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In the week ending April 9, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 412,000, an increase of 27,000 of your previous week's revised figure of 385,000. The 4-week moving average was 395,750, an increase of 5,500 from past week's revised average of 390,250.



To contrast with yesterday's post along the direction of the us Dollar, I've noted a video discussing a continued rally in '09. The video is from Greenrush Capital Management.

Well go forward 10 years and it seems the boys from LTCM have not learned their lesson regarding leverage. The same boys now run JWM Partners LLC. Their biggest hedge fund is down 26% in 2008. JWM lost higher one-fourth associated with investor's money, more than $300 billion. What is ironic is that this group is made up of some among the smartest within investment continents. Both Robert Merton and Myron Scholes, won the Nobel Prize for economic sciences while at LTCM. Computer algorithms were used while risk management and cash management negated.

Aircraft leasing company Air Lease(AL_) was up 9.2% to $24.97 after announcing that like those on issued $120 million in senior unsecured notes in the private placement to institutional investors. The company said that was part of their move to invest in future fleet acquisitions.

The International Monetary Fund and World Bank were created in the 1940's. It is going into the concept of Economic Hitmen (a whole book unto itself). He downplays really should physical violence and highlights the role of Hedge Funds. There was no importance of real hitmen - governments did what they were told because of this vast sums of money involved.

U.S. stocks closed Wednesday trading session lower with losses a financial sector partly offset by gains in energy source. The Down Jones Industrial Average closed down at 10,835.28, the S&P 500 dropped 0.3% to 1,144.73, along with the Nasdaq Composite ended down 0.1% to 2,376.56.

"The risks are that the U.S. consumer recession is deeper than anticipated. To would be increasing their U.S. exposure as customer outlook is deteriorating," said Richard Morris, a fund manager with Constellation Capital Management, which does not own Westfield shares.

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