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		<title>(KR) Core Consumer Price Index Inflation Still Tame</title>
		<link>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2011/03/31/kr-core-consumer-price-index-inflation-still-tame/69035</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 14:34:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vitalstocks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose by 0.5% in February, up from a 0.4% increase in both January and December. While that sounds bad, year over year it is up just 2.1%. Looking a little bit deeper, the problem is mostly with energy, and to a lesser extent, food prices. Energy Prices Energy prices surged 3.4% on top of a 2.1% increase in January and a 4.0% jump in December. Overall, energy prices are up 11.0% year over year. Actually the increase is even narrower than that, as energy commodities, such as gasoline and heating oil were up 4.8% after an increase of 4.0% in January and a 6.4% surge in December. Year over year, energy commodity prices are up 19.3%. That is much higher than inflation in the rest ]]></description>
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		<title>(KR) Consumer Price Index Increases but Still Tame</title>
		<link>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2011/02/18/kr-consumer-price-index-increases-but-still-tame/67199</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 16:48:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vitalstocks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose by 0.4% in January, The same pace as in December (after December was revised down to 0.4% from 0.5%). The CPI increased by just 0.1% in November, so the past two months are a bit of an acceleration. While that sounds bad, year over year it is up just 1.6%. Energy Prices Looking a little bit deeper, the problem is mostly with energy prices, which surged 2.1% on top of a 4.0% increase in December. Overall, energy prices are up 7.3% year over year. Actually the increase is even narrower than that, as energy commodities, such as gasoline and heating oil were up 4.0% after an increase of 6.4% in December. Year over year energy commodity prices are up 13.4%. That is much higher ]]></description>
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		<title>(WMT) U.S. Personal Income Up &#8211; Spending Flat</title>
		<link>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2010/05/28/wmt-u-s-personal-income-up-spending-flat/38865</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 22:46:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vitalstocks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning’s report on Personal Income and Spending was a classic good news and bad news report. First, the bad news: Personal Spending, or what is known as Personal Consumption Expenditures or PCE, was virtually unchanged (up $4.0 billion, which does not even round to 0.1%) in April after rising a very robust 0.6% in March. PCE is kind of on the important side, since it accounts for 71% of the U.S. economy. To some extent, the early Easter might have pulled some spending into March from April, thus inflating PCE of March and depressing it for April, but that would not account for all of the swing. This is evidence that consumers were spending much less freely in April than they were in March. It also would tend to ]]></description>
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		<title>(BAC) Producer Price Index Shows Producer Prices Still Tame $$</title>
		<link>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2010/05/23/bac-producer-price-index-shows-producer-prices-still-tame/37585</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 04:34:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vitalstocks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Producer Price Index for finished goods fell 0.1% in April on a headline basis. The consensus was looking for an increase of 0.1%. Year-over-year prices are up 5.5%, mostly due to a rebound in energy costs, but that is down from a 6.0% year-over-year increase in March. The decline in the monthly headline number helps reverse the 0.7% surge in prices on a headline basis in March, but that in turn came after a 0.6% decline in February. Since the food and energy components of the index tend to be very volatile, economists also like to look at core prices, which exclude food and energy costs, to get a better sense of the underlying trend in prices. On a core basis, prices were up 0.2%, which was a tick ]]></description>
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		<title>(F) U.S. Consumer Price Index (CPI) Fell by 0.1% in April &#8211; What Inflation?</title>
		<link>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2010/05/19/f-u-s-consumer-price-index-cpi-fell-by-0-1-in-april-what-inflation/37673</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 19:05:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vitalstocks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Consumer Price Index (CPI) fell by 0.1% in April on a headline basis, and was unchanged once one strips out food and energy. For anyone who is listening out there, let me make this crystal clear: inflation is NOT a problem right now. On a year-over-year basis, the headline CPI is up 2.2% and the core rate of inflation is up just 0.9%. However, even those low numbers greatly overstate what has been happening lately, and mostly reflect price increases from almost a year ago. Over the last six months, headline inflation is running at a rip-roaring annualized rate of 0.3%. At the core level, it is even lower, running at just 0.04%. If anything, policy makers have to be more concerned about the possibility of deflation than they ]]></description>
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		<title>(LPX) U.S. Housing Starts and Building Permits Rise</title>
