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• Slight Rise in Home Prices Masks Signs of Weakness

  
  NewsHunter.org — Authority: 170
  The Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller index increased 0.4 percent in October, but there were disquieting signs of deterioration beneath the apparent good news.
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• US house prices rise for fifth month

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 964
  US home prices rise for the fifth month in a row in October, but the recovery continues to be uneven with only 11 of the 20 metropolitan areas tracked showing gains.
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• Slight Rise in Home Prices Masks Signs of Weakness

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 904
  The Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller index increased 0.4 percent in October, but there were disquieting signs of deterioration beneath the apparent good news.
  1 day ago

• Best Of 2009: Band Of Brothers

  
  Newsroom Magazine — Authority: 129
  I think all of us know that what we went through in the last half of the Nineties is not sustainable. We’re going to need to adjust ourselves to a period of more normal growth. How we think about managing our businesses in that environment is the tricky question we’re all grappling with.Henry PaulsonU.S. Secretary ...
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• Economic View: A Way to Share in a Nation’s Growth

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 904
  
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• Fundamentally: Patience, Please, With That Investment Plan

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 904
  Were you out of the stock market when it turned around in March? You’ve got plenty of company.
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• Self Dealing Part II: Investigations Started

  
  Livinglies's Weblog — Authority: 131
  NY Times: “When you buy protection against an event that you have a hand in causing, you are buying fire insurance on someone else’s house and then committing arson.” Mr. Lippmann made his pitch to select hedge fund clients, arguing they should short the mortgage market. He sometimes distributed a T-shirt ...
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• Three Cheers For Barney Frank; Two Cheers For The Wall Street Journal

  
  The New Republic - The Spine Feed — Authority: 123
  These cheers are about an issue on which Barney Frank and the editors of The Wall Street Journal agree. And I agree, too. On most matters of high finance Im more on Barneys side than that of Paul Gigot or my old friend Daniel Henninger. But this question is less a matter of politics than of honor and honesty. Some ...
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• Standard & Poor’s downgrades the Bahamas

  
  The Liming House — Authority: 99
  Long-Term Ratings On The Commonwealth of the Bahamas Lowered To ‘BBB+’; Outlook Stable The Bahamas’ fiscal position has deteriorated, as the government has increased spending while its narrow revenue base has declined amid economic recession. This has led to a rise in general government debt, and medium-term ...
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• Reuters Breakingviews: Triple-A Debt Harder to Find

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 904
  Soon little triple-A debt will be left except government debt, putting cautious investors in a bind.
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• Britains banks to hold back recovery, warns S&P

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 964
  Britains banks will hold back an economic recovery due to their "significant debt burden", one of the worlds leading credit rating agencies has warned.
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• A Crystal Ball, With Caveats and Corrections

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 904
  Stock market professionals see a range of possibilities for 2010 — and few are completely upbeat.
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• Reuters BreakingViews: Exxon Learns From Rival’s Takeover Blunders

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 904
  The oil company is acquiring XTO Energy for a price that is more than 30 percent below its June 2008 high.
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• Greenspan Says Stock Rally Reduces the Need for a Second Stimulus

  
  Wall Street Pit — Authority: 664
  Former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan believes that S&P’s 64% spike since March, which made Americans richer by restoring $5.4 trillion to U.S. equities, is reducing the need for additional government stimulus measures.Bloomberg: “The stimulus is only a third spent, and its order of...
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• Auckland City gets rating downgrade

  
  The Rates Blog — Authority: 519
  Standard and Poors have downgraded Auckland City’s credit rating one notch to AA- from AA today. The outlook on these ratings is stable. The ratings change is due to the credit quality of the proposed SuperCity merger resulting in the new Auckland Council. “Auckland’s need to deliver larger infrastructure ...
  2 weeks ago

• S&P and Fitch to Dubai: ‘not so fast…’

  
  FT Alphaville — Authority: 694
  Ratings agencies Standard & Poor’s and Fitch have issued responses to Dubai’s surprise repayment of the now infamous $4.1bn Nakheel sukuk. And just in case the emirate was labouring under any misconceptions, both make it clear that the $10bn chucked its way by Abu Dhabi will have no impact on the ratings of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Fundamentally: Now Entering Phase 2 of the Market’s Comeback

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 904
  Financial stocks have advanced more than 130 percent since the market’s March 9 lows, but have fallen 4 percent since the fourth quarter began.
  2 weeks ago

• S&P: The Consumer is Coming Back, But Don’t Expect Fireworks

  
  The Reformed Broker — Authority: 627
  The chart above demonstrates how consumer spending typically lags GDP.  One of the most gruesome features of our recent downturn has been the sheer depth of the unemployment crisis and how that has led to higher savings rates, leading to the need for businesses to lay off even more employees. Standard & Poors ...
  2 weeks ago

• Illinois Not A Great Investment

  
  Understanding Government — Authority: 143
  Via ProgressIllinois , Darrell Preston of Bloomberg News reports that in the past week both Moody’s and Standards and Poor’s have lowered their rating of Illinois bonds. Illinois currently has $19 billion in muncipal debt and needs to issue bonds to fund pension payments and road and school construction ...
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• Credit rating agencies: the untouchable kings of finance

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 964
  Their judgments can change the fortunes of nations, but why do the rating agencies still wield such power, asks Jeremy Warner.
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