Unit1 (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
If you visit your local bank, you might advertisements for money market accounts. You might be familiar with CDs, checking and savings accounts, but money market probably sounds fancy and exotic. Fortunately, they’re not. I think of money market accounts as a hybrid between a savings account and a checking account. They give you a higher [...]
The Business Insider (Free subscription) | yesterday
We do give you thicker hair/skinnier dogs/network coverage even if it's not 3G! The New York Times writes today about the increased number of official complaints and lawsuits between competitor companies over advertising claims. NYT : The goal is usually not money but market share. Companies file complaints to get competitors’ ads withdrawn or amended. The cases themselves might seem a little...
Safehaven (Free subscription) | yesterday
Despite ballooning Fed reserves to bail out banks, money supply as measured by the growth in money supply with a zero maturity (notes and coins, check accounts, savings deposits and money-market accounts collectively) continues to slow.
Alex Constantine's Blacklist (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Also see: "Sarah Palin and the Rapture" What Sarah Palin's "Jewish People will be Flocking to Israel" Prediction Means Bruce Wilson AlterNet | November 21, 2009. Palin's associated with a religious tendency whose leaders promote anti-Jewish conspiracy theory It's commonly understood that statements such as Sarah Palin's prediction that Jews will soon be "flocking to Israel"...
The Business Insider (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
The following is John Mauldin's weekly e-letter. You can sign up to receive it each week here > Where the Wild Things Are is a beloved children's book and now a beautiful movie. But in the investment world there are really scary wild things lurking about in the hidden recesses of the economic landscape. Today we look at one of the unintended consequences of the Federal Reserve's low interest rate...
Daily Equity Report (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
In his latest missive, Pimco boss, Bill Gross bemoans the 0,01% per annum that US money market funds are paying investors. With over $4 trillion sitting in money market funds, there are many investors that are basically receiving zero percent return, which is the modern day equivalent of hiding money under a mattress. A graph presented by Pimco indicates that money has more recently been moving out...
Law Blog - WSJ.com (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Assets in money-market funds rose $3.71 billion in the latest week, reversing a recent trend of outflows.
Fool.com (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Are short memories spurring more risk taking?
FelixSalmon.com (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Bill Gross isn't earning much interest on his cash: in fact, he's only earning 0.01%. Tell us, Bill, what's an appropriate metaphor to explain how it feels to earn such a low interest rate? My point is to recognize, and to hope that you recognize, that an effective zero percent interest rate, as a price for hiding in a foxhole, is prohibitive. Like the American doughboys near France’s Maginot...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
SAN BRUNO, Calif., Nov. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Nomis Solutions today announced the release of www.nomisinsights.com - the first pricing portal for retail banking. The pricing portal is initially focused on money market product pricing in the United States and features
Stocks to Watch Today (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Pimco’s Bill Gross issued his December investment missive this morning and the verdict is: Buy utilities. Gross’s point is that the U.S. Federal Reserve is trying to “reflate” the U.S. economy by forcing investor’s to buy corporate bonds and stocks, by keeping interest rates so low that money markets are [...]
The Business Insider (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Bill Gross's latest market update proposes an interesting view -- as the U.S. moves towards an increasingly regulated economy, businesses will start to resemble utilities, that is, heavily protected (by regulations that muck up new entrants) yet with capped returns (earn too much, the government comes after you). Given the very low interest rates that are available today for money market funds, and...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
ROCKVILLE, Md., Nov. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Legal & General America, Inc. (the "Company") announced that it has commenced today a cash tender offer to purchase (the "Offer") up to $200 million aggregate principal amount of Potomac Trust Capital Class A Money Market Securities ("MM Securities") of the eleven series listed below, upon the terms and subject to the conditions...
Financial Telsisinc (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
By Frank T. Larsen The investments you accumulate now will determine how financially stable you will be in the future. You will need to contact a specialist adviser in whatever type of investment you are considering so that you can maximize the return on your capital. So if you need to know where to find investment advice, this article should prove helpful. There are many investment opportunities,...
www.widyanto.tk (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
MONEY MARKETS-Dollar interbank lending rates at record low: LONDON, Nov 18 (Reuters) - Benchmark bank-to-bank d.. http://bit.ly/5VkY1
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