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Spain’s Unemployment Situation Becomes Hopeless

Posted: January 27, 2012 at 6:39 am

Spain’s National Statistics Institute reported that the fourth-quarter unemployment rate reached 22.9%. That is up from 21.5% in the previous quarter. Spain does not have the economic engine to improve this ...
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Fed Now Keeping Near-Zero Rates Through Late-2014… QE4?

Posted: January 25, 2012 at 12:41 pm

This was definitely going to be a different sort of FOMC day with the way that the new communications are going to show more of the inner-thinking of the Federal ...
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Europe, Particularly Germany, Recovers

Posted: January 24, 2012 at 6:41 am

In the shadow of deep concerns about the viability of the sovereign debt of some of the eurozone’s weakest nations, the economies of several countries in the region showed progress this month. Even ...
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World Could Face ’1930s moment’ Says IMF Chief

Posted: January 23, 2012 at 7:19 am

International Monetary Fund managing director, Christine Lagarde, has warned that the global economy “could easily slide into a ‘1930s moment’ unless global leaders take the actions that they know must ...
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Junk Bonds At Critical Juncture, Dividends & Yields Galore (JNK, HYG, PHB, HYV, PHT, PHK, AWF, HIX, HIO)

Posted: January 20, 2012 at 11:11 am

Junk bonds, or high-yield bonds are at a level that all income investors need to be paying attention to.  After a big recovery in the sector and after the markets ...
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Large Nations Consider Economic IMF Aid as Smaller Ones Collapse

Posted: January 19, 2012 at 6:47 am

Japan would consider a series of bilateral loans to the International Monetary Fund as the organization seeks $600 billion to bolster its accounts as a means to help bail out the economies ...
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The BRIC Cheer: Stimulus Coming To India (EPI, PIN, IFN, IIF, INFY, TTM, IBN, SLT)

Posted: January 18, 2012 at 11:22 am

India could finally be starting to turn itself around.  Now that the nation is no longer so ultra-concerned about inflation tearing apart its population, the country is aiming for some ...
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World Bank Report: The U.S. May Be Economic Pillar

Posted: January 18, 2012 at 6:51 am

The World Bank’s new “Global Economic Prospects 2012” report may the most pessimistic document issued by a major agency about the economic future since the recession ended. One bright spot is ...
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Top Brands in 2011 (KO, IBM, MSFT, GOOG, GE, MCD, INTC, AAPL, DIS, HPQ, NOK, CSCO, TM, AMZN, F, HMC, DE)

Posted: January 17, 2012 at 9:24 am

Brand consultancy Interbrand has issued its latest report on brand value, and while the top five did not change, a gap is opening between the fourth and fifth place finishers.  ...
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European Financial Stability Facility Downgraded As EU Rescue Plans Dissovle

Posted: January 16, 2012 at 2:17 pm

S&P downgrade the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) to 'AA+' from 'AAA'. The move raises another barrier to a rescue of the weakest nations in the region. It combines with the ...
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Ireland Continues to Fall Apart

Posted: January 16, 2012 at 6:21 am

Ireland’s economic problems have been largely forgotten as concerns about a financial collapse of Italy and Spain have taken the spotlight. That likely will change now. Research firm Davy has significantly cut ...
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S&P Lives Up To Downgrades Of France, Austria, Italy, Spain, & Portugal

Posted: January 13, 2012 at 5:22 pm

Standard & Poor's managed to live up to the rumor mill's expectations on this Friday the 13th.  S&P has now formally downgraded several European nations' sovereign credit ratings. France and ...
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Weak Coal Demand Driving Fear (PCX, ANR, JRCC, MT, X, AKS)

Posted: January 13, 2012 at 11:23 am

US coal miner Patriot Coal Corp. (NYSE: PCX) said this morning that it was closing three of its contractor-operated coal mines and two production units in West Virginia “in response ...
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S&P European Downgrades Driving Home (EWQ, EWG, EWO, ALU)

Posted: January 13, 2012 at 10:38 am

The rumors that Standard & Poor's is set to downgrade certain European nations after the close is putting pressure on financial markets this Friday.  Is it fitting that it is ...
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Inflation as a Proxy for Recession

Posted: January 12, 2012 at 4:34 am

The idea that low inflation is a proxy for recession may be an old one. That does not mean it is not a true one. If so, the global economic slowdown ...
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