http://www.money-and-financial-business.com You money. Your financial feed aggregator. Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:38:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Post article highlights (use tinyurl.com for the link), random thoughts and word from the street here...Yup, right on schedule, it's getting ugly out there (no matter what realtors on commission tell you) http://housingpanic.blogspot.com/2008/10/bubbletalk-open-thread-to-talk-about.html Post articles (use tinyurl and hit the highlights), let me know what I missed, talk about what's on your mind, and have a good chatAh, the smell of housing napalm in the morning... http://housingpanic.blogspot.com/2008/10/bubbletalