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		<title>(BAC) Housing Starts, Jobs Data May Boost Sentiment &#8211; Economic Highlights</title>
		<link>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2013/01/17/bac-housing-starts-jobs-data-may-boost-sentiment-economic-highlights/126600</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2013 17:37:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Strong housing and labor market readings this morning should add to optimism about the overall economic picture and offset the weak earnings reports from Bank of America (BAC) and Citigroup (C). While the debt ceiling issue remains an overhang for this market, today’s better-than-expected Housing Starts and Jobless Claims data should help add to optimism. It is perhaps to reasonable to take the amazing drop in initial Jobless Claims this week with a pinch of salt, but the drop is nevertheless welcome. Initial Jobless Claims dropped a much bigger than expected 37K this week to 335K, the lowest level since early 2008. Seasonal variations most likely are at work in this week’s drop as the claims data typically jumps in the initial weeks of January. The four-week average, which is ]]></description>
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		<title>(LEN) U.S. Homebuilder Confidence Edging Up</title>
		<link>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2012/12/23/len-u-s-homebuilder-confidence-edging-up/124163</link>
		<comments>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2012/12/23/len-u-s-homebuilder-confidence-edging-up/124163#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Dec 2012 16:42:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Tuesday, fresh data released by the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI), which reflects builder confidence in the market for newly built, single-family homes, posted a solid 26 point year-over-year gain to 47 for December. On a sequential basis, the index was up 2 points. This marks the eighth consecutive monthly gain, the highest since May 2006, when the index stood at 46. Though any reading under 50 still indicates weak builder confidence, a substantial progress is being witnessed. Top U.S. builders are witnessing improving sales condition, unseen in the past half a decade. Moreover, the quality of buyers has also improved with only those who are seriously considering a purchase coming forward, thanks to stricter lending standards. Housing start numbers are due next and ]]></description>
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		<title>(GM) U.S. Auto Sales Report Best August in Five Years</title>
		<link>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2012/09/06/gm-u-s-auto-sales-report-best-august-in-five-years/111525</link>
		<comments>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2012/09/06/gm-u-s-auto-sales-report-best-august-in-five-years/111525#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2012 16:33:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vitalstocks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Light vehicle sales in the U.S. in August improved 19.9% to 1.29 million vehicles, which is the highest monthly figure for any August since 2007. According to Autodata Corp., seasonally adjusted annual rate (SAAR) during the month was 14.52 million vehicles, up 16% from the year-ago level. The key factors that drove auto sales during the month include easier credit terms and strong pent-up demand. Most of the major automakers posted double-digit rise in sales. Let us take a look at each of them one by one. U.S. Automakers General Motors Company (GM) sales rose 10.1% to 240,520 vehicles driven by strong demand for cars and trucks. Higher gasoline prices boosted sales of compact cars including the Cruze. Ford Motor Co. (F) sales grew 12.6% to 197,249 vehicles, mainly driven ]]></description>
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		<title>(WMT) Jobless Claims Stay Range-Bound</title>
		<link>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2012/08/22/wmt-jobless-claims-stay-range-bound-2/108613</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Aug 2012 20:14:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vitalstocks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re again chock-full of data this morning: Initial Jobless Claims are up, Housing Starts are down, Building Permits are up quite a bit, and earnings reports are mixed. Initial Jobless Claims remain range-bound in the 360-370K area, up 200K this week to 366K from an upwardly revised 344K last week. Continuing Claims were more or less unchanged at 3.34 million. In other words, things aren&#8217;t getting better, but they&#8217;re not really getting any worse. What&#8217;s a way to update the phrase &#8220;broken record&#8221;? Housing Starts &#8212; these days a closely-watched indicator of a potential rebound in the homebuilding industry &#8212; were down 1.1% in July, although Building Permits &#8212; an indicator of future Housing Starts &#8212; were up a surprising 6.8% in July, far surpassing the 3.1% in June. Perhaps ]]></description>
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		<title>(JPM) U.S. Home Foreclosure Activity Shows Decline</title>
		<link>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2012/08/22/jpm-u-s-home-foreclosure-activity-shows-decline/108083</link>
		<comments>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2012/08/22/jpm-u-s-home-foreclosure-activity-shows-decline/108083#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Aug 2012 18:31:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vitalstocks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The monthly foreclosure market report, released by RealtyTrac, revealed a drop in the overall foreclosure activity. As per this leading online marketplace of foreclosure properties, foreclosure filings for July decreased 10% from the prior-year month and 3% from the prior month. This brought the total number of properties receiving default, auction or repossession notices to 191,925. On the other hand, foreclosure starts – default notices issued and foreclosure auctions (depending on the state’s foreclosure procedure) – surged 6% from July 2011 but decreased 6% from June 2012 to 98,174 properties. This was the third consecutive monthly rise in foreclosure starts. Moreover, foreclosure starts increased in 27 states on an annual basis, including 16 states with judicial foreclosure process and the remaining with non-judicial foreclosure process. Additionally, bank repossessions (REOs) plummeted ]]></description>
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		<title>(WMT) Jobless Claims Stay Range-Bound</title>
		<link>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2012/08/20/wmt-jobless-claims-stay-range-bound/108735</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2012 15:02:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vitalstocks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re again chock-full of data this morning: Initial Jobless Claims are up, Housing Starts are down, Building Permits are up quite a bit, and earnings reports are mixed. Initial Jobless Claims remain range-bound in the 360-370K area, up 200K this week to 366K from an upwardly revised 344K last week. Continuing Claims were more or less unchanged at 3.34 million. In other words, things aren&#8217;t getting better, but they&#8217;re not really getting any worse. What&#8217;s a way to update the phrase &#8220;broken record&#8221;? Housing Starts &#8212; these days a closely-watched indicator of a potential rebound in the home building industry &#8212; were down 1.1% in July, although Building Permits &#8212; an indicator of future Housing Starts &#8212; were up a surprising 6.8% in July, far surpassing the 3.1% in June. ]]></description>
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		<title>(IBM) U.S. Jobless Claims Swing Back Higher</title>
		<link>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2012/07/23/ibm-u-s-jobless-claims-swing-back-higher/104917</link>
		<comments>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2012/07/23/ibm-u-s-jobless-claims-swing-back-higher/104917#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jul 2012 17:37:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vitalstocks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The weekly Jobless Claims data this morning completely erased the strong gains from last week and then some, which makes one wonder about the underlying health of the U.S. labor market. But irrespective of how one interprets the week-to-week volatility in this series, all agree that the economy has downshifted materially, and that negative trend is showing up in the economic numbers. I described last week’s Jobless Claims report as “dramatically positive” when it showed a 26K drop. And the only appropriate way to describe today’s reading would be to call it &#8220;dramatically negative&#8221; as it shows a jump of 34K to 386K. Hard to tell whether last week’s reading was the outlier or this week’s was, but the picture emerging from this level of volatility is not inspiring. The ]]></description>
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		<title>(F) U.S. GDP Less Than Expected &#8211; Europe Better</title>
