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European regulators this week joined the UK, US, and Japanese regulators in an intense examination of possible price-fixing in LIBOR. Several leading financial institutions have been named in a series of suits filed in the US and abroad. Although law...
DATE: May 07, 2011
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Patrice Horner
Like so many things in life, investing can be a zero sum game, one person gains from another person’s loss. The net effect is the total money on the table is unchanged. To some extent, recent gains in real estate investing have been the result of for...
DATE: Apr 23, 2011
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Patrice Horner
Trading volume on the New York Stock Exchange has been light this month, very light. There has not been much trading activity in the traditional equity exchanges, back to pre-crises levels.
Not surprisingly the activity has been on the Chicago Board...
DATE: Apr 16, 2011
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Opinion Writer
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Patrice Horner
In an effort to reduce the influence of the Apple effect, the NASDAQ OMX Group has announced a ‘Special Rebalance’ to its NASDAQ-100 Index (NDX). The April 5 announcement has sent many investment managers, especially passive ones, into a tizzy. Apple...
DATE: Apr 09, 2011
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Opinion Writer
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Patrice Horner
There is substantial debate on the projected ending value of the S&P 500 Index for this calendar year, to calculate the possible gains to be made by investing in it. It is a work in progress as the year progresses.
The S&P Index climbed 4.3 percent ...
DATE: Apr 02, 2011
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Opinion Writer
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Patrice Horner
What had once been a fairly straightforward asset class focused on yields, maturity, and credit standing, global fixed income investing has now become an intense exercise to assess sovereign debts and currency changes.
There are now more than 100 ma...
DATE: Mar 12, 2011
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Patrice Horner
It’s all about jobs. The US Bureau of Labour Statistics for the US Department of Labor issued statistics on the employment situation yesterday. They were encouraging and trending higher. The employment statistics out of the United States are closely ...
DATE: Mar 05, 2011
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Patrice Horner
The dream of home ownership may be disappearing for future families in the US. Talk of disbanding Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae surfaced this week after reports by Freddie of a $113 million financial loss in the fourth quarter of 2010.
The loss in larg...
DATE: Feb 26, 2011
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Patrice Horner
Strategic alliances, mergers, and acquisitions are changing the partnerships in global financial trading. This week the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) announced a marriage with the Deutsche Boerse (DE), the financial trading behemoth in Europe.
Anot...
DATE: Feb 19, 2011
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Patrice Horner
As always in life, there may be unintended consequences to otherwise well-intended actions. This axiom has been proved again and again in the financial industry. Use of the new Leveraged and Inverse ETFs has resulted in blow-ups in trading on the S&P...
DATE: Feb 12, 2011
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Patrice Horner
