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...cents per share, on $300.9 million in revenue. That loss far exceeded analysts' expectation of 26 cents per share. Chukumba says Pier 1 CEO Alex Smith has made some smart moves, like stocking shelves with small items, which consumers are more likely to buy on impulse. "Unfortunately, the macro economic environment more than overshadows that," he says...
...forces of order and the rule of law. Since the mid-1970’s the Black community has been in a cultural civil war drawn largely, although not exclusively, along class lines until very recently when the Black middle class was sucked into the fray. The macro-structural socio-economic sources of this conflict were brilliantly documented in William Julius Wilson’s 1978 essay The Declining Significance of Race, which appeared just as the political and geographic isolation of the Black underclass from the middle and upper classes was being institutionalized. This cultural decay now affects almost...
...Paris' CAC 40 ended the week up by 1.3% and 0.67% respectively. In the wake of Wall Street's 6.7% gain Thursday, Asian markets also largely advance Friday, with Tokyo's Nikkei closing 2.7% higher, and Hong Kong's Hang Seng finishing 2.4% stronger. Given the macro-economic moroseness, what's with the market giggles...
...report from Merrill Lynch suggests just how strong a role these macro forces have been playing - and how it's not over yet. Merrill's research shows that stocks within industry groups (like retailing, pharmaceuticals, consumer durables, media and banks) have been moving in lockstep much more so than they have at any other point in at least 13 years. Through the end of October, the correlation of weekly returns for stocks in the same industry was 59%, compared to 42% last year and 46% in 2001, the previous high during the time period studied...
...assuming the "macro market" continues - and looking at certain measures like volatility, Merrill thinks it will continue at least into the first quarter of 2009 - does that mean you should pick out some industry-focused funds, or ETFs, to invest in? Well, maybe not. Keep in mind that you still have the daunting task of picking the right industries. What might be a sounder strategy, if you aren't satisfied with broad-based mutual funds and insist on playing games in the stock market, is finding stocks that haven't been tracking their...