pa href=”http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/811qwzLk4TgNj91nFHaoClmEY34/a”img src=”http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/811qwzLk4TgNj91nFHaoClmEY34/i” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/a/pspan class=”Apple-style-span” style=”color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 19px;font-size:13;” ul class=”posts” style=”border-width: 0px; margin: 5px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-type: none; list-style-image: none;”li style=”border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0.25em 1.3em; line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside; text-indent: -15px; background-image: none;”span class=”Apple-style-span” style=”color: rgb(51, 102, 136);”a href=”http://mast-economy.blogspot.com/2009/03/leading-indicators-rise-two-months-in.html” style=”text-decoration: none;”span class=”Apple-style-span” style=”font-weight: bold;”span class=”Apple-style-span” style=”color: rgb(51, 51, 255);”Leading Economic Indicators Rise Two Months In A Row/span/span/abr //span/lili style=”border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0.25em 1.3em; line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside; text-indent: -15px; background-image: none;”span class=”Apple-style-span” style=”line-height: 20px;” Why was this story under-reported? Because the data actually surprised analysts when it came in with a key positive number for the month of January. The Index Of Leading Economic Indicators for the second month in a row showed anspan style=”font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;” increase/span in economic activity./span a style=”color: rgb(51, 51, 255);” href=”http://mast-economy.blogspot.com/2009/03/leading-indicators-rise-two-months-in.html”(full story)/abr //lili style=”border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0.25em 1.3em; line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside; text-indent: -15px; background-image: none;”br //lili style=”border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0.25em 1.3em; line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside; text-indent: -15px; background-image: none;”span class=”Apple-style-span” style=”color: rgb(119, 102, 68);”a href=”http://mast-economy.blogspot.com/2009/03/manufacturing-data-now-trending-toward.html” style=”text-decoration: none;”span class=”Apple-style-span” style=”font-weight: bold;”span class=”Apple-style-span” style=”color: rgb(51, 51, 255);”Manufacturing Data Now Trending Toward Recovery/span/span/abr //span/lili style=”border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0.25em 1.3em; line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside; text-indent: -15px; background-image: none;”span class=”Apple-style-span” style=”color: rgb(51, 102, 136);”span class=”Apple-style-span” style=”color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 20px;” The a href=”http://www.ism.ws/index.cfm” style=”color: rgb(51, 102, 136); text-decoration: none;”Institute for Supply Management/a (ISM) released its manufacturing report on business Monday and there are now bright spots for two months in a row. You’ll remember that the report measures, indexes, and correlates manufacturing activities with other measurement readings from the government and elsewhere. a style=”color: rgb(51, 51, 255);” href=”http://mast-economy.blogspot.com/2009/03/manufacturing-data-now-trending-toward.html”(full story)/abr //span/span/lili style=”border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0.25em 1.3em; line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside; text-indent: -15px; background-image: none;”br //lili style=”border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0.25em 1.3em; line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside; text-indent: -15px; background-image: none;”span class=”Apple-style-span” style=”font-weight: bold;”a href=”http://mast-economy.blogspot.com/2009/03/obama-and-cramer-now-bullish-on-stocks.html” style=”text-decoration: none;”span class=”Apple-style-span” style=”color: rgb(51, 51, 255);”Obama and Cramer Now Bullish on Stocks/span/aspan class=”Apple-style-span” style=”font-weight: normal; line-height: 20px;”/span/span/lili style=”border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0.25em 1.3em; line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside; text-indent: -15px; background-image: none;”span class=”Apple-style-span” style=”font-weight: bold;”span class=”Apple-style-span” style=”font-weight: normal; line-height: 20px;” It was tit for tat between the White House and Jim Cramer the host of a href=”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNBC” title=”CNBC” style=”color: rgb(51, 102, 136); text-decoration: none;”CNBC/a’s ia href=”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Money” title=”Mad Money” style=”color: rgb(51, 102, 