		<link>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2010/04/18/lpx-u-s-housing-starts-and-building-permits-rise/34095</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 01:09:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vitalstocks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We got some good news and some bad news today. The good news is that both Housing Starts and Building Permits rose in March. The bad news is that both housing starts and building permits rose in March. It is good news, since residential investment is historically one of the most important locomotives pulling the U.S. economy out of recessions, and thus far this time around that locomotive has been derailed. It is bad news because we still have an excess inventory of houses, both new and used, particularly if you factor in the massive shadow inventory of used homes where the owners are deeply delinquent on their mortgages or where the banks have already started the foreclosure process. The real answer to the question of if this is good news or bad ]]></description>
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		<title>How Does the U.S. Solve an Economic Problem Like China?</title>
		<link>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2010/04/18/how-does-the-u-s-solve-an-economic-problem-like-china/34121</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 00:52:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>InvestmentU</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The more things change… the more they stay the same. During the eight years of his presidency, George Bush and his administration had Chinese premier Hu Jintao on speed dial. More often than not, item No. 1 was the yuan. Namely, appealing to China to let its currency float on the free market, so it trades at a fairer valuation. And just like Batman’s phone would flash when Commissioner Gordon was on the line, Mr. Hu saw it coming every time… “Thank you for calling – and for your continued interest in our currency affairs. But we won’t be adjusting it anytime soon. We like it just the way it is.” Barack Obama is now hearing the same refrain. And he just did so again… Could China’s Stubborn Currency Stance ]]></description>
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		<title>(FCX) U.S. Industrial Production Inches Higher</title>
		<link>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2010/04/15/fcx-u-s-industrial-production-inches-higher/34013</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 23:27:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In March, total Industrial Production rose by 0.1%. While that is a slowdown from recent growth rates, and far below consensus expectations of 0.7% growth, if one looks beyond the headline number, it is actually a fairly positive report. For starters, each of the previous three months was revised higher, with growth in February now estimated at 0.3% rather than the original 0.1%, January rising 1.0% instead of 0.9% and December showing growth of 0.7% rather than 0.5%. Those upward revisions are a very good omen for first quarter GDP growth. Year over year, industrial production is up 4.0%. Total industrial production includes not just the output of the nation&#8217;s factories, but of its mines and utilities as well. It is the utility portion that tends to cause the most ]]></description>
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		<title>(XOM) Inflation &#8220;Chicken Littles&#8221; Have Been Wrong</title>
		<link>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2010/04/14/xom-inflation-chicken-littles-have-been-wrong/33725</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 21:41:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vitalstocks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Consumer Price Index rose just 0.1% in March, after being unchanged in February and rising 0.2% in January. Over the last year, it is up 2.3%. If one strips out food and energy costs, prices were unchanged on the month, after rising just 0.1% in February and actually falling 0.1% in January. That means since the start of the year there has been absolutely no inflation at all at the core level. As a matter of fact, the last time core inflation rose more than 0.1% was in October. Year over year, core prices are up just 1.1%. Actually, stripping out food AND energy is not really needed, as food really is not an issue in terms of inflation. It rose 0.2% in March after an increase of 0.1% ]]></description>
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		<title>(PBR) U.S. Consumer Price Index Remains Tame</title>
		<link>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2010/03/18/pbr-u-s-consumer-price-index-remains-tame/31205</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:26:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We got more evidence today that inflation is not a serious concern. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) was unchanged in February after five straight months when it had increased by only 0.2% per month. Overall consumer prices are just 2.1% higher than a year ago. If food and energy prices are stripped out to get “core&#8221; inflation, then inflation is also very tame, with core inflation up 0.1% in February, reversing a 0.1% decline in January and a 0.1% increase in December. Over the last year, core inflation has just been 1.3%, and most of that inflation happened earlier in 2009. Actually, food prices have been very well behaved, down 0.2% over the last year, but up slightly (0.1%, 0.2%, and 0.1%) in each of the last three months. Energy ]]></description>
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		<title>(FNM) Federal Reserve Stays On Hold With Interest Rates &#8211; In-Depth</title>
		<link>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2010/03/18/fnm-federal-reserve-stays-on-hold-with-interest-rates-in-depth/30881</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:08:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vitalstocks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As expected, the Federal Reserve left the federal funds rate unchanged at its meeting today. Below, we present statements from the current meeting along with statements from the late January meeting, with my commentary and interpretation (translation?) interspersed on a paragraph by paragraph basis. &#8220;Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in January suggests that economic activity has continued to strengthen and that the labor market is stabilizing. Household spending is expanding at a moderate rate but remains constrained by high unemployment, modest income growth, lower housing wealth, and tight credit. &#8220;Business spending on equipment and software has risen significantly. However, investment in nonresidential structures is declining, housing starts have been flat at a depressed level, and employers remain reluctant to add to payrolls. &#8220;While bank lending continues ]]></description>
