Federal Reserve: FOMC December Meeting Minutes CNBC: China's Economy Seen Slowing in '08 CNBC: Trading Halt Rules Altered at NYSE (NYSE: NYX) SeekingAlpha: Kass' 20 Possibles for '08 Bloomberg: Existing Home Sales Rose in November AP/Yahoo!: Asian Markets Strong in '07 Bloomberg: Defaults on Insured Mortgages Rise 35% TheStreet: Macy's (NYSE: M) to Shut 9 Stores Bloomberg: November Durable Goods Orders Miss Forecast CNN Money: Hiring in '08 to Slow Forbes: Washington's '08 Schedule DailyFX: Trading Lessons from '07 Fortune: How to Play Bonds in '08 AP/Yahoo!: Unpaid Credit Cards on Rise Bloomberg: Personal Spending Healthy, Inflation Heats Up Reuters: U. Michigan Consumer Sentiment Rises in December Philadelphia Fed: Philly Fed Negative 5.7 Vs. Expected Positive 6.2 MarketWatch: Jobless Claims Trending Higher Bloomberg: Leading Economic Indicators Falls Again CNN Money: Q3 GDP Unchanged in Last Revision AP/Yahoo!: Foreclosure Filings Drop Month-to-Month ECONOMIC REPORT: ICSC-UBS Weekly Same-Store Sales +2.1% Yr-to-Yr State Street: Investor Confidence Falls to New Low DailyFX: Dollar New Year Celebration? Bloomberg: International Buys of U.S. Assets Increases, as Dollar Threatens Rise Financial Times: World Food Price Rise Hits Consumers Forbes: Housing Market Index Sits at Record Low CNBC: Greenspan Sees Stagflation Bloomberg: Consumer Prices Hottish Federal Reserve: November Industrial Production Beats View and Capacity Utilization Falls Short Bloomberg: November Retail Sales Ahead Consensus at +1.2% BLS: November PPI +3.2%, Core +0.4% Economist: Unclogging the System Federal Reserve: Important Central Bank Action Bloomberg: Fed Action Federal Reserve: Dec 11 FOMC Statement DailyFX: 2008 Rate Outlook Bloomberg: Trade Deficit Widened in October MarketWatch: Import Prices Got Hot CNN Money: Capital One (NYSE: COF) Delinqencies Rise Bloomberg: Economic Growth to Slow to 1% in Q1 CNBC: Small Business Confidence Tanks ICSC-UBS Weekly Same-Store Sales +2.3% Bloomberg: Chinese Inflation Heats, Trade Gap Widens Financial Times: China Limits Foreign Investment Bureau of Labor Statistics: Employment Situation Report (Nonfarm Payrolls +94K vs. consensus +65K, Unemployment 4.7%, Ave. Hrly Earn +0.5%) RBC: Cash Index Rises, but Still Reflects Lack of Confidence CNBC: U. Michigan Consumer Sentiment December 74.5 Vs. Consensus: 76.0 Federal Reserve: Consumer Credit CNN Money: Signs of Slowing Retail Monster.com: Monster Employment Index CNN Money: Tech Spending To Slow in '08 CNBC: Housing Prices Could Drop 30% Before It's Over MBA: Q3 Mortgage Delinquency Survey ADP Employment Reports Strong Growth of 189K November Jobs CNBC: Challenger, Gray & Christmas Job-Cut Report (Increase of 15.9%) AP/Yahoo!: World Food Price Forecast Filling MarketWatch: ISM Manufacturing Slips but Beats Consensus for November Bloomberg: October Personal Income +0.2% Vs. Consensus +0.4%, Consumption +0.2% Vs. Consensus +0.3% Fortune: Paulson's Mortgage Bailout Band-Aid CNBC/Bankrate.com: How Safe is Your Money Market Fund? Economist: Bank Liquidity Concerns AP/Yahoo!: November Chicago - PMI Exceeds Consensus 49.7 Platts: Biofuel Overcapacity BEA: Q3 GDP & Corporate Profits Greek: Secular Change of Food Prices Justifies PE Expansion CNBC: Goldman's Gloomy Outlook Conference Board: November Consumer Confidence Tanks to 87.3, Vs. Consensus 90.5 MarketWatch: Credit Rating Agencies Back in Crosshairs CNN Money: Black Friday Review DailyFX: What Can Turn the