Cruel Mythik: January 2013

Thursday, January 31, 2013

"Fiscal cliff" deal lifts stocks, but problems lurk | Reduction

"Fiscal cliff" deal lifts stocks, but problems lurk

The Economics of Wall Street by Tony Fischer Photography
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Excerpt:

NEW YORK The "fiscal cliff" compromise, for all its chaos, controversy and unresolved questions, was enough to send the stock market shooting higher Wednesday, the first trading day of the new year. All the major U.S. stock indexes swelled by at least 2 percent in early trading before trimming some of those gains. The Dow Jones industrial average briefly surged to its biggest gain in six months. Stocks around the world also leapt higher. The major indexes in Britain, France and Germany rose more than 2 percent. Markets in Greece and Spain were up more than 3 percent. Stocks in Asia also zoomed higher. In the U.S., the rally was extraordinarily broad. For every stock that fell on the New York Stock Exchange, roughly 10 rose. The Dow briefly surged as much as 273 points in early trading. At noon, it was up 229 points, or 1.

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Avis rose

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.396184

Mark Lehmann

Overall Sentiment: -0.491515

Relevance: 0.389799

Sentiment	Quote
-0.20857	"Most people think that no deal would have been worse than a bad deal," said Mark Lehmann, ...
0	"There's definitely another drama coming down the road," said Lehmann.
0	"There's definitely another drama coming down the road," said Lehmann. "That's the March cliff."
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Avis

Overall Sentiment: 0.169125

Relevance: 0.349775

Barack Obama

Overall Sentiment: 0.0721828

Relevance: 0.317096

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Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.824131

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Overall Sentiment: -0.207564

Relevance: 0.322428

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Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.314677

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Overall Sentiment: 0.0120329

Relevance: 0.309829

Country: Germany

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.30701

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Overall Sentiment: -0.0552235

Relevance: 0.388574

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Continent: Asia

Overall Sentiment: 0.0427325

Relevance: 0.342887

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Overall Sentiment: 0.0855062

Relevance: 0.472433

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Overall Sentiment: -0.295109

Relevance: 0.383885

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Relevance: 0.328389

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Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.30024

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Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.379529

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Overall Sentiment: 0.0654804

Relevance: 0.323734

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Farmers And Their Cooperative Settle Lawsuit On Fixing The Price Of Milk | Redux

Farmers And Their Cooperative Settle Lawsuit On Fixing The Price Of Milk

Dairy farmers protest, Brussels, 5th of Oct. 2009 by Teemu Mäntynen
License (according to Flickr): Attribution-ShareAlike License

Excerpt:

Audio for this story from Morning Edition will be available at approximately 9:00 a.m. ET. This 5-foot plexiglass piece of art, resembling a freshly poured glass of milk, sits near the door to the headquarters of the Dairy Farmers of America, in Kansas City, Mo. This 5-foot plexiglass piece of art, resembling a freshly poured glass of milk, sits near the door to the headquarters of the Dairy Farmers of America, in Kansas City, Mo. Peggy Lowe/Harvest Public Media Farmers who had hoped to get some answers on why prices for their raw milk went into free fall a decade ago were disappointed Tuesday by the settlement of a case accusing the Dairy Farmers of America, Inc. , of creating a milk monopoly in the Southeast. Dairy farmers and industry observers had hoped for their day in court after years of delays in the large class-action suit.

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Dean

Overall Sentiment: -0.163364

Relevance: 0.411585

Sam Galphin

Overall Sentiment: 0.0290503

Relevance: 0.396069

Sentiment	Quote
0	"When I started in North Carolina, there were 1,200 dairies. Today there are less than 300. In South Carolina, there were 800 dairies. Today there are less than 100," he says. ...
0	"When I started in North Carolina, there were 1,200 dairies. Today there are less than 300. In South Carolina, there were 800 dairies. Today there are less than 100," he says. "That's not just consolidation."
Sentiment Stats:	Number of Quotes: 2 Aggregate Sentiment: 0 Mean: 0 Standard Deviation: 0

