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Institutional Selling Warns of Stock Market Weakness - 13th May 08
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Best of the Week
The Geopolitics Of Israel: Historic and Modern - 16th May 08 - John_Mauldin
Stock Markets 2008- Sell in May and Go Away? - 16th May 08 - Hans_Wagner
S&P Developing Bullish Pattern, While Crude Oil Still Refuses to Rest - 16th May 08 - Mike_Paulenoff
Government Inflation Data Does Not Match Reality - 15th May 08 - Gary_Dorsch
Gold Correction Near its End on Converging Signals from Bonds and Currencies - 15th May 08 - Jim_Willie_CB
Odds Favor Short-Term Crude Oil Downtrend - 15th May 08 - Frank_Holmes
Fannie Mae Advertising Foreclosed US Homes to the Brit's - 15th May 08 - Adrian_Ash
Playing the Food Boom for Huge Profits - 15th May 08 - Money_and_Markets
Gold Slips on Queationable Inflation Data - 15th May 08 - Mark_OByrne
Grain Exporting Countries of Africa to Mirror Crude Oil OPEC Boom - 15th May 08 - John_Mauldin
The Battle for America Has Begun- Strategic Forecasts - 14th May 08 - Richard_C_Cook
Inflation Deflation Chaotic Trend Towards Stagflation - 14th May 08 - Christopher_Laird
Credit Crisis Investment Round Table- There's Still Life After Sub-prime - 14th May 08 - William_R_Thomson
Gold to Oil Price Ratio Says Gold is Cheap - 14th May 08 - Mark_OByrne
Use Stock Screeners to find Great Stocks - 14th May 08 - Money_and_Markets
Caroline Flint UK Housing Market Briefing Notes in FULL - 13th May 08 - Nadeem_Walayat
Resource Stocks that are Chinese Takeover Targets - 13th May 08 - Money_and_Markets
Institutional Selling Warns of Stock Market Weakness - 13th May 08 - Marty_Chenard
UK Flawed Inflation Measure Explodes Higher, 3% CPI, 4.2% RPI - 13th May 08 - Nadeem_Walayat
US Heading for Double-Digit Inflation - 13th May 08 - Money_and_Markets
US Recession 2000 Can tell us a lot about today's Economy - 12th May 08 - Gerard_Jackson
Sell Gold Shares in May and Walk Away? - 12th May 08 - John_Lee
Inflation Fear - 12th May 08 - Paul_J_Nolte
US Housing Dueling Views: Jim Rogers Sees More Pain, Warren Buffet Sees Rebound Under Way - 12th May 08 - Keith_Fitz-Gerald
Triage In Financial Markets - 12th May 08 - Darryl_R_Schoon
Credit Crunch Bites UK Mortgage Payers as Risk of Repossession Soars - 12th May 08 - Nadeem_Walayat
Silver Correction Over and Gearing Up for Explosive Rally - 12th May 08 - Clive_Maund
Fool's Gold- Gold Sucker Rally? - 12th May 08 - Joe_Nicholson
Secrets to Successful Investing- Special - 11th May 08 - Nadeem_Walayat
Gold Correction Completing- Bull Market About to Resume - 11th May 08 - Clive_Maund
UK Housing Market Surge In Mortgage Repossession Orders - 11th May 08 - Mick_Phoenix
A Stealthy Stock Market You Shouldn't Ignore - 11th May 08 - Yiannis_G_Mostrous
New Russian President, New Investment Opportunities? - 11th May 08 - Martin_Hutchinson
US Dollar Bottoming Against Major Currencies? - 11th May 08 - Money_and_Markets
Soaring Crude Oil and Gasoline Prices Worry US Consumers - 10th May 08 - Jennifer_Yousfi
How to Survive the Gas / Petrol Crisis - 10th May 08 - Money_and_Markets
Real Estate and Credit Deflation: The Next Dozen Shoes to Drop - 10th May 08 - Steve_Moyer
Global Food Shock - 10th May 08 - Jennifer_Barry
Why Most Investors Fail and How to Invest Successfully - 10th May 08 - John_Mauldin
 

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Stock-Markets

Monday, May 12, 2008

Triage In Financial Markets / Stock-Markets / Credit Crunch

By: Darryl_R_Schoon

Best Financial Markets Analysis ArticleGlobal financial markets are in extreme triage following the credit contraction of August 2007. It is believed central bankers are trying to restore markets to help the economy. In truth, they are like life insurance companies fighting to keep a wealthy patient alive so the high premiums will continue to be paid and the large death payout will be postponed.

