The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury is at 4.8%, down from 4.96% on Monday, an indication that investors are stampeding to the relative safety of U.S. government debt and away from corporate bonds rated Baa, whose yields have risen from 117 points above the 10-year Treasury at the end of last year to 134 above the mark as of Monday.
On the same date that the dual moving averages shows a very clear buy signal, the ADX is falling at 18.64, having crossed above the 20 mark the previous week.
Elsewhere, Japan's Nikkei has climbed above the 10000 mark and Germany's DAX is above the 7000 level.
The small-cap index remains above the 700 mark, which is the site of its 60-month moving average (equivalent to a five-year moving average).
The purchasing managers index, a measure of economic expansion and contraction, reached 50.9 in March, slightly above the equilibrium mark of 50.
In a May 21, 1985 appearance on the Financial News Network, a precursor to CNBC, I discussed a chart very similar to the one above of the Deutsche mark futures contract traded on the CME.
City environmental bureau readings showed 2.5 microgram pollution levels well above the 200 mark in most parts of the city at midday on Sunday, but these were well below the readings of 700 seen in January.
The number of people using Facebook has risen above the 20 million mark this year in the UK and 200 million around the world.
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Moreover, while the Federal Reserve has stopped cutting its key interest rate target for the time being, the central bank does not show any signs of raising rates above the 2% mark any time soon--a good indication of the dollar's relative weakness.
The Nikkei Stock Average jumped 3.5% on its first trading day after the four-day Golden Week break, climbing above the 14, 000 mark for the first time since June 2008.
The Nikkei Stock Average jumped 3.6% to 14180.24 on its first trading day after the four-day Golden Week break, climbing above the 14, 000 mark for the first time since June 2008.
But the fickle nature of commodity trading has derailed yield-hungry ambitions across the currency world leaving a question mark above the rationale or at least the desire among central bankers to shift policy in order to address temporary price spikes.
"Michelin stands out as the most obvious beneficiary, and we believe the company should easily achieve clean margins above the 10% mark in 2007, " he said.
The ISM reported a reading of 61.2% in March, down from 61.4% in February, but still steadily above the 50% mark that indicates that manufacturing is expanding.
This is where four of the five criteria above fall seriously short of the mark.
Complacency has been broken in European markets over the past few days, as yields on benchmark 10-year bonds in Spain and Italy shot up, with the former currently standing above the psychologically important 5% mark, and the latter closing in.
Japan's Nikkei has continued its surge, rising above the 14, 000 mark for the first time since June 2008.
On Wall Street, for comparison's sake, almost exactly a year ago, the Dow finished at an all-time high, above the 14, 000 mark.
Berm crest: ridge of sand or gravel deposited by wave action on the shore just above the normal high water mark.
Wednesday's data encouraged a further rally on stock markets that saw the Dow Jones Industrial Average rise 0.75%, taking it just above the 14, 000 mark once again.
But it is banking on regional parties, mainly Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party which together have 43 members, to help it keep above the half-way mark of 270 in the 540 member house.
But perhaps it was simply that he wanted to appear presidential and above petty argument, but missed the mark by enough to seem disengaged and aloof.
Two standard deviations above the historical average is 50.7%, and levels above that mark are outliers.
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The jet stream consists of strong winds about 10 miles above the Earth that control storm paths and mark boundaries between cooler and warmer air.
As the data shows, the only 3 games in Week 6 that see a mark-up greater than 200% above face are games involving the Packers, Cowboys, and Patriots as the visiting team.
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Released Thursday, the latest data show the index just shy of the all-time high mark hit back in February, 26% above its measure a year ago. (Read On The Verge Of A Global Food Crisis).
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Thack Moor in the North Pennines, about 12 miles north of Penrith, is 2cm above the 609.6m (2, 000ft) mark that signifies mountain status by Ordnance Survey's (OS) definition.
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Of the eight CEE countries still outside, all bar Poland and the Czech Republic missed the mark on inflation, which was supposed to be no more than 1.5 percentage points above the average of the three EU countries with the lowest rate.
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If temperatures continue to hit 100 degrees or more by Saturday, Dallas will have set a record -- becoming the first city to mark 43 consecutive days of temperatures above 100 degrees.
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell below 10, 000 for the first time in four months, but then inched back above this mark.
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