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02/22
Americans
using home equity pile up billions in extra debt Sacramento Bee / Andrew
LePage
Chapter
11 bankruptcies on verge of surge? USA Today / Matt Krantz
GM
promotes Chevy brand in China Knight Ridder via Houston Chronicle / Jamie
Butters
Markets
minding minutes Dallas Morning News / Danielle DiMartino
The Maestro Changes His
Tune Lew Rockwell / Rep. Ron Paul, MD
Greenspan
Sees Fervent Social Security Discord Bloomberg / John M. Berry
Foundation
strong for housing market Dallas Morning News / Steve Brown
MO:
Housing prices go through roof St. Louis Post Dispatch / Eric Heisler
Canada:
Bond sales hit record in Q4 Globe and Mail / Roma Luciw
Kyoto
and the End of Hot Air Daily Standard / Irwin Stelzer
Russia:
Indians Arrive Seeking Landmark Energy Deals Moscow Times / Guy
Faulconbridge
Bloomberg Mess NY Post /
Keith J. Kelly
Fannie
Mae mortgage portfolio shrinks AP via Beaufort Gazette
Consumers
Exercise Their Growing Clout Washington Post / Keith L. Alexander
Canadian
dollar gains Globe and Mail / Tavia Grant
Gas Hike to $2.75 Coming
NY Post / Paul Tharp
Tuesday's
Commodities Roundup Dow Jones via AP and Beaufort Gazette
NY: TD Bank eyes N.Y. growth
Bloomberg via NY Post
Legg
Mason manager Hagstrom gives Buffett's way a twist CBS Marketwatch /
Jonathan Burton
The
Maestro vs. the Expert Hack National Review / Donald Luskin
Consumer
Confidence Index Dips In February The Conference Board
Is
U.S. Inflation Target Behind Low Bond Rates? Reuters / Mike Dolan
US
Treasuries sink on inflation, foreigner worries Reuters / Pedro Nicolaci
da Costa
Emerging
debt-Spreads widen on U.S. inflation data Reuters / Manuela Badawy
Metal
prices rise on dollar woes FT / Kevin Morrison
Inflation Gets a Big Headstart
Business Week via MSNBC / Michael Englund and Rick MacDonald
Germany
and Japan—shrinking giants The Economist
Stocks
get slammed CNN / Alexandra Twin
Kohl's to
restate earnings to reflect accounting ruling Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
/ Doris Hajewski
Electronic
FX Trading Boom Spawns Niche Players Reuters / Gertrude Cahvez
Korea:
Won Hits 7-Year High to Dollar Korea Times / Kim Yon-se
Pressing
Putin to mend his ways The Economist
Bush
names John Dugan as Comptroller of Currency Reuters / Mark Felsenthal
Donaldson's Balancing Act
Business Week via MSNBC / Amy Borrus and Mike McNamee
In
the eye of the investor The Economist
18th
Century penny sells for $437,000 Chicago Tribune via South Florida Sun
Sentinel
U.S.
mortgage rates rise Tuesday – BestInfo Reuters
Chicago
Fed Letter Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Do
Free Trade Agreements Actually Increase Members’ International Trade?
