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Another Terrible Jobs' Report October 2, 2008
A Deep Hole Just Got A Lot Deeper
by William Schmidt, Ph.D. - Author of
TigerSoft
"Official" unemployment rose much more than expected. It is now the
highest
since 2001. The official unemployment rate rose to 6.1%. It does not
include those
who have given up on finding a job and those who have involuntarily taken only
part-time work. Net job losses were worse than expected and worse than the bad
job losses in August. For the 9th straight month the number of jobs in the US
shrunk.
Only government jobs rose. Last month, August, the loss was 84,000
jobs. September's
job loss was 159,000, the biggest monthly loss since 2003. Just to keep up with the
population gains, the country needs 125,000 new jobs a month. The pain was
pervasive,
across almost all major sectors of the economy. The consumer is tapped out. Top-Down
bailout spending has been sold as an aid to freeing up the credit market. But if
people
lose their jobs, the banks won't loan them more money. The TOP-DOWN subsidies
are the biggest scam ever perpetuated on the American people.
For those still working, the pay squeeze has tightened. Employers now have
a large army of unemployed to hire from and threaten their existing workers with.
"Over the last year, the
average hourly pay of rank-and-file workers – roughly 80 percent
of the work force – has risen only 3.4 percent, according to the new numbers. The
average
workweek has also become shorter, so the increase in weekly pay has been even smaller:
only 2.8 percent. Inflation has been running at about 5 percent a year, which means
that the
most workers have taken an effective pay cut over the last year"
(Source: http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/03/jobs-report-underlines-economic-decline/?hp
See also http://money.cnn.com/2008/09/05/markets/stockswatch/index.htm
and
Robert Reich's blog. http://robertreich.blogspot.com/2008/07/terrible-jobs-report.html
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It sure looks and feels like
a recession. Will Bankers' Bailout Help?
The vote at our SD TigerSoft user group
Saturday, was 80% against the bankers'
bailout bill and 20% for it. Confidence is very low in the market. People also now
distrust Wall Street more than ever before in my lifetime. And after this bailout,
they have much lower trust in Congress or the Presidency. If the bailout fails
to get stock prices to rise, so that there can be a "trickle down to main street,
popular faith in our most powerful political and financial institutions will lunge
further.
That is ominous for the stock market.
As a final act of greed, arrogance and stupidity, the Bush government chose to destroy
confidence in the stock market in order to enrich Paulson's buddies and cronies on
Wall Street. Main Street will get precious little except higher taxes to pay for the
$700 billion bailout. That the leading corporate media outlets praised Paulson
should
come as no surprise. They are in financial bed with them. Remember that the
media also called the Iraq War a great patriotic war.
Wall Street Bankers as
Puppet-Master.
That the leading Democrats caved in so quickly,
without a public hearing, proves several things:
that they have no back-bones, that they can be suckered twice (the first being Bush's
assurances
that Iraq had nuclear weapons and was harboring Al Qida) and third, that they are every
bit as
much the puppets of Wall Street as most Republicans. All you have to do is look at
who the
advisers & backers of both McCain and Obama are to see that Wall Street is the master
puppeteer and Obama and McCain are both taking their swings and jabs at each other as
only puppets can.
With fear on the rise, it would be well to look at 1973 and 1974. Both were bear market
years and had declining price channels in the DJI. The declining channels held
repeatedly.
After all, 4 of the 30 DJI stocks are big banks and they are going to get a huge windfall
from
the bailout. But the rest of the market is very weak. No other sector besides
bank stocks
are not down at least 5% for the last month.
Each day our Peerless software gives major Buys and Sells on the general market using
the DJI. The system is back-tested to 1915 Most stocks will move up and down
with it.
If the 10000 level on the DJI is broken and the odds in a bear market are nearly 2:1 that
there
will not be a bottom until November or December is history is our guide, then look for
another 20% drop in the DJI, whereupon the DJI at 8100 will have retraced 50% of what
it has gained since 1990. Is it too late to sell? Subscribe to our Hotline or
get our
Peerless Stock Market Timing Software.
1974 Was A Year When Distrust of Presidency Was Very High.
It was the year of Nixon's impeachment.
What To Buy?
