"Their relative strength ratio rises when the market is weak and falls when the market is strong, " says Murphy.
And overall you see that the run-up at consumer debt truly was much more explained in the last few years by a fairly weak labor market, very weak job growth, especially in manufacturing, where especially African-American men are disproportionally concentrated.
However, the market opened weak Friday, and the sentiment data pushed stocks even lower.
It also seems that training works best when (as now) the overall labour market is weak.
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If the housing market remains weak, we may have only seen the first wave of foreclosures on subprime loans.
But most of NAMA's holdings are in Ireland, and that market remains weak.
The Japanese stock market is weak, and foreign investors have turned from being net buyers to net sellers of Japanese equities.
He repeated GDP is growing below potential, which in turn has depressed business investment and hiring, and that the labor market remains weak.
The Republic's own export sector is growing but its domestic market remains weak as consumers deal with debts, tax rises and spending cuts.
The cancellations reflect the difficult travel market and weak global economy.
If the stock market is weak heading into the jobs report, stocks could form a panic low, as many high-yielding stocks are now reaching attractive levels.
Freddie Mac's dividend cut and wider than anticipated loss is a confirmation that the housing market is weak and will probably stay that way for a while.
As investors, this serves as a defensive governor on earnings because landlords are less likely to be forced to renew leases at a time when the market is weak.
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The company will perform well over the remainder of 2011 and through 2012 even as the housing market remains weak and the unemployment rate is elevated, says Value Line analyst Ian Gendler.
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While the PC market remains weak, we think an increase in demand for mobile DRAM products and a reduction in excess capacity in the market would stabilize selling prices in the future.
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It is also an answer to decades of criticism by Western management experts who breathlessly argued that the country's business culture, from a rigid labour market to weak shareholder rights, was holding companies back.
He said there had been no formal consultation and said the vast majority of landlords wanted tenants but the market was weak and the government's measure "punishes the landlords unlucky to be hit by the recession".
Meanwhile, the overall TV market remains weak.
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Responses were mixed, with approximately 40% of respondents saying the job market was improving or at least showing signs of gradual improvement, 32% of respondents describing the job market as weak and 13% describing the recovery as being slow or too slow.
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These banks have a high share of mortgage lending and are heavily exposed to commercial property and construction lending - which is what has done for them, because Spain's housing market is weak and becoming weaker, and its commercial property sector is a basket case.
They also tend to trade like a bond in a weak market environment or when company fundamentals are weak.
This has indicated that fewer and fewer stocks were pushing the stock market to new highs and was a sign of a technically weak market.
The astonishingly weak market for personal computers continues to take a toll on tech investors.
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Weakness in the performance chemical unit had to do with weak market demand across the globe.
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Although real GDP in the economy is now expanding, the employment market remains too weak.
But the IPO, which will probably be priced at mid-March, comes during a weak market.
When troubled assets are dumped, or when defaults occur during weak market conditions, the trough is deepened.
This action indicates that this weak market environment will not even let the strongest stocks go up.
Many companies, and their investment bankers, are also quick to wait when stock market conditions get weak.
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