MarketWatch Shri Navaratnam and Wei-Zhe Tan HONG KONG (MarketWatch) ? Japanese stocks rose for a third straight session Wednesday as a weaker yen spurred exporters while Chinese shares advanced on metal and automobile companies after the latest inflation data eased worries about monetary tightening from Beijing But not all stocks in the region ended on a high note with South Korean stocks declining as shipbuilding petrochemical and automobile stocks lost ground on continued foreign selling The Nikkei Stock Average /quotes/zigman/5986735 -275% rose 06% in Tokyo stretching its rally in spite of an overnight fall on Wall Street as exporters took heart from the yen?s fall against the dollar on Tuesday The Nikkei is the best performing major Asian benchmark so far in 2011 with a gain of 57% as of Wednesday?s close ?The fact that shares are clinging to such high levels signifies the strong buying momentum of foreign investors? said Okasan Securities strategist Hideyuki Ishiguro The dollar rose to a nearly two-month high of 8393 mainly on brightening US economic prospects for 2011 More recently the greenback was fetching 8374 from 8378 in New York late Tuesday Daihatsu Motor Co /quotes/zigman/192418 -185% /quotes/zigman/192424/quotes/nls/dhtmf -753% ?a unit of Toyota Motor Corp. rose 2% after the Nikkei newspaper reported the Japanese company will begin production of low-priced compact cars in Indonesia Many other exporters were also rallying with Sony Corp /quotes/zigman/197500 -112% /quotes/zigman/197524/quotes/nls/sne +063% climbing 26% Sharp Corp /quotes/zigman/197677/quotes/nls/shcay -133% /quotes/zigman/197304 -168% adding 29% and Nintendo Co /quotes/zigman/128670/quotes/nls/ntdoy -163% /quotes/zigman/195847 -251% jumping 41% Softbank Corp /quotes/zigman/139194 -476% /quotes/zigman/139200/quotes/nls/sftbf -406% rose for a fifth straight session rising 13% in the wake of an announcement Tuesday that the mobile service provider will cooperate with China Mobile /quotes/zigman/263044/quotes/nls/chl -00048% /quotes/zigman/22400 +025% India?s Bharti Airtel -177% and the UK?s Vodafone Group /quotes/zigman/101873/quotes/nls/vod -108% /quotes/zigman/421253 -094% to promote next-generation data-communications technology for mobile phones There were also some losers with Astellas Pharma /quotes/zigman/199638 -221% /quotes/zigman/527481/quotes/nls/alpmy -136% dropping 15% after it withdrew a new drug application in Japan for a circulatory disease medicine Darexaban Meanwhile China?s Shanghai Composite Index /quotes/zigman/1859015 -145% rose 09% Hong Kong?s Hang Seng Index /quotes/zigman/2622475 -060% added 11% encouraged by Tuesday?s milder-than-expected January inflation in China Elsewhere Australia?s S&P/ASX 200 /quotes/zigman/1653884 +025% ended flat South Korea?s Kospi fell 11% Taiwan?s Taiex slipped 01% and India?s Sensex fell 01% in Mumbai afternoon trade Dow Jones Industrial Average /quotes/zigman/627449 +039% futures were up 26 points in screen trade On mainland Chinese bourses Fangda Special Steel /quotes/zigman/1869261 000% spiked 54% after the firm said it expects a nine-fold rise in net profit for 2010 Baoshan Iron & Steel /quotes/zigman/1866975 -170% rose 28% after the company on Tuesday raised prices of its steel products for March delivery Automobile stocks also advanced with CNHTC Jinan Truck rising 79% after the company said that its January sales rose 74% from a year earlier and Beiqi Foton Motor Co /quotes/zigman/1865549 -167% adding 43% ?The upward trend remains intact due to eased tightening concerns? arising from the January inflation data and on the improved liquidity situation said Guodu Securities analyst Zhang Xiang He noted that recent measures by China to cool the property markets have driven some funds into the stock market from the real-estate sector In Hong Kong Angang Steel Co /quotes/zigman/314077/quotes/nls/anggy -099% /quotes/zigman/16855 -171% rose 12% and Maanshan Iron & Steel Co /quotes/zigman/11927 -102% /quotes/zigman/11929/quotes/nls/maanf +435% gained 36% Ping An Insurance Group Co /quotes/zigman/372285/quotes/nls/pngay +132% /quotes/zigman/8216 -078% added 16% after Deutsche Bank upgraded the stock to buy from hold And by all indications ? the Federal Reserve's statement on Thursday the stock market's explosive move higher the rattling of ghostly chains still borne by the gone-but-not-forgotten bond vigilantes ? it is now officially raining Benjamins What has Ben brought The Fed will keep interest rates at historic lows as expected What was somewhat less expected was news that (a) the Federal Reserve will focus its $40 billion a month in future asset purchases on the mortgage-backed securities (MBS) market and (b) the Fed plans to keep monetary policy accommodative through 2015 ? which was widely interpreted to mean that Bernanke's promise of monetary accommodation is essentially open-ended Will this work While hard-money types and political conservatives have earned the most attention with their criticism Bernanke's Fed has received no-less-passionate complaints from those who believe that up until now monetary policy has not done all it could do to improve the job market and bolster the economy But with QE3 now in the game it seems as if much if not all of this has changed Summed up in the words of Slate 's business and economics correspondent Matthew Yglesias "The key thing is that they're no longer saying that accommodative monetary policy is conditional on the recovery being weak Instead interest rates will stay low for a while even after the economy recovers In other words build that apartment building right now" Unfortunately listening to professional money managers squeal like stuck pigs in the wake of the Fed's move to improve the economy remains a painful experience I wasn't quick enough to hit the mute button before the first "Weimar Republic" references starting flying around But if the performance of these guys is anything like their economic acumen no wonder studies continue to remind us that Imagine calling your broker on a day with the Dow up more than 200 points and the S&P 500 at new multi-year highs Instead of telling you how much Apple /quotes/zigman/68270/quotes/nls/aapl -112% he's put in your portfolio or how much he's made you buying financials when they were unloved and underowned your broker instead wants to talk about the price of crude oil in 2013 or the "debasement of the dollar" or some "dumb" thing some "dumb" politician said about taxes Really Thanks for sharing Now about my money that you were supposed to be investing One of my favorite quotes about financial punditry is that the pundits never sound more brilliant and erudite than they do when they are talking down the stock market But often it's just a fancy way of saying "Oops Sorry I missed the move" The stock list Suffice to say that many of the stocks that have made The Stock List roster in recent days were among the big beneficiaries of the market's strong move higher on Thursday and follow-through to the upside today on Friday Among the stocks rallying into strength on Friday that were targeted and tweeted in recent days are Saks /quotes/zigman/234195/quotes/nls/sks 000% up more than 45% since making our roster Tuesday evening and American International Group /quotes/zigman/557836/quotes/nls/aig +010% Shares of AIG are up more than 5% since the stock was targeted and tweeted from after the bell on Monday For more stocks follow The Stock List on Twitter Well,iPad mini ???, says he may be on to something if you look at a that?s been happening over the last four days This indicator warns when more than 22% of traded issues are hitting new highs while another 22% or more are making new lows (Read more on the ) strategist atSchaeffer?s Investment Research just happened to be looking at this very topic and reached a different conclusion from Faber?s He notes that the Dow industrials were up nearly twice as much in 1987 as this year and that the ?masses? are also doing different things right now versus the crash year?Back then ?portfolio insurance? or dynamic hedging was the rage whereby players had concluded they did not need to hedge or buy puts in advance of a market decline ? they would instead buy their protection when and if the market weakened and would add to that protection on further weaknessIn addition to that lack of protection there was a huge bubble in the selling-put premium which basically bet against a crash wiping out many traders in the process?Compare that with today?s ?big trade? ofbuyingvolatility to hedge against potential market losses Now? when stocks rose more than 30% up to the same point.Top-seeded Frenchman Richard Gasquet battled back from a set down to win his third title of the year
who is ranked 10th in the world,shares rose 2%, session. they have dropped enough hints that political gatherings lead to a possible understanding for the future. The Janata Dal (United),iPhone5c ???, News International -- will face the full glare of the world's largely hostile media alone,iPhone5s ???,James's performance was considered accomplished if at times arrogant and brittle. the $7 billion plus in cash that Microsoft is paying for Nokia is equivalent to less than 1/10th the cash that Softee has on the balance sheet right now. Microsoft is still trying to figure out how to sell more than one out of every 25 phones in the smartphone industry.? he asked.
