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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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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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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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In an attempt to encourage a global economic growth, governments around the world have taken dramatic efforts to increase the money supply. The problem is, the money isn’t flowing as planned.
In the US, the Federal Reserve through a campaign of ‘qua...
DATE: Feb 05, 2011
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In Egypt, trading on the stock exchange was suspended after dropping another six percent on Thursday in response to escalating protests in the region. This was the second day of declines, with the Egyptian EGX 30 Index down 16 percent as a result.
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DATE: Jan 29, 2011
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Yield spreads have narrowed dramatically since the blow-out three years ago. They returned to more normal levels as the financial market regained its legs with support from gratuitous government funding. Bond investors look to yield spreads as indica...
DATE: Jan 22, 2011
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Patrice Horner
The US Treasury yield curve has reached a record steep slope, as measured by the difference between the two-year and 30-year yield. The almost four-point difference between the on-the-run 0.6 percent two-year yield and the 4.5 percent 10-year bond yi...
DATE: Jan 15, 2011
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As 2011 began, we moved into a new decade. No one needs to be reminded that the first ten years of the new millennia were turbulent and troublesome. This new decade is opening with a sense of optimism and signs of economic life. The equity markets ha...
DATE: Jan 08, 2011
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If you fail to plan, you plan to fail. To get somewhere in life, we need to know which way we are heading and a roadmap of how to get there. For some reason, so many of us leave our most important decisions to chance. Or we caught-up in the details a...
DATE: Dec 18, 2010
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Patrice Horner
Mysterious factors seem at play in the market for copper. Late last month it was revealed that one buyer was hoarding over half of the copper inventory at the London Metal Exchanges (LME). That could be up to 75 percent of the 355,750 metric tonnes i...
DATE: Dec 11, 2010
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