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Jobs report gets bullish blood roaring this morning

The US lost 54,000 jobs in August, which is 46,000 less than the consensus had expected. The all important private sector added 67,000 new jobs (27K more than expected) and the “official” unemployment rate edged up to 9.6%. It is … Continue reading →

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Roubini on Market Risk in the midst of current global slowdown

“The process of de-leveraging has to continue.” Also here he is on Bloomberg with more.

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When investment demand becomes momentum

For the past few years, we have noted that ballooning capital flows into commodities have caused a momentum unto itself frequently at odds with fundamental concepts of end use supply and demand. Hedge funds, commodity-based-exchange traded funds and institutions looking … Continue reading →

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