Posts Tagged ‘Over’
Here we sit in our trenches, waiting for the whistle to sound as we are all led over the top by a pistol touting lieutenant to our certain death. Cpmppi is scratching out a farewell letter to his loved ones hoping it catches the last carrier pigeon home, Nemo is weeping out a mournful lament [...]
This morning, rate policy meetings in both the EU and UK have gone as expected, with the ECB raising interest rates 25 bp and the BOE leaving rates unchanged. This illustrates the dynamic between the economies and how each Central bank is responding to both domestic and global conditions.
While the ECB may be facing the [...]
For anyone who remembers cut-rate vacations to Canada, the recent rise of the loonie against the dollar has been somewhat disorienting. But recent currency moves suggest the Canadian dollar’s days of dominance may be numbered. Is it time to pack the car and head north?
For the past eight months, the Canadian dollar has been rising [...]
WASHINGTON (CNNMoney) — With the tab already running into the hundreds of millions of dollars, the U.S. military intervention in Libya has sparked a debate over funding.
To date, the United States has spent some $225 million firing Tomahawk missiles, according to CNN estimates based on U.S. Navy figures.
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The cost could reach up to $800 million [...]
Since a devastating earthquake and ensuing tsunami struck Japan last Friday, investors have been dumping Japanese and U.S. stocks in what can only be called panic selling.
In my view, this is a big mistake. I’m sticking with my disciplined buy-sell strategy, looking to snap up shares of U.S. stocks–and even Japanese stocks–if conditions merit.
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NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Bank of America was subpoenaed Wednesday over a loan program that may have given influential people sweetheart deals on their mortgages.
The subpoena was issued by House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Darrell Issa, a Republican from California who has doggedly pursued the issue for several years.
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The subpoena demands Bank [...]
In the wake of the Nasdaq collapse a decade ago, a
Goldman Sachs (
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BRIC ” (Brazil, Russia, India and China) and made the case for investing in these fast-growing economies. The research ushered in a true golden age of emerging markets investment that few could have imagined back when
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As political turmoil in Egypt roiled stock markets last week, a thought crossed my mind: Do I own any Egyptian stocks?
Surely not. I couldn’t even say for sure that Egypt had a stock market until I read that trading had been halted. Although the market swooned last Friday, I wasn’t unduly worried about U.S. stocks. [...]