Peter Carstensen

Overall Sentiment: -0.0573336

Relevance: 0.373982

Sentiment	Quote
0.127531	"While it is nice that the farmers get some modest compensation for the harm that they suffered in the past, they remain at risk, as does the entire milk industry, by the failure to use this case to develop better, more open, and non-discriminatory access to markets for milk," he says. ...
Sentiment Stats:	Number of Quotes: 1 Aggregate Sentiment: 0.127531 Mean: 0.127531 Standard Deviation: 1.4142135623731

Rick Smith

Overall Sentiment: 0.0691861

Relevance: 0.266056

Sentiment	Quote
0.0705017	"Where inherently there's risk when you go to trial, the member's interest would be better served by making a business decision to put it behind us," says DFA CEO Rick Smith, ...
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Peggy Lowe

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.265334

John Burnett

Overall Sentiment: 0.0758466

Relevance: 0.250958

Gordon Gekko

Overall Sentiment: 0.0113303

Relevance: 0.250852

Gregg Engles

Overall Sentiment: 0.0541043

Relevance: 0.242351

Gary Hanman

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.241747

George W. Bush

Overall Sentiment: 0.177668

Relevance: 0.236237

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Aggregate Sentiment is meant to be an indicator of an individual's overall sentiment.
The Mean is meant to be an indicator of an individual's average comment sentiment.
The Standard Deviation, when there are enough quotes, will indicate an individual's consistency of sentiment (i.e. a Standard Deviation of 0 would mean they were very consistent in their sentiment and 1 would mean they were very inconsistent).

Note that quote stats are likely to be meaningless beyond the aggregate score due to the tiny sample size. However, they are always provided just in case you find something useful there.

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Region: Southeast

Overall Sentiment: -0.267715

Relevance: 0.457683

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Overall Sentiment: -0.0988868

Relevance: 0.374615

City: Kansas City

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.321514

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Overall Sentiment: -0.377477

Relevance: 0.316525

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Overall Sentiment: 0.0336672

Relevance: 0.908483

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Overall Sentiment: 0.0743579

Relevance: 0.316144

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McDonald's settles $700,000 suit over Islamic diet in US | Essentials

McDonald's settles $700,000 suit over Islamic diet in US

Lake McDonald1 by wp8thsub
License (according to Flickr): Attribution License

Excerpt:

DEARBORN, Michigan – McDonald's and one of its franchise owners agreed to pay $700,000 to members of the Muslim community to settle allegations a Detroit-area restaurant falsely advertised its food as being prepared according to Islamic dietary law. McDonald's and Finley's Management Co. agreed Friday to the tentative settlement, with that money to be shared by Dearborn Heights resident Ahmed Ahmed, a Detroit health clinic, the Arab American National Museum in Dearborn and lawyers. Ahmed's attorney, Kassem Dakhlallah, told The Associated Press on Monday that he's "thrilled" with the preliminary deal that's expected to be finalized March 1. McDonald's and Finley's Management deny any liability but say the settlement is in their best interests. The lawsuit alleged that Ahmed bought a chicken sandwich in September 2011 at a Dearborn McDonald's but found it wasn't halal -- meaning it didn't meet Islamic requirements for preparing food.

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Ahmed Ahmed

Overall Sentiment: 0.0459521

Relevance: 0.922118

Sentiment	Quote
0	Ahmed had "confirmed from a source familiar with the inventory"
0	Ahmed had "confirmed from a source familiar with the inventory" that the restaurant had sold non-halal food "on many occasions."
Sentiment Stats:	Number of Quotes: 2 Aggregate Sentiment: 0 Mean: 0 Standard Deviation: 0

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Kassem Dakhlallah

Overall Sentiment: 0.0593938

Relevance: 0.589377

Sentiment	Quote
0.0228454	Kassem Dakhlallah, told The Associated Press on Monday that he's "thrilled" ...
0	"McDonald's from the very beginning stepped up and took this case very seriously," Dakhlallah said. ...
-0.0188666	"McDonald's from the very beginning stepped up and took this case very seriously," Dakhlallah said. "They made it clear they wanted to resolve this. They got ahead of the problem."
Sentiment Stats:	Number of Quotes: 3 Aggregate Sentiment: 0.0039788 Mean: 0.0013262666666667 Standard Deviation: 0

Finley

Overall Sentiment: -0.125376

Relevance: 0.307471

McChicken

Overall Sentiment: 0.0506345

Relevance: 0.222368

hash browns

Overall Sentiment: -0.352781

Relevance: 0.163656

Key:

Aggregate Sentiment is meant to be an indicator of an individual's overall sentiment.
The Mean is meant to be an indicator of an individual's average comment sentiment.
The Standard Deviation, when there are enough quotes, will indicate an individual's consistency of sentiment (i.e. a Standard Deviation of 0 would mean they were very consistent in their sentiment and 1 would mean they were very inconsistent).

