BULLISH SENTIMENT GETS MORE BULLISH

The latest Investors Intelligence poll shows that the bulls are at 42.1%, up from 41.1% last week; and the bear camp was trimmed back to 22.7% from 23.3%.  So the widening in the bull/bear spread is a modest negative for those who are constructive on the market.  All the more so with the VIX index now south of 19.  Complacency reigns.

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IN THIS ISSUE OF BREAKFAST WITH DAVE

• While you were sleeping —equity markets are a little wobbly overnight; it looks like  Greece is going to try and solve its problem on its own

• U.S. employment backdrop still challenging — the U.S. economy is currently about12 million jobs shy of being at full employment and it will likely take 5 to 10 years to getback to the prior pre-recession peak in the employment-population ratio

• ISM services — nice headline, but breadth was awful

• Is Japan a sleeper? Japan’s economy has strung together a series of positive data releases

• U.S. consumer still in a funk …

• … and so is housing in the U.S. — the renewed downturn in home prices may be weighing on consumer sentiment

• Bullish sentiment gets more bullish

• Someone out there likes bonds!

• Fiscal follies — did you know that the structural deficit-to-GDP ratio is actually higher in the U.S. and the U.K. than it is in Greece and Spain?

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