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Despite all the corruption down in Brazil that Petrobras has spent time in the barrel about, the investing public just loaned Petrobras' global finance unit some $2.5 billion in a whopping 100-year...
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It can be very dangerous for a Federal Reserve president to speak on the last business day ahead of a holiday, when traders and investors already have their foot out the door.
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Jon OggAs regulators propose and ultimately make new rules around asset classes, they can create huge supply and demand imbalances. They can create bubbles or they can make liquidity dry up. So, what...
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24/7 Wall St. has laid out 10 different reasons why the Federal Reserve is unlikely to hike interest rates too far or too fast.
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Despite ending its most recent quarter with $193 billion or so in cash and cash equivalents, even the mighty Apple is having a harder time than you might imagine in living up to the new $200 billion...
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Bill Gross always has some financial market humor mixed in with the commentary, and many investors would point out that he may have an in on bonds, with little value in his opinions in other markets.
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ThinkstockThe Federal Reserve just blinked in Wall Street’s newest game — that is the game of Rate Hike Chicken! After having moved from being patient to including the possibility of a June or...
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The 30-year Treasury Bond yields only about 2.5% and, amazingly, more than half of the 30 Dow Jones Industrial Average stocks are yielding more than that.
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While low interest rates may be good for consumers, they are not too great for some of the big banks.
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Investors in Petrobras have to be wondering about the fate of its dividend. The Brazilian state-run oil giant remains in a very difficult position.
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Market pundits and economists have been predicting a rise in the federal funds rate for quite some time, and the first fed funds rate hike still seems likely to occur in 2015.
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ThinkstockBerkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) has made some interesting news this week. The conglomerate under Warren Buffett has successfully borrowed over $3 billion in new note and bond...
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Actavis launched second-largest ever bond sale Monday to raise $21 billion to pay for its acquisition of Allergan.
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ThinkstockState Street Global Advisors (SSGA) announced it released a new ETF in Tuesday’s trading session, the SPDR DoubleLine Total Return Tactical ETF (NYSEARCA: TOTL). The ETF was developed by...
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ThinkstockThe world’s economies may have improved since the financial crisis, but now more than ever, the world is drowning in higher and higher debt. A new report from the McKinsey Global...
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