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05/16
With Fed's
rate hikes (maybe) over, bank stocks rise Minneapolis Star Tribune /
Thomas Lee
Blessed
borrower helps with oil shock $ FT /
Martin Wolf
CA:
April home sales drop sharply in Southern California AP via San Diego
Union Tribune / Alex Veiga
CA:
Home sales sag despite price cuts Orange County Register / Jeff Collins
Data
spell trouble for Fed on interest rates FT / Jennifer Hughes
Fed Is Finding
Confirmation Of Its Forecast Northern Trust via Safehaven / Paul L.
Kasriel
ABC/WashPost
US consumer comfort index down to -17 Reuters
Housing
data may hold key for Dow Dallas Morning News / Danielle DiMartino
Expensing
= MC2 = Economic Growth2 National Review / Cesar Conda & Ernest S.
Christian
With
inflation at the door, it's time to grab your coat Telegraph via Fiend’s SuperBear Page / Tom Stevenson
FHA
Coalition Letter Mortgage Bankers Association
SC:
New apartment complexes will fill housing gap Myrtle Beach Sun / Jenny
Burns
MI:
Hey, Starbucks: What's wrong with Detroit Detroit News / Louis Aguilar
Dow
closes down 9, Nasdaq finishes down 9 AP via Beaufort Gazette /
Christopher Wang
Senate
holds line on immigration bill Marketwatch / William L. Watts
U.S.
Senate Reduces Visas in Guest-Worker Program Bloomberg / Nicholas
Johnston
Moving Up the
Credit Ladder S&P via MSNBC
Mexico
1-month T-bill yield slips to 7.01 pct Reuters
No
urgency in Washington to regulate hedge funds Marketwatch / Greg Robb
Gold
rises after huge pullback AP via Beaufort Gazette
Commuters get on
the bike to avoid fuel costs AP via MSNBC
The
Role of Hedge Funds in the Capital Market Federal Reserve Board /
Patrick M. Parkinson
Compliance
Risk Management in a Diversified Environment Federal Reserve Board /
Mark W. Olson
Hedge
Funds and Systemic Risk Federal Reserve Board / Ben S. Bernanke
Bernanke
resists more hedge fund regulation Reuters via CNN
Bernanke
Says Market Is Best Regulator of Hedge Funds Bloomberg / Craig Torres
and Katherine Burton
Jittery
markets $ The Economist
Buttonwood:
The China conundrum $ The Economist
Hewlett-Packard
2Q Profit Up 51 Percent AP via Forbes / Dan Goodin
Housing
slowdown to be widely felt CNN / Chris Isidore
EU:
Joining the union $ The Economist
A
curious business $ The Economist
FDIC Consumer
News Spring 2006 FDIC
Complex
Structured Finance Activities Interagency Statement on Sound Practices for
Activities With Elevated Risk FDIC
Treasuries
Rise as Housing Starts Fall, Core PPI Stays in Check Bloomberg / Daniel
Kruger and Elizabeth Stanton
Oil
prices edge back above $70 a barrel AP via NJ Post
Tuesday's
Metal Prices AP via NJ Post
Dollar
resumes its slide FT / Steve Johnson and Peter Garnham
NV:
For job recruiters, Vegas can be a tough sell Las Vegas Sun / Cristina
Rodriguez
Trade
deficit data spur growth forecasts $ FT
/ Christopher Swann
Mission
Impossible? Forbes / Jessica Holzer
Two-week
shutdown of government offices ends in Puerto Rico South Florida Sun
Sentinel / Doreen Hemlock
Stocks
let go of early gains CNN
Wal-Mart,
Home Depot Post Profit Gains as Sales Rise Bloomberg / Lauren
Coleman-Lochner and Mark Clothier
Return
of the bubble: IPOs behaving badly Fortune via CNN / Adam Lashinsky
Tuesday's
Stocktiming.com Analysis Stocktiming.com / Marty Chenard
Implementing
Basel II: Choices and Challenges Federal Reserve Board / Susan Schmidt
Bies
Industrial
Production and Capacity Utilization Federal Reserve Board
April
industrial output rises 0.8 percent Reuters / Mark Felsenthal
Federal
Reserve Events Reuters
U.S.
Economy: Housing Starts Decline, Prices Bloomberg / Joe Richter and
Carlos Torres
Core
PPI lower than expected Reuters via CNN
Copper,
Gold Rebound as Investors Return to Metals Bloomberg / Simon Casey
Sky High Commodity Prices
Tumble NY Post / Paul Tharp
CO:
Home values tick up Rocky Mountain News / John Rebchook
AZ:
Valley home price gains again rank first in nation Arizona Republic /
Catherine Reager
Salary Scrap NY Post
/ Roddy Boyd
For
the little guy, Internet is leveling the field Chicago Tribune / Ann
Meyer
Gas Up for 6 cents a Gallon
NY Post / John Crudele
Reform,
not tax relief, is the way to lure investors $
FT / Nathan Jensen
Mixed
Signals Daily Standard / Irwin Stelzer
The Declining Dollar
Erodes Personal Savings Lew Rockwell / Ron Paul
New
mortgage option: Half century of horror Marketwatch via Boston Herald /
Chuck Jaffe
Pension
Deficit, Now $500 Billion, May Clobber Corporate Bonds Bloomberg /
Christine Richard
Search
for Stock Bargains Starts Right at the Top Bloomberg / Chet Currier
U.S.
