08/13
Second-guessing
the Fed Washington Times / Alan Reynolds
CA:
Humblest homes Orange County Register / Jeff Collins
China
Data Watch-Factories still churning out the goods Reuters
Homebuilders'
view differs from Bernanke's Dallas Morning News / Danielle DiMartino
S&P
warns on leveraged recaps $ FT / Peter
Smith
Not
much fizz left in the global economy $
FT / Stephen Roach
Full
steam ahead on earnings Marketwatch / Sage Brennan
NY:
Feeling the Fed's impact on LI Newsday / Jennifer Peltz
Rust
in the pipes is corroding BP's shiny reputation Independent / Abigail
Townsend
Fed
chief wants to improve communication AP via Dallas Fort Worth Star
Telegram / Jeannine Aversa
Emerging
debt to focus on U.S. inflation Marketwatch / Walter Brandimarte
Market
preview: Inflation building and growth rotating FT / Chris Flood
Inflation
tempers growth Allentown Morning
Call / Gregory Karp
Wall
Street is back on inflation watch AP via Dallas Fort Worth Star
Telegram / Michael J. Martinez
A
slump in the US economy is bad for everyone $
FT / Wolfgang Munchau
Inflation
Picks Up and Construction Sags: U.S. Economy Preview Bloomberg / Carlos
Torres
CA:
Come right in, folks Sacramento Bee / Jim Wasserman
CA:
For million-dollar homes, realty sales remain solid San Luis Obispo
Tribune News / Julie Lynem
CA:
$1 million no longer buys 'one of those special properties' San Luis
Obispo Tribune News / Julie Lynem
Do-it-yourself
home buyers Oregon Mail Tribune / Phuong Cat Le
Mortgage
debt ticking higher Allentown Morning Call / Becky Yerak
Pensions,
politics and consultants make for unsavory bedfellows Pittsburgh Post
Gazette / Len Boselovic
Traders
Unfazed by Gathering Terror NY Post / Pater Lauria
Analysis Of Open Interest
Put / Call Ratios On US Stock Indices Treasure Chests via Safehaven /
Captain Hook
Wall
St banks face earnings slowdown $ FT /
Ben White
CA:
Tourists continue summer migration San Diego Union Tribune / Jennifer
Davies
Euro
May Rise to Record Versus Yen on Slower BOJ Rate Increases Bloomberg /
Deborah Finestone
Richmond
Fed chief is hawk on inflation Baltimore Sun / Jay Hancock
CO: Condos a tough
sell these days Denver Post / Al Lewis
FL:
Area sees middle class exodus Miami Herald / Gregg Fields and Jenny
Staletovich
As
the Auto Age Dawned, Gasoline Wasn't King Washington Post / Steven
Levingston
Hot
and cold of the economy Marketwatch / Rex Nutting
Back-to-school
sales vital to retailers' profits Pittsburgh Tribune Review / Gregory
M. Drahuschak
Verizon
has taken retail lead, CEO says Chicago Tribune / Jon Van
Debts
Forgiven, Taxes Increased Washington Post / Michelle Singletary
Business
Casual? Seriously. Washington Post / Amy Joyce
Bargains
in Foreclosures Wall Street Journal / Aleksandra Todorova
Economist:
Home-value hikes slowing Boston Herald / Kenneth R. Harney
Silver
Shows Its Strength Barron’s via Wall Street Journal / Andrew Bary
Listen
to What the Markets Are Saying Wall Street Journal / Jonathan Clements
Get a job and a
tax break` Marketwatch via Pittsburgh Post Gazette / Marshall Loeb
Defer
Taxes With a Property 'Swap' Wall Street Journal / Tara Siegel Bernard
This
Pause May Depend on Prices NY Times / Conrad De Aenlle
Flagging
the Fed Business Line
There
may be trouble ahead Scotsman / Bill Jamieson
