Business services, education and health services, and leisure and hospitality saw the most job growth – real estate and manufacturing losing jobs
Alan Hershey
Dec. 31, 2006

Institute for Supply Management will come out with the ISM Manufacturing index on January 3, 2007. It is expected improve from 49.5 to 50.5. The number will show trouble for manufacturing continues. The real estate sector is stabilizing but staggering number of job losses is causing worry among the Fed members.

Business services, education and health services – all are seeing rise in employment and hiked up prices. But the string is stretched beyond the elastic limit. It can snap, experts say. The next big news will be from Business services, education and health services, and leisure and hospitality as the cyclical down turns hit them one by one. The million-dollar question is will manufacturing sector, business infrastructure investments and real estate turn around to compensate for the slack. If they do, we will see a soft landing. Otherwise we are headed for a deep recession.

Business services, education and health services, and leisure and hospitality saw the most job growth – real estate and manufacturing losing jobs
Alan Hershey
The million-dollar question is will manufacturing sector, business infrastructure investments and real estate turn around to compensate for the slack. If they do, we will see a soft landing. Otherwise we are headed for a deep recession.
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Skyrocketing long bond rates will cause collapse in real estate, gold and stocks
Fred Day
No one is expecting ten years note to yield 10% by end of 2007. But the long term chart patterns manifest that it is very possible. What will happen then?
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A nasty pattern says long bond yield can skyrocket in 2007-2009 time frame
Sam Adelton
If long term rates are going to skyrocket, dollar will get the necessary help and at the same time it will be severely bearish for stocks and gold.
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Chinese central bank rejects Western pressures on yuan revaluation and focuses on currency stability to maintain fast Chinese growth
Peter Oberois
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Financial services companies trying to get patent protection to preserve their dominance – another sign for financial troubled time
Marla Guthrie
In late eighties Japanese financial institutions did the same. They rushed for intellectual property matter protection at the end of the bull market when Nikkei was well above 40,000.
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Copper stockpile cycles indicate collapse in copper prices and start of global depression
Sam Adelton
The stockpiles go low during the economic boom and go high during the economic slowdown. The cyclic behavior of copper stockpile and the price show that economic recession or depression may be very near.
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Steve Job’s corporate governance scandal is a signal of board level corruption and greed in major corporations
Peter Oberois
It is not just Apple. When the rug is lifted you will find the whole corporate world is infested with ‘Enron style’ corporate governance and the Wall Street is riding these on the ‘High’.
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