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so are you thinking it's going up tomorrow?
Pimco Sees Global Growth Slowing After U.S. Tightening
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-12-11/pimco-sees-global-growth-slowing-after-u-s-tightening.html
Pacific Investment Management Co., manager of the world’s largest mutual fund, said global growth will be hampered next year by a slowdown in the U.S. economy.
Now we know why Wall St has been pumping FB up recently, so big insiders like Sheryl Sandberg can DUMP...she dumped close to 1.5 million shares this month...
http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/fb/insider-trades
Chief Operating Officer, ie Zuckerberg's Keeper....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheryl_Sandberg
Fiscal Cliff End Game
http://video.cnbc.com/gallery/?video=3000134361
thanks for telling me on Thursday before it spiked
thanks for telling me about that POS $12 ago...
How Big is the Wealth Gap in China?
http://www.bloomberg.com/video/how-big-is-the-wealth-gap-in-china-ClnAUasyTjOsO~B44OrVjw.html
What are your thoughts on BAC? Looks like it could pull back in the short term...
Why are all the scam stocks up today like LNKD and CRM? Oh yeah I forgot, they are a SCAM...at least my other shorts MGM, and HD are down...
It's still not that same as the Fed's QE program, the ECB's balance sheet is no where near as big as the Fed's....
I supported QE1, QE2, and even Twist, but NOT QE3 aka QE-Infinity...at some point the Fed has to take a break and let Washington do their job, the Fed has done enough...problem is you got Janet Yellen as the No.2 in the Fed...
Exposing what really goes on in the Fed...
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=79593391
there could be a sell off after the New Year for investors who have losses, because if taxes go up next year, taking losses next year will be more valuable...
If tax rates are going up, an investor would sell now to book gains and pay lower capital gains taxes, according to Aama. But if an investor has capital losses, then "you take losses and have them count against capital gains or regular income if you do not have any offsetting capital gains.
"In essence, higher capital gains tax rates will give your losses a higher value next year than this year as the income tax shield will be worth more in 2013. So if you have no capital gains this year, you are better off holding off on selling your losers in 2012 and waiting till 2013," he said in an email.
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you should tell Faber about your crop, he'd invite you to Shanghi and take you on a "Golden Trip"
Marc Faber: In Thailand we grow good stuff
Food Prices: Where They Are and Where They're Going
http://www.bloomberg.com/video/food-prices-where-they-are-and-where-they-re-going-pk232mHPRYuCzH_XX8~stw.html
Money In Motion, December 7, 2012
http://video.cnbc.com/gallery/?video=3000133960
Traders think there's no good news after this weeks Fed meeting, ie markets likely to go down...
Fed's monetary stimulus meets 'fiscal cliff'
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/12/09/us-global-economy-weekahead-idUSBRE8B80E920121209
(Reuters) - The contrast could not be sharper: Economists are all but certain the U.S. Federal Reserve will expand its monetary stimulus this week, but they have no clue how the fiscal battle in Congress will shake out.
U.S. central bankers look set to extend their monetary stimulus, known as Quantitative Easing, into the new year at a meeting on Tuesday and Wednesday. Analysts expect the Fed to continue buying $85 billion worth of securities per month.
"The Fed would not have emphasized the number ‘$85 billion' in securities purchases in its statement if it wasn't prepared to continue at that pace well beyond the end of the year," said Roberto Perli, a senior managing director at investment research firm ISI.
No matter what it does, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke has made it clear the central bank lacks the firepower to counter the possible drag from the looming $600 billion combination of expiring tax cuts and automatic spending reductions popularly known as the "fiscal cliff."
Alarm over an immediate, looming deadline may be overstated. Some analysts say the cliff is better described as a slope, since not all provisions will kick in at once. But Congress' budget watchdog and the Fed both think it spells recession.
The world is watching with bated breath, particularly given the fragile state of other major economies.
EURO ZONE HURTING
The euro zone remains mired in recession and, while Greece's latest debt deal has calmed nerves for now, few believe it will take long before troubles in Spain and Italy flare up again.