Is
a Futures Stampede Keeping Oil Prices High? NY times / Norm Alster
Secrets
in the pipeline NY Times / Gretchen Morgenson and Jenny Anderson
If You Know
Options, You’re Likely to Know Stocks Marketwatch via NY Times / Mark
Hulbert
Why
the markets didn't bomb after the terror plot Guardian – Observer /
Richard Wachman
His
Salary Last Year? They’re Still Counting NY Times / Mark Stein
Why
‘Outsourcing’ May Lose Its Power as a Scare Word Slate via NY Times /
Daniel Gross
Bill
Gates’s Charity Races to Spend Buffett Billions NY Times / Stephanie
Strom
Netherlands
'does most for poor' BBC News
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08/14
A
Market For Trading Forbes / Chris Johnson
Executive
Compensation Forbes / Harvey Pitt
Pink-slip
season looms Globe and Mail / Roma Luciw
TX:
For Dallas-area homeowners, sooner may beat later Dallas Morning News /
Danielle DiMartino
IL:
Demand for office space rises Chicago Sun Times / David Roeder
CA:
More use homes as main asset Contra Costa Times / George Avalos
CA: What's going on
in the world of real estate? Long Beach Press Telegram / Don Jergler
Wall Street, GDP and
wingnuts Brookes News / Gerard Jackson
Watching
the consumers $ FT / John Authers
Debt
Can Rise to Infinity Daily Reckoning / Mogambo Guru
The Wall Street
Journal’s immigration fallacies and US wage rates Brookes News / Gerard
Jackson
Vital Signs: Where
Inflation Lurks Business Week via MSNBC
Gold
Down on Cease-Fire, Silver Gains AP via Newsday
Dollar
gains on most currencies AP via NJ Post
Losing
Credibility? Daily Reckoning / Chuck Butler
Alarm
in Congress over race to allocate cash FT / Stephanie Kirchgaessner
Rice
Prices May Double by 2008 Hurting Kellogg, Busch Bloomberg / Jeff
Wilson and Saijel Kishan
FL:
Expert sees Floridians as confident despite terror plot Palm Beach Post
/ Pat Beall
Citigroup
poll shows wealthy worrying Marketwatch / Greg Morcroft
Investors
remain concerned about inflation, pace of economic slowdown Marketwatch
/ Mark Cotton
Mega
Monday on Wall Street CNN
Stocks
jump on cease-fire in Middle East AP via Dallas Fort Worth star
Telegram / Michael J. Martinez
Stock
Therapy NY Post / Tom Bawden
S&P
500's failure at resistance a sign of structural weakness Marketwatch /
Tomi Kilgore
Treasurys
sell off after cease-fire; lower air threat level Marketwatch / Leslie
Wines
Dollar
at 2-week yen high, awaits U.S. inflation data Marketwatch / Wanfeng
Zhou
Swiss
franc: safe-haven no more? Marketwatch / Wanfeng Zhou
Gold
Drops a Third Straight Session as Oil Declines Bloomberg / Pham-Duy
Nguyen
Banks
more willing to make consumer loans: Fed Marketwatch / Robert Schroeder
The
July 2006 Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey on Bank Lending Practices pdf Federal Reserve Board
Survey of Professional
Forecasters pdf Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
Understanding
How Employment Responds to Productivity Shocks in a Model with Inventories
pdf Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond /
Yongsung Chang, Andreas Hornstein & Pierre-Daniel G. Sarte
The
Fed has paused, but investors shouldn't Reuters / Linda Stern
Philly
Fed sees slower growth, faster inflation Reuters
Government
considers more decimal places for key inflation gauge AP via San Diego