		<link>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2012/01/30/f-u-s-gdp-less-than-expected-europe-better/90973</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:23:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vitalstocks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While we do have some favorable-looking headlines out of Europe this morning, indicating that Greece is making progress in its talks with the private creditors, the focus today will be on the U.S. economy. The headlines on that count are on the weak side. In its first read on the fourth quarter of 2011, the commerce department reported that the U.S. economy expanded at a lower than expected 2.8% pace in the last quarter of 2011, up from the third quarter’s 1.8% growth rate. The expectation was for the GDP number to be 3%, with many looking for growth rates above that level. Weak spending by the government and consumers drove the miss. The overall composition of the 2.8% growth is also of relatively lower quality, with corporate investments coming ]]></description>
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		<title>(AAPL) Focus Moves Toward the Federal Reserve</title>
		<link>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2012/01/25/aapl-focus-moves-toward-the-federal-reserve/90820</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:59:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vitalstocks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The focus today will be on the Fed, as the Central Bank unveils a new measure as part of its ongoing efforts to improve communication with the markets. The prospect of an even longer timeframe for lower interest rates, as many in the markets are hoping to come out of today’s Fed releases, has the potential to pull stocks out of the slumber of the last two trading sessions. A mixed earnings season thus far and the reemergence of Greece worries have prompted stocks to take a pause lately. It will be interesting to see if Apple’s (AAPL) blockbuster results after the close yesterday will have any resonance beyond its own stock price. In this morning’s key earnings releases, Boeing (BA) came out ahead of expectations on both the bottom- ]]></description>
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		<title>(GOOG) January 20: Markets to Remain Calm &#8211; Economic Highlights</title>
		<link>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2012/01/20/goog-january-20-markets-to-remain-calm-economic-highlights/90558</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 20:11:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vitalstocks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the economic calendar relatively on the thin side, stocks will remain focused on another busy day of earnings reports. Google’s (GOOG) earnings miss potentially raises doubts about the tech sector’s earnings outlook, but the issue appears to be mostly company specific. Reports from Intel (INTC), Microsoft (MSFT) and IBM (IBM) show continued resilience on the corporate IT spending front. But with stocks at a six-month high already, it will likely be difficult today to sustain the upward drift of recent days. While earnings reports from the tech giants after the close on Thursday will likely remain in the spotlight today, a major earnings report from this morning is from General Electric (GE), a bellwether for the global economy. The conglomerate came out with a modest earnings beat on lower ]]></description>
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		<title>(ADP) Good News for U.S. Labor Market</title>
		<link>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2012/01/09/adp-good-news-for-u-s-labor-market/89729</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:54:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vitalstocks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Positive domestic data and the resumption of Europe-centric negative headlines will be pushing stocks in opposite directions today. France held an overall successful bond auction, though yields inched up a bit. But Euro-zone worries are getting focused on the region’s banks, which need to tap the capital markets to spruce up their battered capital positions. The Spanish government announced that the country’s banks need to raise €50 billion in fresh capital, while Italy’s UniCredit was forced to offer steep discounts in its bid to raise to €7.5 billion in equity capital. Wednesday’s modestly positive stock market finish despite no shortage of Euro-zone issues holds promise that the market may be able to eke out further gains today on the strength of reassuring domestic news flow. The focus on the domestic ]]></description>
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		<title>(IMF) International Monetary Fund Sees Risks Intensifying</title>
		<link>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2011/12/19/imf-international-monetary-fund-sees-risks-intensifying/88826</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 15:51:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has sounded another caveat about the deepening global crisis. According to Christine Lagarde, IMF’s Managing Director, the crisis is unfolding, escalating and spreading across the world. She has even suggested that the world could see a re-run of the depression of the 1930s. The warning follows IMF’s indication earlier in the month that world growth forecast could be lowered, when the estimate is re-visited in January. The view is somewhat endorsed by the recent downward revision in the growth forecast of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) for Asia from 7.5% to 7.2% for 2012. IMF has pegged its estimate for global growth at 4% for 2012. The underlying sentiment across the world is downright bearish. Countries in Europe have been threatened with downgrades by Standard ]]></description>
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		<title>(JPM) Banks Face Foreclosure Charge Again</title>
		<link>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2011/12/15/jpm-banks-face-foreclosure-charge-again/87995</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 17:56:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In yet another major setback for the foreclosure settlement, Massachusetts Attorney General (AG) Martha Coakley filed a lawsuit against – JPMorgan Chase &#38; Co. (JPM), Bank of America Corporation (BAC), Citigroup Inc. (C), Wells Fargo &#38; Company (WFC) and Ally Financial Inc. – for alleged violation of foreclosure practices. Further, Mortgage Electronic Registration System Inc. (MERS) and its parent company have also been named as defendants. Allegations The lawsuit alleges that these five major mortgage servicers used various deceiving foreclosure practices to fast track foreclosures without properly following the rules. Some of the procedures followed by these banks included use of ‘robo-signers,’ misleading homeowners in relation to loan modification processes, utilizing flawed documents and illegally foreclosing a property. Additionally, MERS, which provides database for mortgage servicers, has been accused of ]]></description>
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		<title>(UAL) Global Airlines Head to Weak 2012</title>
		<link>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2011/12/09/ual-global-airlines-head-to-weak-2012/88299</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 16:06:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The International Air Transport Association (IATA) cut its global airline industry profit forecast to $3.5 billion for 2012, with a net profit margin of 0.6%. Previously, in September, the Association had forecast profits of $4.9 billion. Tougher conditions will likely stem from the government’s failure to find any resolution to the Euro-zone sovereign debt crisis that has dwarfed economic growth. The problems in Europe are swelling and spilling over to the rest of the world. In the worst case, if the Euro-zone crisis shapes into a recession, the global airline industry would incur a loss of $8 billion – the worst since the 2008 financial crisis. A downward revision was also made to the sector’s revenue. The Association now expects revenue to grow 3.7% to $618 billion next year, down ]]></description>
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		<title>(NRF) Party Time for Retailers</title>
		<link>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2011/12/06/nrf-party-time-for-retailers/88029</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 19:37:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Thanksgiving weekend brought record sales for retailers who went on to post better-than-expected November comparable-store sales and are now padding up for the holiday season. Does this indicate that the retail party has just begun? Early hours store openings, huge discounts, promotional activities and free shipping on online purchases were enough to lure customers on Black Friday that turned out to be a bonanza for both brick-and-mortar as well as e-commerce retailers. The data released by Swampscott, Massachusetts-based Retail Metrics, reveals that comparable-store sales of over 20 companies rose 3.2% beating the expectation of 3.1%. The data provider further added that 57% of retailers outpaced while 33% missed their expectations. Yes, there were retailers that stuck to old traditions and were not bold to think out of the box. ]]></description>
