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National Bank of Greece SA (NYSE: NBG) is not just up this Tuesday. It is up huge on a day where most investors would have assumed it would have been down. While many Euro-nation stocks were...
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The Bank of England has voted to decide to leave its key short-term lending rate unchanged at 0.5%. The move was widely expected to remain unchanged, and it also follows a similar action announced...
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Ratings agency Fitch Ratings didn’t like what it saw on a residential mortgage backed securities bond from Credit Suisse Group (NYSE: CS) and it said so. That led the bank to drop the agency’s...
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Europe is no Disneyland at the moment. Still, some data is showing contraction while other data shows that the overall healthier economies may be escaping the worst fears of late 2011 and earlier...
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When the Spanish government revealed its latest budget last month, the general assumption was that Spain was pointed down the right track to revive the country’s economy. After all, €27.3 billion...
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The environment of ‘exceptionally low interest rates’ may help borrowers, but it has the unintended consequences of bringing real returns to zero or even negative if you consider the impact of...
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Today’s auction of $13 billion in US 10-year Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities (TIPS) went off at a yield of -0.89%, just the second time that yields have turned negative. Demand for the...
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Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke is testifying before the Committee on Government Oversight and Reform at the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, D.C. today. His FRB notes titled this one “The...
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Apparently the tick up in rates and the pull-forward of February housing purchases is taking a toll on mortgage on data. The Mortgage Bankers Association has now reported that the number of...
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Ben Bernanke spoke very briefly with CNBC’s Steve Liesman ahead of his four lectures this week to talk about the context of the recent financial crisis. Mr. Bernanke said that the economy is...
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General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) has been trying to do everything it can to make its balance sheet better. It has sold units through time and has limited its acquisitions to bolt-on deals. The...
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The 30 Year Treasury yield is up to 3.42%, up from 3.18% the week earlier and up from 3.09% a month ago. The 10-Year Treasury yield is 2.30%, up from 2.03% a week ago and up from 1.93% a month...
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The latest results from a 30-Year Treasury Bond auction did not manage to turn the bond momentum back in favor of lower yields and higher prices. The bid went out at 3.38% and the good news is that...
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As expected, Ben Bernanke and the FOMC left interest rates unchanged yet again. With a recent in-line unemployment and payrolls report and with Mr. Bernanke having already testified before...
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Whether or not the Greek debt deal is finally (finally, finally) reached, the next big question outside if Greece will default again is what exactly the implications are for the Credit Default Swap...
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