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...fact, the First Lady has been a one-woman stimulus package for the suffering fashion retail industry. Designers, store buyers, shoppers and stock investors are all watching her every move. And she has been in the White House barely 100 days. "She's the first thing my clients want to talk about," says Jennifer Black, president of Jennifer Black & Associates, a retail equity research firm. "She's a huge deal. And I don't think this is a short-term thing. Sometimes you get a flash in the pan, but that's not going to be the case with Michelle...
...recent report analyst Mary Ann Bartels of Bank of America/Merrill Lynch told clients she thinks the current rally is being driven by outright buying, and not just by short sellers closing out their positions which involves a stock purchase. "The market rally can continue," she says...
...Once considered black art, technical analysis is now widely accepted on Wall Street as a method of predicting stock market moves. The problem is most technical analysis relies on measures of momentum. When stocks are going up, technicians tend to think that will continue, and visa versa. And in reality, that is how the market works. Studies have shown that stocks do tend to generally move in same direction for a while, before swiftly shifting course. But technical analysis can lead to overly optimistic views of the stocks at a time when they have been rising rapidly. And that could...
...What's more, the current stock market rally is less than two months old. And most rallies at the beginning of bull markets have lasted much longer before stocks retreat. According to strategist Lazlo Birinyi, who has long used technical factors to determine whether stocks are a good investment, in 23 of the past 24 bull markets stocks have risen for an average of 194 days before falling more than 10%. That means the current rally, near 60 days, has more than six months to go, on average, before stocks pull back. "Absolutely, this is a bull market," says Birinyi...
...than that. But other than the aforementioned passage, and a frankness about various bodily functions, Johnson’s stylistic fingerprints are conspicuously absent from the novel.But “Nobody Move” doesn’t work as a parody either. Johnson never mocks or inflates the stock traits of noir or pulp any more than they would ordinarily mock and inflate themselves. If anything, the one implicit joke is on the author; there is only the awkwardness of a character self-consciously using a cell phone over a pay phone, or complaining about the steep minority...