09/25
Bye-bye
subprime loans, hello junk bonds Marketwatch / Thomas Kostigen
Canada:
Turbulence in Credit Markets: Causes, Effects, and Lessons To Be Learned
Bank of Canada / David Dodge
Central
banks kept rates too low: Dodge Globe and Mail / Heather Scoffield
U.S.
Dollar Goes the Way of Monopoly Money Smartmoney.com / Igor Greenwald
Economy
sends off warning flares AP via Houston Chronicle / Philana Patterson
Family
Making $56,000 Struggles With `Out of Sight' Health Cost Bloomberg /
Aliza Marcus
Competition heats up
for world's fastest supercomputer McClatchy / Robert S. Boyd
Invention,
Productivity, and the Economy Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia /
Charles I. Plosser
Fed
must weigh inflation against recession FT / Martin Wolf
Double
Digits? Be Prepared for Rate Hikes The Street / Jeffrey Strain
Labor
data paved way for rate cut support: Plosser Marketwatch / Greg Robb
Corporate
Debt Risk Rises Most in Two Weeks on Housing Concerns Bloomberg /
Shannon D. Harrington and Bryan Keogh
Bonds
gain as data supports rate cut forecasts Reuters / Chris Reese
How
to play the real estate bounce-back Business 2.0 via CNN / Paul Kaihla
Vonage
Crashes After Losing Patent Case Forbes / Carl Gutierrez
Changing
Hats Forbes / Brian Caulfield
Market
inches up on rate cut optimism Reuters / Caroline Valetkevitch
Canada
should put its loonie pride on hold London Times / Gerard Baker
Accounting
for Changes in the Homeownership Rate Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta /
Matthew Chambers, Carlos Garriga, and Don E. Schlagenhauf
Chicago
Fed National Activity Index pdf Federal
Reserve Bank of Chicago
Shared
National Credit Results Reflect Large Increase in Credit Commitment Volume
and Satisfactory Credit Quality FDIC
Brokers'
Settlement Records Often Wiped Clean Washington Post / Tomoeh Murakami
Tse
Gold
prices: Nowhere to go but up CNN / David Ellis
Distressed
bond levels rise due market turmoil-S&P Reuters
AMBAC,
FGIC, May Need Capital for Subprime Losses Bloomberg / Christine
Richard
Rating
agencies in the hot seat CNN / Grace Wong
SIFMA Recommends Full
Market Close October 8 for Trading of US Fixed-Income Securities in
Observance of the US Columbus Day Holiday SIFMA
Lennar
Posts Record 3Q Loss AP via Washington Post / Adrian Sainz
Markets
strain affects US economy FT / Krishna Guha and Eoin Callan
More
signs of rattled consumers? Reuters / Brad Dorfman
U.S.
Economy: Consumer Confidence Slumps, Home Sales Decline Bloomberg /
Shobhana Chandra and Bob Willis
A
Tax-and-Spend Orgy National Review / Grover G. Norquist
Regulatory
harmony is in the air FT / Jeremy Grant
EchoStar
May Split Into 2 Companies AP via Washington Post
Tuesday’s
Stocktiming.com Analysis Stocktiming.com / Marty Chenard
Treasurys
rise on growth concerns Marketwatch / Nick Godt
Treasuries
Rise as Consumer Confidence, Home Sales Decline Bloomberg / Elizabeth
Stanton and Agnes Lovasz
Those
complaining about the Fed should study history Marketwatch / Dr. Irwin
Kellner
Fed rate cut of little
help Mercury News / Mark Schwanhausser
Greenspan
Rightly Sticks to His Guns Bloomberg / John M. Berry
The Federal Reserve's Interest
Rate Cut Does Not Help Americans Merk Hard Currency Fund via Safehaven / Axel Merk
Currency
Trades Soar to $3.2 Trillion a Day, BIS Says Bloomberg / Kim-Mai Cutler
Corn,
soybean prices fall AP via Contra Costa Times
Mortgage
servicer bounces checks AP via Washington Times
Home
sales continue spiral down CNN / Les Christie
What Foreign
Investors Will Do Next As Falling Dollar Makes US Assets Cheaper Market
Oracle / Tony Sagami
Oil
Falls Below $79 as Demand Falls and Refiners Shut Units Bloomberg /
Mark Shenk
US
Sept consumer confidence falls to 99.8-Conf Bd. Reuters
Indexes
drop as housing spurs economic worry Reuters / Ellis Mnyandu
U.S.
