A Week Off
I am taking a break from the markets. Posting will be sporadic at best in the next week .
Good luck with your trading! I’ll be back with first days of April.
Archive for March 25th, 2011
Video Of The Day – Bloomberg’s Jaroslovsky Reviews Nintendo 3-D Game Player
Bloomberg’s Rich Jaroslovsky reviews Nintendo’s new 3-D game player. The $250 Nintendo 3DS, which goes on sale in Europe today and the U.S. March 27 is the successor to Nintendo’s DS player. It’s the first mass-market gadget to feature autoscopic 3-D, a three-dimensional display that can be viewed without the need to wear special lenses.
ECRI Weekly Leading Index Up 6.5%
ECRI Weekly Leading Index for week ending March 18, 2011 was reported up 6.5% y-o-y. Prior reading was at 7.1%.
Topping out…
U.S. Freight Carloads Weekly – March 25, 2011
U.S. railroads originated 393,772 carloads, up 2.1% compared with the same week in 2010 and down 3.1% compared with 5-year average. Week over week change was 0.6%.
Daily Reading – Friday, March, 2011
*** The Big Picture: Save the Date: Ben to Hold Regular Pressers ***
*** FT Alphaville: John Kemp dismantles the commodities vs global demand chart ***
*** FT BeyondBRICs: Fund flows: Investors not so hot on EM ***
*** FT Alphaville: Dear RepoClear Member, Re: Portugal ***
*** FT Alphaville: To value a caja, correctly ***
*** FT Alphaville: So long, Saleh ***
*** Seth’s Blog: The triumph of coal marketing ***
*** Foreign Policy: The paintings of Saif al-Qaddafi ***
March University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Final Reading At 67.5
March University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment final reading was reported at 67.5 vs. 68.0 consensus, 68.2 prior reading and 77.5 February reading.
U.S. GDP Growth in Q4 2010 Revised to 3.1%
U.S. GDP growth for Q4 was revised from 2.8% to 3.1%; consensus was at 3.0%. Q2 reading was at +2.6%.