07/13
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European Golden-Boy? Daily Standard / Irwin M. Stelzer
KS:
Wheat harvest's bad news just gets worse Wichita Eagle / Phyllis Jacobs
Griekspoor
Brokers
to soon offer two times the advice LA Times via Wichita Eagle / Thomas S.
Mulligan
CA:
Grocery talks at critical stage Sacramento Bee / Dale Kasler
Execs
grab big payouts in mergers Charlotte Observer / Rick Rothacker
Congress
may give GE a tax break on $21 billion in foreign income Bloomberg via
Ft. Lauderdale Sun Sentinel / Ryan J. Donmoyer and Rachel Layne
Hedge Funds Dirty Secret
NY Post / John Crudele
Lay
goes on CNN, says he's innocent AP, CNN and Orange County Register
ATA cutting
hundreds of positions Indianapolis Star / Chris O’Malley
EU ministers
'should have punished France and Germany over deficits' Guardian / Mark
Tran
UK:
Spend, spend ... no, don't spend Guardian
Productivity
Is the Gift That Keeps On Giving Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis /
William Poole
The
Housing Giants in Plain View Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Light
Rail: Boon or Boondoggle? Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Manufacturing
growth moderates in June Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
Fifth
District Service-Sector Activity Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
Fed
Study: House-Price Growth to Be Slow AP via Chicago
Tribune
Fannie Mae's
Cooperation 'Spotty' AP via ABC News
Court annuls EU
ministers' deficit decision AFP via EU Business
Fake euro mint
busted in Colombia AFP via EU Business
EU:
Where now for stability pact? BBC News
Yukos
scrambling to find tax cash CNN
Chauvinist
piggy bank hit for $54 million NY Daily News / Robert Gearty and Dave
Goldiner
PA:
Amid scandal, Commerce Bancorp withdraws from bond market AP via
Philadelphia Inquirer / Linda A. Johnson
How
will rising interest rates affect housing prices? CNN / Sarah Max
Intel
profit soars, but ... CNN / Paul R. La Monica
Qwest's
Former Chief Executive Returns To Telecom Industry AP via Hartford
Courant / Jeffrey Gold
Merrill
looking at energy trading once again Reuters / Greg Cresci
Fed's
McTeer-higher inflation probably just a blip Reuters / Nicole Mordant
Gates: DVDs
Obsolete Within Ten Years Forbes / Greg Levine
Toshiba
to unveil new laptop with TV capabilities AP via Mercury News
Brazil's
Real Falls 1st Day in 3 on Rising U.S. Interest Rates Bloomberg / Jeb
Blount
Japan
economy stronger, but no rate change UPI / Shihoko Goto
Sell
now while stocks last The Economist
U.S.
Treasury Notes Drop on Speculation Yields Are Too Low Bloomberg / Elizabeth
Stanton
Fed's
McTeer-U.S. inflation should stay low Reuters
Fannie
Mae asset quality under regulatory scrutiny Reuters
Deutsche
Asset May Lose $913 Million of Pension Fund Contracts Bloomberg / Peter
Woodifield
EU:
If only they could all be like Luxembourg The Economist
Canada:
Dollar hammered by import surge CP via Toronto Star Malcolm Morrison
Russia's Run on Deposits and
Yukos Demands: Ominous Signs for the Global Economy? KWR International
via Safehaven / Sergei Blagov
Improving
job market means boon for workers CBS Market Watch via Tennessean /
Andrea Coombes
Are there Cycles in
Commodity Prices? Bonneuil Report via Safehaven
Paper Mache Safehaven /
John Mackenzie
‘For us, $140 billion is
nothing’: Holtz-Eakin The Hill / Bob Cusack
Dollar
steadies as short positions squared FT / Steve Johnson
US
Treasuries retreat, economy proves resilient Reuters / Wayne Cole
Merrill
Lynch profits top $1bn Reuters via FT
Jefferies
Group second-quarter profit rises Reuters
Morgan
Stanley: Big Bucks For Bias Forbes / Dan Ackman
Economic
recovery is congesting rail lines Bloomberg via Detroit Free Press
NE:
Smaller wheat crop projected Omaha World Herald / Chris Clayton
Low-Pay
Industries With High-Pay Jobs Bloomberg / Caroline Baum
U.S.
