Employment Report Disappoints
The overly anticipated employment report showed a disappointing 74,000 jobs being created in December. I have already heard the pundits argue away ad nauseam this report as an outlier that will be revised higher in subsequent months, something I don’t rule out. However, they also reason that all is great and our economy is about to go into warp speed. I could not disagree more as I have since the economy bottomed in 2009. All was not ok in 2009 or 2010 […]
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Date: January 12, 2014
Time for the Fed & ECB to Put Up or Shut Up
Here is the piece I did last Friday after the putrid jobs report. While the headline number may have indicated an increase of almost 100,000 net new jobs, the underlying data was awful. Additionally, while the unemployment rate may have fallen to 8.1% from 8.3%, it was primarily due to people leaving the workforce than people being hired. We already know that Bernanke & Co. are close to another round of money printing (QE) and this will likely push them […]
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Date: September 20, 2012
Stocks Slide on Tepid Jobs Growth Number
On Friday’s CNBC segment, I spoke about the range bound market with the potential for a fall swoon before the election. But in any market, there are always opportunities and this time is no different. http://video.cnbc.com/gallery/?video=3000101361&play=1 So far this week, stocks have not behaved well, but it’s far from a rout and the trading range continues. On Wednesday, we get a peak at the minutes from the Fed meeting and folks will take any scrap of comments that leads to […]
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Date: July 11, 2012
Jobs Report Overreaction
Last week on CNBC I commented on how investors and the media are way too concerned about one less than expected jobs report from Friday, just like they were way too celebratory last month. While I am glad we raised cash a few weeks, I plan to redeploy that this quarter into weakness. Give a look… http://video.cnbc.com/gallery/?video=3000083018&play=1
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Date: April 16, 2012
Heritage Capital on CNBC’s Squawk Box
Tune in to CNBC’s Squawk Box on Monday between 6:00am and 6:10am to hear my reaction to crummy jobs numbers that were reported on Friday when the markets were closed. I have already heard calls that the bull market has peaked and the economy is rolling over. Have they?
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Date: April 8, 2012
