The housing crash is one of the fundamentals our economy inherits from the past. This is boom time for the nonresidential sector because, after a long wait, the housing sector no longer absorbs so many resources. If you are young with new business ideas -- good news: you no longer have to compete with the housing sector for funding.Although business capital and GDP will grow (my detailed predic...
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The french pharmaceutical manufacturer makes a settlement to end a court battle and shift resources toward areas showing more promise.
What type of blogger am I? According to Typealyzer : I am ESTJ - The Guardians The organizing and efficient type. They are especially attuned to setting goals and managing available resources to get the job done. Once they´ve made up their mind on something, it can be quite difficult to convince otherwise. They listen to hard facts and can have a hard time accepting new or innovative ways of d...
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.
The news of the day was hardly positive, what with poor housing figures, more worries about the automakers, and concern in credit markets, but the late-day implosion probably sparked more than a few corner-office types storming onto the trading floor and shouting to nobody in particular, “What the hell just happened?” The collapse of major financial stocks — Citigroup finishe...
For many years, General Motors Corp. and Ford Motor Co. were the bellwethers of the high-yield market. As two of the largest issuers of debt, the bonds of the auto manufacturers were considered the industrial-company benchmarks for the status of junk financing. Even though they occupy a sizable section of high-yield financing, the bonds are no longer the most-watched. They are still influential...
Geoffrey Rogow reports: There was no technology bubble to burst this time, but the tech sector still found the largest pocket of sellers in recent trade. While markets have broadly fallen since the start of the year, certain sectors have taken the lead during each of the weekly waves lower. Financials were the weakest performers in the first half of the year, consumers took the lead from there ...
Largest moves always at the beginning and the end David Skarica, author of the Addicted to Profits newsletter, gives The Gold Report an exclusive preview of coming market attractions including double-digit inflation, a super pop in gold stocks, and the demise of an empire. A financial advisor who earned his reputation as a contrarian before he turned 30 by predicting the dot.com bust, Skarica w...
While the Federal Reserve and other global central banks endeavor to use their Rube Goldbergian powers to engineer a decline in Libor and other key market rates, many credit markets are continuing to struggle. The latest market to get hit has been the commercial mortgage-backed securities market, where spreads on benchmark bonds and on credit-default swaps reflect a sharp increase in worry. The...
Margin calls from corporate insiders to pay personal obligations are still coming, although last week's pace into this week does not look as severe as in prior periods we have covered. We have seen such filings from Allied Capital Corp. (NYSE: ALD), Extra Space Storage Inc. (NYSE: EXR), PDF Solutions Inc.'s (NASDAQ: PDFS), Talbots Inc. (NYSE: TLB), and TXCO Resources Inc. (NASDAQ: TXCO). These...