Daily Download: Stock Investing News & Analysis for 2-2-10
February 2nd, 2010 at 8:39 am by CB | No CommentsGood morning, investors and traders! You are reading the Daily Download (”Daily DL”), which includes summaries and links to the day’s selected economic and stock investing news. The Daily DL is maintained by Chain Bridge Investing (“CB”), which is a financial blog at www.chainbridgeinvesting.com.... [Read more]
Tagged with: Alan Blinder, AT&T, Bank Lending, Barnes & Noble, Boston Scientific, Carrier, Changes to Inventories, Copper, Cordis, Cosan, Data Traffic, David Rosenberg, Ethanol, ExxonMobil, Gannett, GDP, Google, High Yield, High Yield Bond, Humana, Inventory, Johnson & Johnson, Junk Bonds, Layoffs, Medicare, Microsoft, Moody's, Newspaper ad revenue, Poison Pill, Riggio, Ron Burkle, Royal Dutch Shell, Sony, Sugar Cane, The Associated Press, Yahoo
Bill Gross: Invest in Less Leveraged Asia, Avoid the Deleveraging Consumer
January 31st, 2010 at 2:08 am by CB | No CommentsBill Gross of PIMCO recently released his February 2010 Outlook. The following are some of his thoughts regarding the current financial and economic situation: (1) Despite the fact that some corporations are willing to start increasing investments and risk due to (a) steep yield curves and (b) repaired... [Read more]
Tagged with: Bill Gross, Canada, Carmen Reinhart, Consumer Debt, Credit Cards, Debt & Deleveraging, Debt as a Percentage of GDP, Deleveraging, GDP, GDP Growth, Germany, Household Debt, Kenneth Rogoff, Mortgages, PIMCO, This Time is Different, Unemployment
Household Debt Levels of BRICs & Additional Detail on China
January 31st, 2010 at 12:26 am by CB | No CommentsOne of the common themes heard amongst those investing in emerging market equities is the focus on consumer spending growth. Consumer spending growth tends to be fueled by a decrease in savings and an expansion of household credit. One of the data points CB desired to observe for many of the emerging... [Read more]
Tagged with: Brazil, China, Consumer Debt, Debt & Deleveraging, GDP, Household Consumption, Household Debt, India, National Bureau of Statistics of China, Russia
Bill Miller: GDP Growth of 3.5% to 4.5%, Bullish on IBM, Bank of America & Regional Banks
January 13th, 2010 at 9:58 am by CB | No CommentsToday, Bill Miller, a famed investor and the chairman of Legg Mason Capital Management, briefly discussed his market views on CNBC. Some of his views were briefly discussed in the Daily DL for 1-6-10. The following are the more important points from his discussion: (1) Miller believes that there... [Read more]
Tagged with: Bank of America, Bill Miller, Bonds, Depression, GDP, GDP Growth, GE, IBM, J.P. Morgan, Regional Banks
Daily Download: Financial and Stock Investing News for 11-17-09
November 17th, 2009 at 6:17 am by CB | No CommentsGood morning, investors and traders! You are reading the Daily Download (”Daily DL”), which includes summaries and links to the day’s selected economic and stock investing news. The Daily DL is maintained by Chain Bridge Investing, which is a financial blog at www.chainbridgeinvesting.com. Chain... [Read more]
Tagged with: Asian Currencies, Asian Exports, Asset Prices, Bernanke, bubbles, Buffett, Buffett Holdings, China, Fed, GDP, Gold, Renminbi, Retail Sales, Trade Imbalance, U.S. Dollar, Unemployment
Daily Download: Financial and Stock Investing News for 11-9-09
November 9th, 2009 at 4:59 am by CB | No CommentsGood morning, investors and traders! You are reading the Daily Download (”Daily DL”), which includes summaries and links to the day’s selected economic and stock investing news. The Daily DL is maintained by Chain Bridge Investing, which is a financial blog at www.chainbridgeinvesting.com. Chain... [Read more]
Tagged with: Central Banks, Defaults, Fed's Balance Sheet, Federal Reserve, GDP, Grant Thornton, Holiday season, Inflation, Inflation Expectation, James Bullard, Listings, Recession, Recovery, Residential Mortgage Bonds, S&P, Sarbanes Oxley, Stimulus, TIPS, Treasury, US Retailers
Daily Download: Financial and Stock Investing News for 10-30-09
October 30th, 2009 at 5:21 am by CB | No CommentsGood morning, investors and traders! You are reading the Daily Download (”Daily DL”), which includes summaries and links to the day’s selected economic and stock investing news. The Daily DL is maintained by Chain Bridge Investing, which is a financial blog at www.chainbridgeinvesting.com. ... [Read more]
Tagged with: Economy, Emerging Markets, FDIC, Financial Regulation, GDP, GDP Growth, Home-Buyer Tax-Credit, IMF, Latin America, Nintendo, Oil, Shipping
Economic Indicators: Gross Domestic Product
October 29th, 2009 at 5:05 pm by CB | No CommentsThe Gross Domestic Product (“GDP”) is reported on a quarterly basis by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis at 8:30 am during the last week of January, April, July, and October. These reports are then followed by two rounds of revisions, each a month apart. GDP has been recorded and... [Read more]
Tagged with: Bureau of Economic Analysis, Final Sales of Domestic Product, GDP, Gross Domestic Purchases, Gross Private Domestic Investment, Labor Productivity, Net Exports, Personal Consumption Expenditures
Daily Download: Financial and Stock Investing News for 10-29-09
October 29th, 2009 at 5:00 am by CB | No CommentsGood morning, investors and traders! You are reading the Daily Download (”Daily DL”), which includes summaries and links to the day’s selected economic and stock investing news. The Daily DL is maintained by Chain Bridge Investing, which is a financial blog at www.chainbridgeinvesting.com. ... [Read more]
Tagged with: CIT, Fund Buying, Galleon Group, GDP, GM, Home sales, Home-Buyer Tax-Credit, Housing, Icahn, MBA Weekly Mortgage Applications, U.S. Dollar
