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02/07
MBA
Testifies Before Senate: Market is Working, Benefiting Consumers and
Increasing Homeownership Mortgage Bankers Association
CA:
Plummeting commissions thin real estate's ranks Orange County Register
/ Jeff Collins
CO:
Denver-area home prices take record hit in frigid January Rocky Mountain News / John Rebchook
TREASURIES-Barely
move in Asia, yields seen easing Reuters via Yahoo
Oil's
well that ends well Marketwatch / Peter Brimelow
U.S.
stocks close up slightly; Cisco boosts techs Marketwatch / Nick Godt
Toll,
Centex, Lennar Join `Moron' Speculators in Land Grab Bust Bloomberg /
Bob Ivry
Housing
still on down slope Marketwatch / Steve Kerch
Party
On… But near an exit pdf Boom-Bust Alert
via Fiend’s SuperBear Page / Joe
Average
Best Quotes of January
2007 Dollar Collapse via Safehaven
/ John Rubino
Does Geography
Matter to Bondholders? pdf Federal
Reserve Bank of Atlanta / Bill Francis,
Iftekhar Hasan, and Maya Waisman
The Role of
Labor Market Intermittency in Explaining Gender Wage Differentials pdf Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta / Julie L. Hotchkiss
and M. Melinda Pitts
Globalization
and the benefits of trade Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago / Robert L.
Thompson
Disney
1Q Earnings Jump on DVD Sales AP via Baltimore Sun / Gary Gentile
Oil
Prices Settle Below $58 a Barrel AP via Baltimore Sun / J. W.
Elphinstone
In
lands of the euro, a growing number of local currencies IHT / Carter
Dougherty
SC:
Want Low Taxes? Watch the Spending National Review / Mallory Factor
MD:
Wal-Mart: Always low taxes Baltimore Sun / Jay Hancock
Chasing
the American dream Fortune via CNN
Flaws
seen in gauge of foreign demand for U.S bonds Reuters
Commercial
mortgage bond volume to soar in quarter Reuters / Al Yoon
Spreads
mixed amid tide of bond issuance Reuters
Moody's
4th-qtr net soars 86 pct on ratings, sale Reuters / Jonathan Stempel
How
Chrysler's gains turned to pain CNN / Chris Isidore
The
Risks Are At Home Euro Pacific via Forbes / Peter Schiff
Dow
inches up despite lower oil prices AP via Dallas Fort Worth Star
Telegram / Tim Paradis
HSBC
Says Bad-Loan Charges to Exceed Analysts' Estimates by 20% Bloomberg /
Christine Harper
US
mortgage rates unchanged on Wednesday – BestInfo Reuters
Gold
futures move higher in afternoon dealings Marketwatch / Myra P. Saefong
US
Treasury's Paulson backs stronger GSE oversight Reuters
SIFMA
and ACLI Responses to Academy Hybrid Questions pdf
Bond Market Association
Wednesday’s
Stocktiming.com Analysis Stocktiming.com / Marty Chenard
Productivity
Data, Cisco Earnings Buoy Markets Investors Business Daily / Alan R.
Elliott
Tech
Leads Stocks Higher Smartmoney.com / Mark Glassman
U.S.
Realtors see gradual existing-home sales rise Reuters
What's
your house really worth? Fortune via CNN / Jeffrey M. O'Brien
US
mortgage practices out of balance - key senator Reuters / Patrick
Rucker
Did
Bush Set Employee Health Benefit Ceiling? CFO.com / David M. Katz
Two
Studies of Treasury Auctions Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Federal
Reserve Events Reuters
The
Economic Outlook: Prospects for 2007 Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia / Charles I. Plosser
Plosser
Says Faster Growth May Prompt Higher Rates Bloomberg / Steve Matthews
and Courtney Schlisserman
More
rate hikes may be needed, Plosser says Marketwatch / Greg Robb
Tense
times ahead as central banks end easy money Reuters / Brian Love
U.S.
