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"südwärts" in # 35701 bitte durch "höllenwärts" ersetzen - ergibt sonst in der 3D-Topologie des Schornsteins keinen Sinn.
Top Theme for '09: The Buck Stays on Top
By Tony Crescenzi
Street.com Contributor
12/29/2008 12:50 PM EST
Having written a book on top-down investing (Investing From the Top Down), and given my penchant for macro-style themes, I am compiling a top-10 list of key top-down themes for 2009. Here is one of them:
The U.S. will retain its reserve currency status. This theme is paramount because it answers the question of our age: If the U.S. is backing its financial system, who is backing the U.S.? The question is critically important, because the U.S. needs massive amounts of money to finance its efforts to restore stability to its economy and its financial system. If the support exists, the effort will work. If not, financial and economic Armageddon.
Thus far, support has been superfluous, as evidenced by the low level of Treasury yields, continued sufficient bid/cover ratios for Treasury auctions, and 2008's rebound in the U.S. dollar (toppt aus, schon wieder auf 1,43 - A.L.). The reason I am siding with the view that the U.S. will get the money it needs and retain its reserve currency status is because the U.S. remains the world's preeminent power economically, politically and militarily.
(na, na, na ! - A.L.)
Moreover, the currencies of rising powers such as China are not yet ready to absorb the $7 trillion in reserve assets the world holds, particularly because their bond markets are immature and can't house reserves as U.S. markets can.
(Schon mal was vom Euro gehört, Mr. Crescenzi?)
Holiday Sales Drop to Force Bankruptcies, Closings
By Heather Burke
Dec. 29 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. retailers face a wave of store closings, bankruptcies and takeovers starting next month as holiday sales are shaping up to be the worst in 40 years.
Retailers will close 12,000 stores in 2009, according to Howard Davidowitz, chairman of retail consulting and investment- banking firm Davidowitz & Associates Inc. in New York. AnnTaylor Stores Corp., Talbots Inc. and Sears Holdings Corp. are among chains shuttering underperforming locations.
More than a dozen retailers, including Circuit City Stores Inc., Linens ‘n Things Inc., Sharper Image Corp. and Steve & Barry’s LLC, have sought bankruptcy protection this year as the credit squeeze and recession drained sales. Investors will start seeing a wide variety of chains seeking bankruptcy protection in February when they file financial reports, said Burt Flickinger.
“You’ll see department stores, specialty stores, discount stores, grocery stores, drugstores, major chains either multi- regionally or nationally go out,” Flickinger, managing director of Strategic Resource Group, a retail-industry consulting firm in New York, said today in a Bloomberg Radio interview. “There are a number that are real causes for concern.”
Sales at stores open at least a year probably dropped as much as 2 percent in November and December, the International Council of Shopping Centers said last week, more than the previously projected 1 percent decline. That would be the largest drop since at least 1969, when the New York-based trade group started tracking data. Gap Inc. and Macy’s Inc. are among retailers that will report December results on Jan. 8.
Women’s Clothing, Electronics
Consumers spent at least 20 percent less on women’s clothing, electronics and jewelry during November and December, according to data from SpendingPulse.
Retail Metrics Inc.’s December comparable-store sales index will drop an estimated 1.2 percent, or 5 percent excluding Wal- Mart Stores Inc. Retailers’ fourth-quarter earnings may fall 19 percent on average, the seventh consecutive quarterly decline, according to Ken Perkins, president of Retail Metrics, a Swampscott, Massachusetts-based consulting firm.
Probably 50,000 stores could close without any effect on consumer choice, Gregory Segall, a managing partner at buyout firm Versa Capital Management Inc., said this month during a panel discussion held at Bloomberg LP’s New York offices. Only retailers with healthy balance sheets will survive the recession, according to Matthew Katz, a managing director at consulting firm AlixPartners LLP.
Store Closings
About 200,000 stores may close in 2009, compared with a record 160,000 in 2008, Flickinger said.