May Trade Gap Narrows to $46 Billion on Record Exports Bloomberg
Firm
makes a play to buy majority of MCI Chicago Tribune / Jon Van
Dollar
Rises After Report Shows U.S. Trade Deficit Narrowed Bloomberg / Bob
Brennan
Snow:
Terror puts economy at risk Reuters / CNN
Women
say it's still a man's Wall Street Wall Street Newsday / Lindsay Faber
Weigh
the risks, costs of fixing asset makeup Philadelphia Inquirer / Jeff
Brown
IEA Foresees
Slowdown in World Oil Demand AP via Forbes
Nasdaq
lands belle of IPO ball Boston Globe / Robert Weisman
Bad
News Bears Philadelphia Inquirer / Porus P. Cooper
MD:
Baltimore region's homebuyers dig deeper Baltimore Sun /Jamie Smith
Hopkins
CA:
Home Prices Continue to Soar in L.A. County LA Times /
Annette Haddad
Gambling
craze not a good bet for states Seattle Post Intelligencer / Bill Virgin
Oil
Retreats as Traders Take Profits Reuters
Investment
still pours into China BBC News
UK:
Brown takes three-year gamble with golden rule Telegraph / Edmund Conway
and David Litterick
UK:
Holiday spending spree pushes up inflation Guardian / Mark Tran
Audit
bureau censures Sun-Times, 2 Trib papers Chicago Sun times / Eric
Herman
Treasury
bill rates mixed in auction AP via Baltimore Sun
Yen
Declines for Third Day in Four Against Dollar, Euro in Asia Bloomberg /
John Brinsley
Caution
on trade talks IHT / Brian Knowlton
Australia:
Bonds close slightly firmer AAP via Sydney Morning Herald
Sri
Lanka's Stocks Surge Defies Bearish Outlook Bloomberg / Andy Mukherjee
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07/14
TX:
State debt up 200 percent in past 10 years AP via Houston Chronicle
The American
recession vindicated the Austrian School of economics Brookes News /
Gerard Jackson
Mortgage
growth up 4.4 percent nationally LA Daily News / Gregory Wilcox
WA:
State job market 'anemic' Tacoma News Tribune / Barbara Clements
Brazil
Real Gains to 9-Week High on Plans to Limit 2005 Budget Bloomberg / Jeb
Blount
U.K.
Wages Grow at Fastest Pace in Two Years in May Bloomberg / Sam Fleming
Stash
of Cash Makes MCI Attractive To Buyers Washington Post / Christopher
Stern
Big-Splash
Trade Shows Sinking Fast Washington Post / Steven Pearlstein
Under SEC Eye, Red Hat
Restates NY Post / Holly M. Sanders
Underground
Dwellers National Review / Bruce Bartlett
Another Sign of an Economic
Recovery Clif Droke Market Analysis via Safehaven / Clif Droke
Abject Failure Safehaven
/ John Mackenzie
FDIC Revises
March 31, 2004, Reserve Ratios for Deposit Insurance Funds FDIC
Molinaro
of Bear Stearns Is Highest Paid CFO Bloomberg / Graef Crystal
MN:
Pace of job creation slows Pioneer Press / Mike Hughlett
KS:
Wichitans confident in local economy Wichita Eagle / Dan Voorhis
Spending
binge may be over Dallas Morning News / Danielle DiMartino
US
Treasuries flat in Asia ahead of U.S. PPI Reuters
Jilted
bondholders say Argentina can pay back more Reuters / Greg Brosnan
Qwest
pensioners sue government for audit details AP via Denver Post / Sandy Shore
Think
The FDIC's Tough? China Banker Is Executed AP via Hartford
Courant / Elaine Kurtenbach
Dollar
Little Changed Vs Major Currencies Reuters via ABC News / Mariko
Hayashibara
Soaring
Oil Prices, but No New Boom in Houston NY Times / Simon Romero
India
Sees Backlash Fading Over Boom in Outsourcing NY Times /
Saritha Rai
Big
Tobacco's train has one destination Denver Post / Al Lewis
New
'W Ketchup' pours on the politics Scripps Howard via Rocky Mountain News