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2013 and will be hosted by Mike Barnes,iPhone4S ???, Research Report On September 25,iPhone5c ??? ????,3810 1.5000 134. so if the required number of minimum 10 participants is to be maintained,iPhone4 ???, Three weeks are not good enough even to make a prêt collection? leave alone couture. MarketWatch NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Retail stocks rose on Thursday after investors digested the Federal Reserve's decision to keep interest rates steady and No 3 US office-supplies retailer OfficeMax Inc's first-quarter profit almost doubled OfficeMax (NYSE
MX) shares rose 12% to $1808 The No 3 US office-supplies chain said Thursday that its first-quarter profit almost doubled aided by higher sales of store brands and improved demand in the US and Mexico markets Net income rose to $248 million or 29 cents a share from $131 million or 17 cents a share a year earlier Sales rose less than 1% to $192 billion from $191 billion Excluding one-time items the company said it would have earned 39 cents a share That topped the 21-cent average estimate of analyst surveyed by FactSet Sales also exceeded the consensus estimate of $191 billion Its larger rivals Staples Inc (NASDAQ:SPLS) and Office Depot Inc (NYSEDP) shares rose 14% and 35% each Office Depot shares had tumbled on Tuesday after its quarterly result fell short of Wall Street expectations Build-A-Bear Workshop Inc (NYSE:BBW) shares jumped 10% to $911 after the retailer of customized stuffed animals reported better-than-expected first-quarter profit Sears Holdings Corp (NASDAQ:SHLD) shares rose 36% Moody's Investors Service raised its ratings outlook for Sears to positive from stable Moody's has a Ba2 corporate family rating on Sears "Sears' low operating profitability which largely drives its credit metrics has the potential to improve given Moody's positive outlook for business conditions in the retail market and more specifically the good performance being demonstrated by the Sears Canada and Kmart franchises" The S&P Retail Index rose 16% to 48612 Deciding once again that the economy remains too fragile for higher interest rates a cautious Federal Reserve kept increases on hold and repeated that conditions requiring low rates were likely to remain for an extended period As expected the Fed also was more upbeat in its statement about the economic outlook saying the economy was continuing to strengthen and that the labor market is beginning to improve The Labor Department said Thursday that the number of people filing first-time claims for jobless benefits declined in the week ended April 24 Children's Place Retail Stores Inc (NASDAQ
LCE) rose less than 1% Its stock declined earlier after it was cut to a hold rating from buy by Stifel Nicolaus & Co "We believe the current share price reflects much of this optimistic outlook for earnings growth with little margin for error" said analyst Richard Jaffe Timberland Co shares rose 15% after the shoe company's first-quarter profit was 19 cents a share above the average estimate of analysts surveyed by FactSet Wal-Mart Stores Inc (NYSE:WMT) shares were up 02% to $5373The chief minister said that he has sent his deputy along with a team of ministers to visit the border area and will be visiting affected villages on Tuesday." Omar said.AAAResearchReports.94% in the S&P 500 during the same period,iPad 2 ???.???????:
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