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06/01
Snow
urges feds to relax on Sarbanes-Oxley rules Bloomberg via Houston
Chronicle / Kevin Carmichael and Simon Kennedy
Bullish
haves, bearish have-nots St. Petersburg Times / Robert Trigaux
Americans
increasingly fretful about economic future, Pew poll finds CP via
Canada.com / Will Lester
Wanted:
Tough SEC chairman CBS Marketwatch / David Callaway
Hedging
Against Hedge Funds Smartmoney.com / Will Swarts
Fannie
Mae names new CEO CBS Marketwatch / Steve Gelsi
Impact
of Yuan’s Revaluation Korea Times / Chang Se-moon
Eurozone
economic recovery running out of steam AFP via EU Business
GM
offers big vehicle discounts UPI via Washington Times
Bush
to Nominate Rep. Cox for SEC Chairman AP via Newsday / Martin
Crutsinger
Bush's
skewed outlook San Francisco Chronicle / David Lazarus
Crude
oil prices surge above $54 a barrel AP via Houston Chronicle / Brad
Foss
Is
Google a flash? Think cash Dallas Morning News / Danielle DiMartino
Does
the SEC Need ''New Blood''? CFO.com / Stephen Taub
Staggered
Start for Options Expensing CFO.com / Stephen Taub
FL:
Property values soar in Broward, Palm Beach County South Florida Sun
Sentinel / Anthony Man
May
2005 U.S. Auto Sales AP via Forbes
Bad
Days On Bond Street Forbes / Liz Moyer
Be
careful when comparing TIPS, I Savings bonds Dallas Morning News /
Scott Burns
Argentine
Credit Rating Boosted 6 Levels to B- by S&P Bloomberg / Andrew J.
Barden
Whither
A United Europe? Forbes / Paul Maidment
Treasuries
rally, data suggest fewer Fed rate hikes Reuters
GM, Ford
to stir up junk bond market Detroit Free Press / Susan Tompor
Fed's
Fisher speaks, and markets listen Dallas Morning News / Danielle
DiMartino
Slowdown
may not slow Fed CNN
Dallas
Fed head: 8th inning on hikes Reuters via CNN
U.S.
mortgage rates fell Wednesday-BestInfo Reuters
Housing
prices soar another 12.5 percent Reuters via CNN
Where
your dollar buys more Boston Globe / Keith Reed
SEC
Chairman Donaldson Plans to Step Down June 30 Bloomberg / Robert
Schmidt and Otis Bilodeau
SEC
chairman to step down in June BBC News
JPMorgan
sees poor Q2 trading results Reuters
UK
is 'top spot for EU migration' BBC News
Chicago
Fed Letter Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Bush
Private Accounts Are Dead Shark Bloomberg / Gene Sperling
US
Treasuries rally after ISM report comes in soft Reuters
Greenspan
speaks out but markets ignore him Baltimore Sun / Jay Hancock
Homes
more affordable now Bloomberg via Arizona Republic / Alison Fitzgerald
Is the housing bubble about to
burst? MSNBC / Anne Thompson
Recognizing
a bubble in housingmarket Knight Ridder via Orange County Register /
Jeff Brown
U.S.
ISM Factory Index Falls to 51.4 in May From 53.3 in April Bloomberg /
Joe Richter
Chain
store sales rise in third week of May Reuters
Construction
spending hits record level AP via Philadelphia Inquirer / Martin
Crutsinger
Oil
Rises to 3-Week High as Shell Refinery Cuts Gasoline Output Bloomberg /
Alejandro Barbajosa
Oil prices move above $52 mark
AP via MSNBC
10-Yr
yield dips amid EU worries CBS Marketwatch / Leslie Wines
AZ:
Monster job service moves into Tempe Arizona Republic / Catherine
Reagor
European
Economies: EU Cuts Economic Growth Forecast Bloomberg / Meera Louis
Connecticut
Bucks Bond Trend, Opts for Auction Bloomberg / Joe Mysak
Bonds
over troubled water CBS Marketwatch / Jonathan Burton
Yukos
Strikes Back With $11.5Bln Suit Moscow Times / Alex Fak
Europe, There but for the
Grace of Foreigners Goes America Euro Pacific Capital via Safehaven / Peter Schiff
EU: Towards a More
Perfect Union? Tech Central Station / Pejman Yousefzadeh
Yen
Advances on Speculation Japan's Growth Will Outpace Europe Bloomberg /
Yumi Kuramitsu
The
euro is killing our economy, say Dutch Telegraph / Ambrose
Evans-Pritchard
Why
Japan `Boxes' Below Its Weight Bloomberg / William Pesek Jr.
Grievances cast
chill over US-China ties Christian Science Monitor / Robert Marquand
Australia's
Economy Grew Slower-Than-Expected 0.7% Bloomberg / Victoria Batchelor
and Gemma Daley
The US Trade Deficit is
Unsustainable Safehaven / Bud Conrad
What
hedge funds have to say CBS Marketwatch / Robert Folsom
Old
Lions of Banking Go It Alone NY Times / Landon Thomas Jr.
