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The real estate market is downright scary. Houses across the country are selling for a fraction of what they were just a few months ago. But smart investors are using a unique strategy to buy without selling.
By Andrew Snyder, TodaysFinancialNews.com
Baltimore – (TFN): It is a great time to be buying a house, but an [...]
Tags: credit crisis, financial news, mortgage, mortgage issues, Real Estate, real estate crash, real estate market, realtor, rent instead of sell, renting a house, selling a house
It may be a nice place to live, as long as you don’t mind the cold… or the dark, but Iceland could be the first country to declare bankrupcy in the credit crisis. Will the country previously said to have the “highest standard of living in the world” collapse under the weight of its own [...]
Tags: bankruptcy, credit crisis, damian reece, david stevenson, debts, gdp, iceland, leverage, mobile telephones, property, sovereign hedge fund, stock values, telegraph, U.N.
While the rest of the world has been growing more bitter by the day, The Hershey Company (HSY) has been gaining back a little of its sweetness. Unlike the rest of the market, HSY may have already seen its bottom and be one the way back up. Should you buy?
by Stephanie Grimmett
Baltimore — [...]
Tags: aig, bear stearns, Commodities, credit crisis, dow, fannie, Financial, fnm, fre, freddie, gas, hershey, hersheys, hsy, kisses, lehman, nestle, nsrgy, oil prices, recession, stephanie grimmett
With the markets in turmoil, it’s time to grab some great stocks at their current cheap prices before they return to pre-crash levels. And Julian Chillingworth, chief investment officer and manager of the Rathbone Income and Growth fund, picked his four favorite London “weakness stocks” for MoneyWeek. Included in the list: Rexam (London:REX), Scottish & [...]
Tags: aggreko, agk, bailout, captial erosion, credit crisis, hsba, hsbc, julian chillingworth, london, lse, market bottom, Moneyweek, rathbone, rex, rexam, scottish and southern energy, sse, takeover, treasuries, weakness, wealth funds
"Of course, crude oil prices control more than just stocks. I don’t have to tell you what US$150 does to the overall economy and more specifically to your own personal wallet." — David Newman
by David Newman
Baltimore — (TFN): Let’s talk about oil and gas. Right now, you’ll be [...]
“So far HBOS has posted nearly GBP 4 billion (about $7.95 billion) in writedowns from the UK’s failing real estate market. And in lieu of selling chunks of itself to foreign banks to bring capital back into the company, HBOS’s shareholders just voted today to issue 1.5 billion new shares in a rights sale [...]
“Last summer, the volume on the New York Stock Exchange was higher in June, July, and August than it was in the three months prior or the three months after.” — Rick Pendergraft
by Rick Pendergraft
Baltimore – (TFN): Beware, we have now entered the dog days of summer. [...]
"The global credit crisis isn’t just ‘a’ crisis - it’s ‘the’ crisis of our time." — Keith Fitz-Gerald
by Keith Fitz-Gerald
Baltimore – (TFN): Last Wednesday, U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke told the Senate Banking Committee something that’s becoming more evident by the day, "I don’t know [...]
"Few folks have the ethical strength to turn away that kind of opportunity. And those that do will never see a corner office. It takes greed to succeed. " – Andrew Snyder
By Andrew Snyder
Baltimore (TFN) — You would think that an executive in charge of billions of dollars of other people’s money would be more responsible. [...]
"To get a correct picture of Germany, don’t listen to what Germans say about their economy. They are consistently negative… To get a more accurate picture, check the economic stats and compare them with stats from other countries." — Antony Mueller
by Antony Mueller, Whiskey and Gunpowder
Baltimore – (TFN): Maybe [...]
"We will be seeing the first cracks to appear in the system when the Chinese real estate bubble begins to deflate about three months after the conclusion of the Beijing Olympics. If you think subprime was bad, you ain’t seen nothing yet." — J. Christoph Amberger
by J. Christoph Amberger
This is the continuation of yesterday's "Forecast [...]