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This is a guest post by Barry Ritholtz, editor of The Big Picture Blog and author of the popular book, Bailout Nation.

OK, it’s time for round 2, Shedlock vs. Ritholtz.

You may recall that last time, Mish & I disagreed as to whether this was a recession (Me) or a depression (He). This time, the debate is over the current rally.

On Monday this week on Yahoo Tech Ticker, I discussed that we did not see evidence that the rally was ending (see “Rally May Only Be in 6th or 7th Inning, Ritholtz Says“).

Shedlock pens a response - “Rally in 6th Inning or Top of the 12th?” - and discusses the reasons he thinks the market rally should be ending soon: “The flip side of the coin is this market has advanced so far, so

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This post provides links to a number of interesting articles I have read over the past few days that you may also enjoy.

• Spencer (Angry Bear): Stock market when EPS growth turns positive, September 18, 2009. Unless the economy-market is on the verge of a major unforeseen calamity S&P 500 earnings per share growth will turn positive in the fourth quarter. Generally analysts are positive on the market because they expect very strong earnings growth in 2010. This will be the twelfth time since 1950 that earnings growth has turned positive.

• Jennifer Hughes (Financial Times): Risks of treading in the tracks of fallen angels, September 19, 2009. Talk about recovery and equity, not bond markets, are the classic upside bet. But this is not likely to be a strong, rapid recovery; instead, most economists are forecasting something far more tentative and

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Always worthwhile listening to, Evy Hambro, managing director at Blackrock and co-fund manager of the Blackrock Gold and General Fund, says the most important driver for the climb in gold prices has been the declining trend in production. Prices need to rise further before mining companies will think it will pay to invest in building new mines.

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Source: Financial Times, September 18, 2009.

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Source: by David Waisglass and Gordon Coulthart, September 17, 2009.

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By now we’ve all heard of Amazon’s near-billion dollar acquisition of Zappos which provided a tremendous return to Zappos’ original investors – Sequoia Capital and Venture Frogs. In fact, they only invested $60 million in the company over seven rounds. And, now, they’re sitting on a billion dollar return. How’s that for IRR?

Obviously, this is the magic of venture capital and outside of investing in a publicly traded venture BDC like Harris and Harris (Ticker: TINY), there’s not much we at home investors can do to get in on the ground floor. But, with up and coming retailers, we can still win! Heck, everyone remembers when Zappos was a low-price retailer instead of just a “customer service focused” retailer. Those were good days weren’t they?

Well, it seems a new trend is hitting the web. “Private” members-only luxury sample sale sites.  These retailers focus on getting limited quantities of

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Rockwell Automation Inc. (ROK) recently reiterated its fiscal 2009 guidance of $1.40 to $1.70 per share, which represents a 59% to 66% year-over-year decline in earnings.

Revenue for the year is expected to fall about 24% compared to 2008 due to a significant deceleration in customer demand, increasing uncertainty in the business environment and unfavorable impact of currency translation.

The slowdown in industrial equipment spending seen over the last few quarters is expected to continue in the near term. Moreover, the global economy uncertainty increases the possibility of additional capex cuts by Rockwell’s customers, which would further hurt demand for its products.

The company’s sales depend on the level of global or regional industrial production and the financial performance of major industries that it serves. All the developed markets are expected to witness a negative GDP growth in the near term. Rockwell expects GDP growth in Asia-Pacific, Latin

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