The Return of the ‘Debasement Trade’
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Although Citigroup and International Business Machines put in solid gains, they couldn’t stop the Dow Jones Industrial Average from falling below 13,000 for the first time in three months, while nonmember E*Trade Financial was sliced in half, and then some. The industrial average was strong early on, but “the action was just a bounce, and tech continued to be a huge drag,” the president of Heritage Capital LLC, Paul Schatz, said. “But the extreme downside momentum we’ve seen has shown itself in the past to be unsustainable and we’re coming into a seasonably strong period, so my feeling is stocks should soon find footing.”
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|Although Citigroup and International Business Machines put in solid gains, they couldn’t stop the Dow Jones Industrial Average from falling below 13,000 for the first time in three months, while nonmember E*Trade Financial was sliced in half, and then some. The industrial average was strong early on, but “the action was just a bounce, and tech continued to be a huge drag,” the president of Heritage Capital LLC, Paul Schatz, said. “But the extreme downside momentum we’ve seen has shown itself in the past to be unsustainable and we’re coming into a seasonably strong period, so my feeling is stocks should soon find footing.”
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