Tim Iacono U.S. markets are off their lows, but they don’t appear headed back to where they started, the nearly 300 point downward excursion for the Dow reminiscent of late-2008 when moves of this magnitude were almost commonplace. According to this report at CNBC, Dr. Marc Faber thinks Fed Chief Ben Bernanke’s money printing finger might already...

by Karl Denninger Beware the Ides of March? Oh, probably not.  The bad stuff already happened. Let’s recap in terms of where we are. First, the good news.  The second plant, containing four reactors about a dozen or so kilometers from the one that has been the subject of all the reporting, has reached cold shutdown on all four reactors. The...

by CalculatedRisk from the NY Fed: Empire State Manufacturing Survey The Empire State Manufacturing Survey indicates that conditions for New York manufacturers continued to improve in March. The general business conditions index inched up 2 points, to 17.5. The new orders and shipments indexes fell but remained above zero, while the unfilled orders...

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by Tyler Durden Marc Faber appeared earlier on CNBC in response to a plunging market, and gave his latest updated outlook on QE3… and 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 (not to mention 18). “We may drop 10 to 15 percent. Then QE 2 will come, (then) QE 4, QE 5, QE 6, QE 7—whatever you want. The money printer will continue to print, that I’m sure....

Courtesy of Joshua M Brown, The Reformed Broker The big question on investors’ minds is whether or no Japan’s damaged reactors go into full meltdown or not.  The ramifications for the prospects of uranium stocks and nuclear plant builders are huge.  I’m in Cameco ($CCJ) right now which is the largest, highest quality uranium miner and is...

John Thomas It may seem hard-hearted to consider economic consequences when the dead are yet to be cremated; yet, as long as markets never rest, not shall we. Did you know 95% of the financial risk from Japanese earthquakes is outside Japan? Japanese law requires 95% of commercial earthquake insurance policies to be written outside of the country,...

By Phil Davis of Phil’s Stock World Japan’s quake on Friday was powerful enough to shift the whole island by 8 feet!Despite the land movement, most of the damage was done by the 20-foot tsunami that hit the nation afterwards, much like the 2004 tsunami that killed over 200,000 people in Indonesia. The media is still banging the nuclear fear...

Gold Scents This is for all you folks out there with retirement accounts in the general stock market. I’ve been warning for many months that the cyclical bull we’ve been in for almost two years is still just a counter trend rally in anongoing secular bear market. I made that same warning about the last cyclical bull market from `02 to...

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From: John Thomas The Mad Hedge Fund Trader I just got off the phone with several frightened, somewhat dazed survivors of the Japanese earthquake who work in the financial markets, and I thought it important to immediately pass on what they said. Some were clearly terrified. Japan’s economic outlook now appears far...

From: John Thomas The Mad Hedge Fund Trader During my ten years in Japan, I suffered through many earthquakes. One shaker caught me on the 20th floor of the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan, where the building swayed two feet on either side and I saw my life flash before me. The staff started throwing up from...

The past couple weeks have been choppy in the equities market. While the strong intraday moves are great for day traders, it is extremely difficult for swing/position traders who normally hold positions for 3-60 days in length, which is my focus with this newsletter. That being said, we are reaching a do or die point for the equities market and next...

by Tyler Durden The world’s most (in)famous hacker group – Anonymous – known for effectively shutting down their hacking nemesis security firm (with clients such as Morgan Stanley and, unfortunately for them, Bank of America)- HBGary, advocating the cause of Wikileaks, and the threat made by one of its members that evidence of fraud...

By Doug Casey, The Casey Report For some time I’ve been saying that the economy is in the “eye of the storm” and that when it emerged, the weather would be far rougher than in 2008. The trillions of currency units created since the Greater Depression began in 2007 have papered over the situation, but only temporarily. In some ways, the immediate...