April Producer Prices Probably Rose 0.8%, Most This Year Bloomberg /
Carlos Torres
Appreciation
of yuan tipped to hurt `taishang' Taipei Times / Jackie Lin
Yuan
more time Marketwatch via Investor’s Business Daily / Dr. Irwin Kellner
Treasuries
May Fall Before Reports Showing Pick Up in Prices Bloomberg / David
Yong
Oil
Prices Drop Below $69 a Barrel AP via Washington Post
Commodities
Pass Duck Test for Bubble Diagnosis Bloomberg / Caroline Baum
Metals
Rally May Resume as Slump Fails to Deter Funds Bloomberg / Simon Casey
Oil
Posts Biggest 3-Day Drop Since February as Demand May Slow Bloomberg /
Christian Schmollinger and Gavin Evans
IRS report finds
rampant abuse by credit counseling agencies Pittsburgh Post Gazette /
Patricia Sabatini
Will
Welfare for Politicians Be Next Big Idea? Bloomberg / Andrew Ferguson
Illegal
immigrants in the US: How many are there? Christian Science Monitor /
Brad Knickerbocker
The
US is favoring China Taipei Times / Charles Hong
Gold
and copper prices plunge after a frantic day Guardian / Ashley Seager
IRA
Swaps Could Cost U.S. Billions in Tax Revenue NY Times / David Cay Johnston
Bush
to send 6,000 troops to Mexico border $
FT / Edward Alden and Jenny Johnson
China lifts its
currency - and US hopes Christian Science Monitor / Mark Trumbull
So
Yuan Is at 8? Wake Me Up When It Reaches 7.5 Bloomberg / Andy Mukherjee
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05/17
Fed
Must Get Back On Message Real Clear Politics / Larry Kudlow
New
tax law alters retirement-planning scenarios Marketwatch / Robert
Powell
Senate
agrees to border fence Marketwatch / William L. Watts
Salt
Sense National Review / Bruce Bartlett
Inflation
renews pressure on Fed USA Today / Sue Kirchhoff
Watch
out: Your mutual fund could report you USA Today / Kathy Chu
MI:
Building trades offer top pay Lansing /State Journal / Barbara Wieland
Running
Naked Daily Reckoning / Eric J. Fry
Gas
prices drive down demand USA Today / Barbara Hagenbaugh
Gas prices may
ease, but is it too late? Oakland Tribune / Tim Summers
Internet
banks click with customers Detroit News / Anick Jesdanun
Price War ?Hangs Up Vonage
NY Post / Janet Whitman
Vonage
selling stock to customers Marketwatch / Steve Gelsi
Yahoo
execs tout Internet advertising boom AP via Beaufort Gazette / Michael
Liedtke
Diamonds
Are Dow's Best Friend Smartmoney.com / Lawrence Carrel
Who
Knows the Neutral Rate of Interest? Not the Fed Ludwig Von Mises
Institute / Frank Shostak
Economic
Trends pdf Federal Reserve Bank of San
Francisco
Gambler hits
jackpot with court's tax ruling AP via MSNBC
Border
plan reignites an old debate Staeline.org / Mark K. Matthews and John
Gramlich
Bill
Gross makes a mistake Globe and Mail / Roma Luciw
U.S.
budget balance history 1986-2005 Reuters
U.S.
Stocks Drop on Inflation Concern; Bank Shares, GM Decline Bloomberg /
Dune Lawrence
Dow
Plunges; Nasdaq Turns Negative on Yr. AP via South Florida Sun Sentinel
/ Christopher Wang
Europe
suffers worst one day fall in 3½ years FT / Neil Dennis and Darryl
Thomson
Corrections
predictable AP via Washington Times / Michael J. Martinez
Where's
Citi? Forbes / Liz Moyer
CO: At forefront of
foreclosures again Denver Post / Aldo Svaldi
Mortgage
Application Volume Up In Latest Survey ARM Applications Rise 9.8
Mortgage Bankers Association
New
MBA Study Shows $345 Billion in Commercial/Multifamily Originations During
2005 Mortgage Bankers Association
MARI
Releases Eighth Annual Report on Mortgage Fraud for MBA Mortgage
Bankers Association
MBA
Submits Letter in Support of Legislative Relief to Section 404 of the
Sarbanes-Oxley Mortgage Bankers Association
CA:
More Signs of Housing Cool-Down LA Times / Annette Haddad
Gold
zigs, then zags below $700 Reuters via CNN
Oil sinks
back below $69, gas inventory low CNN / Steve Hargreaves
Breton
comments boost dollar versus euro FT / Peter Garnham
US
SWAPS - Widen on higher yields after strong CPI Reuters
California's
Bond Rating Raised at Standard & Poor's Bloomberg / Michael B.
