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Calculated Risk (329 Links)
Created by MyPropsMonkey 318 days ago in Finance. Views: 353. Link Views: 2,052
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Retail Sales increase in February
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On a monthly basis, retail sales increased 0.3% from January to February (seasonally adjusted, after revisions), and sales were up 4.5% from February 2009 (easy comparison). Click on graph for larger image in new window. This graph shows retail [More...]
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Report: Obama to Nominate Janet Yellen as Fed Vice Chairman
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From Bloomberg: Yellen Said to Be Obama’s Pick for Fed Vice Chairman I suggested Dr. Yellen as a possible candidate for Fed Chairman last year, so obviously I think this is a good choice. She was way ahead of most other Fed members in recognizing the [More...]
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Examiner: Lehman used undisclosed "balance sheet manipulation"
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The NY Times Deal Book has posted the Lehman's examiners report online: Court-Appointed Lehman Examiner Unveils Report There is an interesting excerpt on the apparent use of repo transactions to bolster Lehman's balance sheet: ... former Global [More...]
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Bank Failure #27: LibertyPointe Bank, New York, New York
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From the FDIC: Valley National Bank, Wayne, New Jersey, Assumes All of the Deposits of LibertyPointe Bank, New York, New York LibertyPointe Bank, New York, New York, was closed today by the New York State Banking Department, which appointed the Federal [More...]
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The Countdown: Federal Reserve MBS Purchases 98.4% Complete
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Some key points: The Fed MBS purchases are scheduled to end on March 31st. It will take a couple of months for some of these purchases to settle on the Fed's balance sheet (see: the discussion from SIFMA: "To-Be-Announced" Trading of Agency [More...]
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Q4 2009: Mortgage Equity Withdrawal Strongly Negative
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Note: This is not Mortgage Equity Withdrawal (MEW) data from the Fed. The last MEW data from Fed economist Dr. Kennedy was for Q4 2008. My thanks to Jim Kennedy and the other Fed contributors for the previous MEW updates. For those interested in the last [More...]
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Flow of Funds Report: Mortgage Debt Declines by $72 Billion in Q4
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The Federal Reserve released the Q4 2009 Flow of Funds report today: Flow of Funds. According to the Fed, household net worth is now off $12.5 Trillion from the peak in 2007, but up $5.0 trillion from the trough last year. A majority of the decline in [More...]
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Hotel Occupancy and RevPAR Increase compared to same week in 2009
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From HotelNewsNow.com: STR: RevPAR increases in US weekly results The United States hotel industry posted only its third revenue-per-available-room increase in 18 months for the week ending 6 March 2010, rising 0.9 percent to US$52.75, according to data [More...]
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Trade Deficit decreases slightly in January
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The Census Bureau reports: [T]otal January exports of $142.7 billion and imports of $180.0 billion resulted in a goods and services deficit of $37.3 billion, down from $39.9 billion in December, revised. Click on graph for larger image. The first graph [More...]
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Weekly Initial Unemployment Claims: Still Suggesting Job Losses
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The DOL reports on weekly unemployment insurance claims: In the week ending March 6, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 462,000, a decrease of 6,000 from the previous week's revised figure of 468,000. The 4-week moving average [More...]
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RealtyTrac: Foreclosure Activity Decreases Slightly
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From RealtyTrac: U.S. Foreclosure Activity Decrease 2 Percent in February [F]oreclosure filings — default notices, scheduled auctions and bank repossessions — were reported on 308,524 U.S. properties during the month, a decrease of 2 percent from the [More...]
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Congressional Oversight Panel criticizes handling of GMAC
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The Congressional Oversight Panel (COP) released a new report: The Unique Treatment of GMAC Under the TARP [T]he Panel remains unconvinced that bankruptcy was not a viable option in 2008. In connection with the Chrysler and GM bankruptcies, Treasury might [More...]
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The Next Stress Test Scenarios
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It is probably time for the U.S. to consider the next set of stress tests for the banks. That is what the Financial Services Authority (FSA) is doing in the U.K. From the FSA: We have now embedded our new approach to stress testing into our normal [More...]
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Bubbling over in China?
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From CR: There are so many reports of a housing bubble in China, I asked a friend living in China for his thoughts ... this is his view: From Michael Kleist in Shanghai: News of soaring housing prices in China, which are now hovering around late [More...]
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Greenspan to Testify before Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission
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From the WSJ: Financial Crisis Panel to Grill Greenspan Greenspan is scheduled to testify before the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission in early April. This might be the one real opportunity to understand why regulators missed the lending [More...]
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Rail Traffic Declines Slightly in February
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From the Association of American Railroads: Rail Time Indicators. The AAR reports traffic in February 2010 was down 1.7% compared to February 2009, and off 0.1% compared to January 2010 (seasonally adjusted). Click on graph for larger image in new [More...]
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More: Short Sales and 2nd liens
Posted by MyPropsMonkey 1 day ago (feedproxy.google.com).  Views: 0
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This is a follow up on the previous post on short sales and 2nd liens. (the previous post had excerpts from the NY Times, Short-Sale Program to Pay Homeowners to Sell at a Loss and WSJ Home-Saving Loans Afoot) Just to be clear on what subordinate lien [More...]
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Unemployment Rate Increases in 30 States in January
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From the BLS: Regional and State Employment and Unemployment Summary Thirty states and the District of Columbia recorded over-the-month unemployment rate increases, 9 states registered rate decreases, and 11 states had no rate change, the U.S. Bureau of [More...]
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MBA: Mortgage Applications Increase Slightly
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The MBA reports: Purchase Applications Increase in Latest MBA Weekly SurveyThe Market Composite Index, a measure of mortgage loan application volume, increased 0.5 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis from one week earlier. ... The Refinance Index [More...]
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Report: HAMP Modification Conversion Rate at about 33%
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From Shahien Nasiripour at the Huffington Post: Obama Foreclosure-Prevention Plan Lagging, New Data Shows Only about a third of the homeowners who have successfully completed the trial period of the Obama administration's mortgage modification program [More...]
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