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Serious Money: Jumpy stock market but Special 'K' doing fine

Posted Nov 2nd 2009 2:20PM by Sheldon Liber (RSS feed)
Filed under: Major Movement, Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades, Rants and Raves, Ford Motor (F), CIT Group (CIT), Kellogg Co (K), Serious Money, Headline News, DJIA, Federal Reserve, Vanguard Total Bond Market (BND)

What a week it was and it is starting off with more of the same! The day before Halloween the market gets spooked. The Dow drops 200 one day, rises 200 the next, and falls 250 to close the week. Yes, financial pundits could point to meaningful stories about the dollars rise, consumer spending sagging, the recession ending and so forth to explain market reactions but there is more to it than that.

Even among the 15 positions discussed in Where should granny put $50,000? only the Vanguard Total Bond Market exchange-traded fund (NYSE: BND) and the Kellogg Co (NYSE: K) were up last Friday. Good thing I advised "granny" to put half her funds in the ETF.

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Bad September, good Q3 for consumer spending, what's next?

Posted Oct 31st 2009 11:40AM by Tom Johansmeyer (RSS feed)
Filed under: Kellogg Co (K), Colgate-Palmolive (CL), Procter and Gamble (PG), Economic Data

Consumer spending had its largest fall this year, thanks to the end of the "Cash for Clunkers" program. And, incomes were flat. No change to the money coming in and a drop in the cash going out translates to an impediment to economic recovery.

In September, consumer spending fell 0.5%, the first decline in five months and the worst in nine. Wages and salaries dropped 0.2%, effectively offsetting the 0.2% up-tick in August. The economy did grow in the third quarter of 2009, hinting that the worst recession in 70 years may be coming to a close, but the tough September suggests we still have some work in front of us.

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