Friday, October 28, 2011

The Market On Friday

Good morning and welcome to the weekend. It is 28 degrees and sunny here in Upstate NY. Clearly this is the coldest day yet in this season and we are also seeing snow on the ground from yesterday's ultra premature snowstorm. I must admit it is rather beautiful, but it could have waited till around December 25th which is when it normally starts to snow - really. On a separate track - we are doing more preparations for the arrival of our new dog tomorrow. It will be great to have a dog here, its been a year since Mitchel passed away.

At 8:15 a.m. futures are moderately down, the dollar is mixed, and oil is down.

Today we are back to concerns about the Euro debt crisis. The plan came in yesterday, caused a sensation with the market literally jumping up, and now its wait a minute - is this thing for real. Smelled this one coming three days ago.

Notice that corporations keep announcing deep layoffs. Whirlpool is announcing a 5,000 worker layoff. The job creators are not creating jobs and this is getting downright ridiculous. Expect to see communes popping up all over the place where people learn how to survive in little packs growing their own food and building houses out of remnants. Seriously, its either that or we become a nation of individualist criminals robbing each other and scurrying away.

CNN: Stocks: Investors take a step back
Details about the (Eurozone debt) plan remain sketchy and doubts are creeping in.


Shares of Whirlpool tumbled 14% after the company said it plans to cut about 5,000 jobs in North America and Europe.


Oil for December delivery slipped $1.37 to $92.59 a barrel.

3 comments:

Glynn Kalara said...

The super wealthy are ironically doing to society what Tim Leary tried to do with acid. They're firing so many people they're causing millions to be "kicked out." Tim said turn on, tune in and drop out. The 1% are saying get lost and drop out of sight, permanently.

Jim Sande said...

Maybe its the rich who are putting out the new rash of zombie movies. Its them against us, except we are their zombies.

Glynn Kalara said...

Yea, they seem to living out their fantasy of getting rid of all of us through all the post-Apocalypse movies these days. Its a genre.