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...poor economy and a market that is trading down on most days, a drop of 7% may be breathtaking, but it is not unexpected. With predictions of 7% or 8% GDP contraction and 9% unemployment by the end of the year, stocks should rarely trade up. A 7% increase in one day has to be a mistake. (Read about the one day jump in the stock market...
...whose stock has dropped at an extraordinary rate, gained 20% which added $15 billion to its market capitalization in just a few hours. The good news from the conglomerate was that it sold $8 billion of bonds under a program backed by the U.S. government. That means GE is very close to its goal of raising the $45 billion it wanted to get from the debt markets this year. GE also benefited when a skeptical analyst said that a recovery in the financial market held a number of benefits...
...wheels are still coming off the bus. There are not going to be many days of 7% increases in the stock market indexes...
That's not to say there wasn't actual good news driving other stocks higher. Nine out of 10 issues on the New York Stock Exchange advanced: some, surely, the start (or continuation) of a long-term upward trend. But should a fabulous day in the market be taken to indicate that a broader market rebound is under way? Probably not. We can hope for that, but in the interest of managing our own expectations, let's not count...
...With stock markets collapsing around the world, nobody needs an illustration of where that kind of hubris can lead. Ordinary folks with bills to pay may smell something funny in fiscal instruments with names like "credit-default swaps," but when you work on Wall Street and people call you a "master of the universe," you think you can make the things pay off. Even nonpartisans would agree that George W. Bush waded into the Iraq mess with more certainty than strategy. And Bill and Hillary Clinton might actually have achieved health-care reform if they had tried negotiating with...