Union Tribune / Martin Crutsinger
Day
laborers present challenges for unions AP via Seattle Post
Intelligencer / Peter Prengamenthe
Feds
Want Skilling to Pay Lay's Share CFO.com / Stephen Taub
This
Cat Stays So Cool Loaded Up With Cash Investor’s Business Daily /
Murray Coleman
The
DOG ate my PBJ Marketwatch / John Spence
Treasuries
ease as Mideast truce takes hold Reuters / Chris Reese
Review
and Preview Morgan Stanley / Ted Wieseman and David Greenlaw
New
York Mets, Yankees Vie for Fans in Municipal Bond Market Bloomberg /
Eddie Baeb
Betting
on Global Growth Morgan Stanley / Richard Berner
Ford
shares jump on Bear Stearns ratings Reuters via CNN
Monday's Stocktiming.com
Analysis Stocktiming.com / Marty Chenard
Federal
Reserve Events Reuters
PA:
Management shifts for an expanding Wachovia Philadelphia Inquirer /
Joseph N. DiStefano
Wall
Street bonuses to rise 15 pct this year-study Reuters / Jonathan
Stempel
Piper
Jaffray unit sale trimmed by departures Reuters / Joseph A. Giannone
Currencies:
World Interest Rates Normalizing, Not Restrictive Morgan Stanley /
Stephen Jen
Not
Much Fizz Left in the Global Economy Morgan Stanley / Stephen Roach
EU:
Closing the Books on 2Q Morgan Stanley / Elga Bartsch
European
Economies: Growth Quickens to Six-Year High Bloomberg / Fergal O'Brien
China:
Regional Disparity Constrains Macro Management Morgan Stanley / Andy
Xie
The
Fed Can't Get No Respect From Supply-Siders Bloomberg / Caroline Baum
Oil
Falls to 2-Week Low on Alaska Output, Cease-Fire in Lebanon Bloomberg /
Christian Schmollinger
German
Economy Grew Most in Five Years in 2nd Quarter Bloomberg / Matthew Brockett
36
South Says Bonds Options May Offer Better Bets Bloomberg / Tan Hwee
Labor
Costs Accelerate, Threatening to End U.S. Earnings Streak Bloomberg /
Matthew Benjamin
Goldman
Loses Cachet in M&A as Companies Seek Multiple Advisers Bloomberg / Julia Werdigier and Christine
Harper
Trouble for
centrists: Is the Hill headed for a sharper split? Christian Science
Monitor / Linda Feldmann
IL: Chicago
pushes living wage for big-box stores Christian Science Monitor /
Amanda Paulson
UK:
Why the hawks need their wings clipped Independent / Christopher
Smallwood
UK:
London employers face skills shortage Guardian – Observer / Angela
Balakrishnan
China's
Retail Sales Grow 13.7 Percent Incomes Rise Bloomberg / Nipa
Piboontanasawat
Bond
Vigilantes Are Nowhere to Be Found in Tokyo Bloomberg / William Pesek
Australia's
Second-Quarter Wages Probably Rose 1%: BN Survey Bloomberg / Hans van
Leeuwen
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08/15
The CEO Bought a Yacht?
Then it's time to sell Slate / Daniel Gross
Decline
in core prices is a good sign Dallas Morning News / Danielle DiMartino
Plan
B for world trade FT / Fred Bergsten
The
Short View: PPI surprise $ FT / John
Authers
What,
the rich worry? Marketwatch / Thomas Kostigen
Life and Economics
Daily Reckoning vie Lew Rockwell and Fiend’s SuperBear Page / Bill Bonner
OR:
Home prices rise, but more are on the market Oregon News Tribune / Greg
Stiles
US
house market 'at 15-year low' BBC News
GE takes new
tack to shake its conglomerate stigma IHT / Claudia Deutsch
Corporate
consolidation now turns to supply chain Wall Street Journal via St.