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		<title>(FCX) Producer Price Index Falls More Than Expected</title>
		<link>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2010/03/17/fcx-producer-price-index-falls-more-than-expected/30927</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 19:36:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In February, the Producer Price Index (PPI) fell by 0.6%, a far bigger decline than the 0.2% drop expected by the consensus of forecasts. However, all of the decline came from a bigger-than-expected fall in Energy prices. The core index, which strips out the volatile food and energy components rose by 0.1%, which was in line with forecasts. The decline in the headline number only partially reversed the big 1.4% increase in January, which came on top of a 0.4% rise in December. Core prices have been much more stable (as is normally the case) with this month’s 0.1% rise coming on top of a 0.3% increase in January and an unchanged reading in December.  Unfortunately, energy prices, especially crude oil, have rallied so far in March, so the headline number for March ]]></description>
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		<title>(C) Obama to Nominate Yellen to Be Federal Reserve Vice Chairman</title>
		<link>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2010/03/12/c-obama-to-nominate-yellen-to-be-federal-reserve-vice-chairman/30523</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:24:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vitalstocks</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Citigroup Inc.]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bloomberg is reporting today that Janet Yellen is President Obama’s pick to succeed Donald Kohn as vice chairman of the Federal Reserve. Yellen is currently the President of the San Francisco Fed, the largest of the 12 Federal Reserve Districts, both geographically and economically. Yellen is an excellent selection for the post. She recognized the looming crisis earlier than anyone else on the Fed. A graduate of Brown and Yale, she has taught economics at Harvard and Berkley and served as the Chair of the Council of Economic Advisors under President Clinton. She is also married to a Nobel Prize-winning economist (just imagine the pillow talk about the money supply). In her role as vice chair, she would always have a vote on the open market committee. As President of ]]></description>
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		<title>(TM) U.S. Trade Deficit Falls, However&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2010/03/11/tm-u-s-trade-deficit-falls-however/30416</link>
		<comments>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2010/03/11/tm-u-s-trade-deficit-falls-however/30416#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:03:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vitalstocks</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Auto Manufacturers - Major]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Consumer Goods]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China Mobile Limited]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CHL]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Claymore-AlphaShares China Small Cap]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ford Motor Company]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[HAO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inflation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The nation&#8217;s trade deficit fell in January to $37.3 billion from a downwardly revised $39.9 billion in December. It did so, however, for the &#8220;wrong reason.&#8221; We saw a bigger decline in imports, which dropped by $3.1 billion or 1.69% to $180.0 billion, than we did in exports, which fell by $0.5 billion or 0.35%, to $142.7 billion. It is the wrong reason because both imports and exports fell. We want to see an expansion in world trade, not a contraction. With the dramatic increase in both imports and exports in China release yesterday (both up by more than 45% year over year), the relatively small declines do not mean that overall world trade is declining. We are, however, the biggest economy in the world, so contracting trade numbers here ]]></description>
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		<title>(WMT) Automatic Data Processing Sees 20,000 Job Losses</title>
		<link>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2010/03/03/wmt-automatic-data-processing-sees-20000-job-losses/29570</link>
		<comments>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2010/03/03/wmt-automatic-data-processing-sees-20000-job-losses/29570#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 21:40:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vitalstocks</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Discount Variety Stores]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Services]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BIG]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Big Lots Inc.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Employment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inflation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wal-Mart Stores Inc.]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Automatic Data Processing, the largest payroll processing firm in the nation, reported this morning that the nation lost 20,000 private sector jobs in February, which is the smallest number by its count since the recession began all the way back in December of 2007. This is a relatively tasty appetizer to the jobs data main course that comes out in Friday morning. However, the revision to the January data to a loss of 60,000 jobs from their original estimate of 22,000 leaves a bit of a bad aftertaste. The report points out that due to differences in methodologies, the ADP report is less affected by the blizzards in the Northeast than the BLS report will be. In other words, brace yourself for an ugly looking jobs report on Friday, but ]]></description>
