Retail Data Surprises, The Bull is Back

Are you about to choke me yet?

This morning the market opened to a artificial beautiful gap to the up side as retail sales came in strong. The sad part is that no one cares, or should care…

It doesn’t take a great economist to figure out that when you give low and middle class Americans (or any person really) $300 - $600 each to spend they are going to spend it.

As a result of our newly found consumer confidence, Wal-Market (WMT) shares are up again today and are ironically enough trading at highs not seen since 2004. Rally on my friends, rally on…

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(As of this post the NASDAQ is up 1.22% and has found resistance at the 50 day moving average. High on session thus far is 2432.88.)


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-- Posted by Blain Reinkensmeyer on June 12, 2008 at 10:50 am --

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Comments on "Retail Data Surprises, The Bull is Back" are closed unless our forms appear below.
2008-06-12 12:03:12

[...] US stock market is on the rise this morning, thanks to some positive economic news. Retail sales data is in, and it looks like numbers are up for [...]

 
Comment by marketfolly Subscribed to comments via email
2008-06-12 20:09:09

yea love WMT regardless just due to the economic environment. only retailer i’ll touch with a ten foot pole.

 
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