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| Dow | 8280.74 | -223.32 |
| S&P 500 | 896.42 | -26.91 |
| Nasdaq | 1796.52 | -49.20 |
| 10 Yr. % | 3.495 | -0.049 |
Live Stock Quotes
- July 3, 3:00 pm: Outspoken market strategist David Rosenberg laughs off the idea that Thursday's weak employment numbers were a one-off: "At no time in the 1990 or 2001 recessions did we ever come close to seeing such a detonating jobs figure, not even at the depths of those downturns, and yet we have a whole industry of ‘green shoot’ advocates today telling us that the recovery has already arrived."
1 comment!- July 3, 12:48 pm: Fearmongering about the risk of looming hyperinflation is exactly what the Fed wants. "The major danger with a zero lower bound for the interest rate," Swedish policy-wonk Lars Svensson says (.pdf), "is that inflation expectations will be too low and even negative, and that the real interest rate will thus become too high."
5 comments!- July 3, 10:00 am: If it wasn't clear until now, Paul Krugman says Thursday's payroll data settles it: We’re going to need a bigger stimulus. "What I don’t know," he writes, "is whether the administration has faced up to the inadequacy of what it has done so far."
26 comments!- July 3, 8:28 am: Investors keen to make the worst of the bad news: "Now that summer has settled in the mood has changed. Investors are no longer ignoring sell signals; they are seeking them out."
5 comments!- July 3, 7:19 am: Chip sales were up 5.4% in May, the third straight month of sequential gains, giving SIA president George Scalise reason for 'cautious optimism.' Still, compared to last year sales were down 23.2%.
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