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By now you have heard all of the fears of the inflation spectre. After printing money, buying up hundreds and hundreds of billions of billions worth of securities, and bailing out the banks and the...
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Jamie Dimon is probably glad to hear that Barclays PLC (NYSE: BCS) is more prominently in the news over LIBOR manipulation. The reaction in shares of Barclays has been similar to the multi-billion...
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The European Central Bank looks to be getting closer and closer to finally admitting that it cannot stick its head in the sand and make silly comments about worrying over inflation and looking for...
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Companies go bankrupt all the time. Owning a business comes with risks like solvency, credit, operational, and management (among other risks). But the thought of a government entity going...
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At last week’s Rio+20 conference in Brazil, a representative of Standard & Poor’s Latin American office told a panel on sustainable development that “banks and utilities are unlikeloy to...
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A 2014 bond auction in France went off at 0.54% this Thursday, while the same maturity in 2014 went for a yield of 4.70% in Spain. The fear is that long-term borrowing rates will breach that 7%...
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NASDAQ OMX (NASDAQ: NDAQ) has now announced that it intends to launch a new London-based trading venue called the NLX, which will offer derivatives on both short-term interest rates and long-term...
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Ben Bernanke has spoken. The statement from the two-day Federal Open Market Committee voted in an 11-1 to keep Fed Funds unchanged. Most importantly, the Fed is extending Operation Twist through...
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CIA World FactbookThe trend of ratings agencies and sovereign debt ratings has been one of downgrade after downgrade. So when you see a sovereign rating upgraded right now amidst the global...
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In a reversal that was bound to come sooner or later, German Chancellor Angela Merkel is reportedly ready to agree to allow the Eurozone’s European Financial Stability Fund (EFSF) and the European...
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At this week’s meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), there is a reasonable chance that the Fed will at least drop a strong hint that more monetary help is on the way. Following...
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A new report from the U.S. Treasury called the Treasury International Capital Report is showing that, at least for now, China (and other nations in total) remains a net buyer of U.S. Treasury debt. ...
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Here is a fresh take on the Eurozone and the Euro for you. With all of the talk about the PIIGS and the Euro, the angle always seems to be rather Greece, Spain, Portugal and Italy can ultimately...
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Egan-Jones Ratings is just the latest ratings agency to hit the PIIGS today. The ratings agency lowered the Kingdom of Spain’s ratings down to “CCC+” from “B.” What is perhaps more...
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If you have watched the flow of news out of Asia and Europe over the last month, you might have had a reason to think that the world was going to hell in a handbasket. One week of a market...
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