Stocks Decline on Reduced Forecasts at Target, Lowe's Bloomberg /
Michael Patterson
On
Hedges and Health NY Post / Roddy Boyd
Fed
adds $9.75 bln in reserves through 2-day repos Reuters
S&P/Case-Shiller
Home Price Index Falls 3.9% in July Bloomberg / Courtney Schlisserman
Illinois
home prices rise in August while sales slow Chicago Tribune / James P.
Miller
Real
estate blogger taps into bursting market bubble San Francisco Chronicle
/ Carolyn Said
CA:
Sun-powered homes defy a cool housing market LA Times / Elizabeth
Douglass
Discover
profit falls 16% in 3Q AP via Chicago Tribune
Life
Is a Party in Japan for All Wrong Reasons Bloomberg / William Pesek
Subprime
Panic Freezes $40 Billion of Canadian Commercial Paper Bloomberg / Rob
Delaney
Treasury
Offers New Arb Rules Bond Buyer / Alison L. McConnell
Despite
Fed cuts, mortgage rates rise Boston Herald / Jerry Kronenberg
Sales
of U.S. Existing Homes Probably Fell to Five-Year Low Bloomberg / Bob
Willis
Turns
out Bernanke isn't so conservative after all AP via St. Petersburg
Times
Prudent
Speculator sticks with stocks Marketwatch / Peter Brimelow
Showdown in
Congress over child healthcare Christian Science Monitor / Gail Russell
Chaddock
GOP
Senator Says Bush Should Put Health Bill Before Policy Goal Washington
Post / Jonathan Weisman and Christopher Lee
Inconvenient
Truths Daily Standard / Irwin M. Stelzer
U.S.
Notes Rise on Expectations Existing Home Sales to Decline Bloomberg /
Wes Goodman
Yen
Gains as Report on U.K Deposit Scheme Causes Risk Aversion Bloomberg /
Kosuke Goto
Australian
Dollar Trades Near 8-Week High on Demand for Yield Bloomberg / Chris
Young
Oil
Falls a Third Day on Increased U.S. Output, Waning Demand Bloomberg /
Gavin Evans
Misery
may be just beginning, warns IMF Telegraph / Edmund Conway
World
Bank Faces Doubt From Donors NY Times / Steven R. Weisman
BOJ
Kept Rate on Hold on Market Turmoil, Minutes Show Bloomberg / Jason
Clenfield
Battellino
Says Australian Households in `Good Shape' Bloomberg / Victoria
Batchelor
The
markets: pros and cons Telegraph / Tom Stevenson
As race for
oil-rich Arctic heats up, Inuit stake their claim, too Christian
Science Monitor / Colin Woodard
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09/26
Since
Fed rate cut, long bonds have gotten short shrift Chicago Tribune /
Bill Barnhart
National
Economic Growth Remains Moderate Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
US Housing Crash
Deepens As the US Drifts Towards Stagflation Market Oracle / Nadeem
Walayat
Treasury
official says markets on the mend FT / Krishna Guha, Michael Mackenzie
and Saskia Scholtes
U.S.
