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Image of a Rotating Bear Market

interesting chart. how much will xlf be influenced by global actions. global sector funds: IXG, MXI, IXC, KXI may offer a better look at rotation. thanks

Bailout Bill Passes; What Happens Now?

there is plenty of money out there and it will start flowing through responsible, untainted channels. The average American will move deposits to safer, more conservative, more responsible lenders who will in turn start lending to responsible borrowers. It will take time, but it will happen.

Options Trader: Friday Outlook - Too Little Too Late?

The jobs number is always manipulated. This time it suits the politicians to report a bad number. It's the KY jelly on the $850B jam job.

Friday Outlook: Commodities, Emerging Markets

"...shotguns, food and booze." I love it...

7 Rules For Investing During the Fourth Quarter

great points to ponder.

Paulson Rolls The Dice At Taxpayer Expense

Thanks to Wall St., The Fed and our elected officials from all parties, now every American has a little real estate in their portfolio. Diversify, diversify, diversify......

Manhattan Real Estate Is Teetering - Barron's

This was a killer deal for Wappinger, Sapohanikan & Co.....

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A First Look Inside the Fannie / Freddie Bailout Plan

one if by land, two if by sea

$300/Barrel Oil Is Coming - Barron's Interview

it's a black box

Manhattan Real Estate Is Teetering - Barron's

will someone please comment on Judy's article!!!!! she deserves some attention for goodness sake. tomorrow morning I want to see some nice comments for the lady. I MEAN IT.

Theoretical Declines of a Bursting Oil Bubble

so that's what systematically abused markets look like. Nice chart.

Dollar Up 10 Days in a Row

interesting. I'd like to see the same analysis of oil during it's recent boom. It's a record setting time we're in.

Dollar 7-Day Winning Streaks

looks like several decades in which the dollar was up in subsequent weeks following a 7 day rally. What happened at the end of the 1990's to change that pattern ?

Thursday Market: Commodities, Emerging Markets

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"The success of the central banking scheme developed into a far-reaching plan described by President Clinton's mentor, Georgetown Professor Carroll Quigley, "to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements arrived at in frequent meetings and conferences. The apex of the system was to be the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland, a private bank owned and controlled by the world's central banks which were themselves private corporations. Each central bank....sought to dominate its government by its ability to control Treasury loans, to manipulate foreign exchanges, to influence the levels of economic activity in the country, and to influence cooperative politicians by subsequent economic rewards in the business world." "

Thursday Outlook: No Inflation? Who Knew?!

David Fry:
Enjoy your posts but wonder about the value of tracking the QQQQ based on David Jackson's analysis of it excerpted below:

"the NASDAQ 100 is a slightly unusual index that makes its popularity baffling. It’s dominated by large capitalization technology stocks, but it’s not a pure technology index. In fact, it excludes some of the largest US technology stocks, such as IBM and HPQ, which are traded on the New York Stock Exchange. As a result, if you want to make a concentrated sector investment in technology stocks you’re better off buying the Technology Sector ETF, ticker (XLK).

Moreover, many NASDAQ 100 stocks also appear in the S&P 500, so if you hold both QQQQ and IVV (or SPY) you have significant overlap in your portfolio.

And finally, a more conceptual point: there seem to be many suitable criteria for inclusion in a stock index (such as market cap, industry sector, or growth/value), but which exchange the stock is traded on doesn’t seem to me to be one of them. QQQQ, which tracks 100 stocks traded on the NASDAQ exchange, is thus a weird beast."
(seekingalpha.com/artic...)