One would think that all this extra indebtedness will make gold rise. Gold
stocks like
Newmont (NM) below will be good buys again. The Closing Power is still
downtrending
and the Accumulation is not yet positive Note how well the Tiger trading system has
done
with NEM.
...
Bush's Tax cuts for the rich and the Iraq War have doubled
the US National Debt to a TRILLION Dollars. The country needs
money for public works (schools, roads, bridges, water treatment,
planting trees and cleaning our parks and water-ways). This would
create millions of jobs. But McCain prefers more military
spending and protecting his rich friends. I ask how much of the tax savings
for the rich actually goes into the US and how much goes overseas?
How long are unemployed people expected to wait for the
"trickle-down" benefits. Waiting until employers decide to employ more
workers
is not necessary. It may takes years, if ever. More and more, the economy
resembles the 1970s and perhaps the 1930s. Demand public works jobs now.
If the cities and states spend it, all of it is spent in the US! The
multiplier effect will work its magic HERE.
Patriotism should not be defined by blindly following those who
would start a wholly un-needed war to enrich their friends. How dare these
self-serving Republicans call themselves patriots? Many of the worst of
the bunch had other priorities, did not join the military themselves, but are
ever so happy to send others' sons and daughters to fight for Big Oil and
zero-competition military contracts! Of course, the corporate media won't
challenge the rich and the powerful.
Obama seems to have the backbone of a jellyfish. So, it's up
to you to make the best of this sad and bad situation. Get TigerSoft
and we will help you. And make your vote in November count for
something.
As you know, too many jobs are being exported
because of how the current
Republican Administration protects corporate profits not American jobs.
See - http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/02/13/opinion/main600351.shtml
http://www.buzzflash.com/store/reviews/572
Sadly, Obama's
stance seems vague, shifty and
guarded,
He has only said that tax breaks must be stopped than
encourage and toys must not have lead in them.
outsourcing.
He wants those corporate campaign contributions!
Cover-Up
The official rate of unemployment
is pure malarkey. Just as the real rate of inflation is.
Did you know that when you have not been working for more than 6 months, the Federal
Government
no longer counts you as unemployed!. You still have bills to pay. You do what
millions do: You take
part-time, low-paying, less paying jobs. You drop your health insurance and stop
going to the
Doctors for checkups! Real wages, are a better measure of the real state
of jobs in the US.
Recent numbers are not available. They are too embarrassing! But despite big
increases in
productivity, real wages have
been declining since 1973.
The "headline payroll does not reflect the real story in the labor
market, which is the alarmingly
rapid rise in unemployment, up 0.7% in just three months. The improvement in private
sector payrolls
in July, by contrast, was statistically insignificant. They fell 76,000 compared to an
average of 95,000
in the past three months. There aren’t many certainties in the economy but we¹d
offer good odds
that this does not mark the start of an improving trend. Slower construction job losses
accounted
for all the shift from June to July, but the service sector was grim, down 5,000 compared
to 24,000
average gains in the previous three months. Hours worked plunged again, down 0.4%.
Overall,
pretty awful, but we’re still waiting for a blockbuster plunge in headline payrolls.
It will happen,
sooner or later." –Ian Shepherdson, High Frequency Economics
( http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2008/08/01/
)
.
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http://www.conference-board.org/economics/ConsumerConfidence.cfm
Job Outsourcing
Job
off-shoring and the illegal misuse of temporaries continue unabated. Anti-unions
companies like Walmart,
Hewlett
Packard and Cannon should be investigated. But they|
are not. IT outsourcing to India and now China is negatively impacting Americans
with a
college education now. See how a leading outsourcing company Hewitt
Associates, HEW,
remains in a strong uptrend despite the bear market elsewhere.
3.3 million jobs will be exported in less than 15 years, according to recent report by
Forrester Research. But the sheer size of the exodus isn't what's worrying analysts the
most
— it's the type of jobs: software development, customer service, accounting,
back-office
support, product development and other white collar endeavors.
See - http://www.pbs.org/now/politics/outsource.html.