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		<title>(DHI) Total U.S. Construction Spending Declines</title>
		<link>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2010/03/01/dhi-total-u-s-construction-spending-declines/29401</link>
		<comments>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2010/03/01/dhi-total-u-s-construction-spending-declines/29401#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 23:05:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vitalstocks</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Industrial Goods]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Residential Construction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DHI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DR Horton Inc.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FLR]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fluor Corporation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foster Wheeler AG]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FWLT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inflation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United Technologies Corporation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In January, total construction spending declined by 0.6% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 884.1 billion. That is 9.3% below the 974.3 billion rate of a year ago. However, residential construction spending actually rose by 1.1% on the month to an annual rate of $269.2 billion, although it is still 6.0% below the 286.4 pace of a year ago. Just to make very clear, a year ago was not exactly boom times for the housing industry, which is where the vast bulk of residential construction spending goes. Thus while it is nice to see a 1.1% increase on the month, things are still extremely depressed, and with the weak recent data on new home sales and housing starts, we could easily relapse into declines in the coming months. However ]]></description>
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		<title>(BAC) U.S. Treasury Sells Warrants of Four Banks</title>
		<link>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2010/02/23/bac-u-s-treasury-sells-warrants-of-four-banks/28489</link>
		<comments>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2010/02/23/bac-u-s-treasury-sells-warrants-of-four-banks/28489#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 03:37:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vitalstocks</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bank of America Corporation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Capital One Financial Corporation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[COF]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inflation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[JPM]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Signature Bank]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TCB]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TCBI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TCF Financial Corporation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Texas Capital BancShares Inc.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Washington Federal Inc]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Treasury Department is planning to auction off its warrant positions in four banks, which it received as part of its investments in banks through the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) during the height of the financial crisis. The government is taking this step to free the banks from state interference. The four banks, whose warrants are expected to be sold via auctions over the next month, are Bank of America (BAC), Washington Federal (WFSL), Texas Capital Bancshares (TCBI) and Signature Bank (SBNY). These banks have fully repurchased Treasury&#8217;s preferred stock investment. The current move to sell their warrants will completely free these banks from government intervention. Treasury will sell the warrants through a modified Dutch auction. According to the format, the four banks will be able ]]></description>
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		<title>(FNM) Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke on Exit Strategy</title>
		<link>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2010/02/12/fnm-fed-chairman-ben-bernanke-on-exit-strategy/27752</link>
		<comments>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2010/02/12/fnm-fed-chairman-ben-bernanke-on-exit-strategy/27752#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:41:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vitalstocks</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mortgage Investment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BAC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bank of America Corporation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Fannie Mae]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Freddie Mac]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke was scheduled to testify on Capitol Hill this morning, but because the Capitol was frozen (by the weather, not just by filibusters) the hearing was cancelled. However, he did release his prepared testimony. In general, in his remarks about monetary policy, Bernanke addressed the &#8220;how&#8221; of draining the huge amount of liquidity added to the system over the last 18 months or so, but he did not address the &#8220;when.&#8221; The &#8220;when&#8221; really is the most important question. To my mind, the &#8220;when&#8221; should be a long time from now. The key problem facing this economy is not inflation, it is very low rates of resource utilization. To tighten monetary policy when the unemployment rate is at 9.7% and U.S. factories are only operating at 68.8% ]]></description>
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		<title>(GS) The Federal Reserve Keeps Interest Rates Unchanged</title>
		<link>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2010/01/27/gs-the-federal-reserve-keeps-interest-rates-unchanged/26227</link>
