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Credit Crunch Continues, Thornburg Exec Says
2007-09-20 00:00:00 Thornburg Mortgage (TMA - Cramer’s Take - Stockpickr - Rating) operating chief Larry Goldstone applauds Tuesday’s Fed rate cut but says his industry is still facing tough times ahead. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke cut the benchmark fed funds overnight lending interest rate by 50 basis points. The Fed said it feared that disruptions in the ... More About: Credit , Crunch , Conti , Horn
In Turnaround, Industries Seek U.S. Regulation
2007-09-16 00:00:00 WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 ? After years of favoring the hands-off doctrine of the Bush administration, some of the nation?s biggest industries are pushing for something they have long resisted: new federal regulations. For toys and cars, antifreeze and fireworks, popcorn and produce and cigarettes and light bulbs, among other products, industry groups or major manufacturers are ... More About: Regulation , Industries , Seek , Trie
Fed Interest Rate Cut Seen This Week
2007-09-16 00:00:00 Fed Ready to Lower Rate s This Week for First Time in More Than 4 Years As Recession Fears Grow WASHINGTON (AP) — For the first time in more than four years, the Federal Reserve appears ready to lower interest rates to prevent a housing meltdown and a painful credit crunch from driving the economy into a ... More About: Interest , Interest Rate , Eres
In the Green Marathon, Which Stocks Will Be the Winners?
2007-09-10 00:00:00 HIGH oil prices, cheap credit and government subsidies have been a boon for companies that promise to make more efficient use of energy or produce it from renewable sources. But it?s unlikely that the investment climate for alternative energy will always be this favorable. If it shifts, some businesses will surely falter. ?There?s a rising tide ... More About: Stocks , Green , Marathon , Winners , Mara
Breathless Pitches for Penny Stocks, Now in Newspapers
2007-09-05 00:00:00 CHECK your e-mail, and chances are it holds several get-rich-quick offers to buy a hot stock in a tiny, unknown company. Open up a major newspaper, including USA Today and The New York Times, and you could see full-page advertisements with the same solicitations, all hyperventilating with ?insider? tips on the next big investment. The promotion of ... More About: Stocks , Newspapers , Penny Stocks , Brea , Penny
ADVANTAGES OF IPO MUTUAL FUNDS
2007-09-03 00:00:00 WITH MORE than 10,000 mutual funds on the market, it seems only natural that some would invest heavily in IPOs-and there are several that do. After all, as stated in the Introduction, mutual funds buy a large percentage of all IPO shares. Untill now, this has been a well-kept secret. Mutu al funds do not like to ... More About: Mutual Funds , Funds , Advanta
Foreign Stocks/IPOs Investing Tips
2007-09-03 00:00:00 BEFORE you start to invest in foreign markets, it’s a good idea first to be comfortable investing in the United States and to build a level of sophistication and understanding of the investment process. Here are some tips for investors who are ready to send their money abroad: Invest for the long term. Currency fluctuations can wreak ... More About: Stocks , Tips , Investing , Foreign , Fore
China’s Influence Spreads Around World
2007-09-03 00:00:00 China’s Influence Now Extends From Australian Desert to Sahara to Amazonian Jungle and Beyond KARRATHA, Australia (AP) — For nearly three decades, Chinese peasants have left their villages for crowded dormitories and sweaty assembly lines, churning out goods for world markets. Now, China is turning the tables. Here in the Australian Outback, Shane Padley toils in the ... More About: China , World , Spreads , Spread
Chief Says Fed Is Ready to Act on Credit Pinch
2007-09-03 00:00:00 JACKSON HOLE, Wyo., Aug. 31 ? Ben S. Bernanke, the chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, declared on Friday that the central bank ?stands ready to take additional actions as needed? to prevent the chaos in mortgage markets from derailing the broader economy. Mr. Bernanke avoided any specific promise to lower the central bank?s benchmark federal ... More About: Credit , Chief , Ready
Bush Plans a Limited Intervention on Mortgages
2007-09-03 00:00:00 WASHINGTON, Aug. 31 ? Democrats praised President Bush ?s proposals to help low-income homeowners on Friday but indicated they would continue to press measures opposed by the administration to expand the federal role in housing, making it likely that the issue will set off partisan battles this year and next. Mr. Bush, in formally announcing administration proposals ... More About: Plans , Mortgages , Limited , Limite
Investors Feeling a Bit More Optimistic
2007-08-27 00:00:00 Wall Street Returns to Work Feeling a Bit More Optimistic in Wake of Fed’s Interest-Rate Cut NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street heads back to work this week in a somewhat calmer state of mind. Overall, investors are more optimistic now about the financial markets than they’ve been in several weeks. An interest rate cut from the ... More About: Investors
Wall Street Geniuses Blow Up the Lab
2007-08-20 00:00:00 Looks like Wall Street ’s mad scientists have blown up the lab again. The subprime mess that is cutting so wide a swath through financial markets can be traced to the alchemy of creating collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) compounded by the enormous amount of leverage applied by big hedge funds. CDOs are derivatives ? synthetic financial ...