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U.S. workers are used to seeing manufacturing jobs lost to much lower wages,
according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the International Labour Organization,
U.S. manufacturing average hourly compensation is $21.33, in Mexico: $2.38 and in
China less than one dollar an hour. It should be noted that while salaries are much lower
in India and other BPO hot spots, that does not mean that the companies are providing
inadequate compensation — the cost of living is significantly lower in India.
However, as
both THE TIMES OF INDIA and THE ECONOMIST have recently noted, some jobs
are in turn leaving India for even cheaper locales. And where are those jobs going? Some
are
heading to China, Russia, Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia, and the Czech Republic.
In short, they are moving toward cheaper labor costs than those in India.
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http://www.pbs.org/now/politics/outsource.html
Outsourcing - The Destruction of American Workers
Some say this is what should be expected in a culture dominated by a
"bought-and-paid-for"
Government when corporate and CEO Greed reaches levels many consider treason.
A Reagan
Assistant Secty. of Treasury says that a bleak trend is afoot. High tech
development and
manufacturing is increasingly being outsourced. "The highly skilled US work
force
is being gradually transformed into the domestic service workforce characteristic of third
world
economies. " Source.
Take Florida for example. "Between 2001 and 2007, 100,900 Florida
jobs were outsourced to various employers in China. In 2007 alone, 17,000 jobs were sent
overseas
to the country. This is even more significant due to the recent report that says that
Florida has lost
over 74,700 jobs since June of 2007 and June of 2008, according to the Miami Herald. Of the jobs
lost to China, 31 percent were previously held by Floridian workers that had at least one
college
degree. Those who lost their jobs due to outsourcing reported making, on average, $8,146 a
year
less with their new employers." Source.
The TigerSoft chart of Placement and Staffing Stocks is testing is recent
lows. Though this
Index tops out ahead of the Job market, it acts mostly as a coincident indicator at
bottoms.
Tech Stocks Have Weakened Again
Use TigerSoft to spot the trends in the NASDAQ-100 (QQQQ).
Right now the QQQQ is weakening as it responds to a red Tiger Sell
signal. The weekly report I do for Elite Subscribers Professionals (ESP)
can find very, very few tech stocks, other than in biotechnology, that
look very good. Most are weakening as the economy slips into what looks
like a long recession. The outlook is not good because of the size of the
US deficits (governmental and trade) and because Republicans' greed
and ideology, coupled with Obama's timidity,. will deny the country what
it so badly needs, a massive public works' program to rebuild our infrastucture
to make for brighter and more productive future.
High
Tech Heavy - NASDAQ-100 10/3/2008
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9/5/2008 Best Performing NASDAQ-100
Stocks:
Up 20% or More in Last 6 Months
PETM Petsmart +45% Phoenix - http://www.petsmart.com
ROST Ross Stores +44% Pleasanton CA http://www.rossstores.com
AMGN Amgen +36% Thousand Oaks
CA http://www.amgen.com Biotech
NIHD NII Holdings +36% Reston, VA http://www.nii.com
NII Holdings, Inc., through its subsidiaries,
provides digital wireless communication services
for businesses and individuals.
AAPL Apple Computer +31% Cupertino http://www.apple.com
FAST Fastenal +29%
Winina, MN http://www.fastenal.com fasteners
CEPH Cephalon +28% Fraxer, PA http://www.cephalon.com Biotech,
BRCM Broadcomm +27% Irvine, CA http://www.broadcom.com
Broadcom Corporation designs, develops, and supplies
semiconductors for wired and wireless
communications markets.
SYMC Symantec +26% Cupertino http://www.symantec.com
computer viri removal
URBN Urban Outfitters +26% Phil. PA http://www.urbanoutfittersinc.com retail stores
ADBE Adobe
+25% San Jose CA http://www.adobe.com
Adobe Systems Incorporated offers business and
mobile software and services worldwide.
