beating last year and 246 falling short

    As Rpt EPS for 12 Mo Sep,'09 estimated to be negative ($-1.83 EPS) - first time in index history"

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    Tags: SPY, SDS, earnings, S P, S P 500, S P 500 earnings
    May 03 10:08 pm | Link | Comment!
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  • Holding positions in SRS and SDS. Looking closely at the Transports to see if they continue their non-confrmation of the Industrials.
    Jun 15, 2009
  • Bearish for the foreseeable future based on historical data, current data and generational patterns. Dow under 5,000 this year.
    May 19, 2009
  • I believe that we have significantly farther to go as far as building value in the stock market once again.
    May 03, 2009
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