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Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE: WMT) had a bit of unusual debt rating coverage this morning after Fitch reiterated Wal-Mart’s “AA” rating and said its outlook is stable. The reason for the note...
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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is keeping quantitative easing alive despite saying action is or isn’t being taken. The speech is from a monetary policy conference held by the Federal...
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Bank of America Corporation (NYSE: BAC) may have more exposure than the rest of the money center banks due to its acquisition of Countrywide, and the spate of news about disclosure documents and...
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Some management teams know how to work the system better and to take advantage of opportunity in the land of junk bonds better than others. Take a look at the SIRIUS XM Radio Inc. (NASDAQ: SIRI)...
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SIRIUS XM Radio (NASDAQ: SIRI) is getting on the debt refinance game. The company’s XM Satellite Radio subsidiary is offering up to $550 million of senior notes that will mature in 2018 via a...
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The most recent minutes from the FOMC are out and this shows us a bit more about how quantitative easing may work. The consensus is that monetary stimulus is appropriate if growth becomes too slow. ...
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Things are looking better and better for China as it is one of the key growth engines of the world. Moody’s Investor Service has placed the sovereign credit rating of “A1” on review for a...
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Everyone has either grown to hate credit now, or miss it because it has been taken away. The Federal Reserve just gave a report for the month of August which shows that credit to Joe Public has...
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Ambac Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE: ABK) is neither a company nor a stock that is without controversy. It has a lot of fans who have been buying shares before and after it became a penny stock. It...
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Bill Gross of Pimco may be the most widely-admired fixed income investor in the world. He is also a first rate pessimist in a pessimistic time. His most recent monthly letter says that the “new...
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In March 2009, the five ethanol-producing plants owned by a subsidiary of Pacific Ethanol, Inc. (NASDAQ: PEIX) filed for bankruptcy protection. The plants exited bankruptcy in June 2010, under...
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BP plc (NYSE: BP) is set to raise a few billion dollars in cash after a bond offering has been filed with the SEC this morning via its BP Capital Market plc unit. This is the funding unit of...
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Sears Holdings Corporation (NASDAQ: SHLD) is raising cash. The turnaround retail giant is selling $500 million in senior secured notes due in 2018, and concurrently it is selling $165 million in...
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Symantec Corporation (NASDAQ: SYMC) finds itself at a strange place in time. Shares were under pressure after the company issued an earnings warning about order pushouts. But when Intel Corporation...
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If corporations have high credit ratings, there is an opportunity to borrow for rates that have not been seen in years (or ever). August saw key bond issuances at extremely low rates from Johnson...
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