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Reader Mailbag #34
Markets: global sell-off
Watchlist for October 27, 2008
Part of TARP Finally Ready To Go
Another Bad Day Dawns in Asia
Morgan Stanley Spent $23 Billion to Shore Up Money Market Funds
Steve Fraser?s ?Wall Street? ? From the Panic of 1792 to Gordon Gekko and Beyond
Links for 2008-10-26 [del.icio.us]
Restoring Functioning Markets in a Broken World
Greenspan?s Remedy for the Credit Crisis
Financial Crisis Hits Gulf States
Limit-down Friday fizzles, and the 63rd Ottawa gets wet
Goldman Sought to Merge with Citi
Unloved, Unwatched Uranium
Berlin Warns Financial System Still At Risk of Collapse
Copper Prices Return to Earth
Economy, Investing and a Question
Review: The Encore Effect
30 investing mistakes by investors
The top in Oil, part 2
Definition of Investment
Brand Preferences and the Two Year Old Child
Oct 24, 2008 With Charles Rotblut Stocks highlighted include Capital One’s (COF, General Dynam
All of you are familiar with ETF (Exchange Traded Fund), a basket of securities that are listed and traded on a recognized stock exchange. Simply put, they are mutual funds, whose units can be bought and sold on the stock exchange. Exchange Traded Funds (ETF) can be either passively managed or actively managed. Understanding of the advantages and disadvantages of Exchange Traded Funds (ETF) will help you to take a prompt decision to invest o
I've kept seeing mention of a possible 75 basis point cut by the Fed. As much as some traders seem to be lobbying for it, your humble blogger would regard Fed setting its policy rate at that level as entering the famed ZIRP (zero interest rate policy) land that has played a big part in persistent deflation/stagnation in Japan.
Are your choices based on evidence or emotion? Information vs. instinct. When it comes to in
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In continuing with my sage advice this week, I’d like to discuss a topic important to myself a
Many car-buying guides tell you how to save money beforehand - how to research the right car for you, how to negotiate, how to get the best car loan deal - and then they leave you right as you sign your name on the dotted line and walk off the lot, keys in hand. The methods [...]
It’s all smiles on CNBC so you know we must be set to gap up this morning. In this recent global death spiral I’ve been wondering if our market has been following the foreign markets or were they following us. For today at least we’re clearly following them. The bulls really need [...]
Written by: Patrick Mikula CTA Mikula Forecasting Company www.MikulaForecasting.com support@MikulaFo
While none of the changes in interest rates were dramatic, and both interbank rates and stress levels remain elevated, improvement continues and all the metrics moved in the right direction.
I somehow managed to fail to connect the dots on this one. When Morgan Stanley and Goldman, the far and away two biggest prime brokers (as in lenders to hedge funds) became banks, tougher regulatory requirements forced them to curtail hedge fund lending significantly.
One of our pet themes in recent weeks is that the fall in trade traffic, indicated and possibly overstated by a dramatic fall in the Baltic Dry Index, is due at least in part to difficulties in arranging and getting other banks to accept buyers' letters of credit.
We discussed that EU financial institutions may be at risk if capital flight from emerging economies continues. Europe will also suffer along with developing markets for another reason: they also have strong trade links.
Well after thinking about it for 7 years, I’ve finally decided to get in on the great telecom
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Much of the financial mess we’re experiencing has been attributed to financial derivatives (li
A group of regulators of the Canadian mutual fund industry have come up with a Where Does All My Money Go for pointing me to this report.
Beware the Toxicity By Dr. David Edward Marcinko; MBA, CMP? According to Jeff Coons, PhD, CFP? a
In these turbulent financial days it’s good to stand back take a deep breath and and look at t
Talk about getting creative to avoid use of the dollar (the iranians are particularly keen to avoid use of the dollar in oil trading, it verges on a point of honor with them. They have been selling oil to the Japanese with trades denominated in yen rather than the dollar as the reference currency for some time. But in their case, as the news story below discusses, is also making a virtue of nece
A few days ago, I had the opportunity to sit down with a fellow in his early sixties who has already retired. He had been self-employed his entire life. I told him about The Simple Dollar and I asked him, if he didn’t mind, if he would tell me about how he had [...]
Brandon Smith If you are looking for some free and really great tax savings tips and money makers for your real estate business then this is a must listen to show. Brandon Smith from Smith and Shin, CPA’s joined us today. Brandon is our accountant as well as many other real estate investors. His firm only [...]
We have written before how many of the various government interventions to try to produce specific outcomes in financial markets have either not proven very successful or produced adverse outcomes elsehwhere.
