This Chart Will Make Bill Gross Sick To His Stomach

We've been talking over the last few days about Bill Gross' big about-face. He's now betting heavy on interest rates going much lower.

Anyway, we ran it here, but this chart from Scott Barber at Reuters shows 10-year yields vs. the Citigroup Economic Surprise Index (a measure of whether the economic data is beating expectations), which has shot up massively.

If history is any guide, yields should be shooting up too to play catch up.

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SPORTS CHART OF THE DAY: The Phillies Have The Most Playoff Wins Of Any MLB Team

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The New York Yankees have 27 World Championships, but the Philadelphia Phillies are currently the most successful franchise in Major League Baseball.

The New York Yankees have been to the playoffs in 16 of the last 17 years. But that stretch includes just one World Series title in the last 11 years. And in the last seven years (2005-2011), the Yankees have only made it past the first round of the playoffs two times.

On the other hand, just in the last five seasons, the Phillies have been to two World Series and three League Championship Series. In total, the Phillies have won 27 games in the last five years. That dwarfs the Yankees, who are second with 19.

In total, 19 of 30 teams have made the playoffs in the last five years. Here are the ten teams with the most wins during that span...

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CHART OF THE DAY: HP's Stock During The Leo Apotheker Era (HPQ)

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SPORTS CHART OF THE DAY: Ironically, The Big 12 Is College Football's Best Conference

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SPORTS CHART OF THE DAY: Ryan Fitzpatrick Was The NFL's Best QB In Week One

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The first week of the NFL is now in the books. And one of the big story lines were the big quarterback performances produced despite the lockout-shortened off-season.

The biggest surprise may have been Cam Newton's historic debut which produced 422 passing yards in a losing effort. But how did that rank among the other big passing efforts?

The first week of the NFL also gives us our first look at ESPN's attempt to reinvent the antiquated quarterback rating formula with their own stat, Quarterback Rating (QBR).

While Newton's performance was great, it was far from the best game of the weekend. That belongs to Ryan Fitzpatrick of the Buffalo Bills, who was 17-25 with 208 yards, 4 touchdowns and no interceptions in a 41-7 win over the Chiefs.

Was that better than Newton's 422 yards? Or Aaron Rodgers, who threw for 312 yards and 3 TDs? Or Drew Brees who tossed 3 TDs along with 419 yards and no interceptions? We'll let you be the judge.

As for the worst performance of the weekend, QBR says it was Kerry Collins. He was just 16-31 and 197 yards in the Colts 34-7 opening week loss. Yet somehow, that was worse than Donovan McNabb who was 7-15 for 39 yards, one TD and one INT.

Here is a look at the ten best and ten worst performances from week one according to QBR.

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This Chart Shows Why Marketers Can't Ignore YouTube

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Marketers can't ignore YouTube as a way to connect with customers.

The folks at bitly took a look at the dynamics of links and came up with this intriguing chart. Interestingly, people stay interested in YouTube links for a much longer period of time than Facebook or Twitter links, though the peak density level is much less.

The mean half-life time for the links, according to bitly:

Twitter: 2.8 hours
Facebook: 3.2 hours
Direct (email/IMs): 3.4 hours
YouTube: 7.4 hours

It just goes to show that people use different social networks for different purposes, and thus each network acts in different ways. YouTube will never replace Facebook or Twitter, but rather, it can serve a different -- and helpful -- purpose for digital marketers.

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Yes, Android Fragmentation Is Still A Huge Problem. This Chart Proves It (GOOG)

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We know that one of the biggest problems facing Android is fragmentation.

Google knows that too.

That's why it announced the Android Update Alliance at Google I/O in May. The alliance is made up of a bunch of smartphone manufacturers and is supposed to make sure phones stay up to date when Google releases new versions of Android.

The alliance also pledges to keep phones update for at least 18 months.

So how are they doing? Android And Me conducted a great study breaking down all the Android phones out now and the versions they're running.

As the chart below shows, manufacturers are still pretty slow to update their phones to the latest version of Android, 2.3 Gingerbread. Many are still running version 2.2 or earlier. And in many cases, it took several months for manufacturers to finally get to Gingerbread.

