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...same questions were asked today, I think we'd see a slight uptick in confidence. The stock market has been turning upward for a week now, and ultimately, investors and consumers alike know that interest-rate cuts are really the only medicine that gets the economy back on track. They see the Fed moving aggressively, and there's good reason to think we've hit bottom in the stock market...
...operations and exert even more deadly pressure on Israel. If the Iranians get their way, it will be a dark day both for Israelis - who will face increasingly professional terrorist attacks - and for Palestinians already suffering under a heavy-handed Israeli backlash. Competition between the two groups generated an uptick in attacks. Coordination will make those strikes even more effective...
...down. Retail sales for March fell 0.2 percent. First-time unemployment claims for last week were way up. The PPI - inflation at the wholesale level - actually declined. And, perhaps critically for the Fed, Thursday's University of Michigan consumer confidence numbers also went sharply south to 87.8 after an uptick last month to 91 that suddenly looks like false hope...
...That's what put a pillow under Friday's sell-off - the slightly starry-eyed hope that the uptick in unemployment to 4.3 percent would spur Greenspan to between-the-meetings action. Consumer confidence, after all, is all about having a job and expecting to keep it, and no matter how low 4.3 is on the historical scale, the trend is now officially an upward one. Here's how the market logic goes: short trading week, low volume, no economic reports (save inflation on Thursday, but that's not a real headliner these days) - a perfect time...
...Bush administration has not yet done away with its plans for privatization. The issue might now be on the back burner, but as soon as the tax plan goes through or campaign finance reform is vetoed—or as soon as we see the slightest uptick in the NASDAQ ticker—expect Social Security reform to come roaring back...