Productivity Increase 3%; Labor Costs Rise 1.7% Bloomberg / Shobhana
Chandra
Middle
class has itself to blame for many of its financial woes South Florida
Sun Sentinel / Humberto Cruz
Michigan
Heads for `Fiscal Train Wreck'; All Aboard! Bloomberg / Joe Mysak
Yield
Curve Withholds All-Clear Sign for Economy Bloomberg / Caroline Baum
New
Hedge Funds Raised Less Money in 2006 on Amaranth Bloomberg / Andrei
Postelnicu
DirecTV
Net Almost Triples on Subscriber, Sales Gains Bloomberg / Don Jeffrey
Disney
May Say Sales, Profit Rose on `Pirates,' `Cars' DVDs Bloomberg / Andy
Fixmer
Market
and Purchase Applications Decrease in This Week’s Survey Mortgage
Bankers Association
What
Is The IRS Thinking? Forbes / Ashlea Ebeling
Bush's
Health Plan Would Do More Harm Than Good Bloomberg / John M. Berry
Unchecked,
entitlements will eat more of budget Philadelphia Inquirer / Andrew
Cassel
Taylor:
MSRB Limited Bond Buyer / Lynn Hume
End of US
housing slump? Maybe not. Christian Science Monitor / Mark Trumbull
N.E.
rents affordable? Study: High incomes, stable prices are factors Boston
Globe / Jay Fitzgerald
Gleams of hope
for '08 budget deal Christian Science Monitor / Gail Russell Chaddock
Paulson
Sides With Japan in Congress, Spurring Swings in Yen Bloomberg / Alison
Fitzgerald and Christopher Swann
G-7
Currency Debate Won't Be `Big,' MOF Official Says Bloomberg / Mayumi
Otsuma
Dollar
Snaps Two-Day Loss Against Yen Before Treasury Auctions Bloomberg /
Kosuke Goto and Ron Harui
Putting the Tort in
Tortilla Tech Central Station / Alvaro Vargas Llosa
India's
Economic Growth May Hit Record 9.2% This Year Bloomberg / Cherian
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02/08
TREASURIES-Idle
in Asia, await Fed speakers Reuters
Circuit
City to close 69 stores AP via Houston Chronicle / Zinie Chen Sampson
The Truth About
Stock Buybacks Penny Sleuth via Daily Reckoning / Craig Walters
Citigroup:
It's aluminum's turn to shine Marketwatch / Laura Mandaro
Fiscal
frustrations The Economist
Homes:
Stung by the slow market CNN / Les Christie
FL:
Condo craze gives way to rentals Palm Beach Post / Linda Rawls
EU:
Who are the champions? The Economist
Tobacco
money - Hard habit for states to kick Stateline.org / Pamela M. Prah
Mutiny
in the ranks The Economist
U.S.
banks say Basel II puts them at disadvantage Reuters / John Poirier
JGB
futures inch up, cheered by rise in Treasuries Reuters
30-year
mortgage rates fall slightly AP via Charlotte Observer / Martin
Crutsinger
Dow
Closes Lower on Weak Housing Data AP via South Florida Sun Sentinel / Tim
Paradis
Nasdaq,
NYSE and S&P 500 Close Down In 3-Way Tie Investor’s Business Daily
/ Alan R. Elliott
Housing
market slower but no recession coming-Freddie Mac Reuters
Atlanta
Fed Names Dennis P. Lockhart New President and Chief Executive Officer
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Atlanta
Fed names Dennis Lockhart as president Reuters
ECB warns it
could lift rates IHT / Carter Dougherty
G7
ministers set for German talks BBC News
30-year
Treasury auction attracts solid demand Marketwatch / Leslie Wines
Philly
Fed survey to include core PCE forecasts Reuters
Can
profits keep rising? Uncle Miltie said no Fortune via CNN / Shawn Tully
Thursday’s
Stocktiming.com Analysis Stocktiming.com / Marty Chenard
Wall
Street spooked by retail and housing CNN / Alexandra Twin
Kodak
to Cut Up to 5,000 More Jobs in Restructuring Bloomberg / Gillian Wee
Level
3 posts deeper Q4 loss, will cut 1,000 jobs AP via SiliconValley.com
January
sales good, not great CNN / Parija B. Kavilanz
Oil
prices meander below $58 a barrel AP via Houston Chronicle
Yen
battles yuan for G7 spotlight Marketwatch / Wanfeng Zhou
Euro
Approaches Record Versus Yen; Trichet Signals Rate Boost Bloomberg /
Min Zeng and Bo Nielsen
Federal
Reserve Events Reuters
U.S.
