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Wednesday, March 10, 2010 - During the first two months of the new year 2010, the global financial markets has seen a number of positive and negative news headlines sending most of the domestic and international broader stock market indices to a roller coaster ride.  Although there were a...

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Thursday, September 2, 2010

OVERNIGHT CHANGES THROUGH 6:05 AM (CT): S&P 500 -90, DOW -9While the stock market seems to have been oversold and expecting very bad economic conditions, the magnitude of the recovery rally yesterday probably sent a message to the bear camp. In addition to the sharp across the board rally in equities, the trade was clearly assisted by much better than expected ISM readings and that seemed to foster some respect for the resiliency of the US economy. However, in order to throw off prevailing concerns of slowing, the equities will probably need to see something...
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