Euro zone industrial output numbers on Wednesday are forecast to show an uptick of 0.2 percent following a steep 2.5 percent plunge in the prior month, according to a Reuters poll. Still, few believe the euro zone's wounds will heal any time soon.
A European Central Bank policymaker said the bank had a "very serious" debate last week about cutting interest rates, which are already at a record low of 0.75 percent, and added that a cut was possible next year if the euro zone economy does not pick up. The German and Austrian central banks separately suggested such a turnaround is unlikely, forecasting scant growth in their economies for 2013.
With the continent still in crisis, European Union leaders will hold their last summit of the year. Ahead of that gathering, EU finance ministers will meet on Wednesday to try to hash out an agreement on cross-border banking supervision, having failed to do so last week.
Heads of state, for their part, will focus on the long-term direction and structure of the bloc, for which banking union is a key part.
The final Spanish bond auction of the year on Wednesday will provide a good opportunity to look back at how they have fared this year and, more importantly, a possible signal of how they will do in 2013 with investors still waiting for Madrid to request outside help, which would allow the ECB to intervene in the bond market.
'FISCAL CLIFF' OR BUST
Stateside, budget negotiations will remain center stage, even if expectations for a deal are based more on faith than fact.
"The decision is completely being driven by politics, not by what's good for the economy," said Eric Leeper, an economics professor at Indiana University. "That's what happens when you have no clear objectives for fiscal policy."
Republican House Speaker John Boehner accused President Barack Obama of pushing the country toward the "fiscal cliff" on Friday and of wasting another week without making progress in talks. Obama has argued it is Republicans and their desire to protect the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans that are preventing an agreement.
"Last week brought very little substantive progress," said Stephen Stanley, chief economist at Pierpont Securities, calling the discussions "a slow-motion train wreck."
U.S. employment picked up in November, according to a Labor Department report on Friday, but the drop in the jobless rate to 7.7 percent was due to discouraged workers bailing out of the labor force. This should keep the Fed, which has committed to buying assets for as long as it takes to improve the outlook for jobs, easing monetary policy for the foreseeable future.
Indeed, economists at JPMorgan said that the third round of quantitative easing could range as high as $3 trillion if recent progress in bringing down unemployment grinds to a halt.
At $2.8 trillion, the Fed's balance sheet is already more than triple its pre-crisis size.
MORE VOLUME AND VOLATILITY
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As "fiscal cliff" nears, market complacency sets in
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/12/09/us-usa-fiscal-markets-idUSBRE8B807A20121209
The CBOE Volatility index, Wall Street's so-called fear gauge that tends to move inversely to the S&P 500, has slipped about 2 percent since November 1.
"Lately, we've just started seeing some small upticks in VIX futures. But it's not like someone is coming into the market to buy a whole lot. It's just nibbling here and there, which shows that there isn't too much concern out there about the fiscal cliff," said J.J. Kinahan, chief derivatives strategist at the brokerage TD Ameritrade in Chicago.
Wall St Week Ahead: "Cliff" worries may drive tax selling
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/12/09/us-usa-stocks-weekahead-idUSBRE8B703820121209
(Reuters) - Investors typically sell stocks to cut their losses at year end. But worries about the "fiscal cliff" - and the possibility of higher taxes in 2013 - may act as the greatest incentive to sell both winners and losers by December 31.
The $600 billion of automatic tax increases and spending cuts scheduled for the beginning of next year includes higher rates for capital gains, making tax-related selling even more appealing than usual.
Tax-related selling may be behind the weaker trend in the shares of market leader Apple (AAPL.O), analysts said. The stock is down 20 percent for the quarter, but it's still up nearly 32 percent for the year.
Apple dropped 8.9 percent in the past week alone. For a stock that gained more than 25 percent a year for four consecutive years, the embedded capital gains suddenly look like a selling opportunity if one's tax bill is going to jump sharply just because the calendar changes.
