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Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A)(NYSE: BRK-B) was the first of the large corporate bond issues for 2011. Yesterday brought the pricing of a 3-traunch bond issue from its Berkshire Hathaway...
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Another day, another late-late sovereign debt rating downgrade warning. Moody’s has just placed the “Ba1” rating of Greece on review for a possible downgrade. This is on the heels of a...
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The longer-end of the curve is is still rising. Earlier we had seen the highest yields since June, and now we are seeing the highest yields since May. The 10-Year Treasury yield has broken the...
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The FOMC, as expected, has left the Fed Funds rate unchanged in another 10 to 1 vote. More important is the FOMC’s outlook on the economy, inflation, and on quantitative easing progress. Ben...
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Tracking European banks, particularly those in the lands of the PIIGS, often requires looking at individual national sovereign debt issues on top of banking-related news. That is the case in Spain...
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As the economic outlook continues to improve, lower Treasury bond prices and higher yields seem to be putting pressure on several of the key high-yield bond funds on the market seen in closed-end...
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Treasuries are seeing a continued slide as the impact of QE2 and raised economic projections along with higher inflation in China. The 10-Year Treasury hit a yield above 3.39% and that marks the...
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Dean Foods Co. (NYSE: DF) has been an awful stock for investors in the dairy sector in 2010. Shares are actually down more than 50% from the year’s high. This morning saw an interesting release...
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QE2 has so far had no impact on keeping Treasury bond yields lower. Lower taxes, higher deficits, European bailouts, and a still-present race by nations devaluing currencies are all to blame. The...
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In November 2008, JA Solar Holdings Co., Ltd. (NASDAQ: JASO) wrote off $100 million in 3-month index-linked note it had issued that was guaranteed by Lehman Brothers’ European subsidiaries and that...
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Did you hear? Greece has problems. They are bad enough that S&P has threatened a sovereign downgrade on the debt of Greece. Just one problem here, or more than one. This call is about as...
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It is not every day that you see foreign nations register bond offerings with the SEC for sale in the United States. This morning we saw two S-B filings come literally about 58 seconds of each...
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It was back in January, nearly a year ago, after the Congressional Budget Office released its 2010 budget when we called for the U.S. to adopt a Deficit Manifesto. This called for lawmakers to...
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Yesterday marked the launch of many new exchange traded funds, which are actually exchange traded notes, geared to offer more leverage and inverse leverage on several index classes for equity...
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The minutes of the most recent FOMC meeting from November 2 and 3 showed that Fed governors were not exactly unanimous over all of the issues around quantitative easing or QE2. Ultimately, those...
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