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• Words from the (Investment) Wise for the Week That Was (January 12 - 18, 2009)

  Published 18 January 2009 | viewed 4,394 times

  Investor sentiment around the globe was negatively impacted during 2009's second full week of trading as a barrage of bleak economic and corporate news offered…

• Credit Crisis Watch: Gaining Positive Traction

  Published 14 January 2009 | viewed 5,275 times

  In order to gauge the progress being made to unclog credit markets and restore confidence in the world's financial system, I monitor a range of…

• Words from the (Investment) Wise for the Week That Was (January 5 - 11, 2009): Part II

  Published 11 January 2009 | viewed 1,940 times

  John Authers (Financial Times): A bond bubble? Source: John Authers, Financial Times, January 6, 2009. Bloomberg: Treasury bond market not a bubble, Goldman Sachs says…

• Words from the (Investment) Wise for the Week That Was (January 5 - 11, 2009)

  Published 11 January 2009 | viewed 3,904 times

  Global stock markets reversed course during the last three days of the first full trading week of 2009 as investors were confronted with dreadful economic…

• Picture du Jour: Gold or Platinum?

  Published 10 January 2009 | viewed 4,164 times

  "Au" and "Pt" may be dull chemical elements, but gold and platinum have certainly played their respective parts during the unfolding of the financial crisis.…

• Words from the (Investment) Wise for the Week That Was (Dec 29, 2008 - Jan 4, 2009): Part II

  Published 04 January 2009 | viewed 2,108 times

  Bespoke: Economists' interest rate projections "Below we highlight average estimates for the 10-Year Treasury Yield and the Fed Funds Rate going out to Q1 '10…

• Words from the (Investment) Wise for the Week That Was (Dec 29, 2008 - Jan 4, 2009)

  Published 04 January 2009 | viewed 4,003 times

  Changing the digits on the calendar from '08 to '09 may not have transformed the dire outlook for the global economy, but during the holiday-shortened…

• Stock Market Internals - Further Headway in 2009?

  Published 31 December 2008 | viewed 4,959 times

  As investors ring out the old year, trading volume should remain light until battle-weary traders return from the holidays next week. Not much weight should…

• Words from the (Investment) Wise for the Week That Was (Dec 22 - 28, 2008): Part II

  Published 28 December 2008 | viewed 2,220 times

  Bloomberg: BlackRock's Robert Doll says 2009 to be "year of repair" for stocks "Robert Doll, chief investment officer of global equities at BlackRock, talks with…

• Words from the (Investment) Wise for the Week That Was (Dec 22 - 28, 2008)

  Published 28 December 2008 | viewed 4,588 times

  Investors spent the holiday-shortened Christmas week in an un-merry mood, digesting more gloomy economic data and taking stock of a tumultuous 2008. With the S&P…

• Credit Crisis Watch: Signs of Progress

  Published 24 December 2008 | viewed 7,458 times

  Are the various central bank liquidity facilities and capital injections having the desired effect of unclogging credit markets and restoring confidence in the world's financial…

• Words from the (Investment) Wise for the Week That Was (Dec 15 - 21, 2008): Part II

  Published 21 December 2008 | viewed 2,253 times

  Bespoke: 30-year fixed mortgage rates down to 5.28% "Thirty-year fixed mortgage rates have declined significantly in recent weeks, down from 6% on November 20 to…

• Words from the (Investment) Wise for the Week That Was (Dec 15 - 21, 2008)

  Published 21 December 2008 | viewed 4,653 times

  "Americans have always been able to handle austerity and even adversity. Prosperity [greed!] is what is doing us in," said James Reston, former New York…

• Greenback Slumped on the Canvas

  Published 19 December 2008 | viewed 4,081 times

  Bernanke & Co. on Tuesday signaled to the financial markets that they were hell-bent on pursuing an "inflate or die" approach to rescuing the ailing…

• Stock Markets: Is This It?

  Published 17 December 2008 | viewed 5,797 times

  The US Federal Reserve yesterday pulled out all the stops in a frantic effort to save the US economy from collapse and stem the deflationary…

• Words from the (Investment) Wise for the Week That Was (Dec 8 - 14, 2008): Part II

  Published 14 December 2008 | viewed 2,169 times

  Asha Bangalore (Northern Trust): Oil imports lead to wider trade gap in October "The trade deficit widened to $57.2 billion in October from $56.6 billion…

• Words from the (Investment) Wise for the Week That Was (Dec 8 - 14, 2008)

  Published 14 December 2008 | viewed 4,649 times

  Despite a litany of bleak economic and corporate news confronting investors during the past week, global stock markets digested the bearish fodder with a sense…

• US Stock Market Returns - What is in Store?

  Published 03 December 2008 | viewed 4,442 times

  Stock market movements over the past few months have been characterized by increased volatility as uncertainty became paramount. And as new pieces of the economics…

• Words from the (Investment) Wise for the Week That Was (November 24 - 30, 2008): Part II

  Published 30 November 2008 | viewed 2,105 times

  The Wall Street Journal: US agrees to rescue struggling Citigroup "The federal government agreed Sunday night to rescue Citigroup by helping to absorb potentially hundreds…

• Words from the (Investment) Wise for the Week That Was (November 24 - 30, 2008)

  Published 30 November 2008 | viewed 4,758 times

  The holiday-shortened Thanksgiving week brought investors an additional item to be thankful for when stock markets closed higher for five consecutive trading days - a…