136); text-decoration: none;”Mad Money /aa href=”http://mast-economy.blogspot.com/2009/03/obama-and-cramer-now-bullish-on-stocks.html”span style=”font-weight: bold;”(full story)/span/abr //i/span/span/lili style=”border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0.25em 1.3em; line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside; text-indent: -15px; background-image: none;”span class=”Apple-style-span” style=”font-weight: bold;”span class=”Apple-style-span” style=”font-weight: normal; line-height: 20px;”ispan style=”font-weight: bold;”span style=”font-style: italic;”/span/spanbr //i/span/span/lili style=”border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0.25em 1.3em; line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside; text-indent: -15px; background-image: none;”span class=”Apple-style-span” style=”color: rgb(51, 102, 136);”span class=”Apple-style-span” style=”font-weight: bold;”a href=”http://mast-economy.blogspot.com/2009/03/corporate-layoffs-subsiding.html” style=”text-decoration: none;”span class=”Apple-style-span” style=”color: rgb(51, 51, 255);”Corporate Layoffs Subsiding Substantially/span/a/spanbr //span/lili style=”border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0.25em 1.3em; line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside; text-indent: -15px; background-image: none;”span class=”Apple-style-span” style=”font-weight: bold;”span class=”Apple-style-span” style=”font-weight: normal; line-height: 20px;” The good news for jobs this week is that a major study now shows that corporations have either finished their layoffs for now or have significantly curbed those actions. a style=”color: rgb(51, 51, 255);” href=”http://mast-economy.blogspot.com/2009/03/corporate-layoffs-subsiding.html”(full story)/abr //span/span/lili style=”border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0.25em 1.3em; line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside; text-indent: -15px; background-image: none;”br //lili style=”border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0.25em 1.3em; line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside; text-indent: -15px; background-image: none;”span class=”Apple-style-span” style=”color: rgb(51, 102, 136);”a href=”http://mast-economy.blogspot.com/2009/03/retail-growth-is-indeed-leading-us-to.html” style=”text-decoration: none;”span class=”Apple-style-span” style=”font-weight: bold;”span class=”Apple-style-span” style=”color: rgb(51, 51, 255);”Retail Growth is Indeed Leading Us to Recovery/span/span/abr //span/lili style=”border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0.25em 1.3em; line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside; text-indent: -15px; background-image: none;”span class=”Apple-style-span” style=”line-height: 20px;” It came as a huge surprise on just how well a href=”http://www.hispanicbusiness.com/news/2009/3/5/walmart_posts_strong_feb_sales_raises.htm” style=”color: rgb(51, 102, 136); text-decoration: none;”Walmart fared in February./abr /Total sales rose from $27.7B in Jan to $30.0B in Feb. That’s an unheard of 98% annualized clip! a style=”color: rgb(51, 51, 255);” href=”http://mast-economy.blogspot.com/2009/03/retail-growth-is-indeed-leading-us-to.html”(full story)/abr //span/lili style=”border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0.25em 1.3em; line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside; text-indent: -15px; background-image: none;”span class=”Apple-style-span” style=”line-height: 20px;”br //span/lili style=”border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0.25em 1.3em; line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside; text-indent: -15px; background-image: none;”span class=”Apple-style-span” style=”font-weight: bold;”a href=”http://mast-economy.blogspot.com/2009/03/stock-market-chart-for-2009-2010.html” style=”text-decoration: none;”span class=”Apple-style-span” style=”color: rgb(51, 51, 255);”The Stock Market Chart for 2009 – 2010/span/a/spanbr //lili style=”border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0.25em 1.3em; line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside; text-indent: -15px; background-image: none;”span class=”Apple-style-span” style=”font-weight: bold;”span class=”Apple-style-span” style=”font-weight: normal; line-height: 20px;” Here you are: the stock market chart for 2009 to 2010… a style=”color: rgb(51, 51, 255);” href=”http://mast-economy.blogspot.com/2009/03/stock-market-chart-for-2009-2010.html”(full story)/abr //span/span/lili style=”border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0.25em 1.3em; line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside; text-indent: -15px; background-image: none;”span class=”Apple-style-span” style=”font-weight: bold;”br //span/li/ul/spandiv class=”blogger-post-footer”div/div
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