On the first front, Trimtabs.com reports corporate insider buying at levels not seen since 2008.
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TrimTabs tracks in real time new inflows into U.S. equity mutual funds and exchange-traded funds.
Charles Biderman is president and CEO of TrimTabs Investment Research and portfolio manager of TrimTabs Float Shrink ETF.
TrimTabs says estimates using tax deposits are historically more accurate than initial estimates from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
But based on non-seasonally adjusted BLS data and real-time employment indicators, TrimTabs estimates that job growth was 147, 000 jobs.
On the other hand, TrimTabs has been estimating about 100, 000 new February jobs.
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Mr. CONRAD GANN (Chief Operating Officer, TrimTabs): There are a number of prominent firms that are down 20, 25 percent.
"The expectations of a big exodus from bonds are way overblown, " says David Santschi, CEO of TrimTabs Investment Research, a fund-tracking firm.
TrimTabs research indicates that short interest is a solid contrary indicator, so the plunge in short interest since late September is a bearish sign.
To review, Madeline Schnapp at TrimTabs estimated 116, 000 new April jobs based upon analysis of daily income and employment taxes collected by the U.S. Treasury.
Charles Biderman is founder and CEO of TrimTabs Investment Research.
David Santschi is executive vice president at TrimTabs Investment Research.
Charles Biderman is president and CEO of TrimTabs Investment Research.
For the record, we at TrimTabs track daily Treasury collections of withheld income and employment taxes and adjust for changes in tax rates to estimate real time wages and salaries.
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Separately, TrimTabs Investment Research forecast that only 38, 000 new jobs were added last month, well below the median forecast of 155, 000 jobs that economists are expecting in Friday's nonfarm payrolls report.
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