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta / Scott L. Baier and Jeffrey H. Bergstrand
CA:
States' Private Pensions Make a Weak Showing LA Times / Peter G. Gosselin
CA:
How buyers are pushing up cheaper markets Orange County Register /
Jonathan Lansner
How
much 'truth' in lending? CBS Marketwatch / Gail Liberman and Alan Lavine
World
Bank Program to Receive $34 Billion AP via Forbes
Market
hasn't adjusted for ARMS Orange County Register / Jonathan Lansner
For
adjustable-rate loans, know your prime numbers Orange County Register
Federal Banking
Agencies Propose Revisions to Community Reinvestment Act Regulations FDIC
Time
To Patch Things Up Forbes / Oxford Analytica
UK: Bank
'dove' open to more rate rises Guardian / Mark Tran
Treasury
curve warped by inflation, foreign demand Reuters / Wayne Cole
Brazil
Bonds Fall Most in World on Legislative Concerns Bloomberg / Jeb Blount
Venezuela
to Pay $329,300 in Overdue Payment on Brady Bonds Bloomberg / Alex Kennedy
A
Layman's Guide to a Q&A With Alan Greenspan Bloomberg / Caroline Baum
Dollar
drops as Korea backs away Reuters / Keiron Henderson, William Kemble-Diaz
Oil
Jumps as Cold Weather Boosts Fuel Demand in U.S. and Europe Bloomberg / Mark
Shenk
Dollar
sinks sharply against euro, yen AP via Philadelphia Inquirer
Dollar
drops on reserves concerns BBC News
Consumer
confidence slips in February, but beats expectations AP via Minneapolis
Star Tribune
Analysts
say jobless rate to fall, GDP to slow in '05 AP via Boston Globe
A
mortgage that puts interest first Philadelphia Inquirer / Jeff Brown
TN:
Area home buyers offer rosy report on Realtors Tennessean / Keith Russell
The
best medicine? The Economist
Home
Depot Q4 profit jumps almost 10% AP via USA Today / Harry R. Weber
Sears CFO
first casualty of merger with Kmart Chicago Sun Times / Mary Wisiniewski
Winn-Dixie
Files for Bankruptcy Protection NY Times / Constance L. Hays
Social
Security overhaul unlikely? Reuters via CNN
Dems
prepared for big Social Security fight Newsday via South Florida Sun
Sentinel / Ken Freman
China:
Wheeling but Little Dealing in China LA Times / Don Lee
Canada:
More people collected employment insurance in December than in November
CP via Financial Post
India's
Future Is About Price of Fish Bloomberg / Andy Mukherjee
Northern
Californians buy more cars San Francisco Chronicle / Birgitta Forsberg
FL:
Florida has record year for visitors South Florida Sun Sentinel / Jerry
Jackson
Fed's
Rate Boosts Backfire by Stimulating Economy, Lending Bloomberg / Art Pine
and Scott Silvestri
Scandals
have a price; ask Boeing Seattle Post Intelligencer / Bill Virgin
Dollar
Declines on Report Korea to Diversify Currency Reserves Bloomberg
Do indexes
tell it straight? AP via Omaha World Herald
Russia: GDP
Growth Slows as Inflation Picks Up Reuters and MT via Moscow Times
Dollar
May Gain on Expectations of Faster U.S. Economic Growth Bloomberg / Taizo
Hirose
Japan's
Bonds May Gain on Expectations 20-Year Coupon to Rise Bloomberg / Chris
Cooper
Pimco,
RBC Say Sell Australian 2-Year Bonds on Rates Bloomberg / Chris Young
Euro keeps
damper on Germany IHT / Carter Dougherty
Don't delay
economic change, Brown urges China Reuters, Bloomberg and AFP via IHT
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02/23
TX: Houston
runs with the pack Houston Chronicle / L.M. Sixel
A Mean Budget
Common Dreams / Anuradha Mittal
Dollar
Keeps Gains as U.S. Rates Eyed Reuters / Naomi Tajitsu
Global
Imbalances and Global Poverty — Challenges for the IMF IMF / Rodrigo de
Rato
Canada:
Budget spending levels worries business Ottawa Business Journal / Ellen
Tsaprailis
Qwest
Has Room to Raise MCI Bid –Analysts Reuters / Justin Hyde
The
price of creative lending Dallas Morning News / Danielle DiMartino
Minorities
own more businesses in U.S. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel / Rick Romell
When
it comes to oil, experts hedge about how high price will go St. Louis
Post Dispatch / David Nicklaus
At Morgan Stanley, It’s All
Relative NY Post / Paul Tharp
More
grocers to follow Winn-Dixie? USA Today / Bruce Horovitz
Morocco
looks for U.S. partners San Francisco Chronicle / David Armstrong
South
Carolina AAA at Risk, S&P Warns Bond Buyer / Tedra DeSue
Treasuries
hold gains but Fed saps some strength Reuters / Pedro Nicolaci da Costa
Steady
Fed report leaves Treasuries becalmed FT / Alex Skorecki and David
Pilling
Dollar
Rises as FOMC Suggests Rate Hikes Reuters / Gertrude Chavez
US
wants 'strong dollar' says Hadley AFP via Turkish Press
Government
will pay half of medical costs within a decade AP via San Diego Union
Tribune / Pauline Jelinek
Rosen
named top Bush economic adviser Reuters / Caren Bohan
Oil
reserve estimating needs urgent modernization, study shows Dallas Morning
News / Sudeep Reddy
Oil
buoyant despite Opec promise BBC News
Oil
prices dip but still above $51 mark AP via Houston Chronicle / George
Jahn
Oil
prices roil above 51 dollars amid OPEC remarks, cold snap AFP via Turkish
Press
Gold,
silver contract futures jump to 2-month highs Dow Jones and AP via
Clarion Ledger
Inflation
Fears Abate After CPI Data Reuters / Tim Ahmann
Fed
Saw Inflation Stable at Feb Meet Reuters
U.S.