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		<title>(F) U.S. Auto Industry &#8211; Pent-Up Demand or Recovery?</title>
		<link>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2011/12/06/f-u-s-auto-industry-pent-up-demand-or-recovery/88039</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 17:02:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite uncertainties in the market, consumers did not step back from the automobile showrooms in November as they felt the ardent need to change their old cars in the garage. Why wouldn’t they be, when the average age of vehicles on U.S. roads is almost 11 years and used cars are worth more at trade-in! The pent-up demand resulted in an impressive 10.6% rise in sales to seasonally adjusted annual rate (SAAR) of 13.6 million units in November from 12.28 million in the same month of 2010 while total deliveries went up 13.9% from the year-ago level. November was the third straight month when annualized vehicle sales have topped 13 million mark. The SAAR of 13.6 million units is also the highest sales rate since August 2009 when the U.S. ]]></description>
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		<title>(BAC) Can You Live Without Debt?</title>
		<link>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2011/11/30/bac-can-you-live-without-debt/87815</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 20:10:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember the fictional immigrant Balki from the TV show &#8220;Perfect Strangers&#8221;? He seemed to speak a universal truth when he said, “Am I in debt? I&#8217;m a true American.” Well, not anymore. After being battered by the latest recession, Americans are gradually learning to live without debt, priming protection over growth. According to a report released by the New York Federal Reserve, U.S. consumers continued to free themselves of debt in the third quarter, showing a 0.6% sequential decline. The decline was primarily led by reduced mortgage balances. Consumer debt increased substantially during 2002–2008. In 2007, consumer debt had swollen to about 135% of disposable income. Since then, the level has been seeing a steady decline. It is a common perception that living without debt is just impossible, as our ]]></description>
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		<title>(BAC) Standard &amp; Poor&#8217;s Downgrades Giant Wall Street Banks</title>
		<link>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2011/11/30/bac-standard-poors-downgrades-giant-wall-street-banks/87818</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 20:09:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Tuesday, Standard &#38; Poor&#8217;s (S&#38;P) lowered its credit ratings for many U.S. and European banks. Out of 37 banks reviewed by S&#38;P, ratings for 15 were downgraded, ratings remained unchanged for 20 and the remaining 2 were awarded upgraded ratings. The banks whose ratings fell, included Wall Street giants – Bank of America Corporation (BAC), JPMorgan Chase &#38; Co. (JPM), Citigroup Inc. (C), Wells Fargo &#38; Company (WFC), The Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) and Morgan Stanley (MS). Apart from these U.S. banks, the credit ratings of few European banks, such as Barclays Plc (BCS), Lloyds Banking Group Plc (LYG), HSBC Holdings Plc (HBC) and The Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc (RBS) also downgraded. Ratings for these 15 banks were downgraded by one notch. However, S&#38;P did not ]]></description>
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		<title>North Dakota Oil Production Rivals OPEC</title>
		<link>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2011/11/30/north-dakota-oil-production-rivals-opec/87694</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 20:01:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Ryan Fitzwater, Investment U Research Wednesday, November 30, 2011 By now you’re probably familiar with the Bakken shale formation – but just in case… Located under North Dakota and Montana, oil was first discovered in the Bakken in 1951. Only problem was that back then the technology didn’t exist to tap into the oil wealth within the rock formation on a large scale. Then along came hydraulic fracturing… And with “fracking” technology, oil production in North Dakota has skyrocketed over the past few years. Pumping Out Records So much so that in September, North Dakota pumped a record 464,129 barrels a day. A decade ago the state was producing just 86,072 barrels a day. With a 439-percent increase in barrel-a-day production in 10 years’ time, oil and gas companies ]]></description>
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		<title>Is China Being Overvalued?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 20:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Jeannette Di Louie, Investment U Research Tuesday, November 29, 2011 Once upon a time, the term BRIC meant something. Brazil, Russia, India and China were all seen as rising stars in the global economy, and investors couldn’t get enough of them. Not so much anymore. These days, only China seems to make the news. Admittedly, there’s some good reason for that. The Chinese economy has grown by leaps and bounds for years now, and its political sway seems to be increasing just as quickly. Just this month, U.S. President Obama refused to make a decision on Iran’s nuclear aspirations before he spoke to Chinese leaders. No wonder many economists predict China will surpass the United States as the world’s largest economy in less than 20 years. Then again, economists ]]></description>
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		<title>North Dakota Edges U.S. Closer to Energy Independence</title>
		<link>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2011/11/30/north-dakota-edges-u-s-closer-to-energy-independence/87697</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 19:59:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by David Fessler, Investment U Senior Analyst Tuesday, November 29, 2011: Issue #1653 Williston, North Dakota is a dusty, prairie town. It’s just a stone’s throw from the Canadian border. Up until a few years ago, few Americans had ever heard of it. Now they’re flocking there in droves. Even strippers from Vegas are making the migration. You see, there’s no recession in Williston. Far from it: The city’s unemployment rate is close to zero. The majority of the jobs sport starting salaries north of $100,000 a year. That’s not a typo: Six figures to start. It’s a real honest-to-goodness Western boomtown. The city’s two strip clubs are packed seven nights a week. They’re a good place to check out if you’re job hunting. Many workers find a job a ]]></description>
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		<title>Proposed European Bailout Plan Comes Up Short</title>
		<link>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2011/11/30/proposed-european-bailout-plan-comes-up-short/87756</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 18:48:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Jason Jenkins, Investment U Research Wednesday, November 30, 2011 The plan to increase the capacity of the Eurozone’s European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) is in dire straits. Several Eurozone officials have stated that the now €440 billion rescue fund may only be able to raise in additional funds about half of what Eurozone officials had expected due to the market conditions that have transpired over the past month. Ace in the Hole If you want to know what’s caused all the market volatility the last few months, look no further than the Eurozone. The markets have reacted favorably to any words of sensibility and logic coming from officials. And then the markets tank when those promises have not come to pass. But their ace in the hole was the ]]></description>
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		<title>(JCP) U.S. Holiday Preview &#8211; National Retail Federation</title>
