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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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Nearly every stock and ADR/ADS of European banking stocks are lower so far on Tuesday over concerns over debt levels and downside levels of recent stress tests not factoring in the right risks in the...
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What happens when Dow Jones Industrial Average components have dividend yields on the common stocks that are above the yield of the 10-year Treasury Note or even the 30-Year Treasury Long Bond? In...
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Standard & Poor’s may not have the same clout it did during the first rounds of debt ratings cuts in Europe after missing the mortgage and debt bubble in America, but the international ratings...
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The ratings agencies may have missed all the blow-ups in mortgage ratings and financial ratings ahead of The Great Recession. But the upgrades for corporate debt ratings are still on the rise even...
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Ben Bernanke and friends at the FOMC decided today to keep Fed Funds unchanged at 0.00% to 0.25% and decided against major quantitative easing measures. We already knew that was coming on the rate...
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The Federal Open Market Committee begins its August meeting this morning and the official announcement should come within a few minutes of 2:15 PM EST. The market is looking for more help, via...
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It is month-end, and bond magnate Bill Gross of PIMCO is out with a new round of predictions. The bond guru’s August Investment Outlook often has quirky ways of explaining things, and he’s...
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Deflation… Bah humbug! The arguments are still relatively new over whether the global economy is headed for a double-dip recession or just an extended period of slow growth. There is a separate...
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The Federal Reserve has just released the Beige Book data showing a region by region breakdown of the economy. The report from the 12 Fed districts shows that the growth in the economy has slowed...
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There is still free money out there if you can qualify for it… Freddie Mac (OTC: FMCC) has released its latest data on its second quarter cash-out refinancings, and the re-fi activity is up as...
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Keeping rates low indefinitely does act as a stimulus of its own. Keeping rates at zero without any rate hikes to what would still be low rates also takes away any real firepower in the future for...
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Legg Mason Inc. (NYSE: LM) portfolio manager Bill Miller has gone out on a limb in his July investing outlook. Although Miller’s observations do have many truths when it comes to value investing,...
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