When credit-card reform passed, business cards weren’t covered. Now we should extend protections to the nearly 15.4 million business-card holders
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www.StockMarketFunding.com Nasdaq Futures vs Fair Value Pre-Market Stock Futures Trading Analysis. Live stock market trading video analysis on Nasdaq Futures vs. Fair Value. S&P futures vs fair value +2.40. Nasdaq futures vs fair value: +2.50. Stock futures are little changed, having seen their small gains evaporate following the earnings miss by FedEx (FDX). Treasuries have given up their overnight gains as the 10-yr yield is unchanged at 3.532% after being as low as 3.456% earlier this morning. The dollar is modestly weaker, and trades just below 80.25 resistance. Economic data has done little to move the markets thus far with initial jobless claims coming in at 420000 which were slightly less than the Briefing.com consensus of 425000. Continuing claims came in slightly higher than expectations at 4.135 million. Housing starts topped their expected rate of 545000 by registering 555000 while building permits disappointed coming in at 530000 versus the expected 560000. The current account balance registered a -7.2 billion reading versus expectations of -5.3 billion. The Philadelphia Fed will be released at 10 AM ET.
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