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Daily Archives: March 26, 2009

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Commercial Real Estate Is Snake In The Grass For Banks

Posted: March 26, 2009 at 4:53 am

The price of bank stocks is some indication that Wall St. believes that the industry is coming out of the woods. But, even if toxic assets can be sold off of ...
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Still No Road To Recovery In Detroit (F)(GM)

Posted: March 26, 2009 at 4:41 am

The Administration's blue ribbon panel assigned the task of  deciding what should happen to GM (GM) and Chrysler has, as would be expected, said that it wants to keep the ...
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IBM And The Rebirth Of Outsourcing (IBM)(INFY)(WIP)

Posted: March 26, 2009 at 4:13 am

A couple of month ago, India’s chief finance minister may have made calls to the heads of IBM (IBM) and several other large US tech companies to tell them that ...
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Criticism Of US Stimulus Gets Out Of Hand

Posted: March 26, 2009 at 4:00 am

Loose confederacies often come apart under pressure. There are now divisions forming in the European Union based on whether the countries in that alliance should put larger and larger sums ...
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Housing: Getting Worse While Getting Better

Posted: March 26, 2009 at 3:53 am

Much was made of the new housing statistics. Sales of new homes nationwide jumped by 4.7% in February. Sales of new homes rose to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of ...
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Media Digest 3/26/2009 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: March 26, 2009 at 2:59 am

According to Reuters, Obama may be stretched to thin. Reuters reports that AIG (AIG) executives in Europe are resisting returning bonuses. Reuters reports that Obama will begin to tighten the ...
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Asia Markets 3/26/2009 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: March 26, 2009 at 2:21 am

Markets in Asia were higher. The Nikkei rose 1.8% to 8,636. The Hang Seng was up 2.8% to 14,000. The Shanghai Composite rose 3.1% to 2,362. Data from Reuters. Douglas ...
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