According to Reuters, Japan exports hit their lowest level since 2002. Reuters writes that hopes for an auto bailout in this session of Congress are poor. Reuters reports that the US is looking into lending practices at Golden West. Reuters reports that small businesses are being hurt by trouble on Wall St.Reuters reports that a bank analyst said financial firms need another $1 trillion in capi...
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The TIPs say deflation is coming and may stay around for a bit: Yet, if you believe the yields on US Treasury inflation protected bonds, or Tips, we shall have a 2.2 per cent fall in prices in 2009, a 2.5 per cent decline in 2010 and only flat prices in 2011. If that turns out to be true, the real interest rate burden on even the highest-rated borrowers will be extremely hard to bear.
When U.S. housing recovers, the leading homebuilders may not be the ones to benefit.
I have been getting a bunch of emails lately about commodities. The following excerpt from Roubini's RGE Monitor was emailed to me yesterday:Today we turn our attention to commodities, which have been badly battered by the global financial crisis, deleveraging and a worsening economic outlook, with commodity indices having lost 50% of their value since the July peak. With the G10 in recession a...
This 2 part series will cover recent market developments about Berkshire Hathaway, points to a strategy on how you may benefit more on the same trades he did recently and an option trading strategy that probably Berkshire uses for maximizing it returns on the underlying they find worth investing. Don’t forget to read the big picture of US stock markets. Markets are behaving pretty much th...
Falling oil prices paired with increased demands for the U.S. dollar continues to favor a bullish outlook for the USDCAD, and we may see the pair work...
Latin American Markets: Benchmarks fall 2% as resources, recession worries take hold
Wed, Nov 19, 11:57 PM ET
Major Latin American stock markets each dropped 2% Wednesday, strained by a slump in prices for natural resources and by gloomy expectations from U.S. central bankers that the world’s largest economy may languish in recession for at least a year.
I was lightly long going into this morning where I flipped that position and added to it at the close. I’m short the SPX only. I’m looking for a nasty day tomorrow where maybe we see an intraday reversal. Maybe not. I sold TZA waaaay to early but still managed 7%. I actually had TZA down at 90, but stopped myself out on panic early in the day. Tags: spx, tza
The global financial institution may have trouble getting new cash since the usual contributors are strapped.
Embattled U.S. banking giant Citigroup Inc. (C) has agreed to buy back $17.4 billion of assets remaining in a series of funds known as structured investment vehicles, or SIVs, after it previously agreed to guarantee the liabilities in those funds. In a separate story today (Wednesday), Wall Street banking analyst David Trone said that he expects higher credit costs and additional losses to forc...