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Since Bloomberg is such a go to source for me when trading, I thought I'd have a "Bloomberg Updates" thread.

 

Here are the updates for yesterday. I promise to post here as soon as the update comes in future.

 

UK Deficit Seen Falling to 7.4% of GDP This Year: George Osborne

 

FedEx 3Q Adj. EPS $1.23 vs EST. $1.38, Cuts Forecast for Yr EPS

 

EU Says Cyprus must Propose New Rescue Plan After Bank Levy Vote

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And here are the Bloomberg updates for today:

 

U.K Retail Sales Rise More Than Forecast in Rebound From Snow Slump

 

Initial Jobless Claims in the U.S. Rose Less Than Forecast Last Week to 336,000

 

Congress Clears Spending Plan for FY2013, Averting Shutdown

 

Philadelphia Fed Manufacturing Index for March Rises to 2 From -12.5

 

Sales of Previously Owned Homes in U.S. Climb to 4.9M Annualized Rate, a Three-Year High

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03/22/2013

 

Cyprus Fails to Get Agreement with Russia on Rescue Loan

 

German Business Confidence Unexpectedly Drops From 10-Month High

 

Fitch Places UK on Rating Watch Negative

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Dell Confirms Takeover Proposals from Blackstone, Icahn

 

ECB Says Won't Object to Cypriot Request For Liquidity Aid

 

US Treasury Says Cyprus Financial Stability, Growth Critical

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03/26/2013

 

Sarris Sees No Loosening of Cyprus Capital Controls for Weeks

 

EU Credit Derivatives Probe Extended to Include Swaps Association

 

US February Durable Goods Orders Rise 5.7% vs Est. of 3.9%

 

Home Prices in 20 US Cities Climb by Most Since June 2006, Rising by 8.1% in January

 

Consumer Confidence in US Dropped to 59.7 in March, More Than Forecast

 

US February New-Home Sales Fall 4.6% To 411,000 Annual Rate

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Nikkei 225 in Japan Posts Best Back-to-Back Quarter Since 1972

 

J&J Wins U.S. Approval For First In New Class Of Diabetes Drugs

 

Dell Proxy Shows Projected Operating Income Stagnant at $3B

 

Dell Proxy Shows Fiscal Year Revenue Slipping To $56.5B

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04/01/2013

 

China March PMI Rises to 50.9 vs EST. 51.2

 

Construction Spending in U.S. Rises on Gain in Home Building

 

U.S. March ISM Manufacturing Index Falls To 51.3 From 54.2.

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More updates -

 

Yuan reaches highest value in 19 years against U.S. dollar

 

Nasdaq agrees to buy Treasurys-trading platform eSpeed

 

Demand jumps for U.S. visa for skilled workers

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Hi Vinayak

Everybody has their own news source.

You mention Bloomberg plays an integral part in your trading day.

Why not add a few comments on how you would use some of this info.?

Otherwise I think you are wearing out your keyboard!

regards

bobc

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  bobcollett said:
Hi Vinayak

Everybody has their own news source.

You mention Bloomberg plays an integral part in your trading day.

Why not add a few comments on how you would use some of this info.?

Otherwise I think you are wearing out your keyboard!

regards

bobc

 

 

Great point, Bob! I will try to incorporate some of that as well in my daily Bloomberg updates. The reason why I wasn't already doing so was that I wanted to deliver "instantaneous" news and when trying to explaining why traders should care it could make it a late update.

 

But I will definitely try doing so now that you've mentioned it.

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U.S. Stocks Fall as Payrolls Rise Less Than Estimated

 

U.S. stocks fell, capping the biggest weekly decline of the year for the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index, after data showed the nation added less than half the number of jobs economists forecast in March.

 

Hiring Cools Even as U.S. Jobless Rate Falls to Four-Year Low

 

Payrolls grew by 88,000, less than the most-pessimistic forecast in a Bloomberg survey, after a revised 268,000 gain in February, Labor Department data showed yesterday in Washington. Unemployment dropped to 7.6 percent, the lowest since December 2008, from 7.7 percent.

 

Employers in March added the fewest workers in nine months and the jobless rate fell to a four-year low as the share of Americans in the labor force slumped, marking a pause in the job-market recovery.

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J.C. Penney Names Mike Ullman III CEO, Succeeding Ron Johnson

 

Alcoa Kicks Off Earnings Season by Reporting Better Than Expected Earnings of $0.11 a Share

 

Asian Stocks Rise as Commodity Firms Gain

 

Asian stocks rose, led by commodity producers, as Chinese inflation rose less than economists forecast, damping concern that the nation’s central bank will need to tighten monetary policy.

 

China Export-Data Skepticism Deepens From Goldman to Nomura

 

China’s unprecedented run of better- than-forecast export growth has spurred deeper skepticism of the data at banks including Goldman Sachs, casting doubt on the strength of the recovery.

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Warsaw Exchange Said to Hold Merger Talks With Vienna Bourse

 

China Exports Rise Less Than Forecast 10% as Imports Jump 14.1%

 

President Obama to Propose $3.77 Trillion Fiscal 2014 Budget

 

FOMC Minutes Show Several Members Saw QE Ending by Year-End

 

S&P 500 at Record Intraday, Tops 1576.09 Set Oct. 11, 2007

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