Navigating the Murky World of Student Loans
2007-08-20 00:00:00 Nicole Gibson, 26, took out six private loans from 1999 to 2004 to finance her education at the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York. Like thousands of college students across the U.S., Gibson was steered to private loans by her school’s financial aid office and is now struggling to pay them off. Her monthly ... More About: World , Student , Loans , Student Loans
Investment Ideas for the China Olympics
2007-08-20 00:00:00 I was wondering if there were people here who were making any investments or bets on the China Olympics . Any specific sectors or companies. If anyone has any thoughts on this please feel free to join in ! I have been thinking for some time about this and can think of some sectors, but haven’t zeroed in ... More About: Ideas , Investment , Investment Ideas
Investors to Face Data on Inflation
2007-08-13 00:00:00 Investors Face Data on Inflation and Housing Market This Week on Wall Street NEW YORK (AP) — Amid the wildest stock market in years, the Federal Reserve has maintained that inflation is its biggest worry. Wall Street will try decide if that’s a legitimate stance when this week’s data on rising prices comes in. Market stability has ... More About: Investors , Flat
Hidalgo Mining International (OTC: HMIT) in Conjunction With Subury Resourc
2007-08-13 00:00:00 PAHRUMP, Nev., Aug. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Subury Resources, Inc., a subsidiary of Hidalgo Mining International continues in their exploration endeavor of the Tudor property located in Ontario, Canada. As announced previously, Robert Silverman, President of Subury Resources Inc. described plans to undertake Exploration of the Tudor Gold Project, Ontario, Canada. As funding becomes ... More About: Junction
Perihelion Global Signs Letter of Intent to Acquire BioFuel Technology Comp
2007-08-13 00:00:00 SANTA ROSA BEACH, FL and WILIMINGTON, DE–(MARKET WIRE)–Aug 8, 2007 — Perihelion Global (Other OTC:PHGI.PK - News), a development company with interests in natural resources, alternative energies, and advanced communications, today announced that it has entered into a Letter of Intent to acquire a privately held BioFuel Technology company with facilities in the United States ... More About: Biofuel , Comp
It Takes Deep Pockets to Fight Global Warming
2007-08-13 00:00:00 GLOBAL warming is by nature a big-enough problem to create the kind of necessity that could be mother, father and midwife to invention. And plenty of big ideas are out there to address it, some that may even lead to substantial enterprises much as our military needs have. But the ideas being backed in the United ... More About: Global Warming , Fight , Global , Deep , Ming
In the stock market, what does it mean to “short” a stock?
