Monthly Archives: January 2012

Jan04

Bill Gross' first missive of 2012 excerpted below… please go here for full read.  Interestingly, Gross qualifies LTRO [Dec 20, 2011: LTRO - a New Acronym to Learn] as quantitative easing…. indeed, he actually calls it a form of ponzi…

Jan03

With the pre-warnings we began seeing in mid December, I believe this might be one of the trickier earnings seasons in recent memory.  2009 was full of low expectations and 2010 benefited from the waves of job cuts of 2008-2009,…

Jan03

I don't feel quite as befuddled as I did a few hours ago as quite a few people I respect in the Twitter-sphere have all commented on the same action I noted earlier today.  Most of the leadership stocks (what…

Jan03

While on the surface today it is a blockbuster day, the action under the current is quite curious.  If you believe in 'tax loss selling' and 'window dressing' today is a great day to prove your point.  People were piling…

Jan03

Construction spending came in at +1.2% versus expectations of 0.3-0.4% so a positive there (although previous month revised down).  As for ISM Manufacturing the trend continues to improve – this is the best reading since June at 53.9.  That beat…