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Nov 26th, 2008 |
By William Patalon III |
Category: Financial News
Consumer Confidence Climbs; Home Prices Record Plunge; Troubled Banks on the Rise; Oil Falls 7%; Slim’s Bank Buys Citi Stock; D.R. Horton Shares Vault
Tags: Case Shiller Home Price Index, Citigroup Inc, Consumer Confidence Index, Credit Suisse Group, Crude Oil Prices, CS, D R Horton Inc, DHI, Fdic, Federal Deposit Insurance, Group Ag, Grupo Financiero Inbursa, Phil Flynn, Stock Shares
Posted in Financial News |
Nov 19th, 2008 |
By Richard Daughty |
Category: Financial News
Buy gold, silver and oil as fast as you can, you morons, or die a horrible death by inflation like the people of Zimbabwe!
Tags: Auto Sales, Buy Gold, Commercial Real Estate, Commodity Prices, Credit Card Defaults, Credit Suisse, CS, Federal Reserve, Fiat Currency, Global Inflation, gold, Retail Sales, Richard Daughty, silver, Unemployment Record, US inflation
Posted in Financial News |
Nov 5th, 2008 |
By Doug Casey |
Category: Financial News
The base metals were all well into positive territory on Tuesday. Copper bottomed just north of $1.75 in the pre-dawn hours, then went near-vertical before leveling off in the late morning to cruise to a finish at $1.9393/lb., up more than 11 cents. Nickel pushed upward for most of the day, regaining the $5 mark and holding to close at its intraday high of $5.40/lb., up 40 cents.
Tags: aluminum, Copper Prices, CS, Doug Casey, MF, Nickel Prices, resources, Zinc Prices
Posted in Financial News |
Oct 29th, 2008 |
By William Patalon III |
Category: Financial News
Consumer Confidence at All-Time Low; Home Prices Continue Collapse; OPEC Still Not Satisfied; Whirlpool Circles the Drain; Optimistic Wall Street; Banks Balk on Buyout; Stop the Presses?
Tags: Consumer Confidence Index, Credit Suisse Group, CS, DB, Deutsche Bank Ag, DHX, GCI, Oil Market, Opec, US stocks, Wall Street Banks, Whirlpool Corp, WHR
Posted in Financial News |
Oct 28th, 2008 |
By William Patalon III |
Category: Financial News
CenturyTel Inc. (CTL) will acquire rival Embarq Corp. (EQ) in an $11.6 billion deal that could kick-start a flurry of mergers among rural-regional telephone carriers. The deal should be good for the two companies, said Jeff Kagan, an independent analyst who is well known for his coverage of the telecom sector.
Tags: Centurytel Inc, CNSL, CS, CTL, Embarq Corp, EQ, FTR, JPM, Rural Telecom, SF, Stock Deal, telecom sector, US stocks, Verizon Communications Inc, William Patalon III, WIN
Posted in Financial News |
Oct 24th, 2008 |
By Jennifer Yousfi |
Category: Financial News
It takes more than a globally competitive economy to have a sound banking system. For the third straight year, the United States finds itself at the top of the Global Competitiveness Index (GCI), published by the World Economic Forum (WEF) as part of its annual Global Competitiveness Report.
Tags: Banking Sector, CFC, credit crisis, CS, Federal Reserve, Global Competitiveness Report, Global Credit, Global Economy, IDMC, Indymac Bancorp, Jennifer Yousfi, Lehman Brothers, LEHMQ, MER, NHRKF, Securities Exchanges, Ubs, US Banking, WAMUQ, WB, World Economic Forum
Posted in Financial News |
Oct 17th, 2008 |
By Jason Simpkins |
Category: Financial News
Swiss banking giant UBS AG (ADR: UBS) succumbed to government intervention yesterday (Thursday) and the country’s other banking powerhouse, Credit Suisse Group AG (ADR: CS) announced it would raise fresh capital from private shareholders after rebuffing central bank assistance.
Tags: CS, government bailout, Jason Simpkins, Libor, Ubs
Posted in Financial News |
Oct 16th, 2008 |
By Bob Bauman |
Category: International Investing
Even the Swiss are joining in the bank bailout game. The two biggest banks, UBS (NYSE:UBS) and Credit Suisse (NYSE:CS), have taken dramatic steps to offload toxic debt and raise working capital. But Bob Bauman says investors shouldn’t worry about the country’s banking system. It is still the place to safeguard your assets from the financial meltdown.
Tags: Bob Bauman, credit crisis, CS, government bailout, Ubs, US Banking
Posted in International Investing |
Sep 24th, 2008 |
By William Patalon III |
Category: Financial News
AIG (AIG), the largest U.S. insurance company by assets, may have to sell more than half its businesses to repay the $85 billion federal loan package it received last week. But it could actually reap as much as $115 billion by selling all its business units, analysts at Credit Suisse (ADR: CS) said yesterday.
Tags: AIG, AOC, CS, William Patalon III
Posted in Financial News |
Sep 17th, 2008 |
By Jennifer Yousfi |
Category: Financial News, Politics & Economics
Citing balanced threats from weak economic growth and inflation, the U.S. Federal Reserve yesterday (Tuesday) voted to hold the benchmark Federal Funds rate at 2.0%, reports Money Morning’s Jennifer Yousfi. This was despite a financial market that has been rocked in recent days by the continued fallout of the credit crisis.
Tags: credit crisis, CS, Fed Rate Cuts, Federal Reserve, Jennifer Yousfi, LEH, MS, US Banking, US dollar, Us Inflation Rate
Posted in Financial News, Politics & Economics |