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Housing-Market

Friday, March 21, 2008

Credit Crunch Hits Big Mortgage Banks Harder than Smaller Institutions / Housing-Market / Credit Crunch

By: MoneyFacts

The fallout from the credit crunch and predicted falling house prices have forced lenders to consider their positions in the market and reassess their attitude to risk based lending. Denise Harvey, mortgage analyst from moneyfacts.co.uk looks at the position of the UK’s largest lenders in today’s market.

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Companies

Monday, February 04, 2008

Egg Card Cracked by Credit Crunch as Customers Scramble for Cover / Companies / Credit Crunch

By: Nadeem_Walayat

Egg bank took drastic action to limit its risk of exposure to potential bad debt defaults amongst its credit card holders by banning 160,000 of its customers from being able to use their credit cards for new transactions leaving cards open only for repayment of outstanding balances. Angry customers responded with tens of thousands of internet posts stating messages that they tended to clear their balances on time. The 160,000 banned amounts to 7% of the Egg credit card customer base.

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Interest-Rates

Thursday, January 24, 2008

Credit Crisis to Escalate as Mortgage Bond Market Losses to Pass $3 Trillions! / Interest-Rates / Credit Crunch

By: Jim_Willie_CB

Best Financial Markets Analysis ArticleBankers, Wall Street hucksters, financial network commentators, and floating analysts seem to have flunked basic arithmetic in grand fashion. Maybe they only expose the next link in a long chain of deception, their apparent expertise. One hears estimates of $200 billion on total mortgage bond losses from the Secy of Inflation Ben Bernanke. One witnesses the series of bond writedowns by Wall Street banks. One can read of Wall Street economists like Jan Hatzius of Goldman Sachs, who cites $400 billion in potential bond losses, a favorite figure cited by other bankers. One is subjected to press anchors and their simplistic echoes of bond losses. One is endlessly lectured by highbrow analysts of the extent of bond damage. The trouble is, they all cannot do simple arithmetic and observe the billboards on mortgage bond indexes, fully available.

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Personal_Finance

Sunday, January 06, 2008

Credit Crunch Continues as Short-term Savings Interest Rates Remain High - Jan 08 / Personal_Finance / Credit Crunch

By: Shahla_Walayat

The worlds central banks announced in December 07 that they would take concerted action to help ease the liquidity crises that has been gripping the financial sector since August 07. Whilst this has had a big impact on the interbank market, this article looks at its impact on the personal savings market.

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Stock-Markets

Wednesday, January 02, 2008

Credit Collapse Domino Effect to Send Stocks Lower / Stock-Markets / Credit Crunch

By: Captain_Hook

Best Financial Markets Analysis ArticleThere's no reason to be short the stock market from a seasonal perspective anymore. And with all the giveaways these days, along with apparent ample money supply, again, if contemplating participation in the stock market, without a doubt the ‘rational man' would be compelled to be long given it appears authorities have the subprime mess under control – right? Correspondingly then, both short and put / call ratios should be falling, and in fact this is exactly what is happening as market participants get squeezed in a traditional Santa Claus rally. From a sentiment related perspective this is a bearish set-up along the lines of Dave's thoughts on the subject – The Grinch That Stole Christmas .

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Economics

Friday, December 28, 2007

Credit Crunch Time for American Consumers / Economics / Credit Crunch

By: Peter_Schiff

Best Financial Markets Analysis ArticleThe subprime mortgage crisis is merely the tip of a very large iceberg. Beneath the surface lies not only a sea of tenuous loans to prime borrowers, but also an assortment of other liabilities backed by auto loans and credit card debit. Now that home equity extractions, "zero percent auto financing" and "zero interest" credit card rollovers are much harder to come by, Americans must do without the credit lifelines that have previously kept them afloat.

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Stock-Markets

Friday, December 21, 2007

Sovereign Wealth Fund Capital Injections Will Fail to Increase Commercial Bank Lending / Stock-Markets / Credit Crunch

By: Paul_L_Kasriel

When economists discuss investment in real capital expenditures they make a distinction between gross and net. If investment expenditures just match the depreciation of capital equipment, then gross investment rises, but net investment is unchanged. Increases in net investment, not gross investment, are what matters with regard to the future productivity of the economy.