		<link>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2011/11/28/jcp-u-s-holiday-preview-national-retail-federation/87634</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 20:45:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vitalstocks</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Department Stores]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Services]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amazon.com Inc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AMZN]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BBBY]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bed Bath & Beyond Inc.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BIG]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Big Lots Inc.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coach Inc.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[COH]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DG]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dollar General Corporation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Family Dollar Stores Inc.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FDO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[J. C. Penney Company Inc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[JCP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[JWN]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Limited Brands Inc.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LTD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[M]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Macy's Inc.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nordstrom Inc.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sears Holdings Corporation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SHLD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wal-Mart Stores Inc.]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The National Retail Federation (“NRF”), an industry trade group, projects a 2.8% growth in sales, amounting to $465.6 billion, during the current November to December holiday season, lower than the 5.2% rise in the corresponding period of the previous year. Online retail may increase 15% to touch $37.6 billion. These estimates reveal a rebound in consumer expenditure, which amounts to about 70% of the U.S. economy. Brick-and-mortar retailers ran extended hours post Thanksgiving in order to snatch some business from Internet retailers who continue to grow at a brisk pace. The growth trajectory of online sellers remains intact despite huge destruction of consumer wealth during the financial crisis in 2008 and tepid recovery since then. On the other hand, retail icons for middle-class shoppers, J. C. Penney Company (JCP) and ]]></description>
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		<title>Thanksgiving Holiday &#8211; Turmoil in Europe Continued</title>
		<link>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2011/11/28/thanksgiving-holiday-turmoil-in-europe-continued/87639</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 20:39:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vitalstocks</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Featured]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[markets]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[While the U.S. was focused on feasting, football and shopping, the turmoil in Europe continued. The situation there continues to deteriorate. No longer are the problems confined to the small, relatively insignificant economies around the Mediterranean. This week, they even spread to Germany, where a bond auction failed disastrously. Since November 9th, the yield on the 10-year Bund has climbed from 1.72% to the current 2.26%. Worse, that sharp rise in bund yields did not result in a significant closing of the spread between what Germany has to pay and what the rest of Europe has to pay to borrow. The only exception is Italy, but the absolute rate there is back above the critical “point of no return” level of 7.00%. Belgium fared the worst over that time period, ]]></description>
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		<title>(IBM) Is the Time Ripe to Buy Stocks?</title>
		<link>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2011/11/28/ibm-is-the-time-ripe-to-buy-stocks/87643</link>
		<comments>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2011/11/28/ibm-is-the-time-ripe-to-buy-stocks/87643#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 20:37:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vitalstocks</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Diversified Computer Systems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AAPL]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amazon.com Inc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Express Company]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AMZN]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Apple Inc.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AXP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CAT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Caterpillar Inc.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DIS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EI DuPont de Nemours & Company]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IBM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[INTC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Intel Corporation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International Business Machines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[markets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Walt Disney Company]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wells Fargo & Company]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is said that opportunities are never lost &#8212; someone else will catch the one you miss. And the saying remains true to the equity market. No one wants to miss a good opportunity to make exceptional profits from stock markets. So, is this the time to take the plunge? Or should we wait for the markets to fall further? Well, considering the increasing concerns related to the European economy, it&#8217;s hard to predict the direction of market movement. However, given the significant exposure of U.S. banks to weak European countries, it would be difficult for the country to escape unscathed. So, with the debt crisis picture in the Eurozone getting dirtier, the risk of another major worldwide stock market slump is sky high. Coupled with our own unrelenting problems ]]></description>
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		<title>(JPM) FDIC Problem Bank List Shrinks &#8211; Earnings Soar</title>
		<link>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2011/11/28/jpm-fdic-problem-bank-list-shrinks-earnings-soar/87486</link>
		<comments>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2011/11/28/jpm-fdic-problem-bank-list-shrinks-earnings-soar/87486#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 16:41:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vitalstocks</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Financial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Money Center Banks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BB & T Corporation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BBT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[C]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Citigroup Inc.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economic Crises]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Goldman Sachs Group]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[JPM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[JPMorgan Chase & Company]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Us Bancorp]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[USB]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wells Fargo & Company]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The number of banks on the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation’s (FDIC) list of problem institutions saw a sharp decline for the second straight quarter to 844 in the July-September period from 865 in the preceding sequential period, federal regulators reported Tuesday. This represents the second quarterly drop since 2006. Things looked a lot brighter in the third quarter given the drop in the problem list accompanied by the highest level of overall profit earned by FDIC insured banks in more than four years. This also represents profits earned by banks for the ninth straight quarter. The problem list includes banks that face imminent failure due to low capital support, though some may survive and pull out of the crisis. As of now, only less than a quarter of the banks ]]></description>
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		<title>(C) Will U.S. Bank Stress Test Protect Our Money?</title>
		<link>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2011/11/28/c-will-u-s-bank-stress-test-protect-our-money/87544</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 16:33:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vitalstocks</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Financial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Money Center Banks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BAC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bank of America Corporation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[C]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Citigroup Inc.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economic Crises]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Goldman Sachs Group]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[JPM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[JPMorgan Chase & Company]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Morgan Stanley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MS]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s time again for America’s biggest banks to flex their financial muscles. Yet another round of stress tests await these banks that need to prove their financial prowess, should another recession befall. Among the targeted banks, six that are susceptible to the European crisis will have to go through even tougher tests this time. But the question is, will this really help us with respect to financial flexibility and protection? Before finding the possible answers to this question, let’s have quick look on the Federal Reserve’s stress-test initiatives. Starting with the latest step, earlier this week, the Federal Reserve ordered the top 31 U.S. banks, with assets of $50 billion or more, to participate in stress tests. These banks will have to submit their plans to the Fed by January ]]></description>
