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Initial Claims Beat; Drop To 3-Month Lows
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Tyler Durden
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Thursday, March 6, 2014 10:09 AM EDT
Must be the weather... Initial jobless claims swung from the worst in 2014 last week to the best in over 3 months this week, with a 323k print (well below the 336 expectation).
Gazprom Threatens To Disrupt Gas Supplies To Europe
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OilPrice
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Thursday, March 6, 2014 10:01 AM EDT
As U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and European Union leaders threaten that harsh economic sanctions could be imposed on Russia for its intervention in Ukraine, Russian state-controlled natural gas giant Gazprom has threatened to disrupt gas supplies to Europe, turning the Ukraine crisis into a possible trade war.
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Meanwhile, In Venezuela …
Article By:
Acting Man
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Thursday, March 6, 2014 9:52 AM EDT
Venezuela commemorated the late 'Commandante' Hugo Chavez on Wednesday – as is so often the case, the fact that the dear leader of the revolution is no longer among the quick probably helped with a good bit of nostalgic transmogrification.
New Jobless Claims At 323K: A 26K Decline From Last Week
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Doug Short
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Thursday, March 6, 2014 9:37 AM EDT
The Unemployment Insurance Weekly Claims Report was released this morning for last week. The 323,000 new claims number was a decline of 26,000 from the previous week's 349,000 (revised from 348,000).
When Thinking May Not Serve Your Trading
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Jeff Pierce
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Thursday, March 6, 2014 8:59 AM EDT
I was listening to a recorded hypnosis seminar today and the speaker was talking about how the brain is made up of two parts. As I often do I see how the content of this information is relevant to my own trading.
01 March 2014 Unemployment Claims 4 Week Average Marginally Improves
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Steven Hansen
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Thursday, March 6, 2014 8:53 AM EDT
The market was expecting the weekly initial unemployment claims at 330,000 to 350,000 (consensus 338,000) vs the 323,000 reported.
TLT-SPY, ‘Risk OFF’ Got Ukrained
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Gary Tanashian
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Thursday, March 6, 2014 8:45 AM EDT
The Ukraine hysteria on Monday was almost too perfect; almost too per the script. One indicator that was done no good what so ever by the charge of emotion was the TLT-SPY ratio (one measure of risk ‘off’), which jumped as the least savvy players took the bait and knee jerked bearish as the media pumped the story.
Futures Drift Higher Pushed By Yen Carry In Advance Of BOE, ECB Announcements
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Tyler Durden
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Thursday, March 6, 2014 8:21 AM EDT
Following yesterday's abysmal employment and service data which led to an unchanged close it quite clear that the market has returned to a mode where it ignores all newsflow - at least the bad, which is due to the weather, the good news is due to the recovery - and instead is simply driven by such "fundamental drivers" as the momentum and position of the Yen carry trade.
Southern Company – Not Doing It's Job And Won’t For The Foreseeable Future
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Dr. Steven Bauer
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Thursday, March 6, 2014 7:51 AM EDT
Southern Company has looked very anemic since April - some nine months ago, and that means continued caution.
In this article: SO
Ukraine Was A Trap For Oil Bulls
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Jeff Pierce
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Thursday, March 6, 2014 7:34 AM EDT
Fortunately we had Cycles within our arsenal to better prepare for what was a false “impulse” move. Within the weekend report, I wrote, “The drama in the Ukraine has implication for the supply of Crude, so a short term risk premium is likely to be added to price.
Bitcoin’s Uncomfortable Similarity To Some Shady Episodes In Financial History
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Casey Research
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Thursday, March 6, 2014 7:27 AM EDT
There is simply no way I can let this week pass and not comment on Bitcoin. It would be criminal… (though certainly not the first criminal thing associated with Bitcoin).
Making Swiss Cheese Of Derivatives Reform
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Larry Doyle
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Thursday, March 6, 2014 7:12 AM EDT
In what would appear to be a classic case of pandering to the public while allowing Wall Street to effectively write its own set of rules and ‘reforms’, we witness this bait and switch tactic within the legislation pitched to the American public as having brought meaningful transparency to the derivatives markets.
China Congress Post-Mortem Or Li's Mission Impossible
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Tyler Durden
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Thursday, March 6, 2014 5:45 AM EDT
Premier Li Keqiang delivered his first government work report at the opening of the National People’s Congress (NPC) meeting last night.
American Electric Technologies -- Sell Signals
Article By:
Jim Van Meerten
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Thursday, March 6, 2014 5:34 AM EDT
I deleted American Electric Technologies (AETI) from the Barchart Van Meerten New High, Barchart Van Meerten Speculative and also from my personal portfolios for negative price momentum:
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