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The Bank of England pulled off a stunner by cutting interest rates 150 basis points to 3 percent. The European Central Bank cut by 50 basis point and the Swiss cut rates by 50 basis points.
The most important fact about the economic and earnings data in the past couple weeks is that it has generally been worse than the already lowered numbers predicted. We have seen this again this morning, with the exception of the Productivity number.
Retail sales. Last week analysts began furiously cutting estimates on October same store sales. Today, with a few exceptions (Like teen retailers Bucket and Hott Topic[HOTT
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A few even reported double-digit declines: Abercrombie [ANF
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Even discounters were not exempt. Costco [COST
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Wal-Mart[WMT
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] did see sales up 2.4 percent, better than the expected 1.6 percent gain. U.S. comparable store sales for the four-week November period are expected to be between one and three percent.
Company earnings/guidance disappoints as well. After the close, several companies confirmed that business slowed significantly in September and October.
1) Overseas, downbeat earnings reports from Toyota[TM
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2) Cisco[CSCO
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3) As if car makers didn't have enough problems, rental car company Hertz [HTZ
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4) News Corp [NWS
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