Charges 2 Californians With Economic Espionage Bloomberg / Karen Gullo
Merrill
Lynch May Write Down Assets by $4 Billion Bloomberg / Bradley Keoun
Inspector
Finds Broad Failures in Oil Program NY Times / Edmund L. Andrews
Sallie
Mae says buyers do not expect to close deal Reuters
TX:
Houston's economy ranks among the biggest Houston Chronicle
The
Past, Present, and Future of Futures Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta /
Shalini Patel
The Shaking Tower of Debt Ludwig
von Mises Institute / Thorsten Polleit
Gold
futures close lower as dollar rebounds Marketwatch / Polya Lesova
Court
says Vonage infringed 2 Verizon patents AP via CNN
No
More Excuses Forbes / Joann Muller
Treasuries
Recoup Losses on Demand at Two-Year Note Auction Bloomberg / Elizabeth
Stanton
Subprime-Mortgage
Defaults Rose Last Month, Data Show Bloomberg / Jody Shenn
North
Carolina Borrows $288 Million, Leading Tax-Exempt Sales Bloomberg /
Jeremy R. Cooke
Moody's
Names New Ratings Heads, Chief Credit Officer Bloomberg / Christine
Richard and Mark Pittman
Subprime:
Big talk, little help CNN / Jeanne Sahadi
Bear
Stearns Gains on Speculation About Stake Sale Bloomberg / Eric Martin
and Jeff Kearns
IRS
launching audit project to try to reduce tax evasion AP via Chicago
Tribune / Eileen alt Powell
SEC
Probes Whether Issuers Pressured S&P, Moody's Bloomberg / Jesse
Westbrook and James Tyson
GM
bonds rise after strike ends, 2033 bond gains Reuters
Has the Fed Lost
Control Over Money? Lew Rockwell / Gary North
Nasdaq
Treks Higher, NYSE Backs Off Initial Gains; Volume Mixed Investors
Business Daily / Alan R. Elliott
Wednesday’s
Stocktiming.com Analysis Stocktiming.com / Marty Chenard
U.S.
Stocks Climb; General Motors, Monsanto Shares Advance Bloomberg /
Michael Patterson
U.S.
stocks higher, fueled by GM-UAW deal Marketwatch / Kate Gibson
Mortgage
applications slide AP via CNN
Refinancing
activity ticks up, MBA's data show Marketwatch / Amy Hoak
Mortgage
Applications Decrease In Latest MBA Weekly Survey Mortgage Bankers
Association
TX:
More renters are filling up apartments Dallas Morning News / Steve
Brown
O.C.
high-rise boom fizzles Orange County Register / Jeff Collins
Base
Metals Carve Out Gains AP via Washington Post / Lauren Villagran
Oil
prices seen surging to record level next year Reuters / Randy Fabi
Dollar
shrugs off softer durables data Reuters / Lucia Mutikani
From
a Foot-Dragging Fed to a Rate Cut Too Far Bloomberg / Caroline Baum
Ahead
of the (yield) curve Marketwatch / Mark Hulbert
Credit
Suisse’s A Bond Victim NY Post / Roddy Boyd
Treasuries
Decline Before $18 Billion Auction of Two-Year Notes Bloomberg / Agnes
Lovasz and Elizabeth Stanton
Capital
spending softens in August Marketwatch / Rex Nutting
U.S.
Durables Orders Fell by Most in Seven Months Bloomberg / Joe Richter
Late
Payments Down for Credit Cards AP via Chicago Tribune / Jeannine Aversa
GM
Strike - It's A Deal Forbes / Andrew Farrell
U.S.
Stock-Index Futures Climb; General Motors, Chevron Advance Bloomberg /
Henrietta Rumberger and Michael Patterson
China
Stocks Shed 1.6 Percent AP via Forbes
Housing:
Big-ticket vs. Big value CNN / Keisha Lamothe
Adjustable-rate
mortgages: now it hurts Newsday / Tami Luhby
FL:
Broward housing market can't find a bottom South Florida Sun Sentinel /
Paul Owers
Las
Vegas Home Devaluation Shows Residential Market May Drop 6% Bloomberg /
Kathleen M. Howley
US
House challenges Bush on healthcare Reuters via FT
Oil
finds floor following 3-day selloff AP via CNN
Walking
proof of insurance crisis LA Times / David Lazarus
Trichet,
Sarkozy Should Bury Hatchet for Economy Bloomberg / Matthew Lynn
Plosser
Says Fed's Rate Cut May Cause Inflation to Accelerate Bloomberg / Scott
Lanman and Anthony Massucci
U.S.