2007-08-13 00:00:00 According to the Yahoo! Finance Glossary, shorting a stock involves “selling a security that the seller does not own but is committed to repurchasing eventually. It is used to capitalize on an expected decline in the security’s price.” In other words, someone who shorts a stock borrows shares from a brokerage house in order to ... More About: Stock Market , Market , Stock , Short
How a U.S. Credit Crunch Went Global
2007-08-11 00:00:00 Anyone who clinged to the notion that the risks lurking in America’s mortgage pool were a local concern has now been proven wrong. The U.S. subprime mortgage market ? turned sour by borrowers with poor credit struggling to meet payments as interest rates rise ? is fast becoming a global worry. With huge chunks of ... More About: Credit , Global , Crunch , Went
The Worst Jobs in America
2007-08-09 00:00:00 A lot of congratulations were passed around by lawmakers a few weeks ago when the federal hourly minimum wage was increased to $5.85, a 70 cent uptick. But wages are just part of the problem for workers in bottom-rung jobs. Health hazards, lack of insurance and labor law violations are among the on-the-job inequities faced ... More About: America , Jobs
Cooking Up More Uses for the Leftovers of Biofuel Production
2007-08-09 00:00:00 Ed Lehrburger, PureVision?s chief executive, says he thinks the new form of lignin his company makes could sell for $300 a ton. The baking tins and muffin cups lining the countertops in a corner of Ronald Holser?s cluttered laboratory were filled with curious substances resembling angel food cakes and loaves of bread. They will have found ... More About: Cooking , Biofuel , Production , Prod , Leftovers
Fed Leaves Rate Steady; No Sign of Future Cut
2007-08-08 00:00:00 WASHINGTON, Aug. 7 ? The Federal Reserve today largely sidestepped the growing anxiety over how tightening credit standards will affect the economy, deciding to leave its benchmark interest rate unchanged at 5.25 percent. More important than the decision to hold rates steady ? which was widely expected ? the Fed did not significantly adjust the language ... More About: Future , Sign , Rate , Leaves , Aves
Enter the Dragon: China’s Investments
2007-08-01 00:00:00 ILLUSTRATION FOR TIME BY MARCO CIBOLA The issue is straightforward enough, even if few countries have ever had to deal with it on this scale before: thanks primarily to its thriving export industries, China has $1.4 trillion (and counting) in its pocket, and has to put it somewhere. For years, the investment of choice has ... More About: Investments , Enter , Dragon , Enter The Dragon
More Lenders Feeling Pain From Defaults
2007-08-01 00:00:00 Problems in the mortgage market spread deeper and farther afield yesterday. Trading in the shares of a large mortgage company was suspended yesterday, and the nation?s largest insurer of home loans said its stake in a business that underwrites and invests in mortgage securities may be worthless. Earlier, a German bank acknowledged that its investments in ... More About: Pain , Ender , Feeling , Feel , Lend
Stock markets slide
2007-07-31 00:00:00 Stock markets across Europe and the US had their worst day in several months. In London the main share index fell more than 200 points - the biggest one day points drop in over four years. Everywhere the gloom was partly a response to new figures underlying the slump in the US housing market. Poor company ... More About: Markets , Stock , Slide , Stock markets
Asian Markets Mixed Monday
2007-07-31 00:00:00 (TOKYO) ? Asian markets were mixed Monday as investors appeared to take another big drop on Wall Street Friday more or less in stride, even as they braced for possible wider fallout from problems in the U.S. housing market. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 index was down 0.35 percent to 17,223.8 in afternoon trading, after tumbling 2.4 ... More About: Markets , Mixed , Onda
Stocks Extend Losses After Sell-Off
2007-07-29 00:00:00 Stocks fell sharply on Wall Street today, a day after a sharp sell-off caused by worries about slowing economic growth and tighter borrowing conditions. The three major stock indexes ? the Standard & Poor?s 500-stock index, the Dow Jones industrial average and the Nasdaq composite ? were each down about 1.5 percent, with most of the ... More About: Stocks , Sell , Losses
Federal Minimum Wage to Rise on Tuesday
2007-07-23 00:00:00 Upcoming Minimum Wage Increase Will Give Boost to Some of Nation’s Poorest Workers WASHINGTON (AP) — Fast-food waitress Fawn Townsend of Raleigh, N.C., knows exactly what she is going to do if her salary goes up with Tuesday ’s increase in the federal minimum wage: start saving for a car so she can find a second job ... More About: Rise
C.E.O. Libraries Reveal Keys to Success
More articles from this author:2007-07-21 00:00:00 Michael Moritz, the venture capitalist who built a personal $1.5 billion fortune discovering the likes of Google, YouTube, Yahoo and PayPal, and taking them public, may seem preternaturally in tune with new media. But it is the imprint of old media ? books by the thousands sprawling through his Bay Area ... More About: Success , Keys , Libra , Libraries 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 |
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