Archive for October, 2009

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Credit Market Overview
October 15, 2009
Larry Summers was in St. Louis recently speaking about the risks to the recovery.
St. Louis is far enough away from Washington and Larry’s history of saying things others find slightly controversial could make him the perfect foil for planting the seeds of doubt the President will need to have… »

Credit Market Overview
October 14, 2009
Even before starting her eponymously named firm Meredith Whitney had won the role of Queen of the Damned in the drama that has played out on Broad Street (not Broadway) these past few years as a bank and finance analyst for Oppenheimer & Co.  The golden haired siren has costarred opposite… »

Credit Market Overview
October 13, 2009
Since the 1973 oil embargo, if not before, the price of a barrel of crude oil has been a key benchmark for investors of all stripes.  It has become an indicator of economic health, both from a physical usage standpoint as well as financial as its dollar denomination has made it… »

Credit Market Overview
October 12, 2009
Keeping an eye on the new high, new low stats in Barron’s each week has become interesting in light of the swings the indices themselves make during the 5-day stretch bookended by Saturday and Sunday.
The latest figures for the NYSE were 684 new highs and 9 new lows.  On an absolute… »

Credit Market Overview
October 9, 2009

If pink is the new grey, which is the new black and with regard to the returns of most hedge funds last year; flat is the new up, then yesterdays +7.90 in the SPX is the new down as when things felt that heavy last year there was usually a double… »

Credit Market Overview
October 8, 2009
That the stock market has chewed up and spit out last week’s “horrific”? employment numbers in less than a trading week has to rank as one of the top 10 comebacks of all time.  At least up there with Flutie’s “Hail Mary” to beat Miami in ’84 or Elway and Montana… »

Credit Market Overview
October 7, 2009
The rally in stocks since March 6th has had its fair share of detractors.  Some of which began their detracting on March 7th.  It has, to many, become the rally that everyone hates.  The violent fear fueled selloffs almost always breaking some “line in the sand” technical level have been followed… »

Credit Market Overview
October 6, 2009
On September 25th the Wall St. Journal published an opinion piece by Kevin M. Warsh, a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors since 2006; calling for a pre-emptive strike by the Fed at the roaring inflation he believes the country is at risk of due to Ben Bernanke’s easy… »