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12/27/11

I hope everyone enjoyed their holiday weekend. I assume many of you are still on vacation but the market is open again so it's back to work.

The last day of trading before Christmas is historically one of the most consistently positive days of the year and it did not disappoint this year. Stocks rallied early, held onto those gains, and gained strength into the close, and the Dow ended the day at the high picking up 124-points. ...

As I suspected, we've embraced the Santa Clause rally in a big way. Our sentiment survey is certainly in-line with the charts this week.



Here they are:




The Top 50 pushed their collective stock allocation from 44.7% last week to a whopping 72.32% for the coming week. This is the largest stock allocation for this group since the week of 9 May ...

12/24/11

Santa Claus Rally Shows Up Right on Queue

Stocks spent the week in a steady, low volume, holiday rally.



For the TSP, the C-fund gained 3.80% on the week, the S-fund was up 3.48%, the I-fund added 2.27%, while the F-fund (bonds) lost 0.62%, and the G-fund was up 0.03%.



For the month, ...

By Ohmygov.com's Bureaupat



Dear Bureaupat,

Where do I get the 2012 federal pay calendar?

Dear Looking Ahead,
As a government employee, you know all too well that death and taxes are the only sure things in life. But you're also familiar with one of the pleasant events that is almost a sure thing: getting paid for your government job.

Aside from the ...

Officially, the period for a Santa Clause rally began today and lasts through the first two trading days of January. And right now we are ahead of schedule, given the rally started three days early.



Bearish? Or opportunity for out-sized gains?

Part of the reason for the follow through today was attributed to an agreement in Congress to approve a two-month extension of the payroll tax cut and unemployment benefits.
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