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03/22
Fed
feeling inflation pressure Dallas Morning News / Danielle DiMartino
Social
Security holds high stakes for women Journal News / Pamela Brogan
How Does
3% Sound? Smartmoney.com / Aleksandra Todorova
It
is time to free the World Bank FT / Jeffrey Sachs
Walgreen
will restate results in accounting change Dow Jones and AP via St. Louis
Post Dispatch
US
Treasury yields hover just below 9-month highs Reuters
US
rate hike won't rip emerging markets-Charlemagne Reuters
Municipal Bonds Can
Serve Small Investors AP via ABC News / Meg Richards
NY:
High Yields at Ground Zero Bond Buyer / Elizabeth O'Brien
U.S.
Savings Bonds Going Electronic AP via Newsday / Martin Crutsinger
TX:
Easy cash easy to get behind on Dallas Morning News / Danielle DiMartino
Partisans
Differ Over Economic Outlook Washington Post / Claudia Deane
European
Insurers Eye Single-Manager Hedge Funds Alternative Investment News via
Institutional Investor
Korea:
Jobless Rate Highest in 4 Years Korea Times / Kim Jae-kyoung
U.S.
Fed raises rates AP via Toronto Star / Martin Crutsinger
President Summers Gave
a Speech Lew Rockwell / Gary North
Borrowers Should
Go For Broke Daily Reckoning / Bill Bonner
The Prelude to Default
Safehaven / Warren Pollack
GM
bond hit as GE Capital ends credit CBS Marketwatch / Rachel Koning
GE
denies withdrawing GM loan facility Reuters
What
is the Bond Market Telling Us? Daily Reckoning / Paul van Eeden
Qwest,
Verizon raise pitch Denver Post / Ross Wehner
Stocks
pull back on inflation fears CBS Marketwatch / Susan Lerner
UMB
analyst: Fed will keep raising rates St. Louis Business Journal
Fed Spots
Inflation Smatrtmoney.com / Igor Greenwald
CO:
Recovery quickens Rocky Mountain News / Jim Tankersley and David Milstead
OPEC
Can Wait 2 Weeks to Decide Output Hike Reuters / Suleiman al-Khalidi
Oil
up or down? CBS Marketwatch / Dr. Irwin Kellner
A
breakup plan for the U.N. CBS Marketwatch / Thomas Kostigen
Prelude to the Total State
Americans for a Free Republic via Safehaven
/ Nelson Hultberg
China
gains diplomatic clout as opinion of U.S. in Pacific Rim weakens San
Diego Union Tribune / Dean Calbreath
Fed
more concerned about inflation, increases interest rate Knight Ridder /
Kevin G. Hall
Fed
Raises Rate to 2.75%, Signals More Inflation Risk Bloomberg / Alison
Fitzgerald and Craig Torres
Greenspan & Co. hike borrowing
costs for seventh straight time MSNBC via 1st Headlines
Fed
raises rates again CNN / Paul R. La Monica
Fed
Raises Rates as Expected, but Cites Inflation Concern NY
Times / Edmund L. Andrews
Fed
raises rates a quarter point to 2.75% FT / Andrew Balls
The
'housing bubble' Knight Ridder via The State / Kevin G. Hall
U.S.
mortgage rates rise Tuesday –BestInfo Reuters
Treasuries
Fall as Fed Raises Rates, Cites Inflation `Pressure' Bloomberg /
Elizabeth Stanton and Vivianne Rodrigues
US
Treasuries buckle as FOMC swings at inflation Reuters
Treasuries
slide on Fed inflation talk FT / Jennifer Hughes, Joanna Chung and Philip
Stafford
Emerging
Market Bonds Drop as Fed Signals More Inflation Risk Bloomberg / Andrew
J. Barden
FL:
Banks check out of supermarkets Orlando Sentinel via South Florida Sun
Sentinel / Richard Burnett
Repositioning
as rates go up Philadelphia Inquirer / Jeff Brown
FOMC
Statement Federal Reserve Board
Measure
for measure The Economist
U.S.