Marois
On
Guard Forbes / Matthew Swibel
US's
Snow dismisses reports he leaving as "fiction" Reuters
Wednesday's
Stocktiming.com Analysis Stocktiming.com / Marty Chenard
Gold
Resumes Rally, Heads for Biggest Advance Since Sept. 11 Bloomberg /
Danielle Rossingh
Oil prices rise
ahead of inventory data AP via Dallas Fort Worth Star Telegram
Fed:
Hedge Funds Get Too Much Credit CFO.com / Ronald Fink and Tim Reason
Fed
Gets Less Respect as Bond Traders See Inflation Bloomberg / Elizabeth
Stanton
Treasuries
Fall After Consumer Prices Rise More Than Forecast Bloomberg / Daniel
Kruger
Bill
Gross: 'My bad' CNN
Big
rise in US core prices stokes inflation worry Reuters / Tim Ahmann
Are
you a fiscal conservative? Philadelphia Inquirer / Andrew Cassel
Eurozone
inflation rise spells ECB rate hike Reuters via FT
U.S. oil
firms stand to gain from renewed ties with Libya AP via IHT / Barry
Schweid
Japan
sees jump in bankruptcies BBC News
UK:
Bank split in three on rates vote BBC News
UK:
Unemployment at four-year record BBC News
Bernanke
Adopts Greenspan's Opposition to Hedge-Fund Regulation Bloomberg /
Craig Torres and Scott Lanman
Bernanke
sceptical on hedge fund rules $ FT /
Stephen Schurr, Ralph Atkins and Mark Schieritz
Rush
to Join Exchanges While Mirror Is Cloudy NY Times
Research
Shows Fighting IRS Is Often Worth It Wall Street Journal via
Marketwatch
MA:
Study: Hub wealth transfer immense Boston Herald / Jay Fitzgerald
Why US restored
ties with Libya Christian Science Monitor / Howard LaFranchi
U.S.
Consumer Prices Probably Rose on Gasoline Costs Bloomberg / Joe Richter
EU:
Fears for eurozone if dollar crashes Guardian / Larry Elliott
Japan's
10-Year Bonds Have Biggest Gain in a Month on Yen Rally Bloomberg /
Chris Cooper
States
Use Tobacco Money for Health, Debt Service Bloomberg / Joe Mysak
As
Yuan Breaches 8, Focus Shifts to Japan Bloomberg / William Pesek Jr.
Check Your
Change: Fake Rubles On the Rise Moscow Times / William Mauldin
Bush
Fails to Fix the Immigration Dilemma Inside Bloomberg / Amity Shlaes
For graduates,
student loans turn into an albatross Christian Science Monitor / Chris
Gaylord
Mission
Impossible? Pimco / Bill Gross
U.S.
Notes May Rise as Inflation Report to Support Rate Pause Bloomberg /
Shamim Adam
UK:
Bank of England's Next Move Should Be a Rate Cut Bloomberg / Matthew
Lynn
Singapore
Raises 2006 GDP Forecast to as Much as 7% Bloomberg / Shamim Adam
China's
Factory Output Rises 16.6 Percent in April Bloomberg / Nerys Avery
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05/18
UK: Taxman targets
offshore savers BBC News / Ian Pollock
The State of The Fed
Honest Money Gold & Silver Report via Safehaven / Douglas V. Gnazzo
If Stock Market Slump
Continues The Fed Will Start Juggling Asset Classes Fall Street via Fiend’s SuperBear Page / Brady Willett
The
disappearing mid-market The Economist
Thinking
big The Economist
Time
to lose weight? The Economist
Greenspan
to Washington: No thanks Marketwatch / Greg Robb
From
:-) to :-( The Economist
Association to Publish
Revised MBS Buy-In Procedures Bond Market Association
BMA Asks NAIC For More
Transparency in Classifying Securities; Current Approach Can Create Unequal
Advantages Bond Market Association
Association Announces
Creation of The Alan Greenspan Award for Market Leadership Bond Market
Association
US
Treasuries helped by friendly figures FT / Paul J Davies
Bond
mutual funds may rise AP via Myrtle Beach Sun / Jeremy Herron
Bargains
in travel are scarce AP via Detroit News / Brad Foss
Bernanke
gets tough grade from hedge fund alphas FT / Stephen Schurr
30-year
mortgage rates highest in 4 years AP via Beaufort Gazette / Jeannine
Aversa
From
Boom to Bust All Over Again? National Review / Tom Nugent
FL:
Women buying more homes Tallahassee Democrat / C.E. Scott
Bay
Area home sales at 5-year low, price rise slows San Jose Business
Journal
Immigration's Fifteen
Minutes: Why Now? Tech Central Station / Jon Henke
Retail
money funds rise in latest week AP via Beaufort Gazette
EU:
Wall against globalisation is futile $
FT / Philip Stephens
China:
Ignoring the past The Economist
The
German chancellor and the European Commission president $ The Economist
Russia
warns not to 'discriminate' in WTO AP via Beaufort Gazette
Data
Dependency Daily Reckoning / Chuck Butler
Morgan
Stanley economist sounds commodity alarm Marketwatch / John Spence
U.S.