"Tax-loss selling is always a factor (but) tax-gains selling has been a factor this year," said Paul Mendelsohn, chief investment strategist at Windham Financial Services in Charlotte, Vermont.
"You have a lot of high-net-worth individuals in taxable accounts, and that could be what's affecting stocks like Apple. If you look at the stocks that people have their largest gains in, they seem to be under a little bit more pressure here than usual."
Of this year's top 20 performers in the S&P 1500 index, which includes large, small and mid-cap stocks, all but four have lost ground in the last five trading sessions.
The rush to avoid higher taxes on portfolio gains could cause additional weakness.
The S&P 500 ended the week up just 0.1 percent after another week of trading largely tied to fiscal cliff negotiation news, which has pushed the market in both directions.
A PAIN PILL FROM THE FED?
This week's Federal Reserve meeting could offer some relief if policymakers announce further plans to help the lackluster U.S. economy. The Federal Open Market Committee will meet on Tuesday and Wednesday. The policy statement is expected at about 12:30 p.m. EST on Wednesday after the conclusion of the meeting - the Fed's last one for the year.
Friday's jobs report showing non-farm payrolls added 146,000 jobs in November eased worries that superstorm Sandy had hit the labor market hard.
"After the FOMC meeting, I think it's going to be downhill from there as worries about the fiscal cliff really take center stage and prospects of a deal become less and less likely," said Mohannad Aama, managing director of Beam Capital Management LLC in New York.
"I think we are likely to see an escalation in profit-taking ahead of tax rates going up next year," he said.
MORE VOLUME AND VOLATILITY
Volume could increase as investors try to shift positions before year end, some analysts said.
While most of that would be in stocks, some of the extra trading volume could spill over into options, said J.J. Kinahan, TD Ameritrade's chief derivatives strategist.
Volatility could pick up as well, and some of that is already being seen in Apple's stock.
"The actual volatility in Apple has been very high while the market itself has been calm. I expect Apple's volatility to carry over into the market volatility," said Enis Taner, global macro editor at RiskReversal.com, an options trading firm in New York.
Shares of Apple, the largest U.S. company by market value, on Friday registered their worst week since May 2010. In another bearish sign, the stock's 50-day moving average fell to $599.52 - below its 200-day moving average at $601.38.
"There's a lot of tax-related selling happening now, and it will continue to happen. Apple is an example, even (though) there are other factors involved with Apple," Aama said.
If tax rates are going up, an investor would sell now to book gains and pay lower capital gains taxes, according to Aama. But if an investor has capital losses, then "you take losses and have them count against capital gains or regular income if you do not have any offsetting capital gains.
"In essence, higher capital gains tax rates will give your losses a higher value next year than this year as the income tax shield will be worth more in 2013. So if you have no capital gains this year, you are better off holding off on selling your losers in 2012 and waiting till 2013," he said in an email.
While investors may be selling stocks to avoid higher taxes in 2013, companies may continue to announce special and accelerated dividend payments before year end. Among the latest, Expedia (EXPE.O) announced a special dividend of 52 cents a share to be paid on December 28.
To be sure, the big sell-off in stocks following the November 6 election was likely related to tax selling, making it hard to judge how much more is to come.
Even with stocks' recent declines, the three major U.S. stock indexes are still up for the year. The Dow Jones industrial average .DJI is up 7.7 percent for 2012 so far, while the benchmark Standard & Poor's 500 index .SPX is up 12.8 percent and the Nasdaq Composite Index .IXIC is up 14.3 percent for the year to date.
Bruce Zaro, chief technical strategist at Delta Global Asset Management in Boston, said there is a decent chance that the market could rally before the year ends.
"Even with little or spotty news that one would put in the positive bucket regarding the (cliff) negotiations, the market has basically hung in there, and I think it's hung in there in anticipation of something coming," he said.
Another Decade of Crisis in the EU?
http://video.cnbc.com/gallery/?video=3000133969
Time to Sell the Euro?
http://video.cnbc.com/gallery/?video=3000133051
how do you short penny stocks? Etrade? lol
TOUCAN, one of the problems is Janet Yellen...
