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Dollar Declines Versus Yen After Existing Home Sales Decline

  • Bloomberg
  • 02/26/2010 09:30 AM

Crude futures extend gains after U.S. GDP revision

  • Market Watch from Dow Jones
  • 02/26/2010 08:40 AM

U.S. Stocks Fluctuate on Economic Reports, AIG’s Quarterly Loss


Quotable


"The combination of rising delinquencies, higher foreclosures, more housing inventories, increasing interest rates on many mortgages and greatly reduced availability of mortgages due to limited liquidity is creating what we call a near-perfect storm for housing."
Kerry Killinger, CEO Washington Mutual, September 10, 2007


Commentary

Credit Bubble Bulletin

by Doug Noland | Feb 19

The Beginning of Tightening?

At least for this week, global reflation was back. How vulnerable is reflation to Federal Reserve tightening?

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The Bear's Lair

by Martin Hutchinson | Feb 22

How to make the Eurozone work

While I agree with the former British Tory Cabinet minister Lord Tebbitt on nearly everything, his suggestion in the wake of the Greek crisis that the Eurozone needs a centralized finance minister–thus withdrawing all financial autonomy from its members–appears misguided.

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Featured Commentary

by Satyajit Das | Jan 19

The China Syndrome

In 1971, Ralph Lapp, a nuclear physicist, used the term "China syndrome" to describe a hypothetical nuclear reactor meltdown where the molten core breaches containment barriers and melts through the crust of the Earth reaching China.

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Guest Commentary

by Tom Au | Jan 25

Google – the epitome of the American Way

Writers such as Shaun Rein, managing director of China Market Research Group, may have rightly characterized Google's pullback from China as an "act of war."

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