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As if the PIIGS needed any more bad news, Moody’s has just downgraded Ireland yet again. Like you wouldn’t have known about this. This pertains to its foreign and local-currency government...
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Today’s FOMC Minutes from the June 21 to 22 Fed meeting may have had a small impact in the markets today, but the real question is whether or not two-week old data should matter when a mountain of...
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By now, the term “PIIGS” is rather well-known due to debt woes and economic woes of Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece, and Spain. French banks have been considered as having above-average...
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YRC Worldwide Inc. (NASDAQ: YRCW) appears to have gotten yet one more lifeline, one which continues to dilute and dilute by the looks of it. This troubled trucking company has endured possible...
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Is California’s debt rating safe? Or is in the same boat as Greece? That depends upon whom you ask. Meredith Whitney would probably say it is not safe. Standard & Poor’s, however, is...
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It was back in mid-May that we issued a call to arms for Americans to look into refinancing their mortgages if they missed the boat in 2010. At the time, mortgage rates were under 4.50% for a...
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Greece saved itself with its latest austerity measures. For a few months, maybe. If you have read about Greece’s woes and read about the bailout and rescue process, the real implication is that...
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You have been reading all year that China has been hitting the brakes to curb inflation and to fight an overheating economy. They are at it again. Now the People’s Bank of China has raised its...
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U.S. investors are now getting a Renminbi (Yuan) and bond fund to invest in via an open-ended mutual fund structure. An announcement has been made by Guinness Atkinson Asset Management that it is...
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Quantitative Easing, or QE, is a term that many investors were forced to understand. Then came QE2 as an even more difficult pill to swallow. After the FOMC or any central bank has taken rates to...
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SIRIUS XM Radio Inc. (NASDAQ: SIRI) has seen its corporate credit rating lifted in tone today by Standard & Poor’s. The current rating of “BB-” was given a an outlook upgrade to...
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Even though the US Federal Reserve downplays the contribution of commodity prices in the US core inflation rate, that doesn’t mean that everyone agrees. In fact, most of us who pay more for a...
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Any positive return from a short-term bond fund offers investors a reason to flee the money market funds which are currently the equivalent of stuffing cash under a mattress. Over the past year or...
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Ben Bernanke and the FOMC have voted unanimously to keep effective Fed Funds rates at an effective target of 0.00% to 0.25% and the discount rate at 0.75%. What investors need to care about most...
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The ratings agencies get bashed a lot, including by us, for being extremely late to the downgrade party. The fault of one area is still not the fault of all. It has been nearly impossible to...
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