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=79593391
Links above, will give you more insight on what really goes on in the Fed Reserve
Fisher Interviews, good stuff
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=82289223
Richard Fisher is a true patriot, one of the few Fed Officials who has the guts to say no to more QE and put pressure on Washington to ACT...
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=79937875
Fisher Says Fed Could Set Limits on Quantitative Easing
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-11-27/fisher-says-fed-could-set-limits-on-quantitative-easing-2-.html
Fed Policy Costs Greater Than Benefits, Fisher Says
http://www.bloomberg.com/video/fed-policy-costs-greater-than-benefits-fisher-says-z~p6WIS1T_~GmwsNDdM~XQ.html
Fed's Fisher: `I Wasn't Supportive of QE2'
http://www.bloomberg.com/video/fisher-i-wasn-t-supportive-of-qe2-_ur_3RILQMyWZScsvan3eA.html
Fisher Bio
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_W._Fisher
Fisher Says Fed Could Set Limits on Quantitative Easing
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-11-27/fisher-says-fed-could-set-limits-on-quantitative-easing-2-.html
True Patriot
The reason why the ECB won't print money is because they are still paranoid about hyperinflation that occurred during WWI and WWII...
Don't diss my boy Faber, he grows good stuff, and he told me he'd take me on a "Golden Trip" in Shanghi
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Chanos: Europe Returning to Ways of 1930s
http://www.bloomberg.com/video/why-is-jim-chanos-shorting-china-ztKaWSy3R1K0c1Q7pnuv6w.html
Also talks about credit bubble in China....
Chanos: Europe Returning to Ways of 1930s
http://www.bloomberg.com/video/why-is-jim-chanos-shorting-china-ztKaWSy3R1K0c1Q7pnuv6w.html
Also talks about credit bubble in China....
ULTRA BEAR DD
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=82280859
Watch at 4:45, details on the up-coming BANK RUN in Europe....ECB can't stop the bleeding forever...
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=75510811
ABXX ULTRA BEAR
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=75246865
Don't worry UVXY Longs, there will be a major correction coming at some point...just a matter of when...
EURO BANK RUN COMING
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=75367804
The MATH DOESN'T WORK IN EUROPE PLAIN AND SIMPLE
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=75420233
Good Article, Europe is screwed, path of least resistance is for a Euro break-up, which will be sparked by a BANK-RUN in Greece, Spain, Portugal, and Italy...
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=76222119
The Four Horseman of the Apocalypse
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=75926214
2012 will be the peak of the S&P 500
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=75921908
Faber Sees '87-Type Crash If U.S. Stocks Rise Without QE3
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=75469684
never mind, I'm buying this when I hit a home run on my UVXY Long position lol
http://www.bloomberg.com/video/-40k-per-night-inside-four-seasons-50m-penthouse-FtPto2sTQEq5mv08RPs~SQ.html
Fiscal Cliff Fears Push VIX up 16% to 14-Month High (11/13)
http://www.bloomberg.com/video/fiscal-cliff-fears-push-vix-up-16-to-14-month-high-quTOlrJrRyyT4DfLlQilaA.html
Great Discussion on AAPL (12/7)
http://video.cnbc.com/gallery/?video=3000133951
Options Action: How Low Can Apple Go?
http://video.cnbc.com/gallery/?video=3000134056
Options Action: Best Trades for Fiscal Cliff (11/30)
http://video.cnbc.com/gallery/?video=3000132644
Rise In Volatility Ahead? (11/26)
http://video.cnbc.com/gallery/?video=3000131609
In the video above, I like how Citi initiated coverage on AAPL and put a BUY rating on AAPL, two weeks later, AAPL is down...pretty sure Citi has taken profits since lol...
Stocks Sink, So Why Isn't Volatility Spiking? (11/15)
http://www.cnbc.com/id/49838331
Haha...
check out this analysis...
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=81554597
wow, maybe I could buy that mansion in southern France I've always wanted and a Jaguar to go with it if it plays out ;)