Credit Scores Strengthening Banks are licking their lips over the reduction in the number of Americans who are considered sub-prime borrowers. The Wall Street Journal reports: The share of U.S. adults with credit scores that are considered “subprime” fell to 20.7% in April, the sixth consecutive year-over-year decline and the lowest level since at least 2005, when Fair Isaac Corp., or FICO, started tracking the data. The ranks of subprime borrowers swelled during the financial crisis, peaking at 25.5% in 2010 as mortgage payments, credit-card bills and other debts went unpaid. The … [Read more...]
Worthy Reads: The Fat Police score a Victory
The Fed Surrenders (WSJ) The World Economy Looks a Bit Like It's the 1930s (Bloomberg) Fed rate hike spells crisis for China's banks (Reuters) Hawkish Bullard turns ultra-dove on Fed rate rise (FT) It Begins: Members Of European Parliament Beg Draghi To Unleash Helicopter Money (ZeroHedge) The Fat Police score a Victory (WSJ) … [Read more...]
Worthy Reads: Mortgage rates plummet to three-year lows
Wary Fed Rethinks Pace of Rate Hikes (WSJ) Wanted: Big Returns, Low Risk. (And Millennials? They Want10.2%) (Bloomberg) Don’t Look Now But Beaten-Down Coal May Finally Be Heating Up (Bloomberg) Weak Business Investment Weighs on Policy Makers (WSJ) Mortgage rates plummet to three-year lows (WashPo) … [Read more...]
Worthy Reads: The decline of the summer job in one chart
China Shares Kept Out of Key Index: Blame Capital Controls (WSJ) Russia Is Saving Jobs, but Not the Economy (Stratfor) China Spends More on Infrastructure Than the U.S. and Europe Combined (Bloomberg) The decline of the summer job in one chart (MarketWatch) U.S. Economy Stuck in a Rut, CEOs Cut GDP Outlook (FoxBusiness) The Global Stakes of a Saudi Aramco I.P.O. (NYTimes) … [Read more...]
Worthy Reads: Brazil’s Bank Chief Sets Ambitious Goal
Brazil’s Bank Chief Sets Ambitious Goal (WSJ) Yellen’s Thinking of “Natural Rate” is Simply Wrong…… (ValueWalk) Retail Sales Not Strong For All (WSJ) Americans' donations to charity: $373 billion last year (UPI) Chinese Await MSCI Decision (WSJ) U.K. Moves Closer to Brexit as The Sun Backs ‘Leave’ Vote (Bloomberg) … [Read more...]
Worthy Reads: IMF sounds warning on China’s corporate debt
IMF sounds warning on China’s corporate debt (FT) ‘Dot plot’ to be best gauge of Fed’s mood after the jobs debacle (MarketWatch) Here's How the Fed's Unemployment Projections Could Change This Week (Bloomberg) Survey: Most Millennials Reject Credit Cards (FoxBusiness) China's yuan trade system to open branches in London, New York (Reuters) … [Read more...]
Worthy Reads: The Big Bet of 2016: Buy Gold, Miners and ETFs
China Inflation Cools, Stoking Stimulus Expectations (WSJ) Venezuela Is at a Breaking Point (Bloomberg) The Big Bet of 2016: Buy Gold, Miners and ETFs (WSJ) Swiss franc hits eight-week high on safe-haven demand (Reuters) Foreign Demand Soars for U.S. Treasurys (sic) (WSJ) … [Read more...]
Worthy Reads: Japanese Bank Balks at Negative Rates
Corporate-Bond Yields Fall in Europe as ECB Starts Buying (WSJ) Investors are underestimating the Fed's response to improving financial conditions (Bloomberg) Japanese Bank Balks at Negative Rates (WSJ) Here's the Neighborhood in Your State With the Most Million-Dollar Homes (Fortune) Wholesale Inventories Rise Most In 10 Months, Sales Miss; Ratio Only Higher Post-Lehman (ZeroHedge) … [Read more...]
Oil Crosses $50
WTI Crude has crossed the $50 mark for the first time since July of last year. The question now remains, is this a long-term move, or will oil prices get pulled back below the psychologically important benchmark? … [Read more...]
Worthy Reads: Gold appetite in May was the strongest in over 3 years
You Know Little About The Economy (WSJ) Gold appetite in May was the strongest in over 3 years (MarketWatch) What Is Lifting Prices For Oil? Try Asia (WSJ) 10-year Bund yield hits new low (FT) College Loan Glut Turns Sour (WSJ) OECD lead indicator flags first signs of growth stabilization (Reuters) … [Read more...]
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