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Ford Motor Company (NYSE: F) is continuing to make good on its promise to cut debt and get its finances in better order. Despite having the best balance sheet by far of the Big Three (or it is the...
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News Corporation (NASDAQ: NWS) managed to do something rather impressive considering the state of the media in the aftermath of the recession. Rupert Murdoch and friends raised close to $2.5...
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Media reports questioning whether the United States will keep its “Triple-A Rating” in the future are frequent. The fear of endless budget deficit spending and quantitative easing have only...
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Standard & Poor’s is at it again, with late debt rating cuts. This is actually in the Irish banking sector rather than in the sovereign ratings. As this is too little too late, we are only...
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The decision from the Federal Open Market Committee on interest rates came today as the Dow Jones Industrial Average was hitting 12,000 for the first time in more than two years. As you should have...
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When a former adviser to President Bill Clinton was asked what he wanted to be re-incarnated as, he answered, “The bond market. Everybody’s scared of the bond market.” If he was right, then the...
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The bond market in Treasuries may be somewhat steady to firm this Thursday, but that is not the case for municipal bond funds and for the exchange-traded products behind them. The persistent call...
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Yesterday was Portugal helping out, today is Spain… Debt sales that is. A debt sale in Spain is so far being hailed as a minor success and this comes on the heels of a similar successful debt...
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There were several key economic data reports issued simultaneously this morning at 8:30 AM EST. The readings are a bit mixed, although there is less good news than many might have hoped for in jobs...
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The news was expected to be setting up for headlines such as “No rate hikes from the Bank of England nor from the European Central Bank” this morning. South Korea changed that news flow. The...
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Freddie Mac is out with its projections for 2011, titled “A Slow Start to the New Year, But Better News Ahead.” Despite recent employment data showing a slow 2011 start, the report calls for a...
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Level 3 Communications Inc. (NASDAQ: LVLT) is back again in the capital markets. Once a seller, always a seller. The company will offer $300 million in eight-year maturity notes, pushing out its...
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Chesapeake Energy Corp. (NYSE: CHK) has announced that it will reduce its long-term debt by 25% by the end of 2012 while increasing production by 25%. In its announcement, the company’s CEO said,...
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The FOMC Minutes from the December 14, 2010 meeting are out, and you can forget the bulk of the commentary. This is about justification and rationalizing its second round of Quantitative Easing, or...
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Annaly Capital Management, Inc. (NYSE: NLY) is taking a very opportunistic approach to raising more capital to buy mortgages. The mortgage REIT is raising roughly $1.3 billion in gross proceeds. ...
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