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Thursday, December 03, 2009
JOB REPORT PREVIEW VIDEO
What's at Work in Friday's Employment Report
Recent jobs data hold hopeful signs, but the unemployment rate will creep higher for a while. Get our read on Friday's numbers.
• Initial Jobless Claims Fall by 5,000
• ADP: Private Payrolls Drop by 169,000 in Nov.
• Pelosi: Unused TARP to Pay for Job Creation
VIDEO REPORT
Static in the Comcast-NBC Universal Deal
Our take on the deal price, strategic merit, and possible impact on the media industry.
• Comcast's NBC Universal Deal Disappoints
FUND SPY
Fighting the Sliding Dollar
Consider adding one of these world-bond funds to your arsenal.
• ETF Investing: The Dollar-Proof Portfolio
• FT Short View: Dollar Decline
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IMPROVING YOUR FINANCES
Retirees: Look Before You Leap into Preferred Stock
These securities are no substitute for bonds.
• Video: Where to Look for Retirement Income
• Perspectives: The Preferred Treatment
A Tale of Two Banks
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Rooting Out Value Across the Capital Structure
Approach and Avoidance in High Yield
Growth Investing Renaissance in Early Innings
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Stocks
PERSPECTIVES: Barel Karsan
Big Baths All Around Us
It is usually in poor economic times like these that management will incur asset write-downs and restructuring charges.
Life Insurers Get a Reprieve
Supermajors' Resources Might Be Drying Up
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Funds
5-STAR INVESTOR
Turning Up Mutual Fund Bargains
These simple screens point to good deals among actively managed, no-load stock funds.
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Fidelity Rattling the Cage with Big 529 Fee Cuts
An Inside Look at 2009's Best-Performing Fund Category
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ETF Research
ETF INVESTING
ETFs Caught in the Dubai Storm
United Arab Emirate companies are no small part of Middle East-themed ETFs.
• Emerging-Markets Investors Get Wake-up Call
• Emirate Has a Lot of Explaining to Do
• Get Picks, Tips, and Tools in Our ETF Center
Hedge Fund Results, But No Hedge Fund Fees
What We Like Most about ETFs
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Portfolio & Money Management
PERSPECTIVES: Sidoxia Capital Management
How More Eggs in the Basket Can Crack the Portfolio
Can investors do damage with diversification?
• Zweig: Diversification Powerful, But Not Magic
• Perspectives: Dark Side of Diversification
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Munis on the Radar
Don't Fly Blind When Investing for Retirement
Leaving Your Job? Don't Forget Your 401(k)
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Market Barometer
Lg
Md
Sm
Value—Growth
Day Return
+1.25%
0
-1.25%
1Wk Return
+1.25%
0
-1.25%
1Mo Return
+4%
0
-4%
3Mo Return
+8%
0
-8%
1Yr Return
+20%
0
-20%
3Yr Return
+20%
0
-20%
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Stocks Edge Higher; Jobs Data and Retail Sales in Focus
Stock News
Comcast, GE to Form Entertainment Joint Venture
Bank of America to Repay TARP
Aeropostale Reports Solid 3Q
Upbeat 3Q from Collective Brands
Siemens Sees '10 Harder Than '09, 4Q Net Loss
Toll Brothers 4Q Loss Widens; Sees Some Signs Of Recovery
American Airlines: Prepared To Invest $1.1 Billion In JAL With Oneworld, TPG
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Same Store Sales
Costco: +2%
BJ's Wholesale: +1%
TJX: +8%
Kohls: +3.3%
JC Penny: -5.9%
Macy's: -6.1%
Nordstrom: +2.2%
Saks: -26.1%
Gap: Flat
Abercrombie & Fitch: -17%
Aeropostale: +7%
American Eagle: -2%
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Markets & Economy
US Jobless Claims Fall -5K To 457K
U.S. 3Q Productivity Revised Lower
IMF Issues 6-Month Game Plan Amid a 'Fragile' Recovery
Risk Rally Continues in London
Japan Leads Gains Seen Across Most of Asia (MW)
Nikkei 225 Soars 3.8%
Dollar Slips Against Most Rivals But Gains On Yen
First U.S. Senate Votes On Health-Care Set For Thursday
Copenhagen Meeting Could Make Green Shares Golden
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Earnings Econ Reports
Initial Claims
Dec 3
Market Consensus
480K
Actual
457K
Continuing Claims
Dec 3
Market Consensus
5400K
Actual
5465K
Productivity-Rev.
Dec 3
Market Consensus
8.5%
Actual
8.1%
ISM Services
Dec 3
Market Consensus
51.5
Actual
48.7
Nonfarm Payrolls
Dec 4
Market Consensus
-125K
Actual
Unemployment Rate
Dec 4
Market Consensus
10.2%
Actual
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Market Indexes
U.S. Asian European
DJIA
10,438
-14.3
-0.1%
12/3/2009 3:06 PM
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S&P 500
1,108
-1.5
-0.1%
12/3/2009 3:06 PM
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NASDAQ
2,191
5.6
0.3%
12/3/2009 3:06 PM
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Russell 2000
596
-0.2
0.0%
Commodity Futures
Gold
$1,217.30
0.44%
Dec 09
Light Crude
$76.40
-0.26%
Jan 10
Natural Gas
$4.46
-1.66%
Jan 10
Treasury Yield
Historical Yields Gov’t Bond Returns
Maturity
%Yield
6 Month
0.15
2 Year
0.72
5 Year
2.09
10 Year
3.32
30 Year
4.26
1 Yr Ago
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