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BLS Misses, Unemployment Rate Rises

SPY This morning’s BLS report was a bit of a mixed bag. The headline showed the U.S. adding 157,000 jobs in January, which were roughly 6,000 less jobs than consensus estimates. The unemployment rate ticked up to 7.9% in January from 7.8% in December with no change in the participation…
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Does the Jobs Number Even Matter?

  Friday morning at 8:30am, investors will know just how bad the employment situation in the US really is. The consensus among analysts is for 92,000 new jobs to be added to the economy; some estimates are higher than 100k, others are down around 60k. After reading countless articles, watching…
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Four Stock Indexes and What They Track

    Print   Email   Share   Comments   by Donna Fuscaldo Published May 10, 2012 – Bankrate.com Which stock index should you follow? Whether it’s the Dow Jones industrial average, the Nasdaq stock market, Standard & Poor’s 500 index or the Russell 2000, investors use these popular indexes…
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Buy or Sell: IBM Reports Earnings Monday

Written by Jared Levy, Editor, Options Strategy Weekly IBM (IBM:NYSE) is one of the few tech companies that have been able to reinvent themselves. With the fast-paced evolution of technology, many of its early peers are long gone. IBM has a history of strong earnings growth, and the stock has…
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