House votes to keep offshore drilling ban Reuters / Tom Doggett
Greenspan
says housing boom over AP via NJ Post / Joel Bruno
Statement
by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke Federal Reserve Board
Statement
by Federal Reserve Board Governor Donald L. Kohn Federal Reserve Board
BOJ
sticks to zero interest rate policy Reuters
Next
hot market...think Washington CNN / Les Christie
Dow's
3-day loss: 300 points CNN / Jessica Seid
Forget
about housing rebound Sacramento Bee / Jim Wasserman
Inflation's
fear factor CNN / Chris Isidore
Treasuries
rally on signs of slower economic growth Reuters / Ellen Freilich
Treasuries
Rise; Lacker Says Containing Inflation Primary Focus Bloomberg / Daniel
Kruger and Elizabeth Stanton
Lacker
Says Inflation Makes Rate Pause `Less Likely' Bloomberg / Craig Torres
The
Evolving Nature of the Financial System: Financial Crises and the Role of
the Central Bank Federal Reserve Board / Donald L. Kohn
The
Evolution of Consumer Finance Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond /
Jeffrey M. Lacker
Business
Outlook Survey Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
Bernanke
sees cooling housing market Reuters via CNN
U.S.
Economy: Leading Indicators Decline in April Bloomberg / Courtney
Schlisserman
'Gust'
of inflation is likely to send interest rates climbing again AP via
Seattle Post Intelligencer / Jeannine Aversa and Christopher Wang
Mortgage
rates return to four-year high CNN
Basel
II: Its Promise and Its Challenges Federal Reserve Board / Ben S.
Bernanke
Fed
economist to cut GSE mortgage benefit estimate Reuters
It’s Time To Pay The Piper
NY Post / Janet Whitman
Where's
the foreign money we need? Dallas Morning News / Danielle DiMartino
Treasuries
briefly extend gains after jobless claims Reuters
Moody's
to Boost Corporate Loan Ratings CFO.com / Stephen Taub
Rising
rates gnaw at bond portfolio Dallas Morning News / Scott Burns
Thrusdsday's
Stocktiming.com Analysis Stocktiming.com / Marty Chenard
Stock Shock NY Post /
Roddy Boyd
Jobless
claims surge, Puerto Rico blamed Reuters via CNN
A
Job Americans Won't Do, Even at $34 an Hour LA Times / David Streitfeld
Jobless
claims surge 42,000 to 367,000 Marketwatch / Rex Nutting
Consumers
Feeling Pinch as Inflation Rises; Stocks Fall on Interest Rate Fears LA
Times / Tom Petruno
CA:
Rents a Key Driver of Inflation LA Times / Lisa Girion and Annette
Haddad
Expensive
gasoline = consumer belt-tightening CNN
Oil
Prices Fall on Rising Gas Supplies AP via Houston Chronicle / George
Jahn
Dollar
flat against rivals after jobless claims data Marketwatch / Wanfeng
Zhou
Dollar
slips against yen in Asia AP via NJ Post
Mexico's
Economy Hits 6-Year High Note LA Times / Marla Dickerson
Inflation's
rising toll on consumers Christian Science Monitor / Mark Trumbull
In Praise of
Consumerism Lew Rockwell / Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.
The
New Fed Chairman Faces the Same Old Dilemma Bloomberg / Caroline Baum
Why
the stock market's latest wobble signals worry over the business cycle
Independent / Hamish McRae
D-I-Y Hedge Funds
Tech Central Station / Dominic Basulto
Fund
shareholders cite information overload Marketwatch / Robert Schroeder
Inflation
Rising, Markets Tumble NY Times / Louis Uchitelle
Economic
forces to blame for ad decline Boston Herald / Scott Van Voorhis
Expensive gas has
vacationers, businesses changing behavior Pittsburgh Post Gazette /
Patricia Sabatini
Bureaucrats Helping
the Poor? Or Themselves? Tech Central Station / Tim Worstall
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