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Anticipating The January Employment Report
Article By:
Doug Short
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Wednesday, March 5, 2014 8:56 AM EDT
The most important economic news this week is Friday's employment report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Obama FY15 Budget Would Eliminate Oil Tax Breaks
Article By:
OilPrice
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Wednesday, March 5, 2014 7:56 AM EDT
President Obama released his fiscal year 2015 budget on March 4, a $3.9 trillion package that includes a range of wish-list items in an election year. Among other things, the budget calls for the elimination of a range of tax breaks that benefit oil, natural gas, and coal companies.
China On The Verge Of First Corporate Bond Default Once More
Article By:
Tyler Durden
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Wednesday, March 5, 2014 7:35 AM EDT
While everyone was focusing on the threat of tumbling debt dominoes in China's shadow banking sector, a new threat has re-emerged: regular, plain vanilla corporate bankruptcies, in the country with the $12 trillion corporate bond market (these are official numbers - the unofficial, and accurate, one is certainly far higher).
The Perfect Investment For When Everything Is Expensive
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Casey Research
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Wednesday, March 5, 2014 7:20 AM EDT
We take certain realities for granted—like the reality that nearer events are easier to predict than ones that are further ahead.
In this article: GLD
White House Releases 2015 Budget Proposal
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John Lounsbury
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Wednesday, March 5, 2014 5:41 AM EDT
Econintersect: The administration released the president's proposed 2015 budget on Tuesday (04 March 2014). It calls for a net increase in spending, although there are almost as many ares being cut as being increased.
Can The Rally In Global Commodities Be Sustained?
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Sober Look
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Wednesday, March 5, 2014 5:35 AM EDT
We are seeing broad improvements across global commodity markets. To be sure, commodity valuations are still at depressed levels relative to the past decade, but after a prolonged decline, broad indices seem to have stabilized.
In this article: GLD
Look At This Stock - SNSS
Article By:
Jeff Pierce
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Wednesday, March 5, 2014 5:26 AM EDT
It seem like everyday this stock shows up on my screeners so I'm not going to deny it the moment in the spotlight it deserves any longer. We are definitely in a major bull market in phrama stocks as they always make up a big portion of my scan results.
In this article: SNSS
Emerging Markets Still Face The "Same Ugly Arithmetic"
Article By:
Tyler Durden
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Wednesday, March 5, 2014 5:11 AM EDT
While Emerging Market debt has recovered somewhat from the January turmoil, EM FX remains under significant pressure, and as Michael Pettis notes in a recent note, any rebound will face the same ugly arithmetic.
Russia Threatens To Abandon The U.S. Dollar And Start Dumping U.S. Debt
Article By:
Michael Snyder
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Wednesday, March 5, 2014 5:01 AM EDT
The Obama administration and the hotheads in Congress are threatening to hit Russia with "economic sanctions" for moving troops into Crimea.
A Bowl Of CORN
Article By:
Gary Tanashian
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Wednesday, March 5, 2014 4:52 AM EDT
I have found bowl patterns in everything from Intel’s monthly chart to Ur-Energy’s weekly and monthly charts.
Insider Trading At The SEC??
Article By:
Larry Doyle
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Wednesday, March 5, 2014 4:45 AM EDT
The abbreviated definition of insider trading is: “the buying or selling of a security by someone who has access to material, nonpublic information about the security.”
How The Situation In Crimea Could Cause Oil Prices To Fall
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OilPrice
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Wednesday, March 5, 2014 4:35 AM EDT
Moscow’s aggression in Crimea has markets in a panic and bulls predicting continued increases in the price of oil should tensions endure. Nonetheless, there is a chance that Russia’s Ukrainian incursion could result in the exact opposite effect—a decline in oil prices.
Gold Daily And Silver Weekly Charts - Ebb And Flow - Gresham's Law
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Jesse's Cafe Americain
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Wednesday, March 5, 2014 4:26 AM EDT
"When a government overvalues one type of money and undervalues another, the undervalued money will leave the country or disappear from circulation into hoards, while the overvalued money will flood into circulation."
PolyOne - Barchart's Chart Of The Day
Article By:
Jim Van Meerten
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Wednesday, March 5, 2014 4:17 AM EDT
The Chart of the Day is PolyOne Corp (POL). I found the stock by sorting the All Time High list, skipped the stocks that didn't have positive gains for the last week and month.
In this article: POL
Daily Market Commentary: S&P And Russell 2000 'Bull Traps' Blown
Article By:
Declan Fallon
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Wednesday, March 5, 2014 4:10 AM EDT
Well, it didn't last long. The 'bull traps' created in the Russell 2000 and S&P yesterday were dissected by today's open.
In this article: SPX
Education Organization Protests Lack Of School Choice Scholarships
Article By:
John Lounsbury
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Wednesday, March 5, 2014 4:03 AM EDT
Econintersect: The Center for Education Reform has issued a statement protesting the omission of the D.C. Opportunity Scholarships program from the 2015 Obama Budget Proposal.