		<comments>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2010/01/27/gs-the-federal-reserve-keeps-interest-rates-unchanged/26227#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 01:50:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vitalstocks</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Diversified Investments]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Goldman Sachs Group]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inflation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Federal Reserve decided to leave the Fed Funds rate unchanged at a range of 0 to 25 basis points, just like everyone expected them to do. Below are the current statement and the December statement, along with my analysis of the changes and commentary interspersed. &#8220;Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in December suggests that economic activity has continued to strengthen and that the deterioration in the labor market is abating. &#8220;Household spending is expanding at a moderate rate but remains constrained by a weak labor market, modest income growth, lower housing wealth and tight credit. Business spending on equipment and software appears to be picking up, but investment in structures is still contracting and employers remain reluctant to add to payrolls. Firms have brought inventory ]]></description>
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		<title>(WFC) Federal Reserve Meeting Results in Focus for Wednesday</title>
		<link>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2010/01/26/wfc-federal-reserve-meeting-results-in-focus-for-wednesday/26075</link>
		<comments>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2010/01/26/wfc-federal-reserve-meeting-results-in-focus-for-wednesday/26075#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 22:48:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vitalstocks</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[BAC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bank of America Corporation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Federal Reserve is meeting today and tomorrow, and tomorrow afternoon they will announce if they are going to change the Fed funds rate from its current range of 0 to 25 basis points. As the graphs below (from http://www.clevelandfed.org/research/data/fedfunds/index.cfm) show, not only is there almost no chance of them raising rates at this meeting, but even out to April it looks very unlikely that they will do so. In my opinion, the market has this right; the Fed should keep interest rates unchanged for a long time to come. By law the Fed has a dual mandate &#8212; it is supposed to keep inflation low and keep us as close to full employment as possible. Right now, inflation is not a major problem, particularly outside of energy prices. The ]]></description>
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		<title>(CS) Case Schiller Indexes Show Home Prices Edge Up</title>
		<link>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2010/01/26/cs-case-schiller-indexes-show-home-prices-edge-up/26062</link>
		<comments>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2010/01/26/cs-case-schiller-indexes-show-home-prices-edge-up/26062#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 22:33:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vitalstocks</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Financial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Money Center Banks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BlackRock]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Freddie Mac]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inflation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[JPM]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In November, housing prices increased by 0.24% on a seasonally adjusted basis for both the Case Schiller (CS) Composite 10 (CS-10) and Composite 20 (CS-20) city indexes. The CS indexes are considered the gold standard of housing price indexes, and track actual repeat sales, and are thus not influenced by mix changes the way that median prices can be. Over the last year, the CS-10 is down 4.5% while the CS-20 is down 5.3%. However, prices appear to have bottomed out for both measures in May and the C-10 is now up 3.76% and the C-20 is 3.38% off the bottom. While such improvement is encouraging, it will be a very long time before housing prices get back to their April 2006 peak levels. The C-10 index is now 30.4% ]]></description>
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		<title>(WY) Institute for Supply Management’s Manufacturing Index Rises</title>
		<link>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2010/01/05/wy-institute-for-supply-management%e2%80%99s-manufacturing-index-rises/24132</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 18:23:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vitalstocks</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Goods]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Textile - Apparel Clothing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inflation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International Paper Company]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Regions Financial Corporation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RF]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[VF Corporation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Institute for Supply Management’s survey of manufacturing purchasing managers was stronger than expected in December, coming in at 55.9 &#8212; up from 53.6 in November and better than the consensus expectations for a rise to 54.3. The ISM index is constructed from 10 sub-indexes and is set so 50 is the dividing line between the economy expanding and contracting. This is the 5th straight month that the overall index has been in positive (over 50) territory.  In January of 2009, it was all the way down at 35.6. Seven of the 10 sub-indexes saw improvement, and eight of the ten are at of above the 50 mark. The only two that are below the mark are the ones that deal with inventories, and low inventories provide a potential snapback ]]></description>
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		<title>(FNM) No Rate Change at the Federal Reserve</title>
