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Investment News Briefs Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Jun 16th, 2009 | By Money Morning Staff | Category: Financial News

Strong Dollar, Falling Oil Prices Send Stocks Down; Homebuilders’ Confidence Dips; IMF Improves U.S. Outlook; Obama Tells Doctors Health Care Changes Needed; Six Flags Bankrupt



Gold Is Manipulated…And You Should Buy it Anyway

Apr 20th, 2009 | By Jon Herring | Category: Featured, Gold Market

The United States Bureau of Labor Statistics has an “inflation calculator” on their website. It allows you to enter an amount of money and a previous year and then tells you how much money you would need to have today to match the same buying power.



Global Investment News Roundup Wednesday, January 14th, 2009

Jan 14th, 2009 | By William Patalon III | Category: Financial News

Rattner Floated as Car Czar; Sources: Barclays Planning 2,100 Lay Offs; BG Group Pumping Billions into Brazil Oil; Pfizer Cutting 800 Research Posts; Oil Snaps Week-Long Skid; Commercial Banks Borrowing Less Than Investment Banks; Companies Scramble to Fill Pension Plan Gaps



How Deregulation Eviscerated the Banking Sector Safety Net and Spawned the U.S. Financial Crisis

Jan 13th, 2009 | By Shah Gilani | Category: Financial News

No one person is responsible for the credit crisis, the failure of investment banks, the insolvency of commercial banks world-wide, the implosion of the world’s stock markets, or for leading us to the precipice of another great depression.



Round Two? $1.2 Trillion Corporate-Debt CDO Wipeout

Oct 22nd, 2008 | By Contrarian Profits | Category: Featured

Investors are taking losses of up to 90% in the $1.2 trillion market for collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) tied to corporate credit,” reports Bloomberg. Much of the losses have been triggered by the failure of Lehman Brothers and Icelandic bank.



Time to Buy These Tiny Stocks?

Jun 6th, 2008 | By Steve Sjuggerud | Category: Stock Market Investing

“Bank stocks are getting extremely cheap,” my friend Andrew told me over breakfast yesterday.



And Then There’s This…Friday, May 16th, 2008

May 16th, 2008 | By Ed Steer | Category: Gold Market

All was quiet in the Far East and Europe in gold and silver trading yesterday morning. Then the boys in New York showed up for work…and away went the prices to the upside.



Fried in the Financial Sun

Apr 28th, 2008 | By Richard Daughty | Category: Politics & Economics

By how much is the Libor lending rate understated? Maybe as much as 0.3%, which doesn’t sound like that much, but when you are talking about trillions and trillions of pounds and euros of debt, it adds up to a lot of money!



Libor Not to be Trusted?

Apr 17th, 2008 | By Rob Mackrill | Category: International Investing

The credibility of Libor is in doubt so interbank lending rates could be higher than reported. If estate agents were woodworm, many a British high street would complain of infestation.



Moral Hazard & Really Stupid Loans

Apr 5th, 2008 | By Gary North | Category: Politics & Economics

In my recent article, “The FED’S End Run,” I wrote this: Beginning late Friday evening, March 29, we have been in the midst of an end run by the Federal Reserve System around Congress. The FED is about to be given authority to regulate the nation’s largest non-commercial financial institutions, including stocks and commodities.