Durables Orders Probably Fell Last Month After July Surge Bloomberg /
Joe Richter
Steepest
fall in US house prices in 16 years fuels fears of recession
Independent / Sean O'Grady
Real-Time
Pricing Service Kicks Off Bond Buyer / Matthew Posner
U.S.
Notes Little Changed; Report May Show Durable Goods Fell Bloomberg /
Wes Goodman
The
Wrong Reason To Strike Washington Post / Steven Pearlstein
PA: Housing
prices grow in region Pittsburgh Post Gazette / Elwin Green
As
Dollar Dips, Canada Exploits Lucrative Loonie Washington Post / David
cho
Asian
Stocks Climb for a Third Day; Mizuho, Banks Lead Gains Bloomberg / Chen
Shiyin and Satoshi Kawano
Northern
Rock may provide neither answers nor cash Telegraph / Tom Stevenson
Japan
Trade Surplus Surges on Exports of Autos, Steel Bloomberg / Lily
Nonomiya
Dollar
Declines to Record Low Against Euro Before Durable Goods Bloomberg /
Stanley White and Kosuke Goto
UK
cashes in on dominance in currency trade markets London Times / Gabriel
Rozenberg
HSBC
meets investors to counter Knight Vinke's attack London Times /
Christine Seib
Red
Hat Earnings Rose Sharply in 2nd Quarter AP via NY Times
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09/27
Why
I distrust Goldman Sach’s good fortune NY Post / John Crudele
Congress
agrees to raise U.S. credit limit Reuters / Donna Smith
Globalization,
Macroeconomic Performance, and Monetary Policy Federal Reserve Board /
Frederic S. Mishkin
Survey of
Tenth District Manufacturing Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
Fed's
Mishkin downplays globalization as a factor in low inflation AFX via
Forbes
US Housing Decline to
Continue and Commodities Prices Headed Much Higher Market Oracle /
Emanuel_Balarie
Where Have All The Parrots
Gone? Commodity News Center via Safehaven
/ Emanuel Balarie
Was
the script for the recent turmoil written in 1998, 1990, or is it new?
The Economist
E.E.O.C.
Files Lawsuit Against Bloomberg L.P. NY Times / Anhad O’Conner
Treasuries
Gain on Drop in New Home Sales, Note Auction Results Bloomberg /
Elizabeth Stanton and Daniel Kruger
Stocks
end with a gain CNN / Alexandra Twin
The
loonie takes wing The Economist
Yale
Fund Earns 28 Percent, Best Return Since 2000 Bloomberg / Matthew
Keenan
Fidelity
Investments reorganizes AP via CNN
How
fit is the panda? The Economist
Dodgy
looking The Economist
Corporate
Credit Takes Another Hit CFO.com / Stephen Taub
Treasury
5-year auction results strong; awarded at 4.250% Marketwatch / Lisa
Twaronite
U.S.
Commercial Paper Drop Slows After Fed Cuts Rates Bloomberg / Mark
Pittman
Fed
adds 38 bln usd to markets with range of new repos this morning AFX via
Forbes
Fed's
Evans does not discuss economy, policy Reuters
Poll:
66% think Fed's recent rate cut was the right size Triad Business
Journal
The
economy is poised to maintain a healthy pace of growth National Review
/ David Gitlitz
Ex-New
Mexico Treasurer Sentenced to Prison CFO.com / Stephen Taub
Surplus
buoys Canadian dollar Globe and Mail / Tavia Grant
Euro's
rise breaking the bank for Sarkozy Globe and Mail / Carl Mortished
Gold,
Silver Rally as Dollar Falls to All-Time Low Against Euro Bloomberg /
Pham-Duy Nguyen
Bank
of Canada steps back into the market Globe and Mail / Heather Scoffield
Greenspan sees
threat of '70s-style inflation McClatchy / Kevin G. Hall and Robert A.