		<link>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2009/12/16/fnm-no-rate-change-at-the-federal-reserve/23021</link>
		<comments>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2009/12/16/fnm-no-rate-change-at-the-federal-reserve/23021#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 23:08:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vitalstocks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Fed just wrapped up its last FOMC meeting of the year, and as expected it did not change the fed funds rate. The policy statement was substantially the same as the one they released after the last meeting in early November. While the Fed Funds rate is not going up anytime soon, the Fed looks like it is ending the loosening programs that went above and beyond a 0% short-term interest rate. My reaction and translation follows each matched paragraph. Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in November suggests that economic activity has continued to pick up and that the deterioration in the labor market is abating. The housing sector has shown some signs of improvement over recent months. Household spending appears to be expanding at ]]></description>
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		<title>(EQR) Consumer Price Index Rose Moderately</title>
		<link>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2009/12/16/eqr-consumer-price-index-rose-moderately/23011</link>
		<comments>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2009/12/16/eqr-consumer-price-index-rose-moderately/23011#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 22:31:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vitalstocks</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Financial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[REIT - Residential]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AIV]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Apartment Investment & Management Company]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ford Motor Company]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inflation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported this morning that the Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose by 0.4% in November, following increases of 0.3% in October and 0.2% in September. Relative to a year ago, prices are up 1.8%. That is a big jump from last month, but that is due to big declines in the CPI from a year ago rolling off. Most of the increase in CPI was due to energy prices. Core CPI was unchanged on the month, following back-to-back increases of 0.2% in the prior two months. On a year-over-year basis, core inflation was up 1.7%.  However, going forward, look for the year-over-year rate of core inflation to fall, while the year-over-year headline inflation number will start to increase as the big energy price declines of last winter roll ]]></description>
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		<title>(MO) Energy Heats Up Producer Price Index</title>
		<link>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2009/12/15/mo-energy-heats-up-producer-price-index/22863</link>
		<comments>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2009/12/15/mo-energy-heats-up-producer-price-index/22863#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:14:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Producer Price Index (PPI) came in at a much-higher-than-expected 1.8% increase in November relative to October. In October, the PPI was up only 0.3%. The consensus expectations were for a rise of 0.8%. The rise was for the most part due to a big jump in energy costs. Finished energy costs rose by 6.9% on the month following a 1.6% rise in October. This, in turn, was caused by a 18.3% rise in the cost of home heating oil following a 1.2% rise last month and a 14.2% jump in gasoline costs on top of a 1.9% rise in October. Food prices were relatively well behaved, rising 0.5% on the month after a 1.6% gain in October. However, even after food and energy prices are stripped out, core inflation at the producer level ]]></description>
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		<title>Breaking Down the Disparity Between Oil and Gold Prices</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 22:53:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This analysis is by Sheena Martin, Contributing Editor, Investment U Thursday, December 3, 2009 It’s no secret that the gold and oil markets have boomed this year. However, while gold continues to climb, hitting a high of $1,218.40 per ounce this week, oil keeps hitting a brick wall. Over the past month, crude has traded in a range between $75 and $82 per barrel and currently sits at $77.50. What gives? Put simply, oil and gold prices don’t necessarily move in harmony. The key difference is that while oil is a fuel that is used for many different products, gold is a proxy for currency. But there are two other big ones… Investors are looking to distance themselves from an increasingly limp dollar – and gold serves that function much ]]></description>
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		<title>Senior Secured Floating Rate Bonds: The Best Investments to Own When Interest Rates Rise</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:14:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Louis Basenese, Small Cap and Special Situations Expert Thursday, November 19, 2009: Issue #1141 With interest rates resting at historic lows, we can all agree they will eventually rise. And when they do, you’ll want to make sure you own something called Senior Secured Floating Rate bonds. I know… these under-the-radar bonds aren’t headline makers. But please don’t let their relative obscurity – they’ve only been around since the early 1980s – convince you to overlook them. Senior Secured Floating Rate bonds (SSFR) are actually ideally suited for the current environment and deserve a place in every investor’s portfolio. Here’s why… The Problem With Most Bonds &#38; Interest Rates When it comes to bonds, the equation is simple: As interest rates decline, the value of bonds goes up. Unfortunately, ]]></description>
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