IDS World Markets Thurs 6th August 09

[aussiebear]

 

 

T-shirt found in Seoul, Korea.

[aussiebear]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://finance.yahoo.com/intlindices

[aussiebear]

 

 

http://money.cnn.com/markets/morning_call/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://www.kitco.com

 

 

 

http://www.kitconet.com/webcharts/base_metals.html

 

Energy futures

[aussiebear]

 

 

Green for starters. All Ords +0.8%, Financials +1.5%, REITS +1.4% and Miners +1.3% and a sprinkling of reds, Gold -1.1%, Consumer Staples -0.7% and IT -0.5%.

[aussiebear]

That's funny! I don't think it was a garbled translation. Rather it looks like a tongue-in-cheek swipe at Neverland pederasty.

 

Same thought crossed my mind, Speak. Quite clever if that's the case.

[aussiebear]

"Eat Less"

 

 

Some physical exercise can help too. In any form or shape, if you know wadda I mean.

 

Yeah, enuff of fat women, bring back gay chubby bankers..

[DrStool]

If I can't get them to stop serving that slop, I'll have to do away with ads all together and devote more space to the steady drumbeat drone of self promo.

 

Or begging. I could always beg.

[Rationalize]

Yeah, enuff of fat women, bring back gay chubby bankers..

Aren't they the same models?

[aussiebear]

Aren't they the same models?

 

At least we didn't have to look at their fat stomachs...

[aussiebear]

 

 

Couldn't kill this market with an axe. All Ords +1.4% with pretty good gains for selected sectors. Out in front was REITS +2.7%, Financials +2.2% and Materials +1.5%. Losers were Gold -0.8% and Consumer Staples -0.2%.

 

Asia mixed: China -0.8%, Honkers +0.5%, India -0.3% and Nikkers +1.3%.

 

 

Over to UK/Europe:

 

Footsie

 

 

 

DAX

 

 

 

CAC 40

 

[aussiebear]

Australian Employers Unexpectedly Add 32,200 Workers

 

Aug. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Australian employers unexpectedly added workers in July, driving up the nation’s currency on speculation the central bank will raise borrowing costs by the end of the year.

 

The number of people employed rose 32,200 from June, the statistics bureau said in Sydney today. The median estimate of 18 economists surveyed by Bloomberg was for a decline of 18,000. The jobless rate held at 5.8 percent.

 

Part-time employment increased 48,200 and the number of full-time jobs dropped 16,000 in July, today’s report showed.

 

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New Zealand Jobless Rate Rises to Nine-Year-High 6%

 

Aug. 6 (Bloomberg) -- New Zealand’s unemployment rate rose to the highest in almost nine years in the second quarter as the worst recession in three decades prompted companies to cut production and jobs.

 

The jobless rate increased to 6 percent from 5 percent in the previous three months, Statistics New Zealand said in Wellington today. The median estimate of 12 economists surveyed by Bloomberg News was for 5.7 percent.

[Jetlag]

Most bullish survey since.... a long time

 

 

AAII Sentiment Survey Are you BULLISH?

AAII members are:

(as of 8/5/2009)

Bullish: 50.00%

Neutral: 14.84%

Bearish: 35.16%

 

Maybe someone here with the full data series could very that.

 

But bears have actually increased since last week, at the expense of neutereds.

[swordfish]

http://www.treas.gov/offices/domestic-fina...g-tables-q3.pdf

 

http://www.treas.gov/offices/domestic-fina...g-tables-q4.pdf

[swordfish]

BOJ Said to See Deflation Stretching Through 2011

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=206...id=a6QmQJUmNKOQ

[swordfish]

White House: US Moving Away From Depression

Published: Wednesday, 5 Aug 2009 | 9:38 AM ET

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By: Reuters

 

A White House spokesman said Wednesday that the United States has pulled far back from descending into another economic depression, although new figures to be released Friday will show hundreds of thousands more lost U.S. jobs.

 

http://www.cnbc.com/id/32297536