Once a month investors’ attention turns to the job report. The pattern of this particular release has been the same: headline number is great, raw data is disappointing. How does the jobs report affect stocks?

KUCHING: Thursday marked the start of the Chinese New Year, which fell under the sign of the rabbit – one of 12 astrological symbols representing each of the 12-year zodiac cycle in the Chinese calendar.

A growing number of previously bearish advisers are now forecasting that the stock market will be strong over the next several weeks and months, thereby postponing the more major trouble that they were otherwise envisioning. …

This has been a stealth bull market, said Jeremy Siegel, professor of finance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, in his luncheon keynote presentation at the TD Ameritrade Institutional national conference in …

Update on Alloy Steel InternationalGuruFocus.comThat seems like an attractive valuation to me, even given the current secular bear market. [/quote]A few weeks after I wrote that, on September 27th, …
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