Word: markets
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...number people looked at when they burned their mortgages after being in their homes for thirty years to a figure that they checked with their realtor or online once a week. At that point, the comfort of owning a home began to disappear and the instability of the housing market entered the system...
...Many market experts expect this earnings season to do little to set the tone for the rest of the year. They assume that companies have been pounded into submission and that this has produced pessimism. In this climate, corporate management teams have decreased their forecasts to levels which they cannot fail to beat or match. It is like fixing a fight or a horse race, but it is legal...
...dropping forecasts to rock bottom, companies have taken some of the fun out of the guessing game that is played around earnings season. Firms may beat their forecasts, but most results will still be terrible by historical standards, so it will not be as if the market will cheer relatively poor performance on the back of predictions that cheat to the downside. Very few companies will show results that fall much below the market's worst guesses, which will bring some degree of comfort that earnings are not going from being the worst they have been in fifty years...
...Buying and selling stocks is now based more on rumor and momentum than it has been at any time in recent memory. The last period like this may have been early 2000 during the Internet stock craze. This time around, obscure banks analysts can turn the market against the sector. News that Steve Jobs was seen at a 7-Eleven in Fresno can drive Apple (AAPL...
...market of gun buyers is emerging. Hall estimates that some 80% of his sales since the election have been to first- and second-time gun purchasers, many nervous that this may be their last chance. "Thus far, the Obama Administration has done what they set out to do," says Joe Keffer, who owns a shop in New Holland, Pa. "And therein lies the concern." (Read "The Future of Gun Control...