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ThinkstockStandard & Poor’s Rating Services has just turned Puerto Rico into the equivalent of on of the PIIGS over credit ratings. Well, maybe Puerto Rico did it with poor finances and S&P...
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ThinkstockGoldman Sachs and other investment firms warned that the market was getting more and more at risk of a 10% stock market correction, with the caveat that stocks would resume the bull market...
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CIA World FactbookThe Turkish Central Bank is not exactly the most widely followed central bank in the world. That may be true 364 days of this year, but on Tuesday all eyes of emerging market...
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thinkstockMicron Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: MU) has already had a handy turnaround, moving from being a DRAM-dependent commodity business into DRAM and flash. It has also participated in the...
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ThinkstockPIMCO is out with a news shocker in the after-hours session, something which may be enough of a shift that could create some unease among the money management firm’s clients. The...
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Wikimedia Commons/creative commonsIf you have been tracking credit ratings of states and nations since before the recession, something today almost seems impossible to imagine. California’s credit...
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Friday's Employment Situation report from the U.S. Labor Department may have just made investing in bonds safe again. It seems that if interest rates rise, that rise will be very gradual.
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While the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 Index hit new all-time highs on Thursday, on Friday long-term bond yields challenged their highest levels since summer of 2011.
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ThinkstockThe Federal Open Market Committee just finished what is very likely its last or next to last real decision-making meeting under Ben Bernanke. The long and short of the matter is that...
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ThinkstockIt is almost year-end, and investors have to be planning for 2014 and beyond for their portfolio, their assets and their taxes. Merrill Lynch expects the great rotation trade it touted for...
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courtesy of Sprint Corp.Sprint Corporation (NYSE: S) seems to be in a far better position financially after its merger versus when it was on its own. After seeing two different credit rating agency...
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ThinkstockBank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC) is having a bit of an unusual bond sale, and it is something we might have overlooked had it been anything else but this. The bank has issued a $500...
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Thinkstock24/7 Wall St. has not been covering the junk bond market as much of late because spreads were in a narrow range for quite some time. That was then. The 10-year Treasury note hit a 2.80%...
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Yahoo! has made two announcements hidden in one announcement after the close on Tuesday. The more important announcement is that Yahoo! has increased its common share buyback authorization.
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ThinkstockYou have heard of robbing Peter to pay Paul, but how about diluting equity to wipe out debt? Barrick Gold Corp. (NYSE: ABX) was already lower after earnings by 5.4%, and it has taken on a...
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