After 2 years, can bull market maintain pace?
USA Today
By Adam Shell, USA TODAY NEW YORK — The raging bull market in stocks — born at the depths of the most severe financial crisis since the Great Depression — turns 2 today. In stock market years, that means the bull is entering middle age and its ...
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US Investors Don't Put Much Faith in Bull Market
Money Morning
Many bears argue that the easy-money policies that aided the US rebound from the global financial crisis have been the key catalyst for the current bull market - meaning stock prices won't be able to continue their advance as stimulative measures wind ...
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How Governments Influence Markets
San Francisco Chronicle
Truth be told, this fact was known even before the crisis. The savings and loan crisis of 1989 was eerily similar to the bank bailout of 2008, but the government even has a history of saving non-financial companies like Chrysler (1980), Penn Central ...
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Financial Analysis – Americans Misled About Inflation Says NIA
Star Global Tribune
As NIA has long been predicting for years, wages will be last to rise during the current inflationary crisis. If wages in the US were rising at the same rate as energy, food, and clothing, price inflation wouldn't be a problem at all. ...
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Moralizing the Market? Economies of Gift in an Age of Global Finance
Telos Press
Separating investment from charity foreshadowed the growing abstraction of finance from the real economy that has brought about virtually all financial crises in the last eight hundred years, including the Dutch Tulip mania of 1637 and the English ...
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QE: Hyper-Inflation to Oblivion
Gold Seek
Money is fleeing bonded paper, as all bond markets are in a severe situation. Even the stock market is supported heavily by the Working Group for Financial Markets and Flash Trading, a form of self-dealing, whereby both prop up stock share prices. ...
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Birinyi Buys as Biggest Bull Rally Since `55 Hits Third Year
Bloomberg
Rallies in equities, corporate debt and commodities illustrate how the more than $12 trillion pumped into the financial system by governments and central banks is spurring a recovery from the worst global recession since the 1930s. ...
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Dubai Stocks Tumble to World's Cheapest as ING Says Time to Buy
BusinessWeek
The benchmark equity gauge lost 72 percent the following year as the global financial crisis shut off access to credit and sparked a 62 percent plunge in Dubai real-estate prices. Dubai World, a state-owned holding company, rocked global financial ...
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In the Least Ugly Contest, the Dollar Is Ready to Rally!
By Money and Markets
Even the Bank for International Settlement (BIS), often called the central banks ' central bank, has admitted that the current debt policy in the U.S. is unsustainable. Sooner or later it will lead to a funding crisis, .... Money and Markets is a free daily investment newsletter from Martin D. Weiss and Weiss Research analysts offering the latest investing news and financial insights for the stock market, including tips and advice on investing in gold, energy and oil . ...
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Happy Birthday! Bull Market turns 2 | Investing | Financial Post
The recovery turned a $1000 investment in the MSCI All-Country World Index into about $2097, including dividends. Money managers who picked the global stock market bottom say now is no time to sell as the biggest equity rally since 1955 ... Rallies in equities, corporate debt and commodities illustrate how the more than $12 trillion pumped into the financial system by governments and central banks is spurring a recovery from the worst global recession since the 1930s. ...
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UPDATE 3-Thai c.bank raises rates, signals further tightening ...
By Best Growth Stock
The central bank has widely flagged the need to “normalise” rates after aggressive cuts during the financial crisis, and has warned inflation was among the biggest risks facing Thailand as emerging economies worldwide grapple with rising ... Related Stock Market News. UPDATE 1-Peru's cenbank raises benchmark rate to 3.25 pct; * Cites higher global food, energy prices (Adds statement from central bank LIMA, Jan 6 (BestGrowthStock) - In a surprise move, Peru's central bank ...
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Bond Market: Four Ways To Hedge The Looming Fixed Income Fiasco ...
The worst global bond rout in nearly 20 years is on the horizon, but it doesn't have to hurt. In fact, you can turn it into such a big profit that even the inflationary pressures will seem like a minor nuisance. ... And he did this during one of the most volatile periods for the U.S. stock market since the Great Depression. Fitz-Gerald says the ongoing financial crisis has changed the investing game forever, and has created a completely new set of rules that investors ...
