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The Wall Street Journal – Citigroup Instantly Becomes a $40 Stock Citigroup, the heaviest-traded U.S. stock that accounted for 6.8% of total U.S. stock trading volume last year, drastically shrunk its share count. The move instantly erased its...
The New York Times – Response to Volatility in Silver Takes Hold On April 25, half a dozen officials from the CME Group, which runs many of the nation’s commodities exchanges, met via videophone to discuss the eye-popping rise in the price of...
The Wall Street Journal – Mark Gongloff: A ‘Buy’ Sign for Treasurys? Some Bet End of QE2 Will Be Boon to Bonds The recent rally is evidence for some investors that the end of the Fed’s second big bond-buying program, known...
The Wall Street Journal – Silver Slips Below $40, Spooks Other Markets Silver plunged for a third consecutive day, ending below $40 for the first time in almost a month as investors continued to bail out of the market due to higher trading...
CNBC.com – Fed Still Lacks ‘Exit Strategy,’ but Talks Are Heating Up Federal Reserve officials held intense talks about exit strategies at their last meeting, with policymakers divided over whether to sell billions of dollars of...
MarketBeat (WSJ Blog) – Stocks and Bonds: Which Market is Wrong? As MarketBeaters know, stocks and Treasury bonds have been telling different stories lately. They still are. Investors are again bidding up the price of Uncle Sam’s IOUs Monday....
The Wall Street Journal – Mark Gongloff: Inflation? Numbers Show Faith in Fed Ben Bernanke held the first postpolicy-meeting news conference by a Federal Reserve chairman in part to bolster confidence that the Fed remained committed to...
The Financial Times – Modest expectations Thursday sees the first estimate of US gross domestic product for the first quarter. So has the market followed the habits of the past year and overshot? Out of the last 12 monthly GDP reports, the market...
<Click on chart for larger image> The Wall Street Journal – Saudi Oil Production Doesn’t Add Up Recent oil production figures from Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest oil exporter, simply don’t add up. There are competing explanations for...
Comment In the last 30 years, there have been a number of changes in the calculation of CPI: 1981 Began outlet and item sample rotation Began systematic replacement of outlets and their item samples between major revisions Implemented new...
Los Angeles Times – Oil falls, but gasoline prices are still rising Oil prices took a tumble, but the relentless rise in retail gasoline prices continued overnight. The national average for a gallon of regular gasoline reached $3.833 Monday,...
Conseulo Mack’s WealthTrack – Interview with Jim Grant On this week’s Consuelo Mack WealthTrack, Financial Thought Leader James Grant explains why he believes the Federal Reserve’s easy money policies will wreak havoc on the economy...