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Provided by The Business Insider: That sound you’re hearing is a gigantic exhale of relief, as the August jobs report actually came in better than expected, with the private sector creating 67,000 jobs.Of course, that’s not a wildly good number on an abso

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It’s almost Labor Day, but before Wall Street and investors take off for a long three-day weekend, all eyes were on the August jobs report. The report showed unemployment for August rose to 9.6% from 9.5% in July. Nonfarm payrolls shed 54,000 jobs last mo

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It is almost Labor Day, but before Wall Street and investors take off for a long three-day weekend, all eyes are on the August jobs report due out this morning. Projections from Thomson Reuters say the 9.5% unemployment rate will rise to 9.6%, due to temp

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ASIA: Rose moderately, but China was hit by bank concerns. Markets appear to have cheered yesterday’s U.S. rally. Techs outperformed while there was weakness in Chinese financials. Mainland Chinese stocks lagged the re

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Markets took off yesterday shortly after the morning bell, as positive manufacturing reports for the U.S. and China bolstered investor confidence. The ISM Index found U.S. manufacturing
grew in August to 56.6, up from 55.5 the previous month. The rally l

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Money-manager Barry Ritholtz has a message for the National Association of Realtors, the trade group that always puts a sunny spin on the outlook for the housing market, no matter how horrific the facts may be:

You’re making the problem

Ritholtz, wh

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Investors felt better about the economy on Wednesday after the August ISM manufacturing index improved compared with July. Forecasters were looking for a decline, and when that didn’t happen, stocks took off.After so many disappointing data points this su

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In the past few months, traders have been scrutinizing an index of leading economic indicators published by the Economic Cycle Research Institute (ECRI) for signs of what will happen with the economy.

After hitting a multi-year high earlier this year,

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As the November mid-term elections come ever closer, more pundits are predicting that the Democrats will get clobbered. The consensus is that they’ll lose control of the House of Representatives. Some folks think they’ll even lose the Senate.And what will

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August proved to be a cruel month on Wall Street. The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost
4.3% in the month, and the S&P 500 was down 4.7%. The Nasdaq was even worse, losing 6.2%. All in all, it was the worst August since 2001.”We’re in a range-

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Germany and Britain have taken great measures over the last months to shore up spending and devise plans to actively decrease future deficits. …

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Provided by the Business Insider, August 31, 2010:Apparently everyone’s forwarding around the powerful message in hedge fund manager Dan Loeb’s most recent letter to investors.The message, from the number of chunks of quotes Dealbook pulls out of Loeb’s l

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Provided by the Business Insider, August 31, 2010:
A Thomson Reuters analysis of the 30 largest fundamental hedge funds has found that these major players slashed their risk exposure to the stock market in the second quarter, by opting for defensive stoc

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President Obama’s poll numbers have plummeted since the early days of his administration.  Now, only 44% of Americans approve of the job he is doing, down from 68% in April, 2009.Why has Obama fallen out of favor?Is it the persistent belief among som

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If the U.S. is the next Japan, the stock market is not the place to put your money, especially right now. As Joe Weisenthal points out in the clip and in a recent column, we may be due for another market crash based on the work of Doug Short and his &quo

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