Stocks Fall; Citigroup, JPMorgan Lead Drop in Financials Bloomberg /
Eric Martin
Qwest
Has Quarterly Profit; Shares Fall on Margins Bloomberg / Crayton
Harrison
U.S.
jobless claims rise 3,000 in latest week Reuters
U.S.
Retailers January Sales Rise on Colder Weather Bloomberg / Cotten
Timberlake
Toll's
Orders Plunge, Forecasts Larger Land Writedown Bloomberg / Brian Louis
and Peter Woodifield
Web
real estate firms shake up home economics LA Times / Annette Haddad
Should
It Be Harder to Buy American? CFO.com / Sarah Johnson
Wanted
-- A Human Face for the Financial Markets Bloomberg / Matthew Lynn
Which
states are the most entrepreneurial? Fortune via CNN
Mexico:
Production decline worsens at Mexico's biggest oil field LA Times /
Marla Dickerson
ECB
keeps interest rates on hold FT / Ralph Atkins
ECB's
Trichet Vows Vigilance, Signals Rate Increase Bloomberg / John Fraher
and Gabi Thesing
Bank
Settles Shelter Suits by Investors NY Times / Lynnley Browning
ABN
Amro Fourth-Quarter Profit Advances 4.9% on Asset Sales Bloomberg /
Joana Quintanilha
Hedge
fund company seeks the 'dumb' money Marketwatch / David Weidner
Prudential
More Than Doubles 4Q Profit AP via Washington Post / Jeffrey Gold
Merger
Activity Lifts Lazard to Record 4th-Quarter Profit NY Times / Peter Edmonston
Plenty of fuel
on hand to keep US warm – for now Christian Science Monitor / Ron
Scherer
VeriSign
to spend over $100M on upgrade AP via Aberdeen News / Jordan Robertson
Ads
Made by You, in a Click NY Times / Louise Story
BOJ
Doesn't Need to Hastily Raise Rates, Haru Says Bloomberg / Lily Nonomiya
ECB
poised to keep interest rates steady AP via Kansas City Star / Matt
Moore
UK
rates expected to stay on hold BBC News
Japan
Bank Lending Rises 1.8%, Fails to Accelerate Bloomberg / Toru Fujioka
Australian
January Jobless Rate Falls to 31-Year Low Bloomberg / Hans van Leeuwen
and Gemma Daley
Yen May Fall as BOJ's
Haru Likely to Signal Rate to Rise Slowly Bloomberg / Stanley
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02/09
Diamonds
may have a future as a commodity Marketwatch / Myra P. Saefong
Mapping
the next China Syndrome Marketwatch / Jonathan Burton
BofA
gets amnesty in bond probe Charlotte Observer / Rick Rothacker
Apartment,
condo construction to slow Dallas Morning News / Steve Brown
Selling
with a web page Newsday / Richard J. Dalton, Jr.