Treasuries Gain on Speculation Fed Will Keep Measured Pace Bloomberg /
Vivianne Rodrigues
Unemployment
plateau: Many jobless for longer Arizona Republic / Jonathan J. Higuera
Wrong Way Greenspan Strikes
Again NY Post / John Crudele
Dollar’s
10-day rally halts ahead of FOMC FT / Steve Johnson
Homebuyers
duck for cover CNN / Sarah Max
Hollywood
founder offers to buy stores Dallas Morning News / Maria Halkias
EU:
Dodging the difficult stuff The Economist
NAFTA
again in focus? Dallas Morning News / Katherine Yung
U.S.
February Producer Prices Rise 0.4%; Core Up 0.1% Bloomberg / Joe Richter
Inflation
climbs to 3-month high AP via Baltimore Sun / Martin Crutsinger
Reading
tea leaves on Social Security Boston Globe / Charles Stein
Commodity
Index Sees Biggest Fall in 9 Months Reuters and Bloomberg via LA Times
Pimco's
El-Erian Buys Emerging-Market Bond on Decline Bloomberg / Andrew J.
Barden
GM Woes
Raising Others' Cost of Capital CFO.com / Stephen Taub
General
Motors's Debt Costs Surge as GE Pulls Support Bloomberg / Jon Laycock
FL:
Soaring gas prices aren't cutting into Florida tourism AP via South
Florida Sun Sentinel / Gary Gentile
CA:
A reversal of home fortune Orange County Register / Jonathan Lansner
U.K.
inflation at 1.6 percent in February AP via Seattle Post Intelligencer
Finance Job
Picture Healthy, Steady CFO.com / Stephen Taub
Fed's
Debate on Inflation Targets May Shape Post-Greenspan Era Bloomberg /
Vivien Lou Chen
U.S.
Producer Prices Probably Rose 0.3% in February: BN Survey Bloomberg / Joe
Richter
Fund
Veteran Whitman Says Management Matters Most Bloomberg / Chet Currier
US
lawmakers eye oil reserves DPA via Taipei Times
Commodity Prices - Bubble
Top or More to Go? Chart Store via Safehaven / Ron Griess
UK:
What Can Brown Do For Them? Daily Standard / Irwin Stelzer
UK:
Property prices 'overvalued by 20%' Guardian / Rupert Jones
UK:
Brown rejects Brussels' secret deal Guardian / Larry Elliott and David
Gow
UK:
Jamie Oliver will hate it, but chicken nuggets join inflation list
Independent / Philip Thornton
China
may raise interest rate China View via Xinhua online
China
bank robbers: An inside story NY Times via IHT / David Barboza
ECB
attacks collapse of spending rules Telegraph / Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
The
European Union Has Rules Except When It Doesn't NY Times / Floyd Norris
Russia:
Economy Grows 5.2% in February Reuters and Bloomberg via Moscow Times
Similar
Résumé, Different Decade NY Times / Elizabeth Becker
A deadline
in Italy passes in a bank deal IHT / Eric Sylvers
Dollar
Near Two-Week High; Fed May Signal Bigger Rate Increases Bloomberg /
Taizo Hirose
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03/23
U.S.
Treasuries stay above 9-month lows in Asia Reuters
The Danger of the Debt Trap Ludwig
von Mises Institute / Thorsten Polleit
Investors facing
hedge fund “disappointment” Investment and Pensions Europe
TD
takes aim at rivals Globe and Mail / Sinclair Stewart
Banking on
Soft Ground Rude Awakening via Daily Reckoning / Tom Dyson
Putting Your
Assets On The Line Daily Reckoning / Dr. Marc Faber
Builders'
sell sign is strong Dallas Morning News / Danielle DiMartino
Cisco
Lowballs Option Charges as Deadline Looms Bloomberg / Graef Crystal
Automakers
yanking 0% financing deals USA Today / Chris Woodyard
The New Enrons Slate / Daniel
Gross
NY:
Deadline Near for Budget, and Fingers Begin to Point NY Times via
Stateline.org / Al Baker
NY: Some
state tax refunds held back AP via Buffalo News
Most
Americans no good at investing USA Today / Adam Shell
Mexico
Unexpectedly Increases Rates for 9th Month Bloomberg / Thomas Black
Chile
4th Quarter GDP Grows 7.3%, Fastest in 7 Years Bloomberg / Heather Walsh
Canadian
Dollar Falls as Tame Inflation May Keep Bank Rate Low Bloomberg / Michael
McDonald
Feb.
