While the S&P's nine-week 39% spike is distinctly bullish for the longer-term -- and may lay the groundwork for the next bull market -- it's clearly extended in the near term, and has reached the sweet spot between two key technical levels.

With this month's sluggish price action, a retest of the November lows is a real risk.

Ericsson (ERIC) shows it's still able to deliver in tough conditions. However given this report we saw little pin action yesterday. In my view Ericsson benefits currently from a couple key trends: First it was one of the first companies to really get knocked around in the carrier spending department (in the fall of 2007) and its stock has been trading under $10 for most of this year. Call this managing expectations and taking the pain: Cisco (CSCO) did the same thing in late 2007. Second Ericsson is very strong in the wireless deployment space (3G strength coming online in ...

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