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Nifty Toolness

February 7, 2010 · Comments Off 

You might have noticed that there are two 'aggregated feed' doodads in the sidebar (over on the right, right down the bottom).

One of them has all the RSS feeds from ZeroHedge, TickerGuy, Mish's GlobalEconomicAnalysis... and a couple of other analytical sites.

I find it useful to aggregate all of these, so that I don't have to read each feed (or even their headlines) in an RSS Reader.

I use ThunderBird's built-in jobbie... and although I only load headlines, it annoyed me to have to go from ZHs feed (the first feed of the day, always) to TickerGuy's,... [Read the full story]

US

USRant for Wednesday, March 10th 2010

March 11, 2010 · 5056Leave a Commenthttp://www.marketmentat.com/markets/us/usrant-for-wednesday-march-10th-2010/USRant+for+Wednesday%2C+March+10th+20102010-03-10+21%3A30%3A23GT 

The following economic data was released during the session:

• MBA Mortgage Applications for Mar 5 was released in the US; the outcome was 0.5% falling 14.1 from the prior reading of 14.6%,
• EIA Crude Oil Stocks change for Mar 5 was released in the US; the outcome was 1.4M dropping 2.7 from the prior reading of 4.1M, - less than the market's pre-release guess of 2.1M.
• Wholesale Inventories for Jan was released in the US; the result was -0.2% rising 0.8 from the prior reading of -1.0%, - less than the market's pre-release guess of 0.2%.

Headline... [Read the full story]

Australia

OzRant for Wednesday, March 10th 2010

March 10, 2010 · 5055Leave a Commenthttp://www.marketmentat.com/markets/oz/ozrant-for-wednesday-march-10th-2010/OzRant+for+Wednesday%2C+March+10th+20102010-03-10+05%3A41%3A07GT 

All Ords up modestly, adding 0.01%; volume above average and breadth favours the gainers by 1.2:1: sector indices mixed. The NZSE50 closed with a gain of 0.4% for the day. In Japan, the Nikkei225 has added 0.1% so far; Hong Kong's Hang Seng is showing a 0% gain.The KOSPI has added 0.1% for the session thus far.

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Politics

The Political System MUST Change

January 10, 2010 · 43Leave a Commenthttp://www.marketmentat.com/politics/the-political-system-must-change/The+Political+System+MUST+Change2010-01-10+03%3A58%3A49GT 

[Note - this was a Draft in my Drafts folder... it is not unalloyed genius, but it would move us 3/5ths of the way to a more beautiful society if implemented... it was originally penned in 2004 and is presented unexpurgated]

To my way of thinking, the "conservative" ending of "neoconservative" is a malapropism which must be corrected if history is to provide a guide as to the reasons behind destruction that these ideologues are intent on wreaking. The inclusion of the "neo-cons" under the Conservative rubric reinforces the misconception... [Read the full story]

SPISpy

DAX Short Panning Out Niiiice

January 18, 2010 · Comments Off 

DAX short entry is panning out, irrespective of whether it was entered based on "Freebie" from Dec 30th (DAX at about 5970) or from this twitter twatt ("DAX might open with a pop... if can get short above 6000 that would be one of the best things evah." - Dec 30th at 8:40 P.M. [DAX was closed... opened and popped above 6000 on Jan 4th]).

As... [Read the full story]

Stuff

Told Ya It Was A White Elephant…

February 9, 2010 · 5007Leave a Commenthttp://www.marketmentat.com/stuff/told-ya-it-was-a-white-elephant/Told+Ya+It+Was+A+White+Elephant...2010-02-08+22%3A59%3A19GT 

So it turns out that the shiny new "Look at how big my erection is" building in Dubai... is closed. Stupid pissing-contest real estate development is an excellent sign of a country that's set to go "phut"... think "Millennium Dome".

Here's the story... Burj Khalifa, World's Tallest Tower, Closed A Month After Opening.