Note that quote stats are likely to be meaningless beyond the aggregate score due to the tiny sample size. However, they are always provided just in case you find something useful there.

Additional Info:

Company: McDonald

Overall Sentiment: 0.0366101

Relevance: 0.678524

City: DEARBORN

Overall Sentiment: 0.218557

Relevance: 0.361219

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BlackRock: There's hidden value in CASSH | Synopsis

BlackRock: There's hidden value in CASSH

a taste of hong kong, 2009 by torbakhopper
License (according to Flickr): Attribution License

Excerpt:

Russ Koesterich, global chief investment strategist for asset manager BlackRock (BLK, Fortune 500), coined the term in a recent blog post. "Because what the financial markets desperately need is another acronym," he said. All kidding aside, Koesterich believes CASSH countries offer hidden value, and recommends investors increase their exposure. Here's why. While they are obviously very different, the CASSH countries have certain things in common that make them attractive as a group, according to Koesterich. Unlike the United States and Europe, the CASSH countries all emerged from the financial crisis in a comparatively healthy state. There is no fiscal cliff or systemic debt crisis in these countries, which generally have balanced budgets and low levels of unemployment. Given the advantage of a strong balance sheet, the CASSH countries are poised to outpace their larger rivals in economic growth next year.

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People:

Russ Koesterich

Overall Sentiment: 0.0422926

Relevance: 0.807501

Sentiment	Quote
-0.244446	"Overall, the three developed markets are struggling with a number of headwinds," he said, ...
-0.038158	"Overall, the three developed markets are struggling with a number of headwinds," he said, pointing to unsustainable public debt and continued deleveraging by households and business. "These are developed markets that don't suffer from those headwinds."
Sentiment Stats:	Number of Quotes: 2 Aggregate Sentiment: -0.282604 Mean: -0.141302 Standard Deviation: 0

Key:

Aggregate Sentiment is meant to be an indicator of an individual's overall sentiment.
The Mean is meant to be an indicator of an individual's average comment sentiment.
The Standard Deviation, when there are enough quotes, will indicate an individual's consistency of sentiment (i.e. a Standard Deviation of 0 would mean they were very consistent in their sentiment and 1 would mean they were very inconsistent).

Note that quote stats are likely to be meaningless beyond the aggregate score due to the tiny sample size. However, they are always provided just in case you find something useful there.

Additional Info:

Technology: BlackRock

Overall Sentiment: 0.236694

Relevance: 0.303572

City: Hong Kong

Overall Sentiment: 0.170622

Relevance: 0.474097

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Overall Sentiment: -0.168541

Relevance: 0.451241

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Country: Switzerland

Overall Sentiment: 0.10942

Relevance: 0.415245

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Overall Sentiment: 0.150786

Relevance: 0.398017

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Overall Sentiment: -0.0350511

Relevance: 0.359054

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Overall Sentiment: -0.084381

Relevance: 0.340087

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Overall Sentiment: 0.338457

Relevance: 0.448808

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A "dare to de dull" decade of investing | Reduction

A "dare to de dull" decade of investing

Day 36 Occupy Wall Street October 21 2011 Shankbone 49 by david_shankbone
License (according to Flickr): Attribution License

Excerpt:

(MoneyWatch) The last 10 years of investing have actually been an emotional roller coaster, fulled of new paradigms that have actually risen from the ashes of the typical method of investing we've been told is dead. In fact, it's thinking any of this nonsense that has proven to be the most dangerous to our portfolios. Exactly what worked in the last 10 years was having the courage to stay with an ordinary, boring investment strategy Right here 's why. A dull method. With only three funds, an investor can have the whole global stock market and a lot of U.S. financial investment grade bonds. How you weight every one depends on how aggressive you wish to be. Below are the three low-cost funds-- I call them the "second grader" portfolios-- and feasible weightings. All three portfolios turned in wonderful returns over the previous 10 years.

