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US GAS: Futures Move Lower Amid Ample Supplies, Mild Weather

Posted: 10 Nov 2009 01:08 AM PST

Forecasts for warmer-than-normal temperatures were...helping offset the production curtailments resulting from Tropical Storm Ida. The IEA also said Tuesday that the world was facing a gas glut following a boom in North American gas production and an economic downturn that undermined demand for the fuel.

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Russia warns against ‘one-way’ rouble bet

Posted: 10 Nov 2009 01:11 AM PST

Russia’s central bank warned investors on Tuesday that rouble appreciation was not a one-way bet as it sought to stem an advance in the currency sparked by rising oil prices and a falling dollar.

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Airlines, hotels face bleak holidays

Posted: 10 Nov 2009 01:21 AM PST

Many travelers plan to take car trips, stay with friends and family and spend less -- bad news for the struggling industries. 

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The feedback loop of commercial real estate, regional banks and unemployment

Posted: 10 Nov 2009 02:34 AM PST

It is no secret that the Fed is quite, quite concerned about the ongoing shakeout in the US commercial real estate market in the US, but just in case anyone missed the memos, Dennis Lockhart of the Atlanta Fed has devoted a whole speech to the subject.

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Goldman: Why You Should Go Gaga For Emerging Markets

Posted: 10 Nov 2009 02:48 AM PST

The term "BRIC" is a marketing creation of Goldman Sachs (GS), but even if it's gimmicky, it tells you how big of an emerging markets booster the bank has been over the years

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More on that overheating Chinese property market

Posted: 10 Nov 2009 03:24 AM PST

Chinese real estate figures out on Tuesday show investment in the sector was up 18.9 per cent in October, while property sales soared 48.4 per cent year-to-date.

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Breakfast with Dave 11.10.2009 : MARKET MUSINGS & DATA DECIPHERING

Posted: 10 Nov 2009 04:25 AM PST

SOMETHING BIG IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN

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Pay for delay: Wage subsidies and fatter jobless benefits have softened the impact of the recession but may yet hurt recovery

Posted: 10 Nov 2009 07:49 AM PST

AMERICA may lead the rich world in periods of prosperity, but Europe has shown a greater talent for dealing with recession. Unemployment in the euro area has risen by 30% from its pre-crisis levels. America’s jobless rate has more than doubled. In Germany, the largest country in the euro zone, output fell far harder than America’s during the worst months of the crisis but Germany’s unemployment rate barely rose. Consumer spending has held up surprisingly well in a country where hi

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Societe Generale's Albert Edwards Calls New Stocks Bear Market Low in 2010

Posted: 10 Nov 2009 09:12 AM PST

Edwards, a prominent equities bear and a long-term critic of the policies of Western central banks, is skeptical of popular opinion that extreme policy responses will safeguard the West against a repeat of Japan's 'lost decade' of the 1990's. 

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Central Banks Join a New Gold Rush

Posted: 10 Nov 2009 11:45 AM PST

The world's central banks are likely to be net buyers of gold in 2009 after spending two decades as net sellers, sparking a race among analysts to figure out which countries may further step-up buying.

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Zell: Predictions of commercial crash ‘greatly exaggerated’

Posted: 10 Nov 2009 11:05 PM PST

Expectations of an impending crash in commercial real estate that would create bargain-hunting opportunities are “greatly exaggerated,” Sam Zell told several hundred investors Tuesday in Chicago.

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GS on REITs

Posted: 10 Nov 2009 11:08 PM PST

Since the start of 3Q earnings, shorter lease term sectors have delivered relative outperformance versus the long lease term segments, marking a clear divergence in performance from the year-to-date trend. The gap was meaningfully apparent as Industrial and Apartments delivered amongst the strongest price performance over the last few weeks. Before we declare a shift in sector strategy, we point out that the data reflects our recent view that a more “balanced approach” to sector 

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Chanos says dump munis as distress mounts and ratings attacked

Posted: 10 Nov 2009 11:09 PM PST

James Chanos, the famed short seller who was among the first to foresee the collapse of Enron, recently sounded the alarm on the municipal-bond market — in the hallowed halls of the New York Historical Society, no less. The "cracking of state and local municipalities is coming," he predicted at a recent meeting attended by Barron’s staffer Susan Witty, adding that he wouldn’t touch munis.

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Babcock eyes rapid growth

Posted: 10 Nov 2009 11:19 PM PST

Babcock, the engineering support services company, expects pressures on defence budgets round the world to accelerate its international expansion as governments look towards outsourcing to reduce costs.

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Rating warning hits pound

Posted: 10 Nov 2009 11:47 PM PST

Sterling dropped more than a cent against the dollar after Fitch said that of all the AAA sovereign debt issuers – the US, Germany, UK and France – the UK was in most danger of losing the top rating because Britain needed “the largest budget adjustment”.

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