Treasuries: The New New Bubble?

Updated from 1:20 p.m. ET Are Treasuries the next bubble? A lot of traders seem to think so after a sharp rally in Treasury prices sent yields down to their lowest levels in decades.”There’s more risk in things people think ar

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RIM Blows Q3, Yahoo Rumors Continue to Swirl

So far, this week’s tech news is a mix of the bad, the good and the highly speculative.In the first and second categories, Research in Motion reported long after the close last night that it blew its third quarter: Quarterly sales will drop between $

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TARP Trouble: GAO Report Rips Internal Controls, Bank Monitoring

From ClusterStock:If the TARP were a private company, it would have a Sarbanes-Oxley problem. The Government Accountablity Office has just published its take on the TARP.
Among the many conclusions reached is that the TARP lacks adequate
internal contro

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The Big Three Have a Plan: Ask for Even More Bailout Money

Updated from 11:41 a.m. ET The automakers return to Capitol Hill for hearings this week with a plan for survival and seeking an even bigger handout than last month.Update: UAW President Ron Gettelfinger said Wedn

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Unemployment Rate Could Reach 8.5-9 Percent, Economist Says

Friday’s jobs report is expected to show payrolls dropped 325,000 in November, which will be the 11th consecutive month of declining payrolls. The unemployment rate is forecast to rise to 6.8%, which would be the highest since 1993, Bloomberg reports. …

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Stocks Make Half-Hearted Apology for Yesterday

From ClusterStock, Dec. 2, 2008:After yesterday’s horror show, the stock market battled back with
the major averages gaining between 3%-4%. For a few moments there, it
looked like the wheels were going to come off, early in the afternoon
after GM threw

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Recession Remedy: Big, Bold and Quick Stimulus, More Help for Homeowners

Unless the government takes “big, bold and quick” action, the U.S. economy is headed for its deepest recession since World War II, says Nariman Behravesh, chief economist of IHS Global Insight and author of Spin-Free Economics

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Greed, Denial, Lack of Transparency: Goldman Not Immune to Wall St. Crisis

Goldman Sachs stock was a notable laggard during Tuesday’s recovery effort, hit by a WSJ story forecasting the firm will suffer a wider-than-expected loss of $2 billion, or $5 per share, for the quarter that ended Nov. 28.A loss of that magnitude (or anyt

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