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Monthly Archives: June 2012
Tsipras Bets He Can Keep EU Aid Flowing While Ending Austerity
How do you say, in Greek, “Do you feel lucky punk? Do you?”
Read the article about this ballsy socialist here.
Comments »Rise in US Oil Supplies Haunts Opec Talks
Who would have thunk it?
At a seminar in the Opec headquarters in Vienna on Wednesday, the rise in US oil supplies was the shadow that fell over every discussion. Over the past three years, the US has accounted for the entire net increase in global oil output, excluding Opec members and former Soviet republics.
And what is causing the increase in supply?
Advances in the techniques of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, first applied to shale gas reserves, are now making it possible to develop US oil in reserves previously commercially unviable [sic].
DAMN that American ingenuity.
Read the article here.
Comments »Biggest Winners (1 week)
FLASH: MOODY’S JOINS SEAN ‘MEDIA WHORE’ EGAN IN DOWNGRADING SPAIN
Moody’s downgrades Spain to BAA3 from A3
Comments »Jim Cramer Calls Jamie Dimon “a Loser”
Manhattan Financial Services Contraction Weighs Heavily on REITs
Manhattan financial services contraction weighs heavily on REITs
June 13, 2012 12:00PM
By Adam Pincus
The shrinking of Manhattan’s once-robust financial services footprint is dampening the mood among top real estate executives who spoke yesterday during an annual real estate investment trust conference in Midtown. While the CEOs and presidents of firms such as SL Green Realty, Vornado Realty Trust and Boston Properties, generally said the cutbacks had not hurt their own companies, they acknowledged the weak financial services industry hobbled the overall leasing market.
Those REITs were among the more than 100 real estate investment trusts that were scheduled to make public comments and take questions from the audience yesterday and today at the annual conference known as REITWeek, held this year from June 12-14 at the Hilton New York in Midtown. The event is hosted by the Washington, D.C.-based National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts.
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ETF Corner
Today’s Heat Map and A/D Lines
Morning Hybrid Movers
Here’s a look at this morning’s hybrid movers, click here for charts.
Comments »Industry Breadth
FLASH: GERMANY 2 YR YIELDS AT 1 MONTH HIGHS
Gold, Silver and Oil Are All Higher
FLASH: The Euro is Spiking Hard
FLASH: WESTERN MARKETS REVERSE HIGHER, LED BY SPAIN
Goldman’s Jan Hatzius Just Cut His Q2 GDP Estimate
“$GS chief U.S. economist Jan Hatzius and his team lowered their tracking estimate of Q2 GDP growth to 1.6 percent from 1.8 percent on the back of weak retail sales data out of the United States this morning.
Hatzius wrote in a note to clients that “key details of the report were weaker than the consensus had expected,” including non-auto retail sales, which were down 0.4 percent, and “core”/control retail sales — a metric that strips autos, gasoline, and building materials out of the number — which came in flat at 0 percent.”
Comments »U.S. Demand for Crude Drops 30%
“Revised U.S. crude demand for March averaged 18.2 million barrels per day (mb/d), a decline of 5.6 percent from 2011.
Consumption was lower across all of the main product categories, the International Energy Agency reported this morning.
“Despite the optimism that had crept into the US economic news feed during late‐2011/early‐2012, cracks have started to appear, undermining the short‐term demand prognosis,” the agency reported, citing the recent, crummy GDP, non-farm payrolls, Philly Fed, and ISM data.”
Comments »Business Inventories: Prior 0.3%, Market Expects 0.2%, Actual 0.2%
Live Stream of Jamie Dimon Having His Testicles Roasted by Senate
European Debt Crisis for Dummies
Pay close attention sheeple of America….there is one thing you need to know about Spain’s bailout; Italy will finance the debt with ratse in the 6-7% range while Spain will pay it back a few years from now at 3%.
Here is a wider view of the problems.
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