Commercial Property Sales at 2-Year Low-Report Reuters
NY:
Condo craze building in Long Island City NY
Daily News / Lore Croghan
S.C.
home sales jump in February Knight Ridder via Myrtle Beach Sun News /
Tanya Fogg Young
MO:
Bankrupt Ultimate Electronics to keep area stores open St. Luis Business
Journal
Research
and Review Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Crude
prices drop nearly $4 a barrel so far this week AP via San Diego Union
Tribune / Brad Foss
TD
Bank looks forward to green light on mergers but says it's not impatient
CP via Canada.com / Sandra Cordon
MA:
Sovereign treats local boss like a king Boston Herald / Brett Arends
No 2004 bonuses for Google
billionaires AP via MSNBC
Spotlight
hits GM at the wrong time Newsday / Tom Incantalupo
Gasoline
on the Fire Smartmoney.com / Igor Greenwald
Markets
see investor exodus AP via Raleigh News and Observer
Can GM
Be Saved? Smartmoney.com / Will Swarts
Rising
Rates Won't Spike Housing Market Forbes / Scott Reeves
Global
landlords CBS Marketwatch / Barbara Kollmeyer
CA:
More Real Estate Investors Believe in Magic in Inner City LA Times /
Roger Vincent
When
National Security Chokes Global Trade Forbes / Oxford Analytica
Bush
Urges an End to Attacks on Plan LA Times / Peter Wallsten
France,
Bastion Of Productivity Forbes / Dan Ackman
EU
rallies round France to head off constitution crisis AFP via EU Business
EU set to back Wolfowitz
for World Bank chief AFP via EU Business
PA:
SEC reaches settlements with two investment firms Philadelphia Inquirer /
Todd Mason
Which
Mutual Fund Company Is the Five-Year Champ? Morningstar.com / Russel
Kinnel
Many
corporate earnings reports still can mislead investors AP via
Philadelphia Inquirer / Rachel Beck
CT:
Loan Rates Linked To Jobs Hartford Courant / Kenneth R. Gosselin
Stockmarket
turnover The Economist
China-Japan:
So hard to be friends The Economist
China:
A relationship reconsidered The Economist
Punch-up
over handouts The Economist
Japan:
Shaking up corporate Japan The Economist
EU:
What shareholder democracy? The Economist
EU:
Are they winning? The Economist
EU:
See you in court The Economist
Korea
to Pursue Loose Monetary Policy Korea Times / Kim Jae-kyoung
US
inflation figures rattle markets FT / Päivi Munter, Jennifer Hughes and
Christopher Swann
Fed's
`Mixed' Message Suggests In-House Debate, Economists Say Bloomberg /
Craig Torres and Alison Fitzgerald
Word
games at the Fed CNN / Kathleen Hays
Pixar
unveils 2-for-1 stock split Reuters via CNN
Bubbles
Abound In a World of Ready Cash Washington Post / Steven Pearlstein
Inflation
watch part 2 CNN / Alexandra Twin
CPI posts
biggest rise in four months CNN / Chris Isidore
Oil
Falls as U.S. Supplies Jump to the Highest Since July 2002 Bloomberg /
Mark Shenk
Social
Security fund may run out sooner CNN / Jeanne Sahadi
White
House to nominate Adams for Treasury post Reuters
US
rate futures dive, Fed seen acting on inflation Reuters
U.S.,
Mexico Talks May Evade Major Issues Newsmax
Sentiment
in gold, bond markets at opposite extremes CBS Marketwatch via IBD,
Moreovernews.com and Bond Market Association / Mark Hulbert
MCI
board to meet on Qwest bid AP via Beaufort Gazette
U.S.
Treasuries Decline After Consumer Price Index Increases Bloomberg /
Elizabeth Stanton
U.S.