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Interest-Rates

Friday, December 21, 2007

Central Banks Flood Wall Street with Money With Little Effect / Interest-Rates / Credit Crunch

By: Money_and_Markets

Best Financial Markets Analysis ArticleMike Larson writes: I spend my time analyzing and trading the markets now. But back in college, I double-majored in English and Journalism. So I'm familiar with many of the classics — those great works of literature that still have relevance to current events.

For instance, I can't get Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" out of my head. You've probably heard the classic lament:

"Water, water, every where,
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, every where,
Nor any drop to drink."

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Stock-Markets

Thursday, December 20, 2007

Fed Liquidity Intervention in Recognition of Credit Crisis / Stock-Markets / Credit Crunch

By: David_Vaughn

Well, Christmas is just around the corner. Bet your kids are excited if you still have little ones around the house. On top of Christmas the world is coming unhinged but really nothing more exciting. Let me get something clear right up front concerning last weeks article. Number one I was not “Bush Bashing.” Heck, I voted for the man. My point in the article was the inevitability of a coming crisis in Iran . Enough said on that. Let's get back to Christmas.

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Interest-Rates

Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Interbank Interest Rates Fall as Central Banks Succeed in Easing Liquidity Squeeze / Interest-Rates / Credit Crunch

By: Nadeem_Walayat

Concerted action by the worlds central banks is beginning to have an impact on the money market interbank rates. This resulted in a a sharp drop today in the Sterling LIBOR rate down from 6.38% last night to 6.20% today. Similar action by the US Fed and ECB has pushed Euro and US Dollar LIBOR rates significantly lower as the graph below demonstrates.

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Forecasts

Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Interbank Market Under Pressure Due to Year End Reporting / Forecasts / Credit Crunch

By: Ned_W_Schmidt

Can financial system be in as big a mess as central banks' actions suggest? Year end is rapidly approaching, and accounting convention calls for all to strike balance sheets. Those financial statements influence the evaluations of firms by investors, regulators, and rating"agencies. Because of credit chaos, those institutions want to show sound, liquid balance sheets. As a consequence of the unusual demand for liquidity, the inter bank market for funds is under serious pressure.

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Interest-Rates

Tuesday, December 18, 2007

US Fed Emerges to Lead the World Out of the Subprime Crisis via the New Auction Facility / Interest-Rates / Credit Crunch

By: Axel_Merk

Best Financial Markets Analysis ArticleTrue leadership may have finally emerged to resolve the subprime crisis, although it was difficult to spot during a tumultuous week at the Federal Reserve (Fed). On Tuesday, December 11, 2007, the Fed cut interest rates by 0.25%. The Dow Jones index, disappointed in what was another effort by the Fed to claim to be both on top of inflation and the crisis in the credit markets, fell about 300 points. Around 6:30pm E.T. that night, ‘sources close to the Fed' suggested that banks would be able to borrow money from the Fed directly at rates set through an auction, rather than the discount rate set by the Fed. This was confirmed the next morning at around 8:13 am E.T., minutes before futures trading resumed, together with an announcement that foreign central banks, effective immediately, would be allowed to engage in currency swap agreements with the Fed.

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Stock-Markets

Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Credit Crunch Far From Being Over, Further Economic Uncertainty? / Stock-Markets / Credit Crunch

By: Regent_Markets

To say that Wall Street has been paying close attention to the actions of the US Federal Reserve recently is an understatement to say the least. Last week was no different as the Dow Jones & Co reacted frantically to Fed attempts to stoke greater movement in moribund credit markets.

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Interest-Rates

Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Fed $40 Billion Auction Will be Liquidity Acid Test for Nervous Markets / Interest-Rates / Credit Crunch

By: John_Mauldin

Best Financial Markets Analysis ArticleThe Fed is getting ready to auction of $40 billion in repos this week. The stock market acted is if this was a special gift stuffed into its Christmas stocking last week, rebounding after a serious drop in the market the day before. This week in Outside the Box, Dr. John Hussman tells us why the $40 billion is more smoke and mirrors than actual money. It seems they had $39 billion coming due this week anyway. And in a $12.7 trillion dollar banking system it may not make much difference.

This is not a long article, but it is important. You need to understand how the Fed works and when its actions make a difference. Hussman is very good at writing clear, easy-to-understand material on complex subjects.

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