What saves the stock market from the macro mugwumps it wallows in?
Even my beloved Emerging Market Consumer ETF (NYSE: ECON) , which should be fairly insulated from the macro issues emanating from Europe, is down 7 percent year to date.
By shifting your thinking away from the macro issues and moving your focus to issues you are able to improve, you are taking control of your financial life in the only way you are able.
For a number of years I managed national advertising for a Fortune 500 life insurance company and we spent a great deal of painstaking time and effort reaching our vast target audience, essentially going from the macro to the micro.
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Here, the ski mommy bloggers are effectively going from the micro to the macro, connecting with individuals while also getting out their message to the broader universe.
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Many of our economic actions, our interventions, whether it's housing, financial markets, certainly the Recovery Act as we're talking about today, along with actions of the Fed, have certainly helped to pull the economy back from the brink, such that the macro-economy is in a much better place than it was.
While the hard disk drive shortage had disrupted the PC market last year, the macro headwinds, cannibalization threat from tablets and the upcoming Windows 8 operating system lunch has further slowed down the PC growth rate this year.
The macro news from Japan has been bad lately, and it is certain to get worse.
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Closer to home, a couple of earnings reports from retailers created some consternation for the macro crowd.
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Most of the risk in Brazil stems from political interference in the economy through a myriad of surprise macro measures such as taxation on investment, to monetary policy related to the foreign exchange rate.
Despite the eroding macro landscape and the fact that default rates are up from the near-record lows of late 2011, managers are hardly channeling Chicken Little.
Banco Macro and Bancolombia hail from the Banks-Foreign industry group, ranked No. 2 among the 197 groups IBD tracks.
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Rangan also notes that the company gets about 40% of revenues from the EU, where he sees ongoing macro risk.
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Jackson, as opposed to Chanos, is very bullish on China from a macro perspective and even visited the country to verify his position.
One is the macro view that comes from within the Central Banks, Finance Ministries and multilateral institutions of the world like the International Monetary Fund.
Stocks are falling around the globe as traders and investors are barraged with the horrific, disturbing scenes from Japan and the endless discussion of what the disaster means to the macro view.
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Additionally, the WG-3's category defining Digital Microscope mode and six LED lights surrounding the lens barrel enable focusing as close as one centimeter from the subject producing bright, shadow-free macro images.
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Look at it from a macro perspective, and you can follow the jet plumes of a new generation criss-crossing the earth, curious about new cultures near and far.
High levels of homeownership are also going to mean implicitly stronger support for macro-stabilization, at least away from the zero lower bound.
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From an investment perspective, even strong companies working in the right macro conditions are a bad bet if their shares are too costly.
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Nevertheless, with improving macro conditions, increasing demand from emerging economies and the introduction of new convertible and hybrid designs, we forecast the rate of decline in global PC demand to drop down in the future.
Nevertheless, with improving macro conditions, increasing demand from emerging economies and the introduction of new ultrabooks, convertibles and touch-enabled designs, we forecast the rate of decline in global PC demand to drop in the future.
With indices extended from moving averages, perhaps you trim and trail some positions, but the macro thesis obviously remains intact.
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It is only by adopting a macro perspective across the entire array of work to be done from the customer perspective that sensible decisions can be made.
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The macro economic condition that set up the crisis stemmed in part from policy choices: the Federal Reserve ignored the housing bubble and kept short-term interest rates too low for too long.
One way of describing the evolution of our political and economic models is as a macro trend from selfishness to selflessness.
With the macro situation improving, we expect Cisco to benefit a lot more from the long-term growth trends of data demand and cloud computing, which continue to remain sharp.
With that said, we would note that Microsoft likely benefited from deals that pushed from the June quarter to September, which could help to offset some softness due to the macro backdrop.
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There's also optical image stabilization and a Super Macro mode that lets you shoot subjects that are just 0.39 inch from the lens.
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