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		<title>(DHI) U.S. Housing Starts Slip Less Than Expected</title>
		<link>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2011/11/21/dhi-u-s-housing-starts-slip-less-than-expected/87153</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 18:47:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vitalstocks</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Industrial Goods]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Residential Construction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Berkshire Hathaway]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BRK-B]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Darden Restaurants Inc.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DHI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DR Horton Inc.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DRI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Housing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MAS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Masco Corporation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PCL]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Plum Creek Timber Company Inc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wal-Mart Stores Inc.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WMT]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We got some fairly good news on the housing front this morning. Housing Starts fell in September to a seasonally-adjusted annual rate of 628,000 from 630,000 in August, a drop of 0.3%. But the number was much better than the expected level of 603,000. However, the September numbers were revised sharply lower from 658,000. Thus it looks like a lot of the starts we thought happened got pushed into October. So call the beat of expectations and the downward revisions a wash. Relative to a year ago, they are up 16.5%. The question is: Are the higher starts are being absorbed by the market? Or are they simply adding to inventory? That question should be answered on November 28th when we get the New Home Sales figures. If one looks ]]></description>
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		<title>(XOM) U.S. Petroleum and Distillate Stocks Shrink</title>
		<link>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2011/11/20/xom-u-s-petroleum-and-distillate-stocks-shrink/87251</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2011 20:33:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vitalstocks</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Basic Materials]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Major Integrated Oil & Gas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chevron Corporation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[commodities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ConocoPhillips]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[COP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CVX]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Exxon Mobil Corporation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MHP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tesoro Corporation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TSO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Valero Energy Corporation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[VLO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[XOM]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Energy Department&#8217;s weekly inventory release showed that crude inventories moved down, while gasoline stocks added to their supplies. The agency’s report further revealed that distillate stockpiles declined for the seventh-straight week. Meanwhile, refiners improved processing rates by 2.2%. The Energy Information Administration (&#8220;EIA&#8221;) Petroleum Status Report – which contains data for the previous week ending Friday, outlines information regarding the weekly change in petroleum inventories held and produced by the U.S., both locally and abroad. The report provides an overview of the level of reserves and their movements, thereby helping investors understand the demand/supply dynamics of petroleum products. It is an indicator of current oil prices and volatility that affect businesses of companies engaged in the oil and refining industry, such as ExxonMobil (XOM), Chevron Corp. (CVX), ConocoPhillips ]]></description>
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		<title>(AZO) U.S. Retail on the Rise</title>
		<link>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2011/11/20/azo-u-s-retail-on-the-rise/87038</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2011 20:32:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vitalstocks</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Auto Parts Stores]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Services]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amazon.com Inc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AMZN]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AutoZone Inc.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AZO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BBY]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Best Buy Company Inc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dick's Sporting Goods Inc.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DKS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[KR]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kroger Company]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Home Depot Inc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WAG]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Walgreen Company]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Total Retail Sales rose 0.5% in October on top of a 1.1% rise in September. Relative to a year ago they are up 7.2%. While the number is not adjusted for inflation (it is, but only for seasonality and holidays) it is still a strong showing. It was also better than the expected rise of 0.4% for the month. Retail sales is a very broad measure of consumer spending, not just what is going on at the shopping malls. What happens on the car lots can make a big difference. That said, excluding autos sales, they were up 0.6% for the month after rising 0.5% in September (revised down from up 0.6%) and are up 7.3% year over year. The ex-autos number was much better than the expected rise of ]]></description>
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		<title>(RPM) U.S. Air Traffic Shows Mixed for October</title>
		<link>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2011/11/10/rpm-u-s-air-traffic-shows-mixed-for-october/86780</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 17:47:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vitalstocks</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Building Materials]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Industrial Goods]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AMR]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AMR Corporation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DAL]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Delta Air Lines Inc.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[JBLU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[JetBlue Airways Corporation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LUV]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RPM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RPM International Inc.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Southwest Airlines Company]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UAL]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United Continental Holdings]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Air traffic remained mixed in October, like the month before. Airline traffic is measured in billions of revenue passenger miles (RPM), which implies one mile flown by one passenger. The consolidated October traffic fell 5.1% at the largest U.S. airline United Continental Holdings Inc. (UAL). Both international and domestic traffic slid 4.4% and 6.3%, respectively. Capacity (or available seat miles) decreased 3.4% year over year and load factor (percentage of seats filled with passengers) decreased 150 basis points (bps). United Continental expects a 9.5–10.5% year-over-year increase in unit revenue for the month of October, measured by passenger revenue per available seat mile (PRASM), a key metric in airlines. The October traffic for the second largest U.S. airline Delta Air Lines (DAL) declined 3.8%, representing the record low level since January ]]></description>
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		<title>(TM) U.S. Sees Best October Auto Sales</title>