Rankin
Dollar
up vs. yen, off euro lows after jobless data Marketwatch / Lisa
Twaronite
Mortgage
meltdown: Vulture investors CNN / Les Christie
MBA
Releases 2nd Quarter 2007 Commercial Real Estate/Multifamily Finance
Quarterly Data Book Mortgage Bankers Association
Thursday’s
Stocktiming.com Analysis Stocktiming.com / Marty Chenard
MN:
Metro economy lags others St. Paul Pioneer Press / Jennifer Bjorhus
CO: State GDP is
building momentum Denver Post / Aldo Svaldi
U.S.
August new homes sales fall 8.3 percent Reuters
Economy
shows growth, but misses forecasts AP via CNN
US
Aug newspaper help-wanted index hits record low Reuters
U.S.
Initial Jobless Claims Unexpectedly Decline Bloomberg / Courtney
Schlisserman
Greenspan
Says `Pending Tsunami' May Hurt Fed Bloomberg / John M. Berry
Regional
Economic Employment pdf Federal Reserve
Bank of Philadelphia
Fed's
Rosengren does not comment on economy Reuters
U.S.
Housing-Slump Bottom Not Yet Near, Fannie Mae's Mudd Says Bloomberg /
Peter Cook and Jody Shenn
Bankrate:
Mortgage Rates Move Higher Following Fed Cut CNN
U.S.
Stocks Rise on Rate-Cut Speculation; Sallie Mae Rallies Bloomberg /
Michael Patterson
Treasurys
lower as stocks head higher AP via Houston Chronicle / Leslie Wines
Another
New Low for Dollar AP via Forbes
Oil
extends gains amid storm worries AP via Houston Chronicle / George Jahn
Chuck
Norris's Tears Might Solve Credit Crunch Bloomberg / Mark Gilbert
Banks
Borrow 3.9 Billion Euros at ECB's Penalty Rate Bloomberg / John Fraher
and Gavin Finch
Haines:
Stagnant Muni Market Not Keeping Up Bond Buyer / Andrew Ackerman
Auto workers
make concessions to keep jobs in U.S. Christian Science Monitor / Mark
Trumbull
Bush's fiscal
legacy: bigger debt Christian Science Monitor / Peter Grier
The
conservatives are restless. Enter Newt Gingrich (maybe) Christian
Science Monitor / Ariel Sabar
Treasuries
Little Changed; Stocks Damp Outlook for Rate Cut Bloomberg / Wes
Goodman
Investors
End Deal To Buy Sallie Mae Washington Post / David Cho and Thomas Heath
Buffett
Said to Consider Bear Stake NY Times / Landon Thomas, Jr.
Wheat
Reaches Record as Ukraine Cuts Exports, Stockpiles Low Bloomberg / Jae
Hur
Clinton's
Money Men Sing in Tune With Bush's Washington Post / Neil Irwin
Asian
Stocks Climb to Two-Month High; Macquarie, Mizuho Gain Bloomberg / Chen
Shiyin and Kiyori Ueno
Dollar
Trades Near Record Low Versus Euro Before New Home Sales Bloomberg /
Kosuke Goto
Clash
over Internet access tax heats up LA Times / Jim Puzzanghera
Australian
Dollar Approaches 18-Year High; Yield Premium Widens Bloomberg / Chris
Young
UK:
No takers for Bank’s £10bn short-term loans after policy U-turn London
Times / Patrick Hosking
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