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otraque

03/15/04 6:46 AM

#8325 RE: was Steve #8322

We have psychological pattern change---market is now reacting to exogenous news the past week and today.
When bull is lathered it doesn't respond to nearly anything.
Todays news--car bombs found in front of U.S.Embassy in Karachi/Spain socialist party has major upset in Spain and the PM-elect announces Spain is pulling out of Iraq/Spain bombings confirmed Al Queda linked via Morocco.Those news items when Bull is lathered would be ignored.
I can see no other reason for futures being so bad. NDX -11.

But we have numbers between 8:30a.m. and 9:15a.m.
See if futures react to them. 2nd number is consensus estimate. Third number is prior. 1st number Breifing.com estimate
Mar 15 08:30 NY Empire State Index Mar
37.0 38.9 42.05

Mar 15 09:15 Industrial Production Feb
0.6% 0.4% 0.8%

Mar 15 09:15 Capacity Utilization Feb
76.6% 76.4% 76.2%



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was Steve

03/15/04 9:59 AM

#8332 RE: was Steve #8322

does anyone know if there is an ETF for the russell 2000 index similar to how the ndx has the qqq, spx the spy and dow the dia???