Its Creative Solutions segment provides software tools for professional publishing,
Web design and development, professional photography, video production, animation,
and motion graphic production, as well as printing visually rich information
AMZN Amazon +23%
Seattle, WA http://www.amazon.com books
ATVI Activision +23% Santa
Monica http://www.activisionblizzard.com toys
ESRX Express Scripts +22% St.Louis http://www.express-scripts.com pharmacy management
services
APOL Apollo Group +21% Phoenix http://www.apollogrp.edu educ services
Other high Accummulation, Strong Stocks - 7/31/2008
FLIR Systems Inc. 27700A SW Parkway Avenue Wilsonville,
OR 97070
Phone: 503-498-3547 Fax: 503-498-3904 Web Site: http://www.flir.com
FLIR Systems, Inc. designs, manufactures, and markets thermal imaging and infrared
camera systems in the United States and internationally. It operates in three divisions:
Thermography, Commercial Vision Systems, and Government Systems.
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Many Biotechs are still rising.
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Additional Job Search Links: - 4/9/2008 Looking for A Job in San Diego - Use TigerSoft. You'll Impress Them. - US DoL's Occupational Outlook Handbook (OOH), 2008-09 Edition - Annual survey of college recruiters: employers plan to hire 16 percent more new college graduates in 2007-08 - http://jobs.care2.com/ World's Largest listing of jobs with socially responsible companies. - Work with a reputable professional recruiter. See http://hightechpros.com - http://www.monster.com/ http://www.careerbuilder.com http://www.simplyhired.com/ http://www.helpwanted.com/ - TigerSoft's Best performing US stocks of the last 12 months - Quarterly study - http://www.tigersoftware.com/TigerBlogs/4-10-08/index.html Executive recruiting outook.6/3/2008 http://www.execunet.com/r_trends_rci.cfm - http://www.conference-board.org/economics/helpwantedOnline.cfm |
Tiger Staffing Index Shows A Bear Market.
Let's Hope It's Not Too Long.
The Credit Crunch Is Not Over: 5/7/2008. 5/1/2008 4/9/2008
4/7/2008
Seeking A Bottom
There is some good news. Tech companies are doing
better than most. IBM is
close to its 12-month highs and AAPLE is near its highs. The Democrats
typcially do better for tech stocks than Republicans do. So, perhaps, there will
be a significant change in the policies espoused by next year's White House occupant.
Perhaps, CEOs will take some of the bundle of money they have been taking from
the companies they run and share it with their workers and their consumers.
If they don't, the pressures to replace them all, will keep building like a volcano.
So, if you're an enginner or have a tech specialty, take heart. And you can use
our software to find the best in this area and make contacts with the companies
whose stocks are behaving most favorably. Since our software
measures internal
(volume and relative strength), we can easily inspect the NASDAQ-100 stocks to see which
seem positioned to perform best over the next 6 months. This is the function of
Tiger's Power-Ranker.
The top TigerSoft Power Ranked
stocks in NASDAQ-100,
as of 5/30/2008 with charts, as of 7/31/2008
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The list of the Recruiting
Companies that comprise the above index.
Typically the Tiger Index of publicly traded recruiting firms tops out ahead of the
general market, sometimes by as much as 18 months as happened between 1998 and
2000.
Back last Summer (2007) I
wrotw that this "means unless this index turns up dramatically
quite soon, there will be a profound economic slow-down in 2008-2009." Of course, many
jobs in the US are being shifted overseas r turned over to temporary agencies so that the
hiring companies can avoid paying their workers benefits. In fact, some of these
outsourcing
firms are clear uptrends. See the strong uptrend of HEW (Hewitt Associates) Until this
pernicious trend is reversed I don't see how the US can avoid a lasting recession.
In the
end, the bull market of the 1920's turned into a Depression because workers' pay was not
high
enough to buy what was being manufactured. This is the "under-consumption"
explanation of
the Great Depression. See - http://rrp.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/15/2/1
http://ideas.repec.org/p/usg/dp2002/2002-14.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causes_of_the_Great_Depression
No Bottom Yet
Texas Has The Most New Jobs
The Job Market Continues To Be Tight.
Employers slashed 80,000 jobs in March. This was the most in five years
and the third straight month of losses. The "official" US unemployment rate rose
from 4.8 percent to 5.1 percent. Clearly the economy is slipping into
recession.
See http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080404/economy.html
Not only that oil prices
are very high and as the Dollar is falling at an annualized 12% a year, making
imports more expensive. But the Dollar's decline is also boosting US exports.
And our index of Staffing Stocks, shown below, has not recently made a new
low and has even broke its downtrend. So the job market may start to improve.
