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California forced to boost yield on bond sale to lure buyers
Money & Company —
Authority: 593
California has stumbled badly in its latest foray into the municipal bond market -- a sign investors are overloaded with the state’s debt. Borrowing $1.9 billion Tuesday via bonds that mature in June 2013, the state was forced to pay a 4% annualized tax-free yield to lure investors to the deal. Just last Friday ...4 hours ago -
Why Stocks Rise When the Dollar Falls
The Daily Reckoning —
Authority: 645
Stocks rose yesterday — a lot. With a 2% jump, the Dow reached 10,226, its highest level of 2009. The S&P 500 fared even better. As we briefly mentioned Monday, it wasn’t earnings or economic data that sent stocks to new highs. Instead traders got the nod from the G-20, whose members hinted that they will ...7 hours ago -
Stock Market Investing: Technical/Fundamental Battle, Investment Strategy: Ride the Gravy Train, FOMC Policy, Consumer Credit, Busi. Bankruptcy
Hedge Fund Blogs From HedgeCo.Net —
Authority: 427
Stock Market Investing: A battle between investment disciplines has developed over the last 3 weeks. As discussed in the Oct. 28 th post , numerous warning signs of a technical nature are flashing. However, last week’s news headlines were replete with US$ bearish/equity market bullish fundamental ...7 hours ago -
Bad, bad Mishkin
FP Trading Desk —
Authority: 486
Remember Frederic Mishkin? The last we saw of this Columbia University business professor he was co-authoring a report on Iceland’s economy in 2006. “The analysis in our study suggests that although Iceland’s economy does have some imbalances that will eventually be reversed, financial fragility is currently ...8 hours ago -
Is Bank Of America Of Trying To Skirt CARD Act With New Annual Fees? [Testing The Water]
Consumerist —
Authority: 777
In a series of recent posts , WalletBlog has accused Bank of America of breaking the spirit of its "no new fees" promise and of potentially breaking the law next year, after it announced it will introduce annual fees on some existing credit card accounts in 2010. Heres the blogs argument for why Bank of America ...9 hours ago -
Triple Rollover on Wednesday
Forex Blog —
Authority: 131
When the Forex brokers hold your position without making a physical delivery of currency (cash) to you, they should be paying an interest rate on your position. This interest rate is applied at the end of each day (17:00 EST) on all your open positions and is called rollover. This rollover interest rate is ...11 hours ago -
Citi Bucks the Trend, Raises Rates
Vision Credit Education, Inc. —
Authority: 91
Bank of America, Capital One and Discover have each pledged to avoid interest rate hikes ahead of the Credit CARD Act. Citibank however has begun raising interest rates on many of its cardholders effective December 20, 2009. Poor Timing Citibank began mailing out thousands of notification letters on November 1 to ...11 hours ago -
Interest Rates Will Make You Little This Year
Refinance website and Blog —
Authority: 135
Searching for high yield money market accounts this year is pretty much a waste of time. Since all rates are so low, it will be very hard to find much difference between any account rates. This is probably not going to change any time soon either as the economy is showing no signs of improvement. It is difficult for ...12 hours ago -
House Approves Expediting Credit CARD Act
Consumerism Commentary: A Personal Finance Blog Since 2003 —
Authority: 634
We reported just a few days ago on the passage of a measure in the House of Representatives to expedite the Credit Card reforms passed earlier this year . Unfortunately, I left out some of the story, as I’m still figuring out the intricacies of how laws are made, and there were some amendments made to the bill ...13 hours ago -
6 Reasons Why The Price Of Gold Is Going Up
MoneyEnergy —
Authority: 559
It wasn’t surprising at $1000/oz, but even at $1100/oz this week, the naysayers are still in full force. What’s to deny about the trend in gold prices? You don’t have to be a gold bug to see what’s happening. Here are the six main factors causing the price of gold to continue to rise. In some way or ...16 hours ago -
The Simple Advantages Of Debt Consolidation
SDB Benchmark Real Estate —
Authority: 126
One of the best things about debt consolidation is that you can get some very attractive low interest rates on it. That is why a lot of people find it more attractive much of the time. Unfortunately, it is not usually tax deductible, which may make things a bit awkward, but if it lets you get out from under the arm of ...16 hours ago -
Tighter Bank Lending Standards Reinforce Fed Decision on Rates
SDB Benchmark Real Estate —
Authority: 126
The Federal Reserve said U.S. banks kept tightening lending standards for companies and consumers last quarter, reinforcing the central bank’s decision to leave its benchmark interest rates at record lows for a long time. At the same time, the number of banks making it tougher to borrow diminished, the Fed said ...16 hours ago -
Asian stock markets follow Wall Street higher
Business Finance & Economy - business.marc8.com —
Authority: 163
Asian stocks extended their gains Tuesday after Wall Street touched its highest level for 2009 amid optimism low interest rates would continue to power this years rally in global markets.20 hours ago -
A Squeeze on Customers Ahead of New Rules
NYT > Theater —
Authority: 915
Senator Christopher J. Dodd at a hearing in September. He is pushing legislation that would freeze interest rates on existing balances until the new credit card law takes effect next year.21 hours ago -
Federal Reserve to grant more bailout capital to GMAC
Press Release Distribution - NewsWire- Caymanmama.com —
Authority: 534
Kansas City, Missouri (CaymanMama.com) — As the only one of the 19 stress-tested banks that the Federal Reserve identified to see if additional funds were needed, GMAC now stands to collect additional bailout money in order to withstand the future economic recession. Thus far, the struggling finance company has ...22 hours ago -
A Squeeze on Customers Ahead of New Rules
Money employment & careers - money-employment.marc8.com —
Authority: 147
Even the best cardholders are seeing their interest rates rise and credit lines be cut as financial firms struggle to make money in their card units.23 hours ago -
A Squeeze on Customers Ahead of New Rules
Business Finance & Economy - business.marc8.com —
Authority: 163
Even the best cardholders are seeing their interest rates rise and credit lines be cut as financial firms struggle to make money in their card units.23 hours ago -
Screw the stock market, I hope it crashes.
InvestmentWatch —
Authority: 449
This is crap, the investors get richer on a weak dollar and the rest of us get screwed at the gas pumps, and in the grocery stores. Economic wizards of Wall Street, in the words of 15 million people “where are the JOBS !!! Dow jumps 204 to high for year as dollar slumps AP - The Dow Jones industrial average ...23 hours ago -
Thai Loan sharks threaten families
PCT Thailand's Free Expatriates Blog —
Authority: 147
Loan sharks threaten families, say debtorsBANGKOK: -- A number of debtors who owe money to illegal lenders yesterday filed complaints with a police division claiming they were intimidated when they could not repay daily high interest rates.Chicken rice vendor Urai Tembang said the debt collectors working for a loan ...1 day ago -
Fast Money Recap: Money Managers Will Push Markets Higher
TheStreet.com —
Authority: 605
The trading panel said money managers will be in a buying mode for the rest of the year.1 day ago
