STOCK MARKET WATCH, Monday August 4 | Thread profile

Advertisements [ ? ] Source: du STOCK MARKET WATCH, Monday August 4, 2008 COUNTING THE DAYS DAYS REMAINING IN THE * REGIME 170 DAYS SINCE DEMOCRACY DIED (12/12/00) 2752 DAYS WHERE'S OSAMA BIN-LADEN? 2477 DAYS DAYS SINCE ENRON COLLAPSE = 2768 Number of Enron Execs in handcuffs = 19 ENRON EXECS CONVICTED = 10 Enron execs conveniently deceased = 3 ...

Set against the magnitude of credit cycle issues of the moment that indeed have very meaningful implications for what will be the reality of domestic economic outcomes ahead, questions have arisen as to whether we are now facing a relatively run of the mill bear market for equities or perhaps a bear of generational proportion. The thought has clearly made the rounds that the US equity bear ...

Edited on Mon Aug-04-08 07:37 AM by AnneD and lurkers. I had plans today but we are on plan C. There is a named tropical storm building now and we strongly suspect it might hit the Galveston/ Houston. I am up early to take a shower and will be doing hurricane prep all day long. As many of you know, I live in a small RV and I will not be staying here but will be with a friend should ...

08:30 Personal Income Jun Briefing 0.0% Consensus -0.1% Prior 1.9% 08:30 Personal Spending Jun Briefing 0.4% Consensus 0.5% Prior 0.8% 10:00 Factory Orders Jun Briefing 0.5% Consensus 0.7% Prior 0.6% http://www.briefing.com/Investor/Public/Calendars/ Econo...

Fare well. Be safe. And good luck. Please keep us posted on your condition and whereabouts. Ozy

http://quotes.ino.com/chart/?s=NYBOT_DX&v=i Last trade 73.332 Change -0.030 (-0.04%) New Zealand's Economy in the Brink of Recession http://www.dailyfx.com/story/bio1/DailyFX_Forecast s___W... Over the past decade, a substantial search for yield propelled by spare amounts of liquidity drove up exchange rates for many small open economies such as New Zealand. This environment...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080802/bs_nm/citigrou p_sub... NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo plans to imminently charge Citigroup Inc (C.N), accusing it of fraudulently marketing and selling auction-rate securities, and destroying documents that had been subpoenaed. In a letter Friday to the bank, David Markowitz, chief of the state's investor protection bureau, ...

Oil prices were steady near $125 a barrel Monday as the market kept on eye on a tropical storm that could affect oil facilities in the Gulf of Mexico. Concerns that a showdown over Iran's nuclear program could threaten crude supplies out of the Middle East also buoyed up prices. By midday in Europe, light, sweet crude for September delivery fell 7 cents to $125.04 a barrel in electronic trading...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080801/ap_on_bi_ge/ea rns_o... HOUSTON - Oil giants Chevron Corp. and Total SA wrapped up a string of gargantuan, record-breaking earnings reports Friday, a stretch in which six of the major international oil companies topped $50 billion in combined profit for the first time. While the profits of unparalleled size have brought withering criticism from ...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080801/bs_nm/fanniema e_fre... NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. mortgage market giants, Fannie Mae (FNM.N) and Freddie Mac (FRE.N), may report further downgrades to their forecasts for credit losses in their upcoming second-quarter results, starting next week. The government-sponsored enterprises have already warned investors that credit-related losses, such as ...