		<link>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2011/11/06/tm-u-s-sees-best-october-auto-sales/86419</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 00:13:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vitalstocks</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Auto Manufacturers - Major]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Consumer Goods]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[F]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ford Motor Company]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General Motors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HMC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Honda Motor Company Limited]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NISSAN MTR SPON AD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NSANY]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Toyota Motor Corporation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Light vehicle sales in the U.S. rose 7.5% to 1.02 million units during October, the best since October 2007, driven by strong sales of sports utility vehicles (SUVs) and trucks. At seasonally adjusted annualized rate, sales increased 8% to 13.3 million units from 12.3 million units in October 2010. Total car sales escalated 7.4% to 468,533 units while sales of light trucks (minivans, sport utility vehicles and pick up trucks) went up 7.6% to 548,799 units (all including imports). All the major automakers posted a rise in sales during the month, except Toyota Motor Corp. (TM) and Honda Motor Corp. (HMC) due to parts supply shortages following the earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011. U.S. Automakers Sales at General Motors Co. (GM) edged up 1.9% to 186,895 vehicles. The ]]></description>
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		<title>(CVS) Greek Turmoil Dominates Headlines</title>
		<link>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2011/11/06/cvs-greek-turmoil-dominates-headlines/86445</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2011 19:53:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vitalstocks</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Drug Stores]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Services]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CVS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CVS Caremark Corporation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[J. C. Penney Company Inc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[JCP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[JWN]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[M]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Macy's Inc.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nordstrom Inc.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nyse Euronext Inc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NYX]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SBUX]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Starbucks Corporation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Target Corporation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have a slew of economic and earnings reports on the docket today, but the Greek turmoil will likely continue to dominate the headlines. On the economic front, we got better-than-expected weekly Jobless Claims numbers, raising hopes for a favorable showing from Friday&#8217;s non-farm payroll report. We also have a surprise interest rate cut from the European Central Bank, likely indicating a new monetary policy course for the central bank under Mario Draghi, who replaced Jean-Claude Trichet only three days ago. A little later, we get the September Factory Orders and the October ISM Service Sector Index reading. The big wait on the U.S. economic front now is for the Friday labor market report. But irrespective of the quality of that report, the overall economic picture has improved markedly over ]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Initial Labor Claims Fall Below Key 400,000 Level</title>
		<link>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2011/11/03/u-s-initial-labor-claims-fall-below-key-400000-level/86467</link>
		<comments>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2011/11/03/u-s-initial-labor-claims-fall-below-key-400000-level/86467#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 20:01:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vitalstocks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Initial Claims for Unemployment Insurance finally broke below the key 400,000 level. This week they fell by 9,000, but only after the previous week was revised up by 4,000. So regardless if you count it as a drop of 9,000 or 5,000, we are still at 397,000. This was slightly better than the expected level of 404,000. Now we just have to stay below the 400,000 level. We have been here before in the last few months, only to see the achievement revised away the next week and the subsequent weeks bounce higher. If the current level can be sustained or even improved upon (OK, that is a big &#8220;if&#8221;), this could be signaling better job growth in November and December. We will see tomorrow if the generally lower level ]]></description>
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		<title>(ADP) Automatic Data Processing Sees 110K Jobs Gained</title>
		<link>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2011/11/02/adp-automatic-data-processing-sees-110k-jobs-gained/86360</link>
		<comments>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2011/11/02/adp-automatic-data-processing-sees-110k-jobs-gained/86360#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 17:09:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vitalstocks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Automatic Data Processing (ADP) employment survey was stronger than expected in October. It shows that private sector employment rose by 110,000, above consensus expectations for a 100,000 increase. The September numbers were revised up to a gain of 116,000 jobs from the initial report of a 91,000 gain. On average, the ADP report does a fairly good job of predicting the private sector totals that the BLS reports the following Friday, although in any given month it can be off substantially. It is prone to fairly large errors in both directions. Last month it was a bit on the too-pessimistic side, particularly before the revision. The BLS private sector job gains were 137,000. If confirmed by the BLS on Friday it would indicate that the economy continues to wallow ]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. September 2011 New Home Sales Top Expectations</title>
		<link>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2011/10/28/u-s-september-2011-new-home-sales-top-expectations/85983</link>
		<comments>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2011/10/28/u-s-september-2011-new-home-sales-top-expectations/85983#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 15:46:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vitalstocks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New Home Sales rose by 5.7% in September from August, to a rate of 313,000. Relative to a year ago, sales are down 0.9%. While the monthly increase is more than welcome, it is still a very dismal rate of new home sales. There was a slight upward revision to the July numbers of 1,000 to 296,000. The September level was also better than the expected rate of 300,000. Regardless of the changes at the edges, this is still a very bad level. The 17 lowest months on record (back to 1963) for new home sales have all been in the last 17 months. New home sales have only exceeded the 400,000 level three times since September of 2008 when the financial markets collapsed. The most recent time was in ]]></description>
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		<title>(EIA) U.S. Energy Department Reports Large Natural Gas Build</title>
		<link>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2011/10/18/eia-u-s-energy-department-reports-large-natural-gas-build/85241</link>
		<comments>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2011/10/18/eia-u-s-energy-department-reports-large-natural-gas-build/85241#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 17:12:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vitalstocks</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Chesapeake Energy Corporation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Energy Department&#8217;s weekly inventory release showed a higher-than-expected increase in natural gas supplies, attributable to sagging demand amid robust production. The Weekly Natural Gas Storage Report – brought out by the Energy Information Administration (EIA) every Thursday since 2002 – includes updates on natural gas market prices, the latest storage level estimates, recent weather data and other market activities or events. The report provides an overview of the level of reserves and their movements, thereby helping investors understand the demand/supply dynamics of natural gas. It is an indicator of current gas prices and volatility that affect businesses of natural gas-weighted companies and related support plays like Anadarko Petroleum Corp. (APC), Chesapeake Energy (CHK), EnCana Corp. (ECA), Devon Energy Corp. (DVN), Nabors Industries (NBR), Patterson-UTI Energy (PTEN), Helmerich &#38; ]]></description>
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		<title>(RPM) Mixed Aviation Industry Traffic in September</title>