Louis Post Dispatch / Timothy Aeppel
Prepaid
cell phone service gaining popularity in U.S. MCT via Lansing State
Journal / Jason Gertzen
New hope
for Fed action gives the dollar a leg up IHT / Deborah Finestone and
Min Zeng
Bonds
in from the cold Globe and Mail / Angela Barnes
IN:
State's credit rating upgraded Indianapolis Star
Top
10 areas at risk for mortgage-rate shock Marketwatch / Amy Hoak
New England Economic
Indicators Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
ABC/WashPost
US Consumer Comfort Index down to -15 Reuters
Profit
up 39%, sales jump 56% at Applied Materials Marketwatch / Matt
Andrejczak
Dow
ends up 132 on wholesale prices drop AP via Beaufort Gazette / Michael
J. Martinez
Gold
down on low inflation, cease-fire AP via NJ Post
Dollar
falls against major currencies AP via Beaufort Gazette
US
homebuilder mood index slides to 15-year low: NAHB Reuters / Al Yoon
Better
get used to $3-a-gallon gasoline AP via Seattle Times / Brian Melley
CA:
Condo conundrum Sacramento Bee / Jim Wasserman
WA: State
uncovers $5.2 million in jobless-aid fraud AP via Seattle Post
Intelligencer / Dan Richman
Treasurys
rally on benign PPI report Marketwatch / Leslie Wines
BMA Supports Releasing
Historic TRACE Data Bond Market Association
No Letup
to the Rally Smartmoney.com / Igor Greenwald
Comeback
Kids: Cisco and Disney CNN / Michael Sivy
No
room to zoom? Marketwatch / Peter Brimelow and Edwin S. Rubenstein
A Two-Day
Inflation Bonanza Daily Reckoning / Chuck Butler
Dollar decline
may defy prevailing wisdom on investments Wall Street Journal via
Pittsburgh Post Gazette / Peter A. McKay and Karen Richardson
Treasuries
Rise After Report Shows Wholesale Inflation Slowed Bloomberg /
Elizabeth Stanton and Daniel Kruger
Bondholders
Lose in Heinz, Sprint Stock Buybacks Bloomberg / Caroline Salas
Empire
State Manufacturing Survey pdf Federal
Reserve Bank of New York
Aug
NY factory activity slowest in a year - NY Fed Reuters
Federal
Reserve Events Reuters
Home
prices in deep freeze CNN / Les Christie
Home
sales slow, 28 states see declines AP via Philadelphia Inquirer /
Michael J. Martinez
US
PPI data support Fed rate pause FT / Daniel Pimlott
U.S.
Economy: Producer Prices Unexpectedly Decline Bloomberg / Joe Richter
U.S.
chain store sales rise in latest week—Redbook Reuters
Tuesday's
Stocktiming.com Analysis Stocktiming.com / Marty Chenard
One
nice option for stock investors Philadelphia Inquirer / Jeff Brown
Real
Money Rides on Bet on Basics of Investing NY Times / Jenny Anderson
Wal-Mart
Reports First Profit Decline in 10 Years Bloomberg / Lauren
Coleman-Lochner
Home
Depot Profit Increases 5.3% on Sales to Builders Bloomberg / Mark
Clothier
Senators
Voice Concern on S.E.C. Hedge Fund Case NY Times / Walt Bogdanich
CA:
Real Estate Economist Leaves UCLA Forecast LA Times / Roger Vincent
A
Pioneer Celebrates Another Milestone Bond Buyer / Matthew Hanson
Moody's:
Indiana Now Stable Bond Buyer / Elizabeth Carvlin
U.S.
Treasuries on hold ahead of U.S. price data Reuters
Yet
another Big Bonus Season in Works NY Post / Roddy Boyd
Boom
time for state finances Stateline.org / Pamela M. Prah
UBS
Second-Quarter Profit Rises 47% on Trading, Private Banking Bloomberg /
Jacob Greber
Hey,
Let's Go Shopping in the Slough of Despond Bloomberg / Chet Currier
Fidelity
managers - United they fall Boston Herald / Brett Arends
Cities
Race to Acquire Land Before U.S. Court Ruling Is Undone Bloomberg / Greg
Stohr
MA:
Restaurants suffer sales slump Boston Herald / Jesse Noyes
Resurgent
Germany overtakes Britain and US Guardian / David Gow
UK:
Rates are heading higher, but that doesn't mean the Bank has lost control
of the rudder Independent / Jeremy Warner
UK:
Baby boomers forced out of work, says TUC Guardian / Mark Milner
China's
Industrial Output Slows as Car Demand Cools Bloomberg / Nerys Avery
Japan's
Demand for Services Slips on High Fuel Prices Bloomberg / Jason
Clenfield
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