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If there was one issue which may have created uncertainty around the credit ratings of South Korea, it was the death of dictator Kim Jong-Il in North Korea. We just recently featured South Korea...
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Fitch Ratings is out with an updated report on the future finances of the United States. Today’s special report is titled ‘U.S. Public Finances – An Update’ and it shows the medium-term...
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It seems that all of the nations around the world are facing sovereign credit ratings downgrades or warnings of downgrades. After the United States lost its prized “AAA” rating, the threat of...
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This is an interesting point in time for the sector of Master Limited Partnerships (MLPs). The oil and gas business could greatly unlock much of the domestic unemployment woes (and the trade...
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Bill Gross, the bond king, should spend less time on television and more time in his office shoring up the poor results of his PIMCO Total Return Fund. It has had $17 billion in cash outflow in the...
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As expected, the European Central Bank has followed through with some of the market expectations of a rate cut. Unfortunately, not all rate cuts are created equally. Thursday’s decision from...
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With many Master Limited Partnerships (MLPs) trading at or even above some of their expected target prices, we wanted to take a year-end look into the sector to see where there is opportunity versus...
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The entire world now knows about the European Union warnings from S&P on Monday. This morning came word that the ‘AAA’ long-term credit rating on the European Financial Stability Fund is...
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We have been covering the risks of the AAA rating risks far ahead of the curve on these formal credit ratings downgrades by the major credit ratings agencies. After the United States lost its prized...
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Jon Corzine was supposed to be the poster boy for modern-day finance… From the King of Finance, to New Jersey’s governor, and back to Wall Street. Now Corzine is just the King of Fall...
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Sprint Nextel Corporation (NYSE: S) has decided not to leave Clearwire Corporation (NASDAQ: CLWR) in the dust. The two companies have had a history of tie-ups and the risk that it is going to end...
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The Federal Reserve has issued some news that equity investors are going to love, and bond investors may enjoy the news as well as it could stop the blood-letting of bond spreads. The Federal...
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Standard & Poor’s is at it again… more downgrades and this time in the ailing banking sector. While we focused solely on the U.S.-based banks here, the downgrade was handed aimed at 37 of...
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The new question of the week is whether or not Germany will get pulled down into the soup with the rest of Europe on the growing debt woes. A horrible bond auction on Wednesday in Germany now has...
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Make this as good as official now that S&P has chimed in: NO RESOLUTION FROM SUPERCOMMITTEE!!! You already knew that the Supercommittee was really just the “stuper-committee”… Impasse,...
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