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The Final 24

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The next twenty-four hours are going to contain the final burst of planned excitement for a while. This comes in the form of a triad:

  • Amazon earnings, after the close;
  • Apple earnings, after the close;
  • Jobs report, before Friday’s open

Apple, of course, is the largest company in the universe, and although they are far too old, large, and lumbering to produce any real profit shocks, they’ll surely trot out something – – anything!! – – to goose the market, probably in the form of something which USED to be illegal: that is to say, a huge stock buyback. I mean, face it, the incremental improvements to the iPhone have become a joke, so they need to take a different tack.

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