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SPORTS CHART OF THE DAY: The Average NFL Franchise Is Worth More Than $1 Billion

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Forbes.com has released their annual NFL franchise valuations. And for the first time, the average NFL franchise tops $1.0 billion in value.

The Dallas Cowboys top the list at $1.85 billion, followed by the Washington Redskins at $1.56 billion. In all, 15 of the NFL's 32 teams are valued at more than $1.0 billion.

For comparison, in the other three major North American sports leagues (MLB, NBA, NHL) combined, the New York Yankees ($1.7 billion) are the only team valued at more than $1.0 billion.

Also consider that the NFL's least valuable franchise, the Jacksonville Jaguars ($725 million) are still worth more than every NBA and NHL franchise, and all but five MLB teams.

The average value of NFL franchise is nearly twice the average value of an MLB franchise (below). And the total value of all 32 football teams ($33.1 billion) is nearly as much as the total value of the 90 teams in the NBA, NHL, and MLB ($33.6 billion).

Here are the average franchise values in each sport (data via Forbes.com)...

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CHART OF THE DAY: The Internet Has A Short Attention Span

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The Internet has a short attention span.

According to research by link-shortening service Bit.ly, click rates drop by half after about three hours for links posted on Twitter, Facebook, and regular Web pages (direct). For hot news stories, the dropoff is even faster -- within the first five minutes, those links get half the clicks they'll ever receive.

YouTube has a much longer half-life -- around 7 hours. That's probably because watching a video requires more time and concentration, and can't be done as easily at work.

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CHART OF THE DAY: This Is What Household Deleveraging Looks Like

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The big news of the day is that Ben Bernanke is growing skeptical of monetary policy, which is totally logical given that he seems to be grasping the the unique, deleveraging nature of the recession.

In a nutshell: When households are shedding debt, making debt cheaper does basically nothing.

But what is deleveraging, and what does it really mean?

This chart from CFR sums it up pretty nicely. For the first time ever, total household debt has shrunk, even as the economy has notionally "recovered."

Even if it were just flat, that would make this recession wildly abnormal, and as you can see it's actually going  down.

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The Chart That's Worth 1000 Words: The Connection Between Fed Intervention And The Markets

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September is off to a weak start, and this morning's pre-market futures have taken a tumble on an even worse September start in Europe. Later this week President Obama will address congress with a jobs plan. Ten days later the Federal Reserve will embark on a two-day FOMC meeting (originally planned for one day) to assess the economy and weigh future options. With this in mind, let's take another look at the track record of Federal Reserve intervention since the onset of the Great Contraction.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, this chart needs little additional explanation — except perhaps for those who are puzzled by the Jackson Hole callout. The reference is to Chairman Bernanke's speech at the Fed's 2010 annual symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Last year Bernanke strongly hinted about the forthcoming Federal Reserve intervention that was subsequently initiated in November of 2011, namely, the second round of quantitative easing, aka QE2. The recent August Jackson Hole event gave us less concrete expectations. But the minutes of the September FOMC meeting could be next Bernanke shoe to drop.

With current levels of unemployment and a heightening fear of renewed global financial risk, the odds of more Fed intervention are certainly growing.

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CHART OF THE DAY: Netflix Added 10 Million Subscribers Last Year

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Netflix has more subscribers than any single cable company, a number that is up 10 million from last year. That's impressive.

But perhaps not as impressive as the 80 million the major cable companies boast as a collective. That figure could explain why Starz walked away.

"For now, they may be in a better position to make Starz money than Netflix is — even if Netflix reportedly offered more than $300 million per year for Starz content," Dan Frommer writes.

In the coming months, we will see if Starz made the right call.

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Here's The Chart Everyone Is Talking About That Says Unemployment Will Surge

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An chart published yesterday by Lance Roberts at Street Talk Live is getting a lot of attention. The chart shows the STA Composite Employment Index (an index of the employment components of the Chicago Fed National Activity Index, seven different regional Federal Reserve manufacturing indexes, and the National Federation of Independent Business survey) versus jobless claims.

Whenever the STA composite drops to 5 or less, as it just did, the economy has been in recession and unemployment soars.

By now this charts isn't even that controversial. The White House projected unemployment at 9% through 2012, while Goldman predicts a rise to 9.25% and JPMorgan sees 9.5%.

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