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What 10% Mortgage Rates Do To Housing

Posted: April 11, 2010 at 8:04 pm

Mortgage rates moved above 5% last week and many economists expect the number to rise above 6% by the end of the year. "It certainly will make it harder for ...
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The American Consumer Sees His Shadow

Posted: April 8, 2010 at 5:01 am

Consumer borrowing dropped in February by 5.6% to an annual rate of $2.45 trillion, according to the Federal Reserve. Revolving credit, a good proxy for credit card debt, dropped by 13.1%. ...
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California Pensions Could Be Short A Third Of A Trillion Dollars

Posted: April 7, 2010 at 4:28 am

In an age in which government spending is measured in hundreds of billions of dollars, the potential shortfall in California pension plans is shocking. A new study from the Stanford ...
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China’s On Fire As Factory Production Rises Again

Posted: April 1, 2010 at 4:59 am

The recession and unemployment across the world must have been cured. How else could China's factories push out more and more products every month as concerns about its economy overheating ...
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A Flood Of Energy M&A: Schlumberger Buys Smith For $11 Billon

Posted: February 21, 2010 at 1:43 pm

The acquisition by Schlumberger Ltd. (SLB) of competitor Smith International Inc. (SII) for $11 billion could be another sign that mergers and acquisitions in the energy sector will pick ...
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Top 10 Analyst Calls (AMSF, AMCC, DMND, DLB, GDP, FLO, QLGC, RHT, SONS, URBN)

Posted: May 1, 2009 at 6:51 am

These are ten of the top research calls with upgrades and downgrades from Wall Street analysts this Friday morning: Amerisafe (AMSF) Raised to Outperform at Oppenheimer. Applied Micro Circuits (AMCC) ...
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Forgetting About Japan

Posted: February 10, 2009 at 5:26 am

Most of the focus of the recession has been on the US and China. It makes sense to try to examine economic activity in the world’s largest consuming economy and ...
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Goodrich Petroleum Taps Capital Markets (GDP)

Posted: July 7, 2008 at 3:16 pm

Goodrich Petroleum Corporation (NYSE: GDP) has announced that it has commenced an underwritten public secondary offering of 3 million shares of its common stock.    J.P. Morgan Securities Inc. is ...
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Q4 GDP Already Near Recession Levels

Posted: January 30, 2008 at 8:43 am

Today we got our first look at Q4 2007 GDP, and this is the preliminary data that will see two revisions ahead.  Q4 GDP just came in at +0.6%.  Most ...
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