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10 Reasons To Short China - Also sprach Analyst
By Zarathustra
Inflation is edging up because of excessive monetary expansion after the financial crisis. The government is aware of the problem of inflation, but they have to slow money supply growth (or now they are talking about total national ... is a blog on Investment, Finance & Economics, maintained by Zarathustra W., who has worked as an equity research analyst in Hong Kong, focusing on Hong Kong /China property market, with strong interest in global finance and economics. ...
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10 Reasons To Short China
By Zarathustra W.
Compare that to latest People's Bank of China Policy Rate: 5-year or above lending rate is 6.6%. Sample of Hong Kong-listed China Real Estate Developers who raised capital from bond market: .... Inflation is edging up because of excessive monetary expansion after the financial crisis. The government is aware of the problem of inflation, but they have to slow money supply growth (or now they are talking about total national financing). .... Stock Quotes · Job Listings ...
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Two Years After the Crash, Have You Learned Your Lesson? - CBS ...
By Carla Fried
According to the Investment Company Institute, between September 2008 when the financial crisis became a category 5 hurricane, and the end of February 2009 (a week before the market hit bottom), investors pulled $200 billion out of stock mutual ... You need to counteract the fact that more of your money will be riding on lower-return bonds and cash. The more conservative your expected rate of return, the more of your own money you need to fork over to reach your goals. ...
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Actor, writer, economist Ben Stein blames Bush in Springs visit ...
By editor
The nation's economy has recovered much faster than expected from the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, but still faces plenty of challenges that range from competing with China to reforming education, said actor, economist and ... “I doubt anyone would have believed you if you had told them most of the TARP (Troubled Asset Recovery Program) money would have been paid back and the government made a profit on it and that the banks are making money again, ...
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BETWEEN THE HEDGES: Wednesday Watch
By Gary
A global stock, bond and currency rout is underway, which will result in a a global sovereign debt crisis, as well as a dollar liquidity crisis, ending in Götterdämmerung, that is an investment flameout. ... Urban Dictionary defines inflation destruction as the fall in investment value that accompanies derisking and deleveraging out of investments that were formerly inflated by money flows to, and carry trade investing in, high interest paying financial institutions, ...
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QE: Hyper-Inflation to Oblivion | Gold Newswire
By goldguru
Money is fleeing bonded paper, as all bond markets are in a severe situation. Even the stock market is supported heavily by the Working Group for Financial Markets and Flash Trading, a form of self-dealing, whereby both prop up stock share prices. .... mess has been created by compromised central bankers and inept economic advisors, whose interference has irreversibly altered and damaged the world financial system, urgently pushed after the removed anchor of money to gold. ...
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Bond Market Outlook: Four Ways to Hedge the Looming Fixed-Income ...
By Keith Fitz-Gerald
This matters - and hang with me on this - because negative real rates, although relatively rare in the annals of global financial history, essentially steal money from savers in order to "subsidize" debtors. Over time, this engineers an involuntary .... That's simple: While Money Morning is a news service augmented by special investment research, The Money Map Report (MMR) is a dedicated investment newsletter - from cover to cover. Subscribers can just look at the MMR ...
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The End of QE: Part II | The Big Picture
By Barry Ritholtz
If there is a flight to safety, then I expect a stock rebound sometime after rates bottom and I hope to profit from it, also. Afterward, stocks and bonds will probably follow traditional economics. Rates will have nowhere to go but up due to massive US debt .... He is also quite critical of the Fed's tight monetary policy in the run up to financial crisis, as well as their decision to pay interest on the reserves that banks and other institutions have stashed at the Fed. ...
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Shades of 2007: Synthetic Junk Bonds « naked capitalism
By Yves Smith
The Financial Times reports that there is a frenzy to create synthetic junk bonds, ostensibly to satisfy the desire of yield-hungry investors. Any time you see a lot of long money flowing into synthetic assets rather than real economy uses, ... There are differences between the current junk bond derivatives and the pre-crisis mortgage structures, dealers said. Banks' pre-crisis off-balance- sheet investment vehicles are now defunct, limiting the investor base. ...