MBA's Mortgage Applications Index Fell 9.5% Last Week Bloomberg / Joe
Richter
Trade
deficit overrated as threat to dollar Baltimore Sun / Jay Hancock
German
gloom likely to tame ECB hawks FT via Google News / Ralph Atkins
UK: May
interest rate rise on the cards Guardian / Mark Tran
The
ECB Faces a Fiscal Fight With Its Governments Bloomberg / Matthew Lynn
Oil eases
into the $55 range Reuters via CNN
Metals
fall as dollar rallies on US rate rise FT / Neil Dennis
CO:
Studies: Metro home sales to surge Denver Post / Christine Tatum
Corporate
backlash over Sarbanes-Oxley San Francisco Chronicle / Jenny Strasburg
General
Motors Discussing Sale of Commercial Mortgage Stake Bloomberg / Jeff
Green
Qwest
investors bet MCI escapes Denver Post / Will Shanley and Aldo Svaldi
Fed
lifts rate, hints of inflation fear Boston Globe / Robert Gavin
Fed
Isn't Saying 3.25% Rate Is a Must in May Bloomberg / John M. Berry
Crude
Oil Falls a Second Day After Fed Increases Interest Rates Bloomberg / Sri
Jegarajah
Interest Rates Once Again
Take Center Stage Clif Droke Market Analysis via Safehaven / Clif Droke
How Should The Fed Respond
To Energy Prices? Northern Trust via Safehaven / Paul Kasriel
After
Bernie, Who's Next? Time / Daren Fonda
U.S.
Notes Gain After 10-Year Yield Rises to Highest Since June Bloomberg /
Shamim Adam and Nicholas Reynolds
CA:
San Francisco's Goldilocks Market NY
Times / Terry Pristin
China:
Investment Bubble Builds New China NY Times / Joseph Kahn
Fed
Again Increases Key Rate By 0.25% Washington Post / Nell Henderson
Fed
struggles to maintain 'measured' response Independent / Jeremy Warner
Wolfowitz
Gaining Support From EU Nations for World Bank Post Bloomberg / Reed
Landberg
EU:
US rate rise is bad news for Europe, ABN warns Independent / Michael
Jivkov
50-Year
Bonds May Help Japan's Global Status Bloomberg / William Pesek Jr.
The EU's
25 shades of capitalism IHT / Daniel Altman
Dollar
Near One-Month High After Fed Raises Interest Rates Bloomberg / John
Brinsley
Taiwan:
NT dollar falls on speculation global funds may sell assets Bloomberg via
Taiwan News
Will the Fed get
the big stick out? Australian Market Review via Google News
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03/24
NV:
Prices of new, resale houses take a fall Las Vegas Sun / Jennifer
Shubinski
Late payment
rate drops as jobs gain Bloomberg via Houston Chronicle / Carlos Torres
The Fed May Be Talking Too Freely
Business Week via MSNBC / Rich Miller
A Layman's Guide to Fedspeak
Business Week via MSNBC / Kathleen Madigan
30-year
mortgages climb above 6% mark Milwaukee Journal Sentinel / Michele Derus
MS:
Mortgage rates remain at an all-time low Clarion Ledger / Nell Louter
Floyd
Yahoo
to buy back 7% of stock AP via Toronto Star
Wall
St succumbs to inflation fears FT / Kevin Allison
Canada:
Inflation fears hit mortgage market Toronto Star
Labor
data need footnotes Dallas Morning News / Danielle DiMartino
Pension managers
need time for swaps – Barclays Investment and Pensions Europe
Troubled
Banks: Why Don’t They All Fail pdf FDIC
Deutsche
Bank's Ackermann Reiterates 2005 Profit Goal Bloomberg / Elena
Logutenkova
FL:
Soaring prices may be curbing some home sales Miami Herald / Gregg Fields
TX:
Condos galore; any takers? Dallas Morning News / Steve Brown
Higher
mortgage rates may cool home market AP via Newsday / Jeannine Aversa
Gold
Has Biggest Weekly Drop Since January on Dollar Gain Bloomberg / Pham-Duy
Nguyen
KS:
Booming times for the industry Wichita Eagle / Phyllis Jacobs Griekspoor
Transcript of a
Press Briefing by Thomas C. Dawson IMF
Canada:
Budget surplus triples Globe and Mail / Tavia Grant
`Passionate'
Wolfowitz Backed by Anwar for World Bank Bloomberg / Kate Mayberry
Half
of Calif. Blacks and Latinos Drop Out of School, a New Harvard Study Finds
Newsmax
If
GM Cut to Junk, Merrill Sees Asset Sales Reuters
Treasuries
lower, mark time ahead of long weekend Reuters
More
Current-Account Confusion National Review / John Tamny
7-figure
bonuses at Level 3 spur criticism as stock falls Denver Post / Will
Shanley
The Greatest Job in Business
Slate / Michelle Leder
Airlines
Are Raising Fares Ever So Gingerly NY Times / Micheline Maynard
Sony's
baloney CBS Marketwatch / John C. Dvorak
Agonized
ambiguity is annoying CBS Marketwatch / Peter Brimelow
Higher
Interest Rates Cast Shadow on Commodities Reuters / Clare Black
Does Oil Really Come in Barrels?
