Comments on: Market Update – February 3, 2010 http://leedsonfinance.com/2010/02/02/market-update-%e2%80%93-february-3-2010/ Sandy Leeds' Analysis of Key Market Issues Wed, 24 Mar 2010 14:35:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Darrin Earl http://leedsonfinance.com/2010/02/02/market-update-%e2%80%93-february-3-2010/comment-page-1/#comment-6996 Darrin Earl Wed, 03 Feb 2010 19:21:53 +0000 http://leedsonfinance.com/?p=1324#comment-6996 One note about your point on UPS' results from yesterday - although it's true that their revenues declined, this is likely entirely due to fuel surcharges falling YOY... recall that oil prices have declined compared to 2008Q4, and the pass through charges to shipping customers have similarly come down. The bigger indicator of UPS' (and the economies) health is the volume numbers, which were generally up. One note about your point on UPS’ results from yesterday – although it’s true that their revenues declined, this is likely entirely due to fuel surcharges falling YOY… recall that oil prices have declined compared to 2008Q4, and the pass through charges to shipping customers have similarly come down.

The bigger indicator of UPS’ (and the economies) health is the volume numbers, which were generally up.

]]> By: Mike Greczyn http://leedsonfinance.com/2010/02/02/market-update-%e2%80%93-february-3-2010/comment-page-1/#comment-6994 Mike Greczyn Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:01:53 +0000 http://leedsonfinance.com/?p=1324#comment-6994 The government pay scale should have been applied to all the banks as well, while simultaneously retaining, for lack of a better word, "talent" using a little trick the government likes to apply to members of the military for the same purpose: Stop Loss. The government pay scale should have been applied to all the banks as well, while simultaneously retaining, for lack of a better word, “talent” using a little trick the government likes to apply to members of the military for the same purpose: Stop Loss.

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