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This week’s sentiment reading is 46% bulls to 42% bears vs. 37% bulls to 54% bears the previous week. That’s more bulls and less bears. This is a modestly bullish reading. But what really has my interest this week is the data from the Auto-Tracker (Total Tracker). Here is this week's charts:



No signal from the Top 50 this week. For the new trading week, total stock allocations dipped by just 0.2% to a total stock allocation of 86.8%. ...

Stocks were relatively flat on Friday but it was a wild day to end the week. The jobs report was a disappointment with over 10,000 fewer jobs being created in August than was expected, and there were also downward revisions made to both June and July's report. The good news is, the unemployment rate dropped to 7.3%. The bad news is it was mostly because 300,000 people stopped looking and left the workforce.

A simple example of why that lowers ...

09/06/13

Update 9:30 AM ET: The August Jobs report comes in at +169,000 jobs vs. 177,000 estimate. Unemployment rate drops to 7.3% vs. 7.4% estimate. June and July were revised lower by 74,000 revision. The labor force participation rate fell to 63.2%, the lowest level since the summer of 1978, which was why the unemployment rate fell to 7.3%

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Stocks spiked up early ...

TSP Talk Sentiment Survey results for the week of 9/09/13- 9/13/13

The TSP Talk Sentiment Survey came in at 46% bulls, 42% bears.

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09/05/13

Stocks opened slightly lower yesterday, but buyers were right there to pick up the pieces and the indices surged into the afternoon. They held onto those gains for most of the day and closed near the highs. The Dow gained 97-points while ...