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People:

Jim Cramer

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.64912

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Country: U.S.

Overall Sentiment: 0.15924

Relevance: 0.549125

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City: Las Vegas

Overall Sentiment: 0.107191

Relevance: 0.536002

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Overall Sentiment: 0.167353

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Overall Sentiment: -0.479009

Relevance: 0.491365

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Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Home prices rise for fifth month in a row | Essentials

Home prices rise for fifth month in a row

Key to the door by Alan Cleaver
License (according to Flickr): Attribution License

Excerpt:

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- The housing market picked up more momentum in August, as the average home price for 20 major cities jumped 0. 9%, according to the S&P/Case-Shiller home price index The increase marked the fifth consecutive month of gains for the index with all but one city, Seattle, recording month-over-month price increases. "The sustained good news in home prices over the past five months makes us optimistic for continued recovery in the housing market," said David Blitzer, spokesman for S&P. The Case-Shiller report is one of many gauges of housing market health that has turned upbeat in recent months. New and existing home sales have been stronger, inventory of homes for sale has fallen and developers have stepped up building activity. Slow improvement in the national economy has also boosted the housing market, as have record low mortgage rates.

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Obama

Overall Sentiment: 0.0234996

Relevance: 0.824376

Sentiment	Quote
0.0153693	"Prices on Election Day will be almost the same as when Obama took office, probably just 1.7% below where they were in January 2009," he said. ...
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Mike Larson

Overall Sentiment: -0.14394

Relevance: 0.695779

Sentiment	Quote
-0.170102	"The fly in the ointment is that these buyers lack emotional attachment," said Larson.
Sentiment Stats:	Number of Quotes: 1 Aggregate Sentiment: -0.170102 Mean: -0.170102 Standard Deviation: 1.4142135623731

David Blitzer

Overall Sentiment: 0.0851001

Relevance: 0.612678

Sentiment	Quote
0.185513	"The sustained good news in home prices over the past five months makes us optimistic for continued recovery in the housing market," said David Blitzer, ...
Sentiment Stats:	Number of Quotes: 1 Aggregate Sentiment: 0.185513 Mean: 0.185513 Standard Deviation: 1.4142135623731

Jed Kolko

Overall Sentiment: 0.082807

Relevance: 0.586457

Sentiment	Quote
0.0973203	"Looking forward, price increases will continue," said Jed Kolko, ...
Sentiment Stats:	Number of Quotes: 1 Aggregate Sentiment: 0.0973203 Mean: 0.0973203 Standard Deviation: 1.4142135623731

Key:

Aggregate Sentiment is meant to be an indicator of an individual's overall sentiment.
The Mean is meant to be an indicator of an individual's average comment sentiment.
The Standard Deviation, when there are enough quotes, will indicate an individual's consistency of sentiment (i.e. a Standard Deviation of 0 would mean they were very consistent in their sentiment and 1 would mean they were very inconsistent).

Note that quote stats are likely to be meaningless beyond the aggregate score due to the tiny sample size. However, they are always provided just in case you find something useful there.

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FinancialMarketIndex: S&P's index

Overall Sentiment: -0.0213772

Relevance: 0.574687

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Overall Sentiment: -0.0340757

Relevance: 0.636931

City: NEW YORK

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.58447

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Overall Sentiment: 0.039912

Relevance: 0.551285

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Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.487984

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Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.486632

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Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.466428

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Overall Sentiment: 0.0970934

Relevance: 0.435499

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Overall Sentiment: -0.211502

Relevance: 0.431954

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Overall Sentiment: -0.048526

Relevance: 0.422066

Company: S&P

Overall Sentiment: 0.0373302

Relevance: 0.552562

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Overall Sentiment: 0.0798776

Relevance: 0.506807

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Overall Sentiment: 0.0108627

Relevance: 0.437157

Company: Weiss Research

Overall Sentiment: -0.0208275

Relevance: 0.429899

Organization: National Association of Realtors

Overall Sentiment: 0.0684549

Relevance: 0.541669