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Market Wisdom Posted: 09 Jun 2009 08:26 AM PDT Obama promises 600,000 jobs and steers clear of bridges to nowhere Tension within Obama's economic circle Obama's new plan to fix Wall Street is coming soon All hail Barney! Has Wall Street learned its lesson? The bottom may finally be near Risks to the recovery Why home prices may keep falling Are you prepared for a summer of discontent? The jobs front remains grim Businesses want to spend again This recession isn't being kind to fledgling entrepreneurs The self-employed depression The Fed's next move may be up, but not for awhile The bloggers turn bullish again The dumb money indicator has moved to new extreme highs Luskin's favorite macroeconomic indicator has turned positive Have you taken a look at truck tonnage? 9 reasons the recovery will be a bust Q&A with Hank Greenberg S&P 500 could reach 1100 by year-end Some see a good chance of a golden cross in the S&P 500 Overbought conditions in the Nasdaq 100 Has the rally stalled out? Banks are now our friends Which newsletter advertisements rub you the wrong way? Top 10 websites for making your own prediction about economic recovery Joseph Cassano: the man with the trillion-dollar price on his head Paul Wilmott is out to save Wall Street's soul Ten of the most egregious executive perks Investors still trust ratings agencies? The luxury-goods sector continues to trade at a glitzy premium to the wider market What's wrong with cable stocks? Investing in tech is different this time Do alternative investments still make sense? Gold prices have been kept artificially low. Who's behind the manipulation and why? Hedge-fund index posts biggest gain in 9 years As heavy oil price soars, refiners face reckoning Will natural gas be the next to rally? If the dollar becomes the funding source for a global carry trade, watch out Charting the decline in worldwide industrial output The resurgence of emerging markets this year has reignited a belief in decoupling A big jump in Canadian bankruptcies Japan bankruptcies fall for first time in a year China acts to clean up its stock market's image China's pockets aren't deep enough China's influence to grow faster than most expect S&P cuts down Ireland This week's earnings preview Another opportunity in Almost Family Ford faces uphill battle against Government Motors The lessons for America following the decline and fall of General Motors Why GM and Chrysler want fewer dealers Following new government restrictions, Capital One looks to reinvent itself Jim Cramer's speculative stock of the year Amazon.com as a weaker-dollar play Screening on the Dual Cash Flow Method Harry's growth stock screen finds 6 attractive candidates It is time to be patient with your portfolio Emotion-based behaviors that hurt our investing performance One of the secrets to success in trading is not how much you win but how much you keep from losing Risk and reward are always proportional The 12 habitudes of highly successful traders The Elliott Wave Theory demystified How to spot sleeper setups 3 cornerstones of technical analysis How to trade biotechs profitably Do stocks added to the Dow outperform the stocks they replace? Poking holes in a theory on the market Do you see the world through rose-colored glasses? Sleep at night and still make money Modeling Mebane Faber's strategy Leveraged ETF performance ETFs to short if you're a stock-market bull You must be nimble with leveraged bond ETFs Exchange-traded notes fall flat with investors A recipe for a spicier index fund Are you fascinated with FOREX? Etrade launches its online advisor Target-date funds under the microscope IRA Limits What is a safe withdrawal rate from a retiree's portfolio? U.S. regulator sounds alarm about reverse mortgages Free end of the day stock market quotes and more Free business forms The best free websites to find foreclosed houses Teach your kids about money management through Zefty According to scientists, a constant stream of electronic junk is damaging people's ability to think compassionately "The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said." - Peter Drucker This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Obama, Krugman, & More Posted: 09 Jun 2009 06:02 AM PDT Good morning. Premarket futures are slightly positive as the market contemplates a number of headlines revolving around Obama and a bullish prediction by Paul Krugman. According to the latest reports, the White House plans to pare back its finance reforms, the TARP oversight panel says bank stress tests should be repeated, the Treasury has ten banks on its list of those approved to repay TARP, and the Obama administration wants Europe to put its banks through more rigorous stress tests. In other news, Texas Instruments raised its second quarter outlook, Chrysler creditors win a Supreme Court stay, auto-parts suppliers plan to request new federal aid, and just in case you were in a coma yesterday, Apple has unveiled a cheaper iPhone. Premarket gainers: ADCT, MW, GFG, GNBT, SAY, FCEL, MRNA, TLB, PBY, PSUN, FRO, VVUS, CSUN, TC, TXN, ONNN, ATRC, MRVL, SNDK, NUAN, ARNA, OVTI, STEC, ISIS, BDSI, CSIQ, SOLF, PMTI, CIEN, SNDK, & SPWRA. Premarket losers: ZQK, CRDN, MDTL, ELY, HNBC, NAV, CBL, MAS, CMS, EPB, KNDL, ZLC, OFG, SHS, ARUN, CKSI, BTH, BDC, ANPI, GIGM, EPB, MT, & BBL. At 10:00AM the market will review the latest read in wholesale inventories and there's hope for easing inventory draws that would indicate an improving economy. A half-hour later Geithner will testify before a Senate subcommittee. Yesterday's final hour rip helped the market and overall it appears that we are slowly, but surely working off the overbought condition generated by that impressive June 1st breakout without doing much technical damage so far. For today, I'd keep those 10/20 simple moving averages in focus within the major indexes: Go make it a great day!

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