Links to Ponder 7-16-12

NABE survey- “The rising sales and profit margins experienced earlier in the year may have been short-lived

http://www.nabe.com/publib/indsum.html

More Chinese stimulus coming. Premiere Wen warns on recovery momentum

Wilbur Ross- Coal to face headwinds for years. (We shall see who is correct- a reduction in gas wells reducing supply and more normal winter can make headwinds disappear rather quickly. Especially considering natural gas prices are significantly higher world wide than in the U.S.)

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-07-16/wilbur-ross-says-u-s-coal-is-facing-years-of-headwinds.html?cmpid=yhoo

Retail sales down 0.5% in June

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-07-16/retail-purchases-in-u-s-unexpectedly-decreased-0-5-in-june.html

.....and the chart

http://www.bloomberg.com/quote/RSTAMOM:IND

An AIDS vaccine on the horizon?

http://news.yahoo.com/scientists-see-aids-vaccine-within-reach-decades-140323401--finance.html

A LIMRA study suggests that consumers that work with financial advisors are more ready for retirement

http://www.advisorone.com/2012/07/13/consumers-with-advisors-better-off-limra?ref=hp

Correlation of Stocks and Bonds- more interesting than you think.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505123_162-57464128/the-correlation-of-bond-and-stock-returns/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+cbsnews%2Ffeed+%28CBSNews.com%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

Handicapping QE3 (1)

http://www.economonitor.com/blog/2012/07/283411/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=283411

 Handicapping QE3 (2)

http://politicalcalculations.blogspot.com/2012/07/whither-qe3.html

Want better team dynamics- insert more humor.

http://www.bakadesuyo.com/do-work-teams-fail-because-they-dont-joke-aro?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+bakadesuyo+%28Barking+up+the+wrong+tree%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

Be more lucky.

http://www.bakadesuyo.com/how-can-you-make-yourself-luckier?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+bakadesuyo+%28Barking+up+the+wrong+tree%29&utm_content=Google+Reader