Dollar Federal Reserve: FOMC October Meeting Minutes Bloomberg: Industrial Production Slumps Bloomberg: Empire State Index Slips USA Today: Dow Theory Red Flag Bloomberg: Level 3 and FAS 157 AP/Yahoo!: EU to Open Up Phone and Web Sector TheStreet: Visa Files for IPO - Mastercard (NYSE: MA) Bloomberg: EU Cuts '08 GDP Forecast, But Also Sees Inflation Financial Times: EIA Issues Its World Energy Outlook AP/Yahoo!: German Growth Forecast Slow in '08 Financial Times: Food Crisis PIMCO: Bill Gross' November Investment Outlook Economist: Growing Concern About Rising Food Prices CNN Money: Sluggish Job Growth Ahead Platts: EIA Raises Long-Term Price Forecast Forbes: Ten Steady Stocks ADP Employment Report - +106K October, Vs. +61K Sept. Federal Reserve: FOMC Policy Statement Platts: Paulson's Nat Gas Request for India USA Today: World's Coal Addiction Grows Bloomberg: China Grows GDP 11.5% in Q3 Bloomberg: Greenspan Says Dollar Drop Might Not Be Drastic if Foreign Capital Withdraws CNN Money: Mortgage Bankers Association Housing Forecast Sucks Financial Times: IMF Says Dollar OVERvalued Economist: Commodity Prices on Tear CNN Money: Bernanke's Dinner Party Warning CNBC: Industry Participants Say Housing Prices Slip Through '09 Bloomberg: Crop Report Produces Surprise Short Corn Harvest, Price Rises TheStreet: Jim Rogers Backs the Buck Financial Times: FASB to Implement Tax Changes Federal Reserve: FOMC September Meeting Minutes Bloomberg: September Payroll Additions Reach 110,000, August Revised Sharply Higher Bureau of Labor Statistics: September Employment Situation CNBC: Fed's Kohn Says Housing, Credit Bodes Weakness Ahead ADP: September Employment Report CNN Money: Challenger Gray & Christmas - Job Cuts Driven by Housing Bloomberg: August New Home Sales Miss Sharply USA Today: Q2 GDP Revised Down to 3.8% Growth AP/Yahoo!: Senators Question Rating Agencies (NYSE: MCO), (NYSE: MHP) CNBC: Weak Dollar Central to Oil Spike CNN Money: Rating Agencies Sweating Bullets Forbes: The Top-100 Mid-Caps USA Today: Winter Heating Costs Could Be 10.5% Higher Economist: Global Economic Turning Point? Bloomberg: Core CPI Still Hot CNN Money: Housing Starts Hit 12-Year Low Federal Reserve: FOMC Policy Statement Economist: Food Price Fear in China U.S. News & World Report: Anxious Bear Next Door CNBC: Q2 Foreclosure Notices Break Record Bloomberg: ADP Reports Very Soft Job Additions AP/Yahoo!: Challenger, Gray & Christmas Reports Layoffs Up 85% Financial Times: OECD Warns On Market Turmoil Impact Federal Reserve: Bernanke's Jackson Hole Speech CNN Money: Bush, The Lone Ranger Saves the Day AP/Yahoo!: Bush's Plan to Save Subprime Bloomberg: S&P/Case-Shiller Reports Q2 Home Prices Fell 3.2% Economist: Putin's Russia, The Making a Neo-KGB State AP/Yahoo!: NABE Says Bad Credit Biggest Risk to Economy Financial Times: Saudis Protecting Oil Assets Bloomberg: July Durable Goods Orders Rise Dangerously CNBC: PIMCO's Gross Agrees with The Greek CNN Money: Rating Agencies Under Fire Federal Reserve Statement Federal Reserve Cuts Discount Rate 50 Basis Points Bloomberg: Housing Starts Lowest in Decade Bloomberg: Poole Says Only Calamity Brings Ease Bloomberg: July Retail Sales Slightly Exceed Low Forecast CNN Money: Wholesale Inventories Gain Federal Reserve: FOMC Meeting Minutes Telegraph: Low Level Chinese Officials Threaten Liquidation U.S. Treasury Holdings Bloomberg: China Faces Food Inflation Bloomberg: Productivity Soft, Labor Costs Sharp Employment