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...
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The Fed on Wednesday released ‘Minutes‘ of the Committee meeting held late October, ‘08, raising the specter for more economic and financial weakness. The projections ahead suggest a prolonged and severe economic downturn with increased worries of a deep recession.Fed officials noted in their analysis that a number of adverse financial developments continue to negatively influ...
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.
Retailer Target Corp. (TGT) shouldn’t have much good news to report these days, but there were some silver linings in its outlook. The company expects to gain market share in the downturn and sees credit cards improving (with a caveat) in 2009. From Target Corp.’s Q308 conference call:
The FOMC minutes were just released from its recent 10/28 - 10/29 meeting. Here are the highlights: The information reviewed at the October meeting indicated that economic conditions deteriorated in recent months. The labor market weakened further in September as private payrolls fell at a faster pace than earlier in the year and the unemployment rate remained above six percent. Industrial prod...
From Vince Farrell at RealMoney: A report making the rounds today [Wednesday] detailed managers' Form 13-F filings. This report shows what managers own. Their holdings of U.S. stocks by and large plummeted. The decline in the size of the positions could be from market share losses or the sale of a position, or most likely, both.
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...
Those of you who have seen the chart below on my blog over the last year-and-a-half might have already guessed what it looks like after yesterday's dramatic plunge in the consumer price index - it's now screaming DEFLATION.Not that there's anyreal significance to the fact that it's screaming deflation.As noted here, in a world full of fiat money, "deflation" is nothing more than an am...
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...
For those of you who have been following this blog, you know where I stand on the proposed aid package for US automakers (see Preventing Moral Hazard in the Auto Industry for background). I am not opposed to aid for General Motors (GM) and Ford (F), provided that aid comes with strict terms: A moratorium on acquisitions (whether with Chrysler, or otherwise) A rationalization of operations - a r...