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One of these days I’m going to finally realize that Weekend IG information is not the least bit indicative of what the Sunday open is going to be like. All weekend long, IG was showing the Dow down a couple hundred points in the face of continued Israeli/Iran nastiness. Not to say that the endless hostility in the middle east had no effect, since it did briefly launch crude oil into the same kind of spike it had Thursday evening.
Being a new entrant to the workface has been getting worse for the past fifteen years, and it’s not going to get any better in the foreseeable future. The chart below shows the spread between the general unemployment rate and those specifically of new graduates.