Situation Report: Jobs +92K, Unemployment 4.6% CNN Money: Pending Home Sales Gains CNN Money: ISM Manufacturing Data Weakens Bloomberg: ADP Employment Report Soft CNN Money: Challenger Report Shows Planned Layoffs Down Bloomberg: Consumer Spending Comes Up Short Forbes: Carried Away CNN Money: Prime Borrowers Catching Subprime Ills CNBC: Pimco's Gross Threatens Equity Earthquake Bloomberg: China GDP Grows 11.9% in Q2 Bloomberg: Core CPI Meets Expectations Federal Reserve: Testimony of Bernanke to House Committee Economist: Relations with Russia Bloomberg: Greek's Predicted Risk Spread Expansion Under Way Bloomberg: I-Banks Stuck with Debt? Forbes: Savvy Russian Buys Gold CNBC: Moody's Downgrades Residential Mortgage Backed Securities Bloomberg: Subprime CDO Losses Could Reach $52 Bil. World Tribune: Israel Expects War CNN Money: The Blackstone Bill MarketWatch: The Gold Trade Forbes: Smokestack Stocks Appeal to Buffet and Lynch AP/Yahoo!: RBC Cash Index Shows 10-Month Low Consumer Confidence Bloomberg: Greek's Retail Weakness Scenario Playing Out Bloomberg: Europe's Growth Slips to 3% Bloomberg: GDP Revised Below Expectations, 0.6% Growth Federal Reserve Meeting Minutes (May 9, 2007) Yahoo/AP: S&P Case-Shiller House Index Shows 1.4% Q1 drop CNN Money: The Speed of Subprime Bust Shocks DesMoines Register: Romney Rising in Iowa CNN Money: Gas Pressures Consumers AP/Yahoo!: Retailers Sounding Like Home Builders Did in January Bloomberg: China Economic Restraints Fall Short of Mark Schwab Insights: Liz Ann Echoes Yesterday's Greek View of Estimates Fed Policy Statement Bloomberg: Economists Now On Board, Consumer Threatens Economy CNN Money: Bernanke's Sanguine Mortgage Market View AP/Yahoo!: RBC Cash Index Shows Consumer Confidence Straining Bloomberg: ISM Report- U.S. Manufacturing Exceeds Forecasts CNBC: March Pending Home Sales Disappoint CNBC: March New Home Sales Below Forecast Bloomberg: March Durables Goods Rose 3.4%, Beat Expectations Bloomberg: Existing Homes & Consumer Confidence Results Disappoint USA Today: Toyota Surpasses GM in Q1 Sales Bloomberg: Mortgage Bondholders Could Lose $75 Billion on Subprime Financial Times: China & India, Different Markets Financial Times: How Europe Benefits from Dollar Weakness Bloomberg: Foreclosures Soar 47% in March Bloomberg: Consumer Price Index Report Not Too Bad Bloomberg: March Housing Starts Modestly Beats Estimates CNN Money: March Retail Sales Strong CNN Money: National Association of Realtors Sees Price & Sales Softness in 2007 Forbes: IMF Sees Solid World Growth Despite U.S. Softness BBC: Ahmadinejad's Release Statement Forbes: China Focused to Control Growth CNBC: Possibly the End of Japanese Firms Repatriation of Cash Drives Yen Lower Bloomberg: Faber Says Financials Indicating Bear Market The Greek Agrees, for Financials Anyway USA Today: Investing in Foreclosures CNN: Q4 GDP Growth Unexpectedly Revised Higher BBC: Saudi Politics, Protecting a Shaky Footing BBC: Iran's Ominous Currency Reserve Actions CNN: Why Iran Matters To Oil Markets CNN: Bernanke's Focus on Inflation Subprime Mess Spreads to Housing Sector Pakistan: The Beginnings of Chaos Often Have Righteous Cause Congress Comes Down on Lenders/Mortgage Brokers Foreclosures at Pace for 33% Rise in 2007 New Home Sales Slow, Inventory Builds Expanding Relationship of Russia and China Home Prices Still Falling Read the Fed Statement for Yourself Subprime Faces Senate Subprime Vulnerabilities McCain