Import Prices Rise Less than Expected, Up 0.7%, Export Prices Up 0.7%; Trade Deficit At $39.70B, Ahead of Estimates
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Import Prices Rise Less than Expected, Up 0.7%, Export Prices Up 0.7%; Trade Deficit At $39.70B, Ahead of Estimates
Rev Shark Blog
Warning Signs Everywhere
By Rev Shark
Street.com Contributor
4/13/2010 8:35 AM EDT
Alcoa (AA) has kicked off earnings season with inline earnings and a revenue miss. The stock has a downgrade to "neutral" from UBS and is trading lower in the premarket. Alcoa generally doesn't have a major market impact, but earnings tonight from Intel (INTC) and on Thursday from Google (GOOG) will give us a much better feel for the mood of this market.
With the market continues its slow but steady drift upward, the conditions are very ripe for selling into the earnings news. I really would prefer to be less focused on looking for a pullback in this market, but it is hard not to given where we stand. While being bearish has certainly been a losing approach lately, it certainly isn't easy to be wildly bullish and load up with new buys.
Market players keep looking for signs of a top and possible selling catalysts. This morning there is quite a bit of talk about how low-priced "junk" stocks like Fannie (FNM) and Freddie (FRE) , Ambac (ABK) and Amcore Financial (AMFI) led the market yesterday. On my list of biggest gainers, 75% of them were priced under $10. (Nachzügler-Rallye - A.L.)
Another thing that investors are talking about this morning is a euphoric Newsweek cover story about "How America pulled itself back from the brink -- and why it's destined to stay on top." This is the sort of contrary indicator that investors look for ever since an infamous Business Week cover story in August 1979 that proclaimed "The Death of Equities." That ended up being a pretty good bottom call and market players have questioned breathless cover stories ever since.
It is quite easy to find warning signs like excessive speculation in low-priced stocks and highly bullish magazine covers, but until we actually see some real weakness there is little action for us to take. There is always interesting anecdotal evidence out there for both sides of the market battle but the price action is the final arbiter.
Many traders are tired of this market action with the limited intraday volatility, the extended market conditions and the slow drift upward. While we can still find some good individual trades, it just isn't very easy to put more money into this market. I'm tired of pointing it out, but until we have a shakeup of some sort, there isn't much else to focus on.
I suspect we are in for another day of choppy action as market players anticipate Intel's (INTC) report tonight. We have some early selling pressure as overseas markets were mostly negative. The dollar is mixed but gold and oil are down.
Es gibt durch die massive Liquiditätsversorgung eine quasi Antifallversicherung.
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US small business owners have little confidence in the economy and are in no rush to hire or expand, despite signs the recovery is picking up, a survey released Tuesday showed.
The persistent pessimism poses a challenge for President Barack Obama who has proposed a series of policies aimed at enticing small firms to add jobs.
Such policies are critical in a congressional election year when voters are upset about high unemployment.
The National Federation of Independent Business said its monthly index of small business optimism fell 1.2 points in March to 86.8 and below 90 for the 18th consecutive month.
"The March reading is very low and headed in the wrong direction," said Bill Dunkelberg, NFIB's chief economist.
"Something isn't sitting well with small business owners.
Poor sales and uncertainty continue to overwhelm any other good news about the economy." Small businesses normally account for the bulk of new jobs, making them an important part of the recovery.
Obama has proposed tax breaks to encourage hiring and special lending programs to try to boost hiring.
The economy registered two consecutive quarters of economic growth to the end of 2009. It probably continued expanding in the first three months of 2010. But small business confidence remains abnormally low.
Dunkelberg blames that in part on uncertainty about Washington's policies, particularly those related to taxes and health care.
"There is no legislation that has passed or that is promised that is encouraging to small business owners and the news about the fiscal crisis and the need for more taxes is hardly encouraging," the trade group said.
The jobless rate held at 9.7 percent in March, the third straight month, as the labor market continues to lag the economic recovery from the worst downturn since the 1930s.
"What small businesses need most are increased sales, giving them a reason to hire and make capital expenditures and borrow to support those activities," said Dunkelberg.
While the survey suggested small firms were done cutting jobs, plans to create new ones remain weak.
In March, more firms were planning to reduce headcount than add to it. Only nine percent of firms reported unfilled job openings on a seasonally adjusted basis, down two points from February and historically low.
That showed little hope for a lower unemployment rate, the group said. Small business owners continued to liquidate inventories and weak sales trends gave little reason to order new stock, the survey showed.
Historically weak plans to make capital expenditures to add to inventory and expand operations also make it clear many borrowers are simply on the sidelines, NFIB said.
Ich werde nun mit meinem Hund in die Rheinwiesen gehen um Gänseblüchen zu zählen. Da muss man sich nicht über die Politik, die Wirtschaft oder die Börse aufregen. Sollte ich zu tiefgreifenden Erkenntnisssen kommen, so werde ich es euch wissen lassen.
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Nicht die geschminkten Ergebnisse, nicht die Super-Arbeitslosenzahlen oder Inflationsdaten, nein, all das reicht nicht um die Märkte unter Druck zu setzen. Aber das:
FDIC set to charge riskier banks more moneyWASHINGTON (MarketWatch) - The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. on Tuesday voted to propose assessing higher fees on large, risky financial institutions and possibly lower fees for many small and less-risky big banks. The proposal, which will have a sixty-day comment period, will eliminate the FDIC's reliance, in part, on credit rating agency scores and replace it with one that uses a new methodology that takes into account whether an institution can withstand financial stresses as well as whether each institution's collapse would be more or less risky to the economy.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/...skier-banks-more-money-2010-04-13
Wenn es den Jungs an den Kragen geht, das kann die Börse erschüttern.
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