		<link>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2011/10/17/rpm-mixed-aviation-industry-traffic-in-september/85045</link>
		<comments>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2011/10/17/rpm-mixed-aviation-industry-traffic-in-september/85045#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 16:52:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vitalstocks</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Building Materials]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[AMR]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[DAL]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Delta Air Lines Inc.]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[JetBlue Airways Corporation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[RPM International Inc.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Southwest Airlines Company]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite a strong profit outlook for 2011 by The International Air Transport Association (IATA) as well as fare hikes and capacity pull backs, air carriers posted mixed traffic results in September primarily on fluctuations in economic conditions and debt concerns in Europe. Airline traffic is measured in billions of revenue passenger miles (RPM), which implies one mile flown by one passenger. The consolidated September traffic dipped 1.7% at the largest U.S. airline United Continental Holdings Inc. (UAL). Both international and domestic traffic plunged 1.3% and 2.5%, respectively. Capacity (or available seat miles) decreased 1% year over year and load factor (percentage of seats filled with passengers) dropped 50 basis points (bps). United Continental expects a 13–14% year-over-year increase in unit revenue for the month of September, measured by passenger revenue ]]></description>
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		<title>(AMZN) U.S. Favorable Durable Goods Report</title>
		<link>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2011/10/13/amzn-u-s-favorable-durable-goods-report/84207</link>
		<comments>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2011/10/13/amzn-u-s-favorable-durable-goods-report/84207#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 16:31:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vitalstocks</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Catalog & Mail Order Houses]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[AAPL]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Accenture Limited]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Amazon.com Inc]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Apple Inc.]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stocks have been gaining ground all over again recently &#8212; up almost 4% in the last three days &#8212; even as tangible positive news has been hard to come by. Optimism has been growing in recent days that the Europeans are finally moving toward a TARP-like solution to get a handle on their problems, but we have yet to see any official confirmation of those rumors and discussions. It is hard to envision the rally sustaining itself without fundamental support, though today&#8217;s favorable Durable Goods report would qualify as such. This morning&#8217;s August Durable Goods report came roughly inline with expectations on a headline basis, but was significantly better than expected on the core basis. The core number, which strips out the volatile transportation and defense equipment, serves as a ]]></description>
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		<title>(AA) The Volcker Rule and Earnings &#8211; Economic Highlights</title>
		<link>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2011/10/12/aa-the-volcker-rule-and-earnings-economic-highlights/84950</link>
		<comments>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2011/10/12/aa-the-volcker-rule-and-earnings-economic-highlights/84950#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 22:51:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vitalstocks</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aluminum]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[AA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alcoa Inc.]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Goldman Sachs Group]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hewlett-Packard Company]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Host Hotels & Resorts Inc.]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[JPM]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Netflix Inc.]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[With nothing major on the economic calendar today, the market will likely repeat Tuesday&#8217;s performance and remain in a wait-and-see mode for the earnings season to unfold. We had a fairly disappointing start to this reporting cycle on Tuesday, but no one is reading too much into Alcoa&#8217;s (AA) results. We have a handful of reports today, but it is still early going on the earnings front. By the end of next week, we should have a good idea of how this season is unfolding.It is heartening to see that the market is able to see through the Slovak parliamentary failure and wait instead for the release of bank recapitalization rules from Germany and France later this month. A successful plan for ring-fencing the European banking sector will go a ]]></description>
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		<title>(BA) U.S. Durable Goods Orders Flat in August</title>
		<link>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2011/10/11/ba-u-s-durable-goods-orders-flat-in-august/84229</link>
		<comments>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2011/10/11/ba-u-s-durable-goods-orders-flat-in-august/84229#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 15:41:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vitalstocks</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Boeing Company]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Caterpillar Inc.]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[New Orders for Durable Goods dipped a slight 0.1% in August. That was slightly below the consensus expectations of an increase of 0.1%. The July numbers were revised slightly upwards. It was first reported as an increase of 4.0%, but now they say new orders rose 4.1%. Given the volatile nature of the Durable Good series, the miss and the offsetting upward revision are just about irrelevant. The drop from last month is a bit more significant, but only a bit. While this is an important economic indicator, I don’t think it is telling a particularly significant story with this release. Most of the drop from last month was due to the extremely volatile Transportation Equipment side. More specifically, from the Non-Defense Aircraft component, which is often the case when ]]></description>
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		<title>Continuing Jobless Claims Fall to 3.7 Million</title>
		<link>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2011/10/06/continuing-jobless-claims-fall-to-3-7-million/84746</link>
		<comments>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2011/10/06/continuing-jobless-claims-fall-to-3-7-million/84746#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 23:47:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vitalstocks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The data on regular continuing claims was encouraging this week. Regular continuing claims for unemployment insurance fell by 52,000 to 3.700 million. The overall trend is in the right direction. They are down by 752,000 or 17.0% from a year ago.  Regular claims are paid by the state governments, and run out after just 26 weeks. (Several states have lowered the number of weeks they are going to pay in the future recently. They have also been tightening up the eligibility standards.) The graph below shows the long-term history of continuing claims for unemployment, as well as the percentage of the covered workforce that is receiving regular state benefits. It does a good job of showing just how nasty that the Great Recession was for the job market. It also ]]></description>
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		<title>Initial Jobless Claims Fall &#8211; Extended Claims Plunge</title>
		<link>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2011/10/06/initial-jobless-claims-fall-extended-claims-plunge/83881</link>
		<comments>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2011/10/06/initial-jobless-claims-fall-extended-claims-plunge/83881#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 23:36:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vitalstocks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Initial Claims for Unemployment Insurance fell by 9,000 last week to 423,000. This was worse than the expected level of 418,000. Last week’s numbers were revised upwards by 4,000, so one could see it as a decrease of 5,000. Recently, jobless claims seem stuck once again in a trading range above the 400,000 level, after a brief period lower than that earlier this year. Don’t read too much into the decline, as last week’s numbers might have been a bit inflated by the effects of Hurricane Irene. Being below 400,000, as we were in February and March, signaled the start of much more robust job growth, such as we saw in March and April. The prospects for a return to a sub-400,000 level seem to be slipping further and further ]]></description>