The U.S. economy shrank in the third quarter at a 0.5 percent annual pace, the worst since 2001, according to the Commerce Department. Economists surveyed by Bloomberg in the first week of December forecast the world’s largest economy will contract through the first half of 2009.
The Standard & Poor’s 500 Retailing Index shed 34 percent this year before today, with only two of its 27 companies rising.
The index doesn’t include Wal-Mart, the world’s largest retailer, which fell 21 cents to $55.14 at 9:58 a.m. in New York Stock Exchange composite trading. Wal-Mart shares gained 16 percent this year through Dec. 26.
“If you’re going to be in retail right now, the discount space is where you want to be,” Patrick McKeever, a senior equity analyst at MKM Partners LLC, said today in a Bloomberg Television interview.
Discount Advantage
Discounts of 70 percent off or more by Macy’s, AnnTaylor Stores Inc. and other retailers failed to prevent a spending drop of as much as 4 percent during the final two months of the year, according to data from SpendingPulse. Consumers are trained for sales, according to Patti Freeman Evans, an analyst at Jupiter Research in New York.
“The situation is not going to right itself in January; it’s going to be a long while that discounting’s going to be around,” said Evans. “Consumers are going to get used to it and it’s going to very difficult for retailers to move forward in a full-price mode.”
Retail bankruptcies may help the industry in the long run, according to Flickinger.
“We’ll be going from a Dickens-esque worst of times this December to the best of times in future Decembers because we’ll rationalize out all the redundant retailers and retail space in shopping centers,” Flickinger said.
To contact the reporter on this story: Heather Burke in New York at hburke2@bloomberg.net.
Last Updated: December 29, 2008 10:00 EST
www.bloomberg.com/apps/...&sid=ajAqMbszJmNY&refer=home
Beispiel-Horrorchart: LIZ CLAIBORNE
..... auch wenn der Präsident Obama heißt.
Bis zum Jahr 2011 sollen im #0000ff">Inland Militäreinheiten ausgebildet werden mit einer Stärke ca. 20.000 Mann. Die USA wollen damit auf atomare Terroranschläge und auf andere Katastrophen reagieren können.
Dass dabei gegen US - Gesetze verstoßen wird (geltendes US-Recht verbietet ausdrücklich den Einsatz der US-Streitkräfte zur Bereinigung von Querelen im Inland) scheint die neue US-Regierung so wenig zu stören wie die Bush - Regierung bis heute das Guantanamo - Problem.
Interessant dabei was man unter "andere Katastrophen" versteht: es wird vermutet, dass es sich hierbei um Maßnahmen handelt, vorwiegend zur Verstärkung polizeistaatlicher Kontrollen im Zuge der Verschärfung der Wirtschaftskrise.
Aufgrund dieser Klausel könnten z.B. die US-Streitkräfte eingesetzt werden, um protestierende Arbeiter zu verhaften; erst kürzlich war es zu derartigen Protesten gekommen, als in Chicago kurzfristig gefeuerte Arbeiter friedlich ihre ehemalige Fabrik besetzten und damit gegen die Entscheidung der Bank of America protestierten, diesem Unternehmer die Kreditlinie zu kappen, obwohl die Bank gleichzeitig viele Milliarden Dollar an US-Steuergeldern aus dem finanziellen Rettungspaket der US-Regierung zur Abdeckung ihrer zweitklassigen Immobilienkredite erhalten hatte.
