Hooray for the brain-dead mutual fund assembly line!
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Yet unlike large pension funds, which have powerful consultants to keep institutional fund managers in line, individual investors have no means of discouraging such capriciousness.
They say it would make default easier and, whatever the Fund's official line, would increase the power of an institution that is driven by politics more than economics.
As the fund made lower lows (line D), volume decreased, as evidenced by comparing the levels at points 2 and 3.
Illinois received a chunk to help fund a Chicago to St Louis line.
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The bottom line is that hedge fund and private equity moguls will continue to be taxed relatively lightly after the new fiscal cliff legislation.
To qualify for the fund's new flexible credit line, Argentina would have to clean up its statistics office, which is run by nominees of Mr Kirchner, not the economy minister.
Valdez also discussed an innovative option his firm is pioneering to give clients an alternative to the typical operating line of credit: In these cases, Pavestone will pool the customer invoices into a fund that becomes the functional equivalent of a traditional line of credit.
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Other analysts are known to have published reports praising companies to the skies, and then tell fund managers who ring up for more information to call back on a private mobile number - so the analysts can tell the fund manager (on a phone line that is not being tape recorded) to ignore the report and avoid the stock like plague.
This is what was observed in DIA, as volume was in a clear downtrend, line g, as the fund moved higher.
Chart Analysis : The iShares MSCI Brazil Index Fund ( EWZ) dropped below trend line support, line b, on Thursday, although it did rebound on Friday.
The agreement also states that financial support to Spain's banks will be funded by the EFSF until the new bailout fund, the ESM, comes on line next month.
The California Public Employees' Retirement System was recently ensnared in a scandal involving former directors who received millions of dollars from money managers to line up contracts with the fund.
However, Ireland is still reliant on loans from the ECB to its banks, from the EU to its government and would like ECB to use its OMT program to buy its bonds and perhaps arrange a precautionary credit line with the new bailout fund, the ESM.
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Even as the Group of 7 nations avoided a WTO-style contest for IMF head, America may pursue its own line on the future of the Fund, not to mention other multilateral lending agencies.
The story line is based on data on mutual fund sales from the Investment Company Institute.
France's 1.4% forecast for this year's growth is in line with that of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
The Fund's negotiators have deliberately adopted a tough line, insisting on important economic and financial reforms as a precondition for further help.
The iShares MSCI Italy Index Fund ( EWI) gapped through its daily uptrend, line a, on Monday.
The reality on the ground is that many councils are struggling with trying to bring budgets into line with what central government is prepared to fund.
The fund is up 13 percent year to date, closely in line with the MSCI Emerging Markets index.
Leavy suggests the portfolio holdings of the BlackRock Equity Dividend Fund(MADVX) includes shares that should appreciate in line with his credo.
But Europe's bail-out fund is not big enough to handle the country next in line: Spain, the euro's fourth-biggest economy, with a GDP bigger than Greece, Ireland and Portugal combined.
He used to be in charge at Geron and helped fund the research which led to first human embryonic stem cell line being created in 1998 and now heads another company, BioTime.
Unlike the Fund's existing Supplementary Reserve Facility and new Contingency Credit Line, access to the contagion facility would require an explicit finding by a qualified majority of creditor countries that the crisis was systemic.
This latest product falls in line with a growing narrative among big emerging market fund managers that China is no longer a pure play export market, but is on the verge of becoming a consumer market.
Other common sense changes from No Labels include requiring political parties, not the taxpayers, to pay for presidential fund-raising trips, allowing the President a form of line item veto, and giving the President power to re-organize government agencies.
The bottom line: I am not sure what value a hedge fund is seeing into Netflix.
The reason is that, in the fund-management business, revenues and costs easily get out of line when markets head down.
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