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| Cosima F. Barone | Vol. XI - Issue #210 | April 16, 2012 |
| The idea is there, locked inside. All you have to do is remove the excess stone. Michelangelo |  | |
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INSIDE THIS ISSUE:
As equity prices tumble, investors are forced to reassess their investment strategy in order to better evaluate on “what” their 2012 exuberance was truly based. Were higher prices merely based on “hoped-for” better economic data or on solid and real economic improvement across the globe? With hindsight, it was merely hope! Thus, the improving price trend revealed itself to have been fickle, exaggerated and unsustainable, as currently vacillating equity prices revealed. ... Read more
The March U.S. employment report disappointed investor expectations, although the economy still appears heading higher. The labor market improvement is hesitant at the moment and fully reflected, as a “lagging indicator”, the slower economic growth in the first quarter. Digging deeper into the economic data released recently, however, does reveal that the decline in real income (m/m in the latest report) is at odds with the job creation unless it signals the creation of low-paying jobs ... Read more
Tables:
- MARKETS AT A GLANCE - Close as of April 13, 2012
- U.S. FIXED-INCOME MARKET AT A GLANCE - Close as of April 13, 2012
- COMMODITIES AT A GLANCE - Close as of April 13, 2012
- PULSE OF THE U.S. ECONOMY - As a Guidance for Other Geographies
- CURRENCIES AT A GLANCE - Close as of April 13, 2012
- MONETARY POLICY-MAKING AROUND THE WORLD - The Leading Seven ...
- ... and the BRICs ...
Charts:
- U.S. Standard and Poor's 500 -- 2011-2012
- U.S. NASDAQ 100 -- 2009-2012
- U.S. Standard and Poor's 500 Composite -- 2006-2012
- French CAC 40 -- 2002-2012
- German DAX -- 2002-2012
- Chinese Shanghai Composite -- 2002-2012
- U.S. Standard and Poor's Composite -- Market Bottom of 1942-1949-1994 compared to the 2009 Bottom
- U.S. Treasury Yields -- 10-year Constant Maturity -- 2006-2012
- U.S. Treasury Yields -- 30-year Constant Maturity -- 2006-2012
- Quotation from WSJ article ...Traders Navigate a Murky New World...
- U.S. Mountain of Distressed Property
- U.S. Unemployment Rate -- 1948-2012
- U.S. Alternate Unemployment Rate -- 1994-2012
- FRANCE -- PMIs Manufacturing and Services -- 2007-2012
- FRANCE -- Fiscal Gap -- 2007-2012
- Italy Public Debt to GDP -- 1995-2012
- Moody's AAA Bond Yields -- monthly -- 1913-2012
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