(Forbes) — Barron’s nails something important about this past week’s big bounce in stocks – he’s basically saying that all the fundamental and technical analysis you want can’t even touch the power of a mightily wrong estimate in terms of moving the markets.  To wit, we did not have a “good” August jobs number, but we did have a number that was much better than the consensus punk estimates – and that was all we needed for some up-field progression.

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