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		<title>(DHI) Weakness Prevails in U.S. Housing</title>
		<link>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2011/10/06/dhi-weakness-prevails-in-u-s-housing/84158</link>
		<comments>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2011/10/06/dhi-weakness-prevails-in-u-s-housing/84158#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 16:12:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vitalstocks</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Industrial Goods]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Residential Construction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DHI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DR Horton Inc.]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Housing]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Louisiana-Pacific Corporation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Meritage Homes Corporation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The weaknesses prevailing in the housing and construction industry in the U.S. have once again come to the fore as the National Association of Home Builders lowered its September outlook. Poor employment growth, increased availability of foreclosed homes, strict mortgage lending rules and lower confidence have restricted the demand for new homes to an all-time low. Moreover, potential customers who are ready to buy homes are opting for pre-owned homes, given their affordable pricing. As a result, the purchases of pre-owned homes have increased almost 2% year over year during August to 5.03 million (annual rate), which in turn affected new home sales. New home sales for August were at a six-month low of 294,000 units (annualized growth). This trend has affected earnings in the recent quarters and is also ]]></description>
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		<title>(ADP) ADP Employment Survey Sees 91K Private Jobs Added</title>
		<link>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2011/10/06/adp-adp-employment-survey-sees-91k-private-jobs-added/84669</link>
		<comments>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2011/10/06/adp-adp-employment-survey-sees-91k-private-jobs-added/84669#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 15:24:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vitalstocks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Automatic Data Processing (ADP) employment survey was stronger than expected in September. It shows that private sector employment rose by 91,000, above consensus expectations for a 48,000 increase. The August numbers were revised down slightly to a gain of 89,000 jobs from the initial report of a 91,000 gain. On average, the ADP report does a fairly good job of predicting the private sector totals that the BLS will report on Friday, although in any given month it can be off substantially. It is prone to fairly large errors in both directions. Last month it was far too optimistic &#8212; the BLS private sector job gains were just 17,000. If confirmed by the BLS on Friday it would indicate that the economy continues to wallow along in a pseudo ]]></description>
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		<title>(EQR) Used Home Prices Stabilize in July</title>
		<link>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2011/09/28/eqr-used-home-prices-stabilize-in-july/84174</link>
		<comments>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2011/09/28/eqr-used-home-prices-stabilize-in-july/84174#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 14:18:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In July, home prices were mixed on a seasonally adjusted basis. The Case-Schiller Composite 10 City index (C-10) fell a slight 0.12% on a seasonally adjusted basis, and is down 3.77% from a year ago. The broader Composite 20 City index (which includes the cities in the C-10) edged up by 0.05% on the month and is down 4.16% from a year ago. Prices for both indexes rose by 0.9% for the month on a not-seasonally-adjusted basis (which is how you will probably see most of the reports presented). Of the 20 cities, nine were up on the month-to-month basis (seasonally adjusted), and eleven were down. Year over year, though, 18 were down, and only Detroit and Washington DC made it into the plus column. The overall indexes are down ]]></description>
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		<title>(DHI) U.S. New Home Sales Move Down Slightly</title>
		<link>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2011/09/27/dhi-u-s-new-home-sales-move-down-slightly/84102</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 20:47:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vitalstocks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New Home Sales in August fell by 2.3% from July to a rate of 295,000. Relative to a year ago, sales are up 6.1%. While the year-over-year rebound is more than welcome, it is still a very dismal rate of new home sales. However, there was an upward revision to the July numbers of 4,000 to 302,000. Thus, relative to where we thought we were, it could be seen as a 1.0% decrease. The August level was also slightly better than the expected rate of 295,000. Regardless of the changes at the edges, this is still a very bad level. The 16 lowest months on record (back to 1963) for new home sales have all been in the last 16 months. New home sales have only exceeded the 400,000 level ]]></description>
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		<title>(SSL) Natural Gas-to-Liquids Coming to U.S.</title>
		<link>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2011/09/21/ssl-natural-gas-to-liquids-coming-to-u-s/83665</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 15:02:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vitalstocks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Attentive investors may have noted an announcement last week by the large South Africa-based energy and chemicals company Sasol (SSL). The firm said it was commencing an eighteen-month feasibility study to determine the commercial viability of one of two options: either a two million tons per annum or four million tons per annum Gas-to-Liquids, or ‘GTL,’ production facility in southwestern Louisiana. This would be the first GTL facility in the United States, indeed in the Western hemisphere. The liquids produced are expected to be generally kerosene and allied products, for diesel or jet fuel. This could be the start of a major movement to, effectively, substitute abundant, cheap natural gas produced within North America, for expensive, imported crude oil. The economic, balance of payments, financial and investment implications are enormous. ]]></description>
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		<title>(DHI) U.S. Housing Starts Down &#8211; Permits Up</title>
		<link>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2011/09/21/dhi-u-s-housing-starts-down-permits-up/83681</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 14:58:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vitalstocks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Housing Starts fell in August to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 571,000 from 601,000 in July, a decrease of 5.0%. However, the July numbers were revised lower from 604,000, so it is possible to see the decrease as 34,000, or 5.5%. The number was also slightly below the expected level of 575,000. Relative to a year ago, housing starts are down 5.8%. Quite frankly, a year ago was also a pretty lousy time for the homebuilders, so the drop is off a pretty easy comp. Given the extremely depressed state of the housing industry, the decline is not good news. It does, however, mean less inventory is the pipeline, so there is sort of a silver lining in the dark cloud. That is helpful for the longer-term health of ]]></description>
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		<title>(DELL) U.S. Retail Sales Disappoint</title>
		<link>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2011/09/20/dell-u-s-retail-sales-disappoint/83164</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 20:32:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vitalstocks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Europe remains in the headlines, with rating downgrades for two major French banks due to their Greek exposure. But the overall tone of Europe-centric headlines has improved as the Germans have started to back-peddle from some of their tougher statements. It may be a tad calmer in Europe today, but rest assured that the issue is not going away anytime soon. We also have plenty of economic news on the domestic front this morning, with a soft Retail Sales report and a fairly benign inflation reading. On the inflation front, we got a relatively benign wholesale inflation reading for August this morning, with the &#8216;headline&#8217; flat vs. expectation of a 0.1% drop. The &#8216;core&#8217; PPI number came in better than expected at 0.1% vs. an expectation of 0.2%. The more ]]></description>
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