Fed policymakers' recent comments Reuters
Fed
Minutes: Rate Hike Hinges on Economy AP via Newsday / Jeannine Aversa
Fed
warns of yet more rate rises BBC News
January
airline revenues edge expectations Dallas Morning News / Eric Torbenson
UK:
Bank split fuels rate fears This is Money - This is London / Andrew
Oxlade
UK:
Government sets Budget date This is Money - This is London / Andrew
Oxlade
Worries
about weapons, contd The Economist
Canada:
Loonie tumbles ahead of budget CP via Toronto Star
Dollar
Crisis Evokes Panic Among World Financial Elite EIR via Fiend’s Super Bear
Page
O'Neill:
Turn babies into millionaires Detroit Free Press / Kevin G. Hall
Put
Social Security in the Budget National Review / Deroy Murdock
Bush,
Pledging Low Pension Fees, May Follow Sweden Bloomberg / Gregory Viscusi
and Heather Walsh
How Walgreens Got Me .
. . Once Lew Rockwell / Gary North
Changes
continue at SouthTrust Tallahassee Democrat / Juana Jordan
Canada:
Bank mergers years away: BMO Toronto Star / Stuart Laidlaw
U.S.
demands cash and carry from Cuba UPI via Washington Times
Bond
prices mostly rise at midday AP via Tallahassee Democrat
NV:
Finished construction tops 3 million square feet in '04, researcher says
Las Vegas Review Journal
Some
Treasury investors more bullish - J.P. Morgan Reuters
U.S.
Treasuries Gain; Consumer Prices Rise Less Than Forecast Bloomberg /
Joshua Krongold
U.S.
Treasury's Snow sees economy in "good shape" Reuters
The Anguish of Central
Banking 2005 Ludwig von Mises Institute / Antony P. Mueller
Consumer Price Index
Summary Bureau of Labor Statistics
U.S.
January Consumer Prices Rise Less Than Forecast Bloomberg / Joe Richter
NY:
Manhattan's Uptown Apartment Prices Quadrupled in Last Decade Bloomberg /
Kathleen M. Howley
Banks
rapped on cost of bounce protection Boston Globe / Bruce Mohl
Crude
Oil Prices Hold Above $51 a Barrel AP via Baltimore Sun / George Jahn
Agency
finds Fannie accounting issues Reuters via CNN
Qwest's
bid to purchase MCI given a boost Denver Post / Tom McGhee
Clorox
holds its own vs. much bigger competitors Baltimore Sun / Jay Hancock
Oil price
jump greases Wall St. skid AP via Chicago Sun Times / Michael J. Martinez
States
could lose $214 billion under Bush budget Stateline.org / Pamela M. Prah
South
Korea has best-dressed homeless Reuters via CNN
Instant Economic Depression
Safehaven / Magnus Ekervik
Bank
of Korea Says It Has No Plan to Sell Dollars Bloomberg / Sangim Han
Dollar
Gains on Slower Japan Export Growth, Korea Isn't Selling Bloomberg /
Taizo Hirose
N.Z.'s
Cullen Says Rising Currency a `Major Concern' Bloomberg / Tracy Withers
Dollar
dives and oil soars as Seoul Switches Reserves Independent / Philip
Thornton
Bush leans on
Putin. Will he budge? Christian Science Monitor / Scott Peterson
`The
Aviator' Is a Lesson in U.S. Finance Bloomberg / Michael Lewis
Social
Security Faces Demographic Tsunami Newsmax / Ralph R. Reiland
Tom
Wolfe's Crumbs Hard to Find in Asia Bloomberg / William Pesek Jr.
