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Centaurus Financial® Presents: Q2 2011 ECONOMIC UPDATE

By ron | Published: July 19, 2011
We have just been through a volatile three months, a period where domestic indicators, energy prices and foreign economic bulletins weighed heavily on U.S. consumers, companies and financial markets. Here are some details worth noting. The quarter in brief. For the first time in four quarters, U.S. stocks did not advance. The S&P 500 lost [...]
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Centaurus Financial® Presents: Q4 2010 ECONOMIC UPDATE

By ron | Published: January 12, 2011
THE QUARTER IN BRIEF The consumer was the hero of the fourth quarter. In the last three months (and especially in the last six weeks), consumers opened their wallets and pocketbooks and grew more confident about the state of the economy. In Washington, the President and Congress collaborated to devise short-term fixes for America’s major [...]
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