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Ford Motor Co. (NYSE: F), America’s only major automaker not in debt to taxpayers, is seeing its shares gain this morning after it paid off more than $4 billion in debt. Citigroup also has chimed...
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If you have watched Fannie Mae (NYSE: FNM) and Freddie Mac (NYSE: FRE), you know what has gone on. These are technically Federal National Mortgage Association (NYSE: FNM) and Federal Home Loan...
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As expected, the Federal Open Market Committee under Ben Bernanke has voted to leave the Fed Funds Rate unchanged at the Target of 0.00% to 0.25%. The vote was 9 to 1 against a rate hike, again...
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The day has come for Freddie Mac (NYSE: FRE) and Fannie Mae (NYSE: FNM). Freddie Mac has notified the New York Stock Exchange of its intent to delist its common stock from NYSE trading. It is...
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Fitch is generally considered third fiddle in a two-agency dominated game of debt ratings behind Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s. But a ‘timely’ downgrade out of Fitch on BP plc (NYSE:...
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Ambac Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE: ABK) was trying to have a good day yesterday, but it is one of those companies where almost all good news is met by more selling. The news yesterday that helped...
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Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) closed lower today along with many technology companies, but there is something rather interesting worth noting. This morning we covered a small esoteric...
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Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) is selling $1.15 billion worth of convertible senior notes, but chances are that you won’t be able to participate in this offering even if you wanted to. The notes...
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Claymore Securities has just launched several new investment grade corporate bond ETF products that are designed to allow investors to invest in a basket of bond maturities. The Claymore...
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Back in the liquidity bubble, corporate bond spreads were tight. Very tight. Sometimes as little as 50 or 75 basis points for those deemed a solid investment grade, and sometimes even tighter...
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Bill Gross, the head investment officer of bond giant PIMCO and the most famous fixed-income investor in the world, dismissed Moody’s (NYSE: MCO) and S&P as deeply flawed arbiters of...
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As you expected, no rate hike came from the two-day FOMC meeting today at 2:15 PM EST. The target Fed Funds Rate was kept at the same 0.00% to 0.25% that has been the case for over a year. As far...
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Standard & Poor’s just hit the brakes on the markets, a day after cutting Greece and Portugal. The PIIGS are taking another toll, with the cut today being the long-term rating of the...
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Maybe you remember the “Bear Market Financial Terms”… If you are getting as sick of the daily financial news out of Greece and its financial games as we are, here are some new Greek Financial...
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The end of this last week and weekend reviews showed how the highly volatile Direxion Daily Financial Bear 3X Shares (NYSE: FAZ) and the Direxion Daily Financial Bull 3X Shares (NYSE: FAS) were...
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