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The SEC says that companies holding California IOUs can trade them like stocks or bonds by handing them over to a broker. According to the agency, “The staff of the SEC has expressed its belief...
General Electric Capital Corporation, the hard-hit and recently criticized unit of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE), has just filed an automatic shelf registration with the SEC.  Usually these ...
An appetite for risky assets that has sent small-cap and emerging market stocks and junk bonds flying since March now is getting more scrutiny from a market heavyweight.  Greg Peters, head of credit...
Petroleo Brasileiro S.A. (NYSE: PBR), or Petrobras, raised $1 billion in a new note offering this morning for its Petrobras International Finance Co.  Or did it?  We originally had this listed as...
MFA Financial, Inc. (NYSE: MFA) is a surprise on the dividend front this morning. The company is a REIT that invests in mortgage-backed securities, and while that sounds as though it has all the...
SIRIUS XM Radio Inc. (NASDAQ: SIRI) has raised more cash through its XM Satellite Radio Inc. unit than it originally projected.  We were looking for a raise of some $350 million, but the newly...
There was almost no chance of any formal change to interest rates today.  Everyone has been speculating that the FOMC has been looking for an end-game away from the near-zero Fed Funds target now...
Before you think there is a reaffirmed “Aaa” rating from Moody’s Investor Services, this was spoken at a conference.  Reuters reported that the Moody’s team head over the Sovereign Risk...
Rambus Inc. (NASDAQ: RMBS) is tempering some of its guidance, which may lend at least some additional credence that investors need to keep justifying higher prices on news that is only so-so or only...
SIRIUS XM Radio Inc. (NASDAQ: SIRI) has announced this morning that its XM Satellite Radio Inc. wholly owned indirect subsidiary is offering $350 million in principal amount of Senior Secured...
It seems that even the Governator is having a hard time saving California, and many are blaming him for the state’s ballooning budget deficit.  The company is facing billions in deficits and the...
It seems that rising bond yields may have finally started to compete for some of the investment dollars which have been either been investing in stocks or sitting on the sidelines.  Today’s...
Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) raised $1 billion in the corporate bond issuance markets today.  While these are shorter-term than many others, this is just further and further evidence that corporate bond...
NYSE Euronext has begun trading the IQ Hedge Macro Tracker ETF (NYSE: MCRO), sponsored by IndexIQ Advisors LLC.  This marks the second product by IndexIQ Advisors to list on NYSE Arca after its IQ...
The triple-leverage financial ETFs of Direxion Daily Financial Bull 3X Shares (NYSE: FAS) and Direxion Daily Financial Bear 3X Shares (NYSE: FAZ) are getting to deal with yet another potential wrench...