Job-Outsourcing Continues Unabated!
5/27/2008
Strong Up-Trend seen in stock of outsourcer Hewitt Associates (HEW)
Clearly companies are rushing to use this companies' services. Full
time jobs with benefits
are getting
harder and harder to find. Use a Recuiter (see list at bottom of page) and TigerSoft
to give you an
edge if you're looking for a new and better job in the US! See how the bulge
of insider buying in
October told us correctly that this stock would go higher.
What You Can Do To Help Yourself
Demand that the candidates running for public office support decent wages
and an end ot
outsourcing of jobs and jobs with full benefits, not contract and temporary
work. If the CEOs
lowered their obscenely high pay, the companies could afford to
pay their workers
decent wages and the US recession would quickly disappear.
Focus Job Search and Buying of Stocks on Strongest Sectors.
5/18/2008
I previously suggested on focusing on stocks making new highs if you are a job-seeker.
But today there were NO
new highs on the NYSE. Instead, if you are a job seeker or stock
trader, I would focus
on the industries that are doing best. TigerSoft lets you rank by price performance
the Fidelity Sector
funds and also Sector ETFs. TigerSoft lets you see which industry goups are
strongest
for, say, the last 100
days. Here are the Fidelity Sector and Sector FTFs rankings. You can see
the particular stocks
that the ETFs and Fidelity Sector funds have positions in.
Strongest Fidelity Sector Funds for The Last 100 trading
says, 5/27/2008
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Sector
Gain Biggest Stock Positions. (Look up their symbols on Yahoo.)
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FSNGX Natural Gas
+9% KWK,
RRC, VLO, UPL, PXP, EOG, XTO, RIG, DYN, CHK
FNARX Natural Resources +6% XOM,
SLB, NOV, VLO, BTU, COP, CNX, RIG, XTO, WMB
FSCHX Chemicals
FSDPX Industrial Materials +6%
FSENX Energy
+6%
FSESX Energy Services
+4%
Strongest
ETF (Exchange Traded Funds) Sectors for The Last 100 trading says, 5/27/2008
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GAZ +47% The fund is
designed to reflect the performance of natural gas.
UNG +47% The trust will invest in
futures contracts on natural gas traded on
the NYMEX that is the near month contract to expire..
DBE +37% The index is a
rules-based index composed of futures contracts on some of the most heavily traded energy
commodities in the world— Light Sweet Crude Oil (WTI),
Heating Oil, Brent Crude Oil, RBOB gasoline and Natural Gas.
JJE +37% The index is
composed of four futures contracts, crude oil, heating oil,
natural gas and unleaded gasoline.
USL +35% light,
sweet crude oil
DBO +33% Light
Sweet Crude Oil
OIL +33% The investment is linked
to the performance of the Goldman Sachs Crude Oil Return
Index and reflects the returns that are potentially available through an unleveraged
investment in the futures contacts comprising the index plus the Treasury Bill rate of
interest that could be earned on funds committed to the trading of the underlying
contracts.
RJN +33% 6 energy commodity futures contracts.
USO +32% he fund will invest in futures
contracts for WTI light, sweet crude oil, other types of
crude oil, heating oil, gasoline, natural gas and other petroleum based-fuels
that are traded on exchanges.
UCR +28% West
Texas Intermediate crude oil.
GSC +27% the S&P GSCI Enhanced Commodity Total Return Strategy Index.
DBC +26% The index commodities are light, sweet crude oil, heating oil, aluminum, gold, corn and wheat.
GSP +26% Commodities
SLX +26% The fund will invest at
least 80% of assets in common stocks and ADRs of companies involved
in the steel industry.
It
is probably a good idea to avoid companies whose stocks are down sharply in the last, say,
100 trading days.
The weakest Fidelity Sector Funds can give you an idea of areas to avoid.
18 of the 43 Fidelity Select
funds are down 15% or more. So, you have to be selective in job search.
On other hand, when trading, the weakest sectors and industries have given us very profitable
short sales.
Weakest Fidelity Sector Funds - 100 Days Ending
5/18/2008
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Air Transport -26%
Medical -21%
Insurance -19%
Health Care -16%
Home Finance -14%
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