Offenbar hat die künftige US Administration schon mal kräftig in die Geschichtsbücher gelesen um in Erfahrung zu bringen, was sich so alles aus einer Finnazkrise eregebn könnte: 1932, mitten in der #0000ff">Großen Depression, hatten etwa 43.000 Demonstranten – 17.000 Veteranen des Ersten Weltkriegs mit ihren Familienangehörigen und ihre politischen Anhänger –, die sich selbst den Namen »Bonus-Expeditionsstreitmacht« gegeben hatten, in Amerikas Hauptstadt Washington D.C. protestiert. Diese Kriegsveteranen wollten erreichen, dass ihnen die Beträge, die ihnen bereits acht Jahre zuvor in Form von (Militär)Dienst-Zertifikaten nach Verabschiedung eines entsprechenden Gesetzes (»Adjusted Service Certificate Law of 1924«) rechtmäßig zugestanden worden waren, sofort und in Form von Bargeld ausgezahlt wurden. Am 28. Juli 1932 beauftragte US-Justizminister (Attorney General) Mitchell die Polizei damit, die Veteranen der »Bonus-Armee« aus Washington zu evakuieren. Da diese Widerstand leisteten, machte die Polizei von der Schusswaffe Gebrauch und tötete dabei zwei Demonstranten. Als Präsident Hoover davon erfuhr, befahl er den US-Streitkräften, die Bonus-Armee zwangsweise aus Washington D.C. zu evakuieren.
Bei einem 1 Bio - $ Konjunkturprogramm sollten ein Rückgriff auf soche Relikte aus dem letzten Jahrhundert eigentlich verzichtbar sein.
http://info.kopp-verlag.de/news/...inneren-sicherheit-in-den-usa.html
Debunking Buy and Hold
By Rev Shark
Street.com Contributor
12/29/2008 2:05 PM EST
As we approach the end of one of the worst years in history of the stock market there will be a lot of discussion of what investors should do. One piece of advice that we have heard throughout this debacle and will continue to hear is to "stay the course." No matter what happens in the market, there will always be proponents of "buy and hold" investing.
The whole idea behind 'buy and hold' is that if you can find some really good stocks the inevitable bear markets will just be minor blips as your investment eventual compounds and turns you into the next Warren Buffett.
There are a couple of problems that this very simplistic approach to building great wealth overlooks. First is that it is really, really difficult to find a stock that is worth holding for decades. Even Buffett himself has said only a handful occur in your lifetime. Finding the next Microsoft (MSFT) or Coke (KO) before it has made a huge move is one of the hardest things you can do in investing. I hear people talk about Apple (AAPL) being something that will build great wealth over the course of the next few decades. The stock was up 50-fold already at one point, so it's hardly an early-stage discovery.
If we could easily identify the stocks that are candidates to go up 100-fold in the future, this whole investing thing would be tremendously easy, but obviously very few people have the capacity to tell the future to that degree.
[ Stimmt, Shark, das gilt auch für Ariva... ]
Which brings up the other major problem with buy-and-hold investing. If you are wrong, you are destroyed unless you have some sort of money management discipline. Further, in the inevitable bear markets that occur over the course of decades, rebuilding from your losses is hugely unproductive.
Buy and hold is brilliant in a bull market, but even the best movers have a limited lifespan for stellar appreciation. The old adage is, "Don't confuse brains with a bull market," and a lot of people have learned that the hard way this year.
The way to build wealth is about knowing how to sell rather than how to buy. Buying is the easy the part of investing. It is selling in a timely manner that is the key to compounding your money. Above all else, you must always protect your capital. If you can avoid having to make up losses, you are far ahead of everyone else who thinks that investing is a one-time "buy and hold" decision.
No positions.
One Frustrating Market
By Rev Shark, Street.com Contributor
12/29/2008 4:03 PM EST
Even though we did have yet another late-day bounce, it was very blah day of trading. Breadth was better than 2 to 1 negative, even though we did have strength in oil and commodity-related stocks due to the fighting in Gaza. Other than that, there was a lot of poor action on thin trading, and anyone looking for typical seasonal strength was disappointed.
The market has three big problems, which are related to some extent. There is little confidence, there is no leadership, and there is too much random action in the last hour of trading. When you combine those three things, it creates a lot of frustration and keeps market players on the sidelines. The only cure for this is time. We simply have to be patient until conditions change and there is more hospitable trading. The attitude right now is, "We'll wait until next year."
The good news today is that we did manage to hold above the December lows. The fact that we tested them isn't particularly positive, but at least we didn't break them, and that is a good thing.
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