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Monday and Tuesday came the downgrades for Greece by ratings agencies. Now it is Spain’s turn, or at least the writing is on the wall. Standard & Poor’s has revised Spain’s outlook to...
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Fitch Ratings joined in with a downgrade of Greece’s credit rating following a similar action yesterday by Standard & Poor’s. The downgrade this morning was to “BBB+” from “A-“… and...
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Vanguard has just launched seven new bond exchange traded funds today. We are seeing very thin trading volume, and that will be the single biggest benchmark used for whether or not these become a...
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This was an important week for investment guru and billionaire watchers to see which gurus were holding which stocks. The full public equity holdings of Warren Buffett via Berkshire Hathaway Inc....
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Earlier today came the results from a highly awaited $16 billion 30-Year Treasury bond auction… the famed ‘Long Bond.’ The 30-Year yield went out to buyers at 4.469%, just over 0.04% or 4...
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SIRIUS XM Radio Inc. (NASDAQ: SIRI) has been reaffirmed on its corporate debt rating at “B-” late in the day. While this is still very deep in “junk bond” territory at S&P, the outlook...
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American International Group, Inc. (NYSE: AIG) is running this morning. The stock is trading higher this morning on a debt rating comment from last night. It turns out that Moody’s might have...
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Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO) has filed a preliminary prospectus supplement under an existing shelf registration with the SEC this morning for a three-part debt offering. While no final amount...
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It is no secret that things could be much better at Fannie Mae (NYSE: FNM) and Freddie Mac (NYSE: FRE). But the last week or so has re-highlighted just how dire the situation is for these...
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CIT Group, Inc. (NYSE: CIT) has had a lot of news this week. A lot this year for that matter. Last night there was word that it had reached a loan agreement with Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE: GS). ...
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Nuveen has been the largest player in single-state municipal bond closed-end and open-end bond funds for years and years. If you look in Barron’s each week under closed-end mutual funds data to...
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Level 3 Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: LVLT) has just disclosed in an SEC filing the “Creation of a Direct Financial Obligation or an Obligation under an Off-Balance Sheet Arrangement of a...
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Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has reviewed the ramifications of reports about General Electric Co.’s (NYSE: GE) plans for NBC Universal. The ratings agency has said that a partial sale...
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Maybe it is time after a 50%+ gain in the major equity indexes, or maybe it is just everyone getting into the October bearish mode. We are hearing more and more calls for a very weak equities...
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Around 2:15 PM EST today, we will know the FOMC’s decision on interest rates. While we expect no formal change to the effective 0.00% to 0.25% effective Fed Funds rate, we expect traders to pay...
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