Reading Between the Lines
in the R.E. Market Clif Droke Market Analysis via Safehaven / Clif
Droke
Money
managers mouth off` Marketwatch / Thomas Kostigen
Hedge
Fund Fortress Doubles in Debut AP via Baltimore Examiner / Dan Seymour
Household
was a foreseeable disaster which even being asleep at the wheel doesn't
excuse Independent / Jeremy Warner
A
Slugfest Gets Uglier Washington Post / Steven
Pearlstein
Brief
Comments on the Economy and the Business of the Dallas Fed Federal
Reserve Bank of Dallas / Richard W. Fisher
FL:
Forecasters leave orange and grapefruit crops unchanged Orlando
Sentinel / Jerry Jackson
No
More Slamming The Wire Forbes / Liz Moyer
Bonds
end way down after Fed speeches CNN
Emerging
debt-Spreads tighten on steady risk appetite Reuters / Juliana Siqueira
US
SWAPS-Spreads widen as Treasury yields rise Reuters
Dallas
Fed president Fisher says he's comfortable with inflation Marketwatch /
Greg Robb
Is This
Year to Burst CEO Pay Balloon? AP via Forbes / Ellen Simon
Haven't
we learned anything? Backdating costs us trust Houston Chronicle /
Loren Steffy
Mortgage
Stocks Fall as Poole Says Rates May Rise Bloomberg / Will Edwards and
Christine Harper
US
mortgage rates unchanged on Friday – BestInfo Reuters
Oil
prices briefly top $60 a barrel AP via Houston Chronicle / Madlen Read
2007:
A record year for oil mergers? CNN / Steven Hargreaves
Opening
a debate on unavoidable question Philadelphia Inquirer / Andrew Cassel
A
Year Into the Job, the Jury Is Out on Bernanke Smartmoney.com / Donald
Luskin
Fed's
Bies Resigns After Five Years at Central Bank Bloomberg / Scott Lanman
and Alison Vekshin
Friday’s
Stocktiming.com Analysis Stocktiming.com / Marty Chenard
Fortress
Investment's Shares Almost Double After Public Sale Bloomberg /
Elizabeth Hester and Jenny Strasburg
Oil
taps a five-week high, then stalls at the $60 level Marketwatch / Myra
P. Saefong
CA:
Housing market may soon affect jobs Contra Costa Times / George Avalos
UK annual
trade gap biggest since 1697 Guardian / Angela Balakrishnan
UK:
Interest rates put on hold but further rises feared Guardian / Larry
Elliott
Stocks
Rise Modestly After Pullback AP via Newsday / Joe Bel Bruno
State of
the U.S. Economy Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis / William Poole
Federal
Reserve Events Reuters
Poole
Says `Unacceptable' If Inflation Stays Above 2% Bloomberg / Craig
Torres and Anthony Massucci
Susan
Schmidt Bies submits her resignation as a member of the Board of Governors,
effective March 30, 2007 Federal Reserve Board
Statement
on Formation of Private-Sector Treasury Market Best Practices Group
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Bank's
mortgage warning could be bad sign Chicago Tribune / Gail MarksJarvis
Texas
Considers Cashing in Big With State's Lottery Bloomberg / Joe Mysak
Consumer
Confidence Hits 2 1/2-Year High AP via Forbes / Jeannine Aversa
If
Hedge Funds Kept Cows, Your Milk Would Go Sour Bloomberg / Mark Gilbert
Hedge
Funds Charge Too Much for Returns, Calpers Says Bloomberg / David
Clarke
Fund
Investors Make $1 Trillion Bet on the World Bloomberg / Chet Currier
Goldman
seen going on $19B shopping spree CNN
Chasing EMBI: The Hunt for
High Yield Finance Trends Matter via Safehaven / David Shvartsman
Counterfeiting Money -
Crime or Good Economics? Mish’s Global Economic Trend Analysis via
Safehaven / Mike Shedlock
TX:
Buyer's market may loom as housing inventory rises again Dallas Morning
News / Steve Brown
Hedge
Funds Begin to Show Up on Regulators' Radar Washington Post / Carrie Johnson
and Jeffrey H. Birnbaum
Some Thoughts on Our
Health Insurance Mess Lew Rockwell / Joel Chesser
Crude
Oil Rises Above $60 After Elk Hills Field Closure in U.S. Bloomberg /
Christian Schmollinger
ECB Plans to Hike Again In
March But 3.75% Is Unlikely To Be the Peak Northern Trust via Safehaven
/ Victoria Marklew
Irrational Exuberance in
China Euro Pacific via Safehaven
/ Peter Schiff
U.S.
Hurts Asia With Addiction to Dollar Status Bloomberg / William Pesek
Yen Drops as Banks Predict
G-7 Statement Won't Criticize Slide Bloomberg / Kosuke Goto and Stanley
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