/ Marcela Carrera
Spymasters
or spinmeisters? The Economist
House
votes to allow Canada drug access AP via Philadelphia Inquirer / Ira
Dreyfuss
Divided
SEC Proposes More Oversight of Hedge Funds Bloomberg / Robert Schmidt
Everything
is going up, except salaries of middle-class voters Baltimore Sun / Jay
Hancock
Brown
Brothers' Rhame: Retail Sales, Housing and Dollar audio Bloomberg
Apple's
income triples thanks to iPod BBC News
Harley
cruises past 2Q estimates Reuters via CNN
Green
abandons M&S takeover plan BBC News
United
Airlines defers $72.4 million in pension contributions Bloomberg via
Dallas Morning News
Japan:
Minister welcomes Japanese bank plan FT / David Ibison, Michiyo Nakamoto
and Barney Jopson
Canada:
High commodity prices expected to keep oilpatch awash in profits CP via
National Post / James Stevenson
Argentine
Creditors Seek to Build Opposition to Offer Bloomberg / Daniel Helft
Economic
Trends July 2004 Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
Raises to remain
below 4% CNN
Nymex
Oil Rallies to Six-Week High as U.S. Crude Supplies Drop Bloomberg / Joe
Carroll
Yahoo!'s
battle with Google escalates AP and Bloomberg via Seattle Post
Intelligencer
Many
employers keeping pay raises restrained AP via Minneapolis Star Tribune /
Adam Geller
Yen
slides on gloomy news from Intel FT / Steve Johnson
How
Schieffelin Beat The Street Forbes / Dan Ackman
US
Treasuries lower despite soft retail sales data Reuters / Wayne Cole
PA: Fuzzy
reasoning for legalized slots Philadelphia Inquirer / Andrew Cassel
Conference,
Movie Mark Orange County '94 Bankruptcy Bloomberg / Joe Mysak
UK:
Marks & Spencer Bondholders Are Sacrificial Lambs Bloomberg / Mark
Gilbert
In
Fiscal Discipline, It's a Race to the Bottom Bloomberg / Caroline Baum
Watching
the consumer wane CNN / Kathleen Hayes
Tech
Pulse Index Federal Reserve Bank of New
York
Dollar
Falls Against Euro After Retail Report, Issing Remarks Bloomberg / Bob
Brennan
BoA
profit jumps 41% Reuters via CNN
U.S.
June Retail Sales Fall by Most Since Feb. 2003 Bloomberg / Joe Richter
Move
Aside Citigroup, Here Come the Japanese Bloomberg / William Pesek Jr.
AZ:
Home resales race to record territory Arizona Republic / Glen Creno
Exploding
the Myths of Offshoring McKinsey and Co. via CFO.com
Russia:
WTO Bid Timed to American Election Moscow Times / Greg Walters
Japan:
Talks seek to create world's biggest bank FT / David Ibison
Japan:
Ultraeasy monetary policy to stay despite steady growth Japan Times /
Hiroko Nakata
China:
FDI used by China totals $33.9 bln in first half People’s Daily
Gender, work, and
Wall Street Christian Science Monitor / Ron Scherer
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07/15
Factory
reports welcome Dallas Morning News / Danielle DiMartino
Inflation-
linked bonds 'set for solid growth' FT / Ivar Simenson
From
alpha to omega The Economist
The
health of nations The Economist
Oil
reserves The Economist
UK:
A Rose-tinted vision The Economist
The
Fed stays in the picture CNN / Mark Gongloff
New Bond Market Association Web Site
BMA
South
Korean growth lags Seattle Times / Stephen Dunphy
Latin
American markets roundup UPI / Gonzalo Baeza
Texas
crude nudges $41 Dallas News
Greenback,
loonie in stalemate Ottawa Business Journal
Funds: Butt Out NY Post /
Jenny Anderson
Certificates
of deposit Orange County Register
Freddie
Mac hires JPMorgan manager Washington Business Journal / Jeff Clabaugh
U.S.