Oil
Trades Above $51 a Barrel on Colder Weather, Weaker Dollar Bloomberg /
Sri Jegarajah and Mark Shenk
Japanese
Export Growth Slowed to 3.2% in January Bloomberg / Lily Nonomiya
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02/24
FL:
Orlando housing frenzy escalates Orlando Sentinel / Jack Snyder
Demographic
Challenges to State Pension Systems Around the World Federal Reserve Bank
of St. Louis / William Poole
Nested Nest Eggs--but no Golden Goose?
Liberty Whistle / Dan Spillane
Analysts:
Crude Could Hit $60 a Barrel Dow Jones via Smartmoney.com / Karen Matusic
The Wal-Mart Manifesto Slate /
Daniel Gross
Homeland
Depot CBS Marketwatch / Jennifer Waters
MN:
Telecom mergers: the fallout St. Paul Pioneer Press / Leslie Brooks
Suzukamo
Goodyear
sees profit Akron Beacon Journal / John Russell
Consumer
watchdogs back Qwest bid Denver Post / Tom McGhee
Viacom
Has $18.4 Bln 4th-Qtr Loss on Radio Writedown Bloomberg / Aimee Picchi
Won
Under Attack from Hedge Funds Korea Times / Kim Jae-kyoung
Dollar
Bulls Have Reason To Worry Daily Pfennig via Daily Reckoning / Chuck Butler
Retail
money funds rise in latest week AP via Beaufort Gazette
Quiet
Canadian conqueror CBS Marketwatch / Peter Brimelow
What
About the Economy? Smartmoney.com / Monica Rivituso
The Fatal Flaw in
Social Security and Medicare Daily Reckoning / Bill Bonner
CA:
Prices up 3.7% in county; U.S. average is just 2.7% San Diego Union Tribune
/ Dean Calbreath
PA:
Former Treasury Secretary O'Neill returns to for-profit world AP via San
Diego Union Tribune
Rich
stay rich, poor stay poor, life goes on Pittsburgh Tribune Review / Jack
Markowitz
Foreign
Relations Federal Reserve Board / Ben S. Bernanke
Fed's
Bernanke Says He's Fine With Rate-Increase Pace Bloomberg / Vivien Lou
Chen
Service
sector has its price Dallas Morning News / Danielle DiMartino
The January CPI's Deceptive Story
Business Week via MSNBC / Rick MacDonald
Colombia
Says It May Offer to Swap Foreign Bonds for Peso Bonds Bloomberg / Helen
Murphy
Wachovia
to Halt Suspect Trading LA Times / Tom Petruno
NY: Wal-Mart’s New York City store
plan scrapped AP via MSNBC
Boeing
-- Another Corporate Giant Destined to Fail? Bloomberg / David Pauly
Fed prosecutors to probe Krispy
Kreme execs AP via MSNBC
Selling
the Social Security Overhaul LA Times / Lianne Hart and Richard Simon
The
Importance of Price Stability Federal Reserve Bank of Boston / Jack Guynn
New England Economic Indicators
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Argentina:
Screeching to the precipice The Economist
Saudis
see no easing of oil prices FT / Javier Blas
Rates
on 30-Year Mortgages Increase AP via Newsday / Martin Crutsinger
Record for
luxury home sales CNN
Bank and Thrift
Earnings Set Fourth Consecutive Annual Record in 2004 FDIC
FDIC Quarterly Banking Profile
FDIC
FDIC
Consumer News FDIC
EU:
Vote early, vote often The Economist
China:
A marginalised market The Economist
Palestine:
Lifting the shackles The Economist
EU
budget chief attacks richer states’ aid FT / George Parker
WI:
Local prices up less than average city's Milwaukee Journal Sentinel /
Avrum D. Lank
Fortune
500 companies used auditors for tax shelters, study finds AP via
Philadelphia Inquirer / Mary Dalrymple
Social
Security: Nixing the wage cap CNN / Jeanne Sahadi
Bush
Presses Putin on Democracy, Draws Guarded Reply Bloomberg / Richard Keil
and William Roberts
An
ode to failure The Economist
U.S.
