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Employment Outlook Disappoints. . .uh, Cheers Market

Thursday, January 1, 2009

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With uncanny contrarian timing, the Washington Post heralded the year-end rally in its Saturday edition with the headline, “No Santa Claus Rally for Wall St.” To be fair, the credit for this epitaphic declaration goes to the headline writer; the article itself was specifically about the market’s failure to rally last week, and the story writer was entirely innocent of any ill-considered prediction about the week to come. Nevertheless, the market reversed on cue, bouncing off the prior week’s lows Monday…

Friday Morning Data

Friday, April 4, 2008

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The unemployment and nonfarm payroll numbers have just been released, and they were worse than expected.  Reaction in the futures was negative: just seconds before the data was out, Dow futures spiked to +70, and are now sitting at about -20.  Rick Santelli (the only credible person on CNBC): “This is the worst headline jobs number since March 2003.” But as we mentioned last night, even though there’s a lot of chatter about how important these data points are, implied…

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