Slate / Daniel Engber
Retail
money funds fell in latest week AP via Beaufort Gazette
N.C.
jobless rates jumps to 5.4 percent Raleigh News and Observer / David
Ranii
FL:
Gas prices squeezing businesses Fort Myers News Press / Anne Mitchell
MA:
Housing highs are holding: Weather alone keep condos, houses on market longer
Boston Herald / Jerry Kronenberg
Housing
market in Europe skyrockets AP via Beaufort Gazette / Thomas Wagner
The
false inflation threat CBS Marketwatch / David Callaway
Vote
to up discount rate to 3.75 pct unanimous-Fed Reuters
1994
Revisited Daily Reckoning / Eric J. Fry
UK:
Spending slump to keep interest rates on hold Guardian / Ashley Seager
Treasuries
settle as holiday mood sets in FT / Jennifer Hughes, Joanna Chung and
Philip Stafford
Canadian
Indians to Sell Debt, Seek Same Rating as New York Bloomberg / Greg Quinn
Mortgage
rates top 6% for the first time in eight months USA Today
Proof You’re Getting Robbed
at The Gas Pump NY Post / John Crudele
A
buyback binge for tech CNN / Paul R. La Monica
Short
positions hit record highs Reuters via CNN
Educating
investors isn't easy San Francisco Chronicle / Kathleen Pender
MA:
Out on a limb and falling off Boston Globe / Steven Syre
Kmart
Completes $12.3B Sears Acquisition AP via Chicago Tribune / Dave
Carpenter
Bush
to change account formula? CNN
Bush's
Social Security Plan Is Losing Support, Pew Poll Shows Bloomberg /
Michael Forsythe
Oil
prices climb, blast impact downplayed AP via Seattle Times / Brad Foss
Why not
control price rise in energy? Seattle Post Intelligencer / Bill Virgin
CA:
Mayor pushes downtown plans San Francisco Chronicle / Dan Levy
JPMorgan
And The $5 Billion Footnote Forbes / Dan Ackman
Taiwan
dollar advances on buying speculations Bloomberg via Taiwan Times
Treasury's
Snow - Fed must stay alert on inflation Reuters
U.S.
Treasuries inch ahead after tepid data Reuters
GM's
Bumpy Ride Forbes / Liz Moyer
Sears-Kmart
Merger Poised for Clearance AP via Baltimore Sun / Dave Carpenter
Shareholder
revolt bearing fruit Chicago Sun Times / Sandra Guy
U.S.
New Home Sales Rose 9.4% in February to 1.226 Million Rate Bloomberg /
Victor Epstein
Jobless
claims in unexpected rise Reuters via CNN
Inflation
Is Busting Out All Over CFO.com / Stephen Taub
After
decade in shadows, inflation's presence is felt Chicago Tribune / Bill
Barnhart
Another
trading desk employee quits Fidelity Boston Globe / Andrew Caffrey
Soros
Found Guilty of Insider Trading by French Court Bloomberg / Gregory
Viscusi
Brazil
Ready to Lift Rates to Counter Inflation Risk Bloomberg / Carlos Caminada
Price
Increases by Companies Start to Stick NY Times / Eduardo Porter
U.S.
Durables Orders May Have Risen Last Month, Survey Shows Bloomberg /
Courtney Schlisserman
Report
Emphasizes Shortfall in Medicare Washington Post / Jonathan Weisman
Medicare
May Raise Seniors' Premiums 12% Next Year, Report Says Bloomberg /
Kristen Hallam
Wolfowitz
Draws Nearer to World Bank Post Washington Post / Paul Blustein
Air
China plans bond sale China View
More
Help Wanted: Older Workers Please Apply NY Times / Milt Freudenheim
Export
Opportunities Aren't Just for the Big Guys NY Times / Mark A. Stein
US
firms fined over mutual funds BBC News
Money
and Ethics Mix Like Teenagers and Whisky Bloomberg / Mark Gilbert
Dollar
Rises to Six-Week High Versus Yen on Fed Rate Outlook Bloomberg / Taizo
Hirose
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