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Inside Wall Street: The Real Reason the Federal Reserve Can’t Raise Interest Rates
Given that the U.S. Federal Reserve is the master of “Three-Card Monte,” can you tell what’s in the cards for short-term interest rates?
Three-Card Monte is a confidence game in which manipulation and misdirection are employed as the “mark” tries…
23Jul2008 | Money Morning | 0 comments | ContinuedGlobal Investing Roundups
Piracy Robs Microsoft; BlackRock Profits Rise 23%; Nokia Beats Expectations; Venezuela Lights Up U.S.; BOE’s Sentance “Struck”; Coke’s Earnings Hiccup; JPMorgan Earnings Surprise; Investor Outrage in Pakistan
Microsoft Corp.’s (MSFT) profit growth may be stunted this year by a resurgence of software…
18Jul2008 | Money Morning | 0 comments | ContinuedIndicators of a Falling Market
Is Calling a Bottom Premature?
As I wrote last week, it’s pretty clear times are tough right now. With three quarters of the population thinking we’re already in a recession and the market sinking by the day, I don’t think there’s any…
18Jul2008 | The Penny Sleuth | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Lost Decade: How the U.S. Financial Crisis Resembles Japan’s Ten Years of Misery - And How to Play it
If you think the “Lost Decade” Japan endured during the 1990s was deep and painful, stick around: As the global financial crisis that was jump-started by the meltdown of the subprime mortgage market continues to unwind, the U.S. economy is…
17Jul2008 | Money Morning | 0 comments | ContinuedGlobal Investing Roundups
Wells Fargo Jumps 32% on Dividend Hike; Crude Falls $10 in Two Days; Home Building Collapses; Gazprom Threatens to Take Belarus to Court; Gannett’s 2nd Quarter Tumble; SK Telecom Eyes up Sprint?; Time Warner Travels to Seattle; Delta’s $1 Billion…
17Jul2008 | Money Morning | 0 comments | ContinuedVisitors from the Planet Thrift
Oh dear reader! This morning, we are practically panting…
The world economy is slowing down. The global financial system is falling apart.
The whole situation is a mess…a disaster for investors…a catastrophe for homeowners…a Waterloo for the financial industry. But it is…
17Jul2008 | Daily Reckoning | 0 comments | ContinuedIn Search of a Market Bottom: Position Yourself for Profits No Matter Which Way the Market Moves
In a Money Morning commentary back in April, I suggested that while we’d hit a new market bottom, we almost certainly hadn’t hit the market bottom.
So have we now?
That’s tough to say, although three seemingly unrelated bits of data suggest the…
15Jul2008 | Money Morning | 0 comments | ContinuedInBev Finally Woos Anheuser-Busch with Higher Offer, Top Billing
Anheuser-Busch Companies Inc. (BUD) will end more than 150 years as a family-controlled company with its acceptance of a $70-per-share offer from Belgium-based InBev NV, which puts a $52 billion price tag on the iconic American brewer.
The boards of…
14Jul2008 | Money Morning | 0 comments | ContinuedSubprime Crisis Again in the Spotlight as the Meltdowns of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Fuel Fears of a Deeper Downturn
We’ve been warning you since the start that the subprime crisis would have some real staying power.
Indeed, every time optimistic prognosticators have predicted an end to this global financial debacle, we’ve had the same response: Don’t you believe it.
Again just…
14Jul2008 | Money Morning | 0 comments | ContinuedSCORCHED EARTH ECONOMY
Here at Casey Research we have been on the record as bearish on the outlook for the economy for some years now. Lest you think that is loose boasting, I can offer proof in Doug Casey’s August 2005 article, the…
11Jul2008 | Daily Reckoning | 0 comments | ContinuedGlobal Investing Roundups
Retailers Report 4.3% Bump in Sales; Toyota Changes Direction; Whirlpool Closes Two Factories; Brazil and Vietnam Come Together; GE Spin-Off; New Wachovia CEO; IAM Wants Fair Bidding; Oil Jumps Over $5 on Political Tension
Retailers reported a 4.3% increase in sales…
11Jul2008 | Money Morning | 0 comments | ContinuedGlobal Investing Roundups
Chrysler Building Sold to Abu Dhabi; 2,500 Employees Depart From Northwest; Icici Bank on the Prowl; OPEC Revenue to Jump 86%; Steve & Barry’s Bankruptcy; Bear Market S&P; Busch to Shareholders: Just Say No; Bank of America Chief Sees Mid-Year…
10Jul2008 | Money Morning | 0 comments | ContinuedCasualties of Financial Friendly Fire
The war continues. The unstoppable forces of inflation continue to smash into the immoveable lines of deflation. Caught between the two is the U.S. consumer…the American voter…and the lumpeninvestoriat.
Yes, dear reader, we are getting shot to pieces from both directions.…
10Jul2008 | Daily Reckoning | 0 comments | ContinuedMerrill Lynch: Emerging Market Infrastructure Spending Will Surge 80% in the Next Three Years
Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc. (MER) has raised its annual infrastructure-spending estimate for emerging markets by 80%, as developing countries try to keep pace with fast-growing economies and large cash reserves, BusinessWeek reported.
Investment in infrastructure, which the firm sees as…
9Jul2008 | Money Morning | 0 comments | ContinuedGlobal Investing Roundups
Siemens Slashes Jobs; Southwest Cozies Up to Canada; VMWare Axes CEO; Office Depot Drops on Dismal Sales; Oil Drops $10 in a Week; Fed’s New Lending Restrictions; Anheuser Busch Sues InBev; ConocoPhilips Strikes Deal with Abu Dhabi
Siemens AG (ADR: SI) announced…
9Jul2008 | Money Morning | 0 comments | Continued-
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