NYT After weeks of pressure from investors, European leaders won themselves a breather last week amid hopes for quick action on the debt crisis there. For the markets, the question this week is whether they …
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WSJ Pre-Market Brief: Market tone: Stocks called higher in line with futures; euro higher against the dollar following Italian bond-auction; Treasurys lower; Nymex crude higher at $98.91; gold up at $1,712.80. Overnight action: Italy sees …
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Reuters U.S. stock futures jumped in early electronic trading on Sunday on the latest round of proposals out of Europe designed to corral the growing euro zone debt crisis. U.S. stocks suffered their worst week …
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NYT PARIS — Quashing recent speculation of a softening in Germany’s hard-line stance on the euro, Chancellor Angela Merkel repeated on Thursday her firm opposition either to bonds issued jointly by the euro zone countries …
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NYT FRANKFURT — Banks clamored for emergency funds from the European Central Bank on Tuesday, borrowing the most since early 2009 in a clear sign that the euroregion’s financial institutions are having trouble obtaining credit …
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I would like to introduce a great friend and former colleague, Ken Grant as a contributor to RiskReversal.com. Ken and I worked together at SAC Capital back in the late 1990s and at Exis Capital from …
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WaPo It’s not just Italy anymore. Spain’s borrowing costs are rising. French bond yields keep ticking ominously upward. The market conflagration is threatening to spread to all of Europe. Yet European leaders — especially German …
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WSJ LONDON—European banks, increasingly concerned about their ability to access funding, are devising complex and potentially risky new deals that enable them to continue borrowing from the European Central Bank. The banks’ moves, which include …
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CNBC Wal-Mart and Home Depot report earnings ahead of the opening bell, as do Staples, TJX and Beazer Homes. Retail sales, released at 8:30 a.m. EST, are expected to be up 0.3 percent for October, …
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MorningWord: 11/14/11: Just when you thought our markets could once again focus on stuff like our own economy and corporate earnings, Italy has to go and try to sell some Treasury’s to fund itself. The 5 yr …
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