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Posts Tagged ‘ Liquidity Crisis ’

Subprime’s Latest Victim: Municipal Bonds

Jun 2nd, 2008 | By Contrarian Profits | Category: Featured, Financial News

Subprime has found a new victim, reports Bloomberg: municipal bonds. Already, the amount of municipal bonds that have defaulted this year is three times that of 2007.

So far this year, $736 million in municipal bonds have defaulted. That doesn’t necessarily mean they didn’t pay investors; they may have just drawn down reserves. That’s what happens just before they stop making payments to bondholders.



Financial Indicator - Countrywide Financial

May 30th, 2008 | By Karim Rahemtulla | Category: Stock Market Investing

Follow This Indicator To Gauge Financial Sector Health - And Grab Profits.



An Upgrade For Brazil!

May 30th, 2008 | By Chuck Butler | Category: International Investing

Kohn gives the wink and nod… GDP is revised up to .09%… Dollar Bulls dancing in the streets… Oil prices fall…



‘Far from Normal’

May 29th, 2008 | By James Howard Kunstler | Category: Politics & Economics

Those were the words that Fed chairman Ben Bernanke used to describe the financial markets (and by extension the economy) these heady spring days when everybody else with a rostrum, it seems, has pronounced the so-called liquidity crisis contained.



More Income for You, More Often

May 2nd, 2008 | By Steve Sjuggerud | Category: Stock Market Investing

Right now, we have a rare opportunity. We can get paid a monthly double-digit dividend… We can buy in for only 85 cents on the dollar… And we can have the skills of a legendary investment manager behind us.



‘Libor’ Sends Another Shaky Signal to the Global Financial Markets

Apr 18th, 2008 | By Martin Hutchinson | Category: International Investing

The news that the London Interbank Offer Rate (LIBOR) system of setting interest rates is running into trouble was surprising at first glance.



Undervalued Stocks: Buying as the Street Runs Red

Apr 8th, 2008 | By Ian Cooper | Category: Stock Market Investing

Blood-in-the-streets investing may sound cold, heartless, and a cheap way to make a buck, but we’re investors. We’re looking for the political turmoil… financial hardships… assassinations… bloody uprisings… the events that seed wealth.