Fed policymakers' recent comments Reuters
Qwest's
Desperate Deal Forbes / David M. Ewalt
US
Treasuries sag as debt sale fails to impress Reuters
CO:
Moody's rates Colorado Housing & Fin mortgage bonds Reuters
Treasuries
mixed as curve flattens, auction looms Reuters / Wayne Cole
30-year
bond not in plan at Treasury Chicago Tribune / Bill Barnhart
Dollar
weakens as Fed remains ‘accommodative’ FT / Neil Dennis
U.S.
Dollar Sinks Further Against Euro AP via Forbes
Prices
hold, but many feel pinch Arizona Republic / Jonathan J. Higuera
Initial
Claims for 02/19 U.S. Dept. of Labor
Inflation
with a new face San Francisco Chronicle / Kathleen Pender
US
durable goods orders drop 0.9% FT / Christopher Swann
Durable Goods Orders
U.S. Census Bureau
Fed:
Word up CNN / Kathleen Hays
Oil
cartel will pump more to keep price rises in check Guradian / Larry
Elliott
Chiquita
heads into lettuce San Francisco Chronicle / Carolyn Said
Kiss
name goodbye Philadelphia Inquirer / Harold Brubaker
Probe: Fannie Keeps Cookin'
NY Post / Richard Wilner
Italy
to get economic action plan BBC News
Consumption
Factors In Japan Forbes / Oxford Analytica
WA: Seattle,
L.A. areas not so dissimilar Seattle Post Intelligencer / Bill Virgin
Judge Helps Donald Trump His
Foes in Bankruptcy Court NY Post
The Domino
Effect CFO.com / David M. Katz
Fed
Is Split on Whether to Set Inflation Target Bloomberg / John M. Berry
Yield
Curve Says Fed Less Stimulative, Not More Bloomberg / Caroline Baum
France
doubles sale of its bonds Bloomberg via IHT
Conference
Board Plans to Modify Leading Indicators Index Bloomberg / Joe Richter
and Caroline Baum
U.S.
Durables Orders May Have Stalled Last Month, Survey Shows Bloomberg /
Courtney Schlisserman
Credit
Suisse Tries to Sell Itself to Its Bankers NY Times / Mark Landler and
Jenny Anderson
Fannie
Mae Scrambles for New Ways to Raise Capital NY Times / Stephen Labaton
Dollar
May Strengthen After Fed Minutes Say Key Rate Is Too Low Bloomberg / John
Brinsley
If
a Currency Can Feel, the Dollar Feels Vulnerable NY Times / Jonathan
Fuerbringer
NY:
Top of the Heap? New York Leads the Nation in Inflation NY Times via
Google News / Jennifer Steinhauer
Competing
Visions For Social Security Washington Post / Jonathan Weisman
Bush,
Putin Meet as Disagreements Put End to `Romantic Period' Bloomberg /
Richard Keil and William Roberts
Bush in Europe: new
dialogue, old quarrels Christian Science Monitor / Howard LaFranchi
China
Merger Boom Goes From `Pioneers' to `Settlers' Bloomberg / Douglas Wong
New
Concerns for Economy in Japan NY Times / Todd Zain
Taiwan
Poised to Welcome China Lenders for First Time Bloomberg via 1st
Headlines / James Peng
UK:
Pressure mounts to lift interest rate ahead of election Telegraph /
Malcolm Moore
Japan's
Bonds May Advance; Investors to Match Change in Index Bloomberg / Keiko
Ujikane
Slovakia,
the `New Detroit,' Turns Carmaking Into Growth Engine Bloomberg /
Radoslav Tomek
Last
Thing India Needs Is a `Robin Hood Budget' Bloomberg / Andy Mukherjee
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