CO:
New Urbanism in Denver NY Times / Terry Pristin
U.S.
10-Year Treasuries May Fall as Yields Below 4% Curb Demand Bloomberg /
Shamim Adam
The
euro was never likely to be a casualty of the battle over the European
constitution Independent / Jeremy Warner
South
Korean May Consumer Prices Unexpectedly Drop Bloomberg / Seyoon Kim
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06/02
Firms'
"kiss" smacks of desperation Denver Post / Al Lewis
Qwest ordered to turn
over documents to shareholders Denver Post / Greg Griffin
Attention
returns to jobs data Dallas Morning News / Danielle DiMartino
Four
countries agree to global trade pact AP via Seattle Post Intelligencer
Ex-Qwest
CFO to plead guilty Reuters
Enjoy
It While It Lasts Smartmoney.com / Lisa Scherzer
Mortgage
muddle Dallas Morning News / Steve Brown
Californians
dreaming about D-FW Dallas Morning News / Steve Brown
Yuan
to Dance? Smartmoney.com / Will Swarts
Job
Picture Looks Lackluster CFO.com / Stephen Taub
CFO
Optimism at a Three-Year Low CFO.com
EU:
Love across the Alps The Economist
It's
Chirac, stupid The Economist
The
frog and the ox The Economist
Microsoft:
Schizophrenia The Economist
Sears
sees $60M Kmart restructure charge AP via Bradenton Herald
Natural
genius? The Economist
The
end of one-stop financial shops? CBS Marketwatch via 1st Headlines / Jonathan
Burton
NY:
State Sales Tax Falls and Rises, and M.T.A. Is Beneficiary NY Times /
Al Baker
Economics
and Politics – Getting the Balance Right Pimco / Mohamed A. El-Erian
Monthly Mutual Fund
Report Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
EU:
From Amsterdam, the Coup de Grace Morgan Stanley / Eric Chaney
UK:
Time for the UK Government To Be Bold on its Fiscal Rules Morgan
Stanley / David Miles
Credit
quality, speculation raise US housing worry Reuters / Kristin Roberts
Don't
believe the Fed 'pause' hype CNN / Paul R. La Monica
Rates
on 30-year mortgages at 5.62%, lowest in 4 months AP via USA Today
Treasuries
ease, market plays down inflation signs Reuters / Oliver Ludwig
At
The SEC: Backlash Without The Lash Forbes / Dan Ackman
Retailers'
May Sales Rise 2.9%; Fashion Stores Lead Bloomberg / Cotten Timberlake
and Greg Wiles
Labor
Costs Rise More Than Forecast Bloomberg / Carlos Torres
CA:
Home figures go both ways Orange County Register / Jeff Collins
NY:
Morgan Stanley to return downtown AP via Newsday
'No'
votes harmful to euro, good news for U.S. dollar Washington Times /
Patrice Hill
Bush’s Quick Pick NY
Post / Roddy Boyd
Helping The Prez Explain
NY Post / John Crudele
A
conundrum story... worry, worry, worry CNN / Kathleen Hays
Making
a case for buying bonds Philadelphia Inquirer / Jeff Brown
Retailers
From Target to Nordstrom Post Sales Gains Bloomberg / Cotten Timberlake
and Greg Wiles
Productivity
Increase Beats Expectations AP via Forbes
Milton
Friedman: Legalize It! Forbes / Quentin Hardy
FL:
With soaring property values, companies need to pay more to keep workers
South Florida Sun Sentinel / Marcia Heroux Pounds
Dollar
shows some muscle aainst the still-strong euro AP via Cleveland Plain
Dealer / Matt Moore
ECB
ignores warnings and holds rates at 2% FT / Steve Johnson
Dutch,
French Votes Spell End of EU Integration Bloomberg / Matthew Lynn
BoJ
signals monetary policy shift FT / David Pilling
U.S.
Bond Forecasters, Wrong on Yields in 2004, Blow It Again Bloomberg / Al
Yoon
Bond
skepticism bodes well CBS Marketwatch / Mark Hulbert
U.S.
Fed Worries About Increasing Global Risks Bloomberg / John M. Berry
Low
Mortgage Rates Defy Expectations Washington Post / Nell Henderson
DC:
Area Gets An All-Day Bank Fight Washington Post / Terence O'Hara
UK:
Manufacturing woe raises rate pressure Guardian / Larry Elliott
EU:
Sun shines on Dutch but the economic shadows lengthen Independent /
Hamish McRae
Fancy math takes
on je ne sais quoi Christian Science Monitor / Gregory Lamb
US
commerce secretary arrives in Beijing AFX via Forbes and Google News
The
Economy: On One Hand, but Then . . . NY Times / Eduardo Porter
Euro
falls after magazine airs Berlin's secret doubts Telegraph / Ambrose
Evans-Pritchard
Starbucks
Tiptoes Into Russia Moscow Times / Greg Walters
When
Betting on Russia, Kremlin Is the Wild Card NY Times / Erin E.
