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Tuesday Reads

An eclectic brew of reads today: • One Year Later… (Market Talk) • Lessons NOT to learn from anniversaries (Marketwatch) • 43% have less than $10k for retirement (CNN/Money) • Europe bars Wall Street banks from government bond sales (Guardian) • Why every nation cooks its books (MSN) • Whither securitization? (The Deal) • Slashing the Deficit without Massive Tax Hikes (BusinessWeek) • [...]

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Be the first to comment - What do you think?  Posted by Barry Ritholtz - March 9, 2010 at 10:00 pm

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Only a day after slowest day of yr, the busiest in a month

Only one day after yesterday’s slowest consolidated NYSE volume day of the year, today’s volume is snapping back to be on pace for 5bish for the first time since Feb 9th. I’ll leave it to the technicians to determine whether that makes today’s closing action more important than usual in terms of the short term [...]

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Be the first to comment - What do you think?  Posted by Peter Boockvar - at 9:01 pm

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Citi Rumor Moving Shares

The story going around trading desks is that the Treasury Department is about to announce plans to sell its stake in Citi (C). Trading in sympathy with these are Fannie Mae (FNM) Freddie Mac (FMC) and AIG. As Peter Boockvar notes, just one day after slowest day of year, we get the busiest day in a month.

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Be the first to comment - What do you think?  Posted by Barry Ritholtz - at 9:00 pm

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Listening To Market Volume

Light trading volume has accompanied the market’s latest rally. Should investors worry, or care? Barron’s Mike Santoli has more.

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Be the first to comment - What do you think?  Posted by Barry Ritholtz - at 7:30 pm

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Caterpillar CEO Sees Stronger Rebound Boosting Sales

Sales at Caterpillar Inc. are expected to rise 10%-25% this year on inventory restocking and a stronger global rebound than was initially expected, James W. Owens, the company?s chairman and chief executive, said on Tuesday.

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Be the first to comment - What do you think?  Posted by WSJ.com: Real Time Economics - at 7:20 pm

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Recession Slang

Nice list of slang terms from the Christian Science Monitor that were birthed in this Recession: 10. Funemployment, n. The practice of enjoying one’s unemployment. 8. Staycation, n. Vacationing at home or near home because traveling further would be prohibitively expensive. 6. Madoff’d, v. To get ripped off in a particularly offensive fashion. 5. Recessionista, n. A consumer who [...]

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Be the first to comment - What do you think?  Posted by Barry Ritholtz - at 6:30 pm

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Fed Lieutenant’s Speech Suggests Rate Increase by Year End

For some time now, Federal Reserve officials have been hesitant to put a precise time frame on when they will begin to tighten policy, except to note the action lies well into the future.

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Be the first to comment - What do you think?  Posted by WSJ.com: Real Time Economics - at 6:02 pm

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Welsh Investment Letter – February 2010

~~~ THE INTERPRETIVE FACULTIES OF THE HUMAN MIND A mirage is a naturally occurring phenomenon in which light rays are bent to produce a displaced image of distant objects. A mirage is a real optical phenomenon which can be captured on camera, since light rays actually are refracted to form the false image at the observer’s [...]

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Be the first to comment - What do you think?  Posted by Barry Ritholtz - at 5:00 pm

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S&P MidCap 400 and SmallCap 600 Hit Rally Highs

After the last consolidation in January/February, the leaders were the samll and midcap indices. That suggests to me that the S&P500 will eventually make a move to a new rally high — but it might need some time to gather its strength to do so, > S&P400 Mid Cap Index S&P600 Small Cap Index

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Be the first to comment - What do you think?  Posted by Barry Ritholtz - at 4:44 pm

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Ford’s Focus on Social Media: Scott Monty Interview

When you think of successful consumer brands in the social media space, names like Dell, Zappos and Pepsi come to mind. Another is Ford. Last year the Ford Fiesta movement generated tremendous amount of awareness (and pre-orders) for a vehicle that wasn’t available to the public yet. (Great summary on Jeff Bullas’s blog) At [...]

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