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Investment & Finance Thread (week June 29 - July 3 edition)
Weekly investment & finance thread ^ | June 29, 2014 | Freeper Investors

Posted on 06/29/2014 2:17:00 PM PDT by expat_panama

Yesterday was the 100th anniversary of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo which sparked the war and the NYSE decided to close for the duration (more here).  This week we begin the new quarter --and the second half of 2014.  We'll see if the GDP for Q2 shows any improvement (1st report coming out in three weeks).  Imho we're in an economy where we can still make money but it's just going to take more effort.

Review of last week here, reports/consensus coming out this week here.

This is the thread where folks swap ideas on savings and investment --here's a list of popular investing links that freepers have posted here and tomorrow morning we'll go on with our--

Open invitation continues always for idea-input for the thread, this being a joint effort works well.   Keywords: financial, WallStreet, stockmarket, economy.



TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: economy; financial; stockmarket; wallstreet
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To: Wyatt's Torch
Bookmark for later. : )

Happy July 4th!!!!!

81 posted on 07/03/2014 5:01:11 PM PDT by Chgogal (Obama "hung the SEALs out to dry, basically exposed them like a set of dog balls..." CMH)
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To: Chgogal
http://data.bls.gov/pdq/SurveyOutputServlet

Damm those Reagan Recovery years were not bad!!! In one month the economy added 1.115 MILLLION jobs in this country with a population of about 233 million. Now people here brag about a jobs added number of 233k with a population of about 315+K.

82 posted on 07/03/2014 5:38:16 PM PDT by Chgogal (Obama "hung the SEALs out to dry, basically exposed them like a set of dog balls..." CMH)
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To: Chgogal
Google search
historical us jobs added by month
83 posted on 07/03/2014 5:40:12 PM PDT by Chgogal (Obama "hung the SEALs out to dry, basically exposed them like a set of dog balls..." CMH)
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To: Chgogal

Tapering started months ago... But there is no sense of urgency because wage inflation is tame.


84 posted on 07/03/2014 6:51:46 PM PDT by Wyatt's Torch
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To: Wyatt's Torch
Yup, wage inflation is tame because 1) we have the lowest labor penetration since 1978 and 2) part time jobs are out stripping full time jobs. It's tough out there for the average American.
85 posted on 07/03/2014 9:29:45 PM PDT by Chgogal (Obama "hung the SEALs out to dry, basically exposed them like a set of dog balls..." CMH)
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To: expat_panama
Personally, my meager time'n'energy for research is largely spent using IBD (that and American Association of Individual Investors). Both can be given a 'test-drive' for free.

Thanks for the tips. I will give them a try.

86 posted on 07/04/2014 12:41:32 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (The media must be defeated any way it can be done.)
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To: Chgogal

Neither of those are monetary factors. If wage inflation was related to participation rate it would have been an issue since participation peaked in 1999.


87 posted on 07/04/2014 7:48:24 PM PDT by Wyatt's Torch
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If wage inflation was related to participation rate it would have been an issue since participation peaked in 1999.

In fact, participation rate was almost as low as it is now back in '80 when inflation was peaking--

 --but the two are related in the way that the participation rate was kept low in order to fight inflation.  Our happy two-decade  plateau ended catastrophically in '09 and has yet to recover even with the latest labor report. 

On that subject we were looking at the apparent contradiction between the -2.7% GDP and the falling unemployment rate.  My thinking is that the unimproved participation rate puts paid to the jobs rate and we may not want to count on a recovering GDP for a while yet.

88 posted on 07/06/2014 5:14:27 AM PDT by expat_panama
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