Arvedlund
Sale
Talks for Citigroup Asset Unit NY Times / Landon Thomas, Jr.
'Big
Sugar' blamed for assortment of evils NY Times via IHT / Alexei
Barrionuevo and Elizabeth Becker
Putting
a White House Annual Report to a Test NY Times / Hal R. Varian
Europe
in turmoil as the Dutch vote No FT / George Parker, Ian Bickerton and
Ralph Atkins
Citigroup
May Be Excluded From $5 Billion China IPO, People Say Bloomberg / Cathy
Chan
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06/03
The
Health of the Banking Industry Federal Reserve Board / Mark W. Olson
Transparency
Pains Bondweek / Olivia Thetgyi
UBS
Grows Securitized Research Bondweek
Psychology,
not use, driving oil price Houston Chronicle / Lynn J. Cook
NV:
Cost of living in Southern Nevada not as Affordable Las Vegas Sun /
Kevin Rademacher
Is
Europe's passion for the euro fading? BBC News / Jon Cronin
Gain
may depend on riding out pain USA Today / John Waggoner
Soft
and flat? Danger! CNN / Chris Isidore
Greenspan's
turn to talk CBS Marketwatch / Rex Nutting
China Does Not Determine U.S.
Interest Rates Ludwig von Mises Institute / Frank Shostak
FRBSF
Economic Letter Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Are
State R&D Tax Credits Constitutional? An Economic Perspective
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
DIARY-Federal
Reserve Events Reuters
Survey
sounds like an act of desperation Pittsburgh Tribune Review / Jack
Markowitz
Oil
price goes up and down, ends day with 97-cent decline AP via Baltimore
Sun
Real
Estate Vulnerability Index Forbes / Sara Clemence
Bubble
watch 2005 CNN
Homes
lost in 'rescue' ruses Baltimore Sun / Eileen Ambrose
Calif.
home equity up $1 trillion since 2000-report Reuters / Jim Christie
Ariz.
leads nation in housing price rise Arizona Republic / Catherine Reagor
Sliding
bond yields leaves investors guessing FT / Jennifer Hughes
CBOT
debt traders edge toward neutral – CFTC Reuters
U.S.
10-Year Treasury Note Tumbles the Most in Almost a Month Bloomberg /
Michael McDonald and Al Yoon
Google
May Follow Buffett, Shun Split: Taking Stock Bloomberg / Edgar Ortega
and Ari Levy
A
Free Market SEC--But Seriously Forbes / Dan Ackman
Remarks by
Chairman Donald E. Powell Before the Conference of State Bank Supervisors Annual
Convention San Antonio, Texas June 3, 2005 FDIC
U.S.
Treasuries Surge as Economy Adds Fewer Jobs Than Forecast Bloomberg /
Michael McDonald
ISM Non Manufacturing
for May Institute for Supply Management
Employees on
nonfarm payrolls by industry sector and selected industry detail Bureau
of Labor Statistics
U.S.
May Payrolls Rise 78,000; Jobless Rate at 5.1% Bloomberg / Carlos
Torres
Job
growth surprisingly weak in May Reuters / Tim Ahmann
As
US rate conundrum deepens, Wall St has answers Reuters / Pedro Nicolaci
da Costa
Oil prices
decline after crossing $55-a-barrel mark Detroit Free Press / Alejandro
Bodipo-Memba
Advice
to Issuers: Beware Metaphysical Certitude Bloomberg / Joe Mysak
Trichet
pours scorn on 'demise of the euro' Scotsman / David Black
EU:
Economic fallout from No votes Scotsman / David Black
You
Wanna Be a Central Banker? Think Again Bloomberg / William Pesek Jr.
European Union's
woes a storm in a teacup? Christian Science Monitor / Peter Ford
European
bank chief rejects rate cut plea Telegraph / Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
A
cautious ECB stands pat on rates IHT / Carter Dougherty
Oil
May Rise on Concern Demand May Outpace Supply, Survey Shows Bloomberg /
Mark Shenk
MN:
Pay Dirt: Home is where the debt is Minneapolis Star Tribune / Kara
McGuire
A
Maverick Becomes the Man NY Times / Jeff Bailey
Fund
Investors Swept Up in Mad Rush to the Middle Bloomberg / Chet Currier
Commerce
Secretary Warns China on Patent Violations NY Times / Chris Buckley
Who
Killed Andersen? It Was Suicide NY Times / Floyd Norris
Euro's
survival in doubt, claims Brussels adviser Independent / Philip
Thornton
Output,
trade and population The Economist
Dollar
Falls Versus Yen Before Jobs Data: World's Biggest Mover Bloomberg /
John Brinsley
Top
tourism destinations The Economist
Greenspan's
Bond Conundrum Ripens Into an Enigma Bloomberg / Mark Gilbert
UK:
House price growth slows to 10-year low Independent / Philip Thornton
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