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发表于 2010-8-30 07:43 AM
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A Big Week for Economic Data
Last Update: 30-Aug-10 08:57 ET
To the casual observer, last Friday had to be a freaky Friday.
Q2 GDP was revised lower; Intel (INTC) announced a sales warning for the third quarter; the consumer sentiment number from the University of Michigan was weaker than expected; and Fed Chairman Bernanke was talking up the Fed's capabilities for keeping deflation out of the picture for the U.S. economy. Those headlines had anything but a comforting feel to them on the surface, yet the S&P 500 ended Friday with a 1.7% gain, which was its best one-day percentage gain since August 2.
Naturally, the leading question was: why did the market go up on Friday? The trailing answer is that it had gotten tired of going down.
Prior to Friday's trade, the S&P 500 had declined 7.1% since its close on August 9. That decline was driven by a sense of fear and loathing with respect to the economic outlook, as well as a vortex of negativity that a range-bound market tends to get caught in from time to time when it is tracking toward the lower bands of its trading range. |
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