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U.S. Equity Preview

Mon May 14, 2012 8:49am EST Comments Off on U.S. Equity Preview

AAPL, AVP, CBT, CHK, JDA, JPM, NRG, DIS,

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Upgrades and Downgrades This Morning

Mon May 14, 2012 8:47am EST Comments Off on Upgrades and Downgrades This Morning

BBVA, EMN, FRC, JBLU, KIRK, M, N, NEE, NOK, RSG, SPLK, SYMC, TDC, TUMI, VRTX,

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In Play and On the Wires

Mon May 14, 2012 8:43am EST Comments Off on In Play and On the Wires

In Play

On the Wires

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Spanish Yields Go Parabolic as LTRO Ends

Mon May 14, 2012 8:41am EST Comments Off on Spanish Yields Go Parabolic as LTRO Ends

Yields are ripping like a kite in a hurricane.

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What Does History Predicate if Greece Leaves the Euro ?

Mon May 14, 2012 8:37am EST Comments Off on What Does History Predicate if Greece Leaves the Euro ?

An interesting look into what may happen if Greece leave the Euro…

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KRUGMAN: Here’s How The Whole Eurozone Could Unravel In Just A Matter Of Months

Mon May 14, 2012 8:34am EST Comments Off on KRUGMAN: Here’s How The Whole Eurozone Could Unravel In Just A Matter Of Months

“Paul Krugman has a gloomy post this evening explaining how quickly the whole Euro could unravel….”

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Social Democrats Shake Angela Merkel’s Power Base by Winning Most Populous State Elections

Mon May 14, 2012 8:25am EST Comments Off on Social Democrats Shake Angela Merkel’s Power Base by Winning Most Populous State Elections

“Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party was defeated in Germany’s most populous state in an election that helped the Social Democrats tighten their grip on the country’s regional governments.

The SPD, the main opposition party nationally, increased its vote share in yesterday’s ballot in North Rhine-Westphalia, enabling Prime Minister Hannelore Kraft to return to power at the head of a government with the Greens in the state capital Dusseldorf. Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union suffered its worst score since World War II.”

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Banks Take Estimates Down on China Growth; Slowdown Unstoppable

Mon May 14, 2012 8:22am EST Comments Off on Banks Take Estimates Down on China Growth; Slowdown Unstoppable

“China’s slowdown may deepen as policy makers unwind the excesses of a record credit boom while gradually stepping up stimulus, leaving 2012 growth at the weakest in 13 years, Pacific Investment Management Co. says.

“The economy is unlikely to bottom until the third quarter,” Ramin Toloui, Pimco’s global co-head of emerging markets portfolio management in Singapore, said in e-mailed comments yesterday. “Policy makers will progressively turn the dial toward more stimulus, but not in the aggressive manner of 2009,” restrained by the goal of tempering the credit-fueled property market, he said.”

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Japan Expects Brown Outs and Power Shortages This Summer Due to Meltdown

Mon May 14, 2012 8:18am EST Comments Off on Japan Expects Brown Outs and Power Shortages This Summer Due to Meltdown

Not to poke fun at Japan after a tragedy, but who builds a power plant on top of a fault line ?

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Inflation in India Rises More Than Expectations

Mon May 14, 2012 8:14am EST Comments Off on Inflation in India Rises More Than Expectations

“Indian inflation unexpectedly accelerated in April, crimping the central bank’s scope to bolster economic growth by extending interest-rate cuts. Stocks fell, reversing earlier gains.

The benchmark wholesale-price index rose 7.23 percent from a year earlier, after climbing 6.89 percent in March, the Ministry of Commerce and Industry said in a statement in New Delhi today. The median of 32 estimates in a Bloomberg News survey was for a 6.67 percent gain…”

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Thankfully Oil Continues to Tank

Mon May 14, 2012 8:12am EST Comments Off on Thankfully Oil Continues to Tank

WTI is down a $1.57 at $94.58….Brent is down $1.37 @ $110.89

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The Euro Falls on The Permanent Ongoing Greek Tragedy AKA Grecian Formula

Mon May 14, 2012 8:08am EST Comments Off on The Euro Falls on The Permanent Ongoing Greek Tragedy AKA Grecian Formula

The Euro broke 1.30 last week and is now at 1.2865. A Greek leftist party will not join a coalition government and it is likely that another vote will have to pass some time in June.

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