Warns On Socialism's Spread in Latin America Merrill Survey Shows Investor Concern Chavezism Spreads to Ecuador Foreign Sign of Credit Crunch Emerging Market Mayhem - Now Thailand Breaks Patents Worst Nightmare - Unrest in Nuclear Pakistan WSG Predicts: CPI Is As Important As Core CPI Nothing Good Lasts Forever - Unions Seek Retribution Against Private Equity Subprime, The Blame Game WSG Predicts - Subprime Climb Was Anomaly Greenspan's Subprime Warning Russia to Supply Europe's Energy Needs Russian Intelligence Force Strong Foreclosures Rise at Record Pace Credit Spreads Widen - The Return of Risk Foreclosures, Defaults Rising SEC Investigating New Century WSG Predicted: Higher Food Drives Inflation Measure Up 2.7% in China The End of the New Century The Long Road Back for North Korea Chinese Military Build Housing Inventory Flow Drawing From Defaults Forbes' Report: The Billionaire Club China Creates Fund to Manage Portion of Reserves Israel, Mossad May Have Catalyst for Bombing Now Paulson's Comments on Global Economic Health Bernanke Sees Threat From Fannie & Freddie China Russia Partnership Ferments More on the Carry Trade New Century Trouble May Deepen Bernanke Says Globalization Could Boost Inflation in U.S. U.K. Report Indicates Iran Attack a Mistake WSG Predicts: Meet Your Next President, Mitt Romney Scary Sub-Prime Risk China's Energy Thirst Merrill Cuts Ratings on Investment Banks Freddie Mac May Have Played a Role Yesterday China Fires Worst Dow Day in 5 Years China Collapse, BBC View Putting the Selloff Into Perspective January Home Prices Fall Further U.S. Spy Chief Provides Update Greenspan Says Recession Still Possible NABE Forecasts 2.7% GDP Growth in 2007 Airspace is Clearing for Attack U.K. May Host Missile Defense Shield Blair Shell-Shocked, Opposes Force for Iran Optimism in European Industry The British Are Leaving! 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WSG Predicted 2nd Leg: Housing Weak Russia Threatens to Exit Missile Treaty Due to U.S. Missile Shield Worst Case Scenario - Alliance of Russia, China & India Chavez's Total Control Goal WSG Asks: Does North Korea's Nuclear Deal Include Handing Over Already Built Bombs May Be Already Too Late to Stop Iran Iran Already Talking Like Iraq's Liberator First Hedge Fund Goes Public One Nobel Laureate's View of Middle East Indian Growth Seen at 9.2% WSG Predicted Housing 2nd Leg Lower Months Ago Bush's Budget China's GDP Growth at 10.7% in '06 State of the Union Summary Democrats' Rebuttal Rumored Cooperation Between North Korea and Iran U.K. Economic Growth Fastest Since 2004 Russian Anti-Aircraft Missiles Delivered to Iran China Hedging Risk Oil Inventory Day - WSG Says Buy On Weakness Today Saudis Consider Troops to Iraq Retail Sales to Slow in '07 Venezuelan Nationalization Mess Corn, Wheat Prices at 10-Year High Chavez Plans Unlimited Presidential Term Feeling U.S. Heat, Venezuela Will Buy Out U.S. Firms Nationalization in Venezeula Report: Israel Planning Nuclear Strike Israel Denies Nuke Plan Dems Agree Nuclear Iran Unacceptable Event Risk Dems See Different Way Forward PIMCO's Gross Sees 100 Point Fed Rate Cut '07 2007, Warmest Ever Bush Seeks Congressional Support, Tax Cuts Recapping 2006 2006 in Review Winners & Losers of 2006 The Pope's Christmas Message Toyota's Target is #1 in 2007 Housing & Labor Impacting Small Business Fortune's View for 2007 SEC May Ease Audit Rules What Do They Know - Oil Producers Shifting Away from Dollar