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Financial Fraud: Citigroup not in a class by itself » TripleCrisis
By Jeff Madrick
How is it possible that no bankers were removed from their jobs when, according to Ben Bernanke, as quoted in the valuable, recently published Report by the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission run by Phil Angelides, that he thought 12 of the ... how the bank was valuing its mortgage bonds back in February 2008. Citigroup was supposed to disclose any such questionable valuations by law. But Pandit, the recipient of $45 billion in TARP money to save his firm, did not do so. ...
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Earnings Are a Load of Nonsense | zero hedge
By Phoenix Capital Research
In laymen's terms, banks had issued bonds to investors (the banks get the investors' money, the investors get a bond with a certain yield). These bonds have since fallen in value. So the bank is claiming that because it could repurchase the ... I call it The Financial Crisis “Round Two” Survival Kit. And its 17 pages contain a wealth of information about portfolio protection, which investments to own and how to take out Catastrophe Insurance on the stock market (this ...
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Strange bedfellows – the Fed and the ECB | Gavyn Davies | Insight ...
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Gavyn Davies blogs for the Financial Times on macroeconomics, economic policymaking and the financial markets. Gavyn Davies is a macroeconomist who was the head of the global economics department at Goldman Sachs from 1987-2001 and was chairman of the BBC ... (The higher average level of rates in the US, at least before the recent crisis, is due to the fact that the equilibrium or natural rate is higher in the US than in Europe, for reasons we can discuss another time.) ...
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In the Least Ugly Contest, the Dollar is Ready to Rally! - Money ...
By Claus Vogt
Even the Bank for International Settlement (BIS), often called the central banks ' central bank, has admitted that the current debt policy in the U.S. is unsustainable. Sooner or later it will lead to a funding crisis, which will then force major .... the U.S. recession, the demise of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, as well as the financial system crisis. Claus is currently the editor of Million -Dollar Contrarian Portfolio and has just completed his book The Global Debt Trap. ...
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XE.com - CANADA STOCKS-Healthy bank results take TSX to near 3 ...
strong economy supported loan growth and investment banking ... since the financial crisis. 'Very positive news out of the banks today. ... Canadian dollar and bonds report................... Top News: Canada . ... Reuters global stocks poll (Canada)................ FOR CANADIAN MARKETS DATA, CLICK ON CODES IN ...
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Find breaking news, technology, real estate and financial news, stock market ... and central banks is spurring a recovery from the worst global recession since the 1930s. ... who foresaw the crisis, said the S&P 500 may fall to 600. ... U.S. investment-grade debt performed better than bonds from other nations, ...
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Global investors pull out $21 bn from emerging mkts - Worldnews.com
Both times, various bullion banks made vast amounts of money quickly as .... News Update: A Unit Of China Investment Corp Plans To Raise 187.5 Billion Yuan Over Time ..... The Street Still, investors have dumped bond funds in favor of stock ... In the wake of the financial crisis, some high-profile investors had ...
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2 years after market low, the little guy is back - DailyFinance
After the 2008 financial meltdown, Dukas and his wife converted their 401(k) ... The bull market in bonds has ended, money-market accounts are returning 1 ... A February survey by Bank of America-Merrill Lynch of 270 top investment ... he sees as artificially high in view of all the challenging economic news. ...
www.dailyfinance.com/article/2-years-after.../1642768/?...
UPDATE 2-Watchdog sets tough 2011 bank stress test | Reuters
Stress test of 88 euro area banks, 65 pct of bank system * Tests GDP drop ... coming months to see how well banks would hold up in a severe economic crisis. ... held in lenders' bank books, allowing periphery sovereign bonds classified as ... largest international multimedia news agency, providing investing news, ...
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However, investing specifically for either economic scenario carries a significant risk. ... back to levels not seen since before the current financial crisis. .... In times of inflation, for instance, stocks and bonds suffer but ... or other financial instruments or provide any investment advice or service. ...
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Spain's Cajas Savings Banks May Lure US Investment
"U.S. private-equity money is very active," said Adolfo Ramirez-Escudero, ... now hobbles the economy and has pushed Spain to the verge of a sovereign-debt crisis. ... Financial-services stocks have rebounded strongly in the past two years, ... A door may open once the major investment banks start advising on caja ...
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