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ft.com - 4 days ago
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ft.com —
By Matthew Garrahan in Los Angeles, Richard Waters
in San Francisco and Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson in New York...
Published: November 22 2009 23:01 | Last updated: November 22 2009 23:01 Microsoft has had discussions with News Corp over a plan that would ...
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Microsoft and News Corp eye web pact
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online.wsj.com - 3 days ago
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online.wsj.com —
The proportion of U.S. homeowners who owe more
on their mortgages than the properties are worth has...
swelled to about 23%, threatening prospects for a sustained housing recovery. Nearly 10.7 million households had negative equity in their homes in the ...
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1 in 4 Borrowers Under Water
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usatoday.com - 6 days ago
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usatoday.com —
Twenty-four of the 53 cities of 100,000 or
more that grew by at least 10% every decade...
since 1970 lost population in the last two years. Fifteen are likely to end the decade with less than a 10% gain in population, largely because of recent losses. ...
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Housing bust halts growing suburbs
time.com - 4 days ago
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time.com —
Worshippers linger after Friday prayers at the American
Muslim Center....
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Riding the Waves
telegraph.co.uk - 3 days ago
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telegraph.co.uk —
Standard & Poor's has given warning that nearly
all of the world's big banks lack sufficient capital...
to cover trading and investment exposure.
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Most global banks are still unsafe warns S&P
ft.com - 22 hours ago
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ft.com —
Published: November 26 2009 07:09 | Last updated:
November 26 2009 13:04 13:00 GMT . Global stock...
markets endured heavy selling on Thursday as investors were spooked by the spectre of a default by Dubai and after a febrile foreign exchange market saw ...
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Dubai default fears spook investors
ft.com - 2 days ago
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ft.com —
Published: November 24 2009 19:41 | Last updated:
November 24 2009 19:41 Standard & Poor’s acknowledged on...
Tuesday that a new ranking of banks’ capital strength , which had sparked concerns over lower-ranked institutions such as UBS and Citigroup , ...
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S&P to clarify rankings on capital strength
bloomberg.com - 6 days ago
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bloomberg.com —
Harvard Poker Pro Says Texas Hold ‘Em Can
Teach Traders to Fold...
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Harvard Poker Pro Says Texas Hold ‘Em Can Teach Traders ...
ft.com - 2 days ago
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ft.com —
Published: November 24 2009 11:15 | Last updated:
November 24 2009 12:52 The Bank of England extended...
secret emergency financing to Royal Bank of Scotland and to what was then HBOS during the banking panic last October, indicating the two banks were ...
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Bank of England bailed out RBS and HBOS
abnormalreturns.com - 5 days ago
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abnormalreturns.com —
“For better or worse, the more likely culprit
for the uptick in market mood swings is the...
increased popularity of ETFs . As more take bets on sectors and asset classes rather than individual stocks, it has become a market where good news lifts ...
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Friday links: market mood swings
ritholtz.com - 4 days ago
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ritholtz.com —
There is a small cadre of Economists —
original thinkers, contrarians, out of the box theorists —...
I respect a great deal. It is a modest list ranging from Richard Thaler to David Rosenberg to Robert Shiller, with lots of econ wonks in ...
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How Overrated is Sentiment in Economics?
online.wsj.com - 4 days ago
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online.wsj.com —
Ryan Lobo for The Wall Street Journal Dr.
Shetty prepares for surgery....
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The Henry Ford of Heart Surgery
econlog.econlib.org - 4 days ago
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econlog.econlib.org —
(November 22, 2009 06:13 PM, by Arnold Kling)
Robert Shiller writes, Consider this possibility: after all these...
months, people start to think it's time for the recession to end. The very thought begins to renew confidence, and some people start ...
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Macro and the Organizational Capital Model
nytimes.com - 4 days ago
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nytimes.com —
Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers paid their executives
largely in stock, and that stock lost most or...
all of its value when those companies collapsed. Many people on Wall Street say these examples help make the case that pay incentives were not what ...
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Executives Stayed Wealthy as Their Firms Failed, Study Says
dailyoptionsreport.com - 3 days ago
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dailyoptionsreport.com —
So with a holiday fast approaching, one could
reasonably expect some divergence between VIX and VXX. After...
all VIX estimates volatility on the SPX options board, and when holiday's approach, traders lower bids to account for the slow stretch of ...
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All VXXed up
calculatedriskblog.com - 3 days ago
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calculatedriskblog.com —
Here is another way to look at existing
homes sales: Monthly, Not Seasonally Adjusted (NSA): Existing Home...
Sales NSA This graph shows NSA monthly existing home sales for 2005 through 2009. For the fifth consecutive month, sales were higher in 2009 ...
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Existing Home Sales Graphs
guardian.co.uk - 3 days ago
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guardian.co.uk —
Wall Street will never be fair while industry
lobbyists wander the halls of Congress, sucking the life...
out of financial reform There are more than 15 million people unemployed and almost 2 million people set to lose their homes to foreclosure this ...
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Vampire banks rise again | Dean Baker
ft.com - 3 days ago
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ft.com —
Published: November 23 2009 19:23 | Last updated:
November 23 2009 22:20 A study by Standard &...
Poor’s, one of the world’s leading credit rating agencies, has raised questions over the financial strength of some of the biggest banks ahead of new rules ...
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S&P raises fears over health of some banks
bloomberg.com - 3 days ago
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Obama’s Trumped-Up Job Count Flunks Science Test: Caroline
Baum...
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Obama’s Trumped-Up Job Count Flunks Science Test: ...
nytimes.com - 48 hours ago
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nytimes.com —
LONDON (Reuters) - Investment flows into hedge funds
have turned net positive and the sector is heading...
toward having assets under management of around $1.75 trillion by year-end, according to Morgan Stanley.
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Hedge Funds Set For Rebound to Pre - Crisis Level: MS
