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The following is an excerpt from Tuesday’s FindLeadingStocks.com intra-week update. It was sent to all our members in the middle of the trading day:
Market Update:

The following is an excerpt from Tuesday’s FindLeadingStocks.com intra-week update. It was sent to all our members in the middle of the trading day:
Market Update:

Join Our Free Newsletter & Get Powerful Ideas Delivered To Your Inbox Coutesty of WSJ By Josh Mitchell and Jeffrey Sparshott The U.S. government shutdown will halt releases of most official gauges of the economy. Private organizations produce some measures that could be used to track the economy, such as gauges from the Institute for Supply…


We do not think the Fed will taper in 2013 and here’s why: 1. Neither of the Fed’s targets have been met: A. Unemployment rate drops below 7% AND (not or) B. Inflation rises to 2%. Actually, one could argue that deflation is more of a concern right now than inflation. 2. Yellen’s In, Bernanke’s Out: Another…

Zero-sum Game: Websters.com defines a Zero-sum game as: a game in which the sum of the winnings and losses of the various players is always zero. Origin: 1940–45 Myth: Investing IS a Zero-sum game Wall Street in and of itself is filled with countless “myths” largely because so many people, even the so-called professionals, simply do not understand it. One of these myths is that investing is a zero-sum game and we would…

It seems like the entire world is focusing on the 2009 U.S. holiday shopping season. Around this time each year, the media, clients and friends ask us countless questions on the subject. Most people want to know what a so-called “expert” thinks will happen on any given event. Predicting the future is impossible because the simple truth is that no one really knows what will happen. Instead, these “experts” offer their opinion which at times will be correct and other times will be incorrect. After all, we all know how valuable opinions are, right?

Steel Stocks Are Used To Build “Stuff”: We are seeing something bullish occurring on Wall Street, large amounts of institutional capital is flowing into steel stocks. Steel stocks serve as a good “tell” for the U.S. and global economy. Since steel is used to build “stuff” steel stocks tend to rally when the market believes the economy…