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Moody’s, Central Bankers Concerned With Banks
As the FDIC continues shuttering U.S. banks, ominous signals are coming from Central Banks around the world and from Moody’s Investor Services. The timely release of this information seems to support the legislative reform proposed by Representat...
Bair’s FDIC – 106 Banks Down, 400 To Go!
Straight-talking, fast shooting and true to her word, FDIC gunslinger Sheila Bair pulled the trigger on seven more banks over the weekend. The closings raised her agency’s annual total to 106 banks shuttered in 2009. In August, the understaffed...
Goldman Cannot Sustain Rally
Equity investors expected Goldman Sachs to perform well. The venerable investment bank did not disappoint. Meanwhile, Citigroup’s loss was less than expected, but failed to fuel a further DOW Jones rally as equities slipped under the esteemed 1...
Sheila Bair Speaks Out
Soft-spoken Kansas native and tough-minded Chairman of the FDIC, Sheila Bair, is gaining a reputation on Capitol Hill. Unlike her fellow Treasury and Federal Reserve regulators, her strongly asserted positions do not reflect any political agenda. ...
6,600 Foreclosures Per Day
For months the National Association of Realtors (NAR) has done its best to put forth a positive message about the housing crisis. During this time, the NAR has reported increased sales and improving home values. The Center for Responsible Lending...
Will Unemployment Hit 15%?
The hammer fell Friday morning when the Labor Department’s Non-Farm Payroll was released showing another 263,000 jobs trimmed from the U.S. workforce. Unemployment is now stated at 9.8%. Most analysts feel the rate is significantly understated ...
Why The FDIC is Nearly Depleted
FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair is the tough-minded, fiercely independent advocate of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Sheila Bair does not mince words. Bair makes decisive moves and backs them up with tough policy. Under her tenure the FDIC has se...
Has Growth Returned to US Economy?
On Wednesday, the U.S. Federal Reserve said that growth had returned to the U.S. economy. With congressional leaders and the Obama Administration locked in heated debates regarding health care and the War in Afghanistan, some of the momentum for fi...
Decisive Leadership Lacking At the G20
Later today the G20 officially convenes but indications are that momentum on three key fronts is conflicted. At a time when give-and-take progress is necessary, the world’s economic leaders seem unable or unwilling to assert decisive leadership t...
Sheila Bair & FDIC Stand Alone
The FDIC To Go It Alone Tough-minded FDIC Chairperson, Sheila Bair, has her own visions of the recession and the trajectory of the recovery. Her views rarely coincide with Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner or Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke. ...
G20 Summit in Pittsburgh Critical to Recovery
The September 24-25 G20 Summit in Pittsburgh must be more productive than the last meeting in London and may well determine the shape and depth of the recovery from the world’s deepest recession. Leaders are positioning themselves to lay out thei...
The New U Recovery
Okay, the recovery will not be “V” shaped. It may not be “W” shaped, so today’s media experts now refer to the recovery as “U” shaped, even if it is an extended “U.” Well, one thing is for sure, the longer this recession-recover...
GBPUSD: Selling May Accelerate as Unemployment Hits 12-Year High
The UK labor market is likely to show continued weakness as Jobless Claims rise by 25,000 in August, pushing the unemployment rate (known in the UK as the Claimant Count) to a 12-year high at 5.0%. More of the same is expected going forward: a survey...
On Wall Street – Change is Coming
Embroiled in the political turmoil surrounding a national health care initiative and with an economic recovery seemingly underway, the Obama Administration appeared to have moved its cry for investment regulation to a back burner. On Monday, Presid...
Geithner Impressive
For many Americans, Secretary Geithner’s performance in heated Senate debates one year ago was less than inspiring. In fact, it was unnerving and caused stock markets to tumble and countless cries for his replacement. Many felt the Secretary se...
American Consumer Retreats
For all those who believed the tireless American consumer would lead the country and the globe from the depths of the recession, guess again. In the face of a conservatively stated 9.7% unemployment rate, the American consumer is not buying the rec...
The Federal Reserve - Wait & See?
The Federal Reserve governors appear divided about the meaning of certain economic trends. The Fed’s August 11-12 policy session was optimistic but tempered with caution. The minutes of the meeting indicated that Reserve members felt the ri...
Forex European Preview 08.31.2009
A preliminary estimate of the Euro Zone Consumer Price Index is expected to show that inflation fell at an annual pace of -0.3% in August, a slight improvement over the -0.7% result registered in the previous month. Still, the bottom line is that pri...
Forex European Preview 08.28.2009
A revision of the second-quarter UK Gross Domestic Product is set to confirm that the economy shrank 0.8% in the three months to June to bring the annual growth rate to -5.6%, the worst in at least 53 years. Barring an unexpected, large revision in t...
Bernanke Again!
Two men firmly committed to increased transparency have decided to remain on the team that hopes to lead the U.S. Recovery and stave off the possibility of choking inflation. President Barack Obama has crossed political parties once again and will ...
The Oracle Speaks - The World Listens
When Warren Buffett speaks, the financial world takes note. On Wednesday, The Oracle of Omaha delivered a summary of his view of the recession, the recovery and the future of the dollar in a full-length editorial in the New York Times. In his usua...
The VIX Launches Fears
The CBOE VIX jumped 15% as stocks dropped 186.06 points or 2% before the DOW settled at 9135.34 on Monday. The S&P 500 Index dipped 24.36 points to 979.73 while Nasdaq dropped 54.68 to 1930.84. The DOW and the S&P posted their worst one-d...
AIG - Where The Money, News and Action is
American International Group, Inc. is in the news, posting huge market gains and rightfully positioned at the center of multiple controversies. On Monday, investors welcomed new CEO Robert Benmosche as AIG continued its powerful rally closing +1.56...
Real Estate Values Hit New Lows
According the National Association of Realtors, the housing market is turning the corner. Not everyone shares the same view. Sales numbers are encouraging but the tale of the tape poses serious issues for homeowners and commercial real estate develop...
Flashing & High Frequency Trading
Part Two: When the Securities and Exchange Commission authorized electronic exchanges in 1998, the intent was to open markets to any investor with a desktop computer. The idea was that the electronic investors would be on the same footing as floor ...
Profits Explode With High Frequency Trading
Part One An old fashioned shootout is about to happen on Wall Street and in global marketplaces where some of transparency’s biggest marshals are calling for a halt to some of the country’s biggest financial gunslingers who are boosted by...
Bernanke On Capitol Hill
Displaying the patience and the command that has enabled the Chairman of The Federal Reserve to persevere through the country’s deepest recession, Ben Bernanke completed two days of testimony on Capitol Hill. On Wednesday, the Chairman appear...
Forex European Preview 07.22.2009
Germany’s IFO Survey of business sentiment is expected to rise for the seventh consecutive month in July, pointing to continued improvement in firms’ 6-month economic outlook. Still, the reading is expected at 90.1, a print below the 100 “boom-...
Forex European Preview 07.14.2009
The UK Consumer Price Index is expected to show that the annual pace of inflation fell to 1.8% in June, the first time that prices slipped below the Bank of England’s 2% target rate since September 2007. The leading producer price index fell more t...
Forex European Preview 07.13.2009
Switzerland’s Producer and Import Prices are set fall -5.4% in the year to June, the steepest decline in over 22 years. The metric foreshadows continued downward pressure on consumer prices as lower wholesale costs are reflected in the final price ...