House Blocks Export-Import Loans to Tax-Haven Companies Bloomberg / Laura
Smitherman
PA:
Weiss Gets 'Expert' Help Bond Buyer / Lynn Hume
CA:
Of Flies and Shopping Malls: City May Cure Default of 'Dirt Bonds' Bond
Buyer / Rich Saskal
S&P
blesses new Maryland debt Washington Business Journal / Jeff Clabaugh
Fed's
Bies-Fed must be alert to higher inflation Reuters
Pressing
for Fed transparency CBS Marketwatch / Gregory Robb
Fed:
Manufacturing conditions improve UPI via Washington Times
Business
Financial Conditions and Relationships with Bankers Federal Reserve Board
/ Susan Schmidt Bies
Hong
Kong Sells $1.25 Billion of Bonds in First Global Sale Bloomberg / Netty
Ismail
Md.
keeps its treasured AAA bond rating AP via Baltimore Sun / Gretchen
Parker
TX:
Moody's cuts EDS debt rating to junk Dallas Morning News / Pamela Yip
Westpac
Banking Says to Buy Put Options on Dollar Versus Yen Bloomberg / Joshua
Krongold
Interstate
competition is fighting wrong battle Seattle Post Intelligencer / Bill
Virgin
OPEC
Cancels a Meeting; Output Plan to Stay the Same NY Times / Simon Romero
World
Bank warned over policy reform FT / Andrew Balls
30-year benchmark level falls to 6
percent AP via CNBC
Tribune
finds more circulation errors Chicago Tribune / Leon Lazaroff
Oil
giant Shell's investors shocked BBC News/ Terry Messenger
Southwest
Airlines CEO Resigns Reuters via Airwise
Marriott
earnings up 29 percent on travel boost AP via San Diego Union Tribune /
Stephen Manning
MGM
Could Buy Back Up to 10 Million Shares Bloomberg and LA Times
Apple
Thanks Its Lucky iPods Washington Post / Cynthia L. Webb
Business Outlook Survey
Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
US
30-, 15-year mortgage rates change little in week Reuters
Snow
Presses Bush's Economic Agenda in Battlegrounds Bloomberg / Simon Kennedy
Why
the Bush ticket still needs Mr Grumpy FT / Josh Chaffin
Citigroup asset
management income slips 16% Investment and Pensions Euorope
Global
investors' outlook slumps to three-year low Bloomberg via Australian
Financial Review / Kotaro Miyata
Three largest
Dutch funds post quarterly returns Investment and Pensions Europe
Harrah's
to Acquire Caesars AP via Morning Call / Adam Goldman
Swallow
hard The Economist
US
Treasuries strangely subdued despite soft data Reuters / Wayne Cole
Default
Is Becoming a Way of Life in Argentina Bloomberg / David DeRosa
Japanese
10-Year Bonds Drop After Gain in Stocks, Note Auction Bloomberg / Keiko
Ujikane
U.S.
June Producer Prices Fall 0.3%; Core Up 0.2% Bloomberg / Joe Richter
Oil
prices rise sharply amid terrorism fears AP via Dallas Fort Worth Star
Telegram / Masood Farivar
Nokia
posts lower income, warns Reuters via CNN
Bolstered
by improved sales, Sony Ericsson beats Q2 expectations CP via Canada.com
/ Matt Moore
US
senator "concerned" about SEC's hedge fund push Reuters
Political
divisions on SEC San Francisco Chronicle / Kathleen Pender
Khodorkovsky
Led Criminal Gang, Russia Court Told Reuters / Richard Ayton
Industrial
Production and Capacity Utilization Federal Reserve Board
Empire
State Manufacturing pdf Federal Reserve
Bank of New York
Schwab Fire Sale / NY
Post / Jenny Anderson
Deal
sets stage for Japanese giant FT / David Ibison, Michiyo Nakamoto and
Barney Jopson
Letting the Chips Fall Where
they Must Sage Capital Zurich via Safehaven / Sean Corrigan
NV:
Two More High Rollers Discuss a Merger NY Times / Andrew Ross Sorkin
Europe reluctantly
eyes a longer work week Christian Science Monitor / David R. Francis
China:
Premier Wen warns of economic pitfalls People’s Daily
Japan:
Currency official happy with recent movements Japan Times
Japan:
Corporate bankruptcies down 19.3% in first half Japan Times
The
Paradox of Prosperity NY Times / Virginia Postrel
70s
Style Stagflation Is Possible in Asia Bloomberg / William Pesek Jr.
Yukos
offers its whole cash pile to pay part of tax bill NY Times via IHT / Erin
E. Arvedlund
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