Newsweek Cover: The Recession Is Over

And here’s Obama commenting on the cover at a Town Hall meeting in Raleigh, NC Wednesday morning:
Markets sold off badly overseas on Monday as investors feared the effects of a US recession on the rest of the world (Overseas Selloff Graphic). As a consequence, US futures markets were in panic mode yesterday ahead of today’s opening. With…
I have written a lot about how the Magnificent 7 are holding up the market cap weighted indexes while beneath the surface many smaller stocks have broken down (“The Market Is About To Break”, October 3). My point has been…
“On the inflation front, the trend appears to be down, instead of holding steady, for the first time. We can live with the economic weakness [implied by the retail sales numbers] if we’re getting inflation under control.” – Marc Pado,…
AIG’s (AIG) fourth quarter earnings report after the close yesterday, in which they announced $11 billion in writedowns on exposure to credit default swaps it wrote and $2.6 billion in writedowns on mortgage backed securities it holds, brought back some…
Yesterday, amidst massive political and public opinion pressure, AIG revealed the counterparties they had paid out money to since receiving bailout money from the US government (AIG Press Release). The payouts are as follows: $22.4 billion for collateral postings under…
Stocks had their worst day in recent memory Wednesday with the S&P -0.82%, the NASDAQ -1.66% and the Russell -1.55%. The red ink may not let up tomorrow as Disney (DIS) – another one of the 25 most important stocks…