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August Ends With Miserable Volume
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The Nikkei, down 3.6 percent, hit a 52-week low as investors were not impressed with the BOJ's latest stimulus efforts, boosting cheap loans to commercial bnaks. The yen is at a 15-year high against the dollar.
Growth worldwide remains choppy. India's GDP grew 8.8 percent in the April-June quarter, the fastest pace in nearly three years, but Canada's GDP grew at just a 2.0 percent annual rate, much slower than the 5.8 percent in the first quarter.
At least August is ending, with its miserable volume. Stock pickers, high frequency traders, low frequency traders, everyone pulled back their trading activity in August. Trading this August was much lighter than August of last year. How much lighter? NYSE consolidated volume this August was 31 percent below average daily volume for last August.
Then again, August was an up year in 2009: the S&P 500 was up 3.5 percent . Not so this August: S&P is down 4.8 percent, with one day to go. It would be the worst August for the S&P sine 2001.
Elsewhere:
1) Dollar General [DG
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The company's outlook for the year was also raised to $1.68 to $1.74 vs. $1.72 consensus, while raising its sales growth forecast to up 8.5 percent to 10.5 percent.
Excluding Wal-Mart [WMT
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2) Saks [SKS
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] surges 22 percent on unconfirmed reports that a consortium of U.K. and U.S. private equity firms are weighing a bid for the upscale department store company. The U.K.'s Daily Mail newspaper reported that the private equity firms are pondering a $1.7 billion cash deal, which would give shareholders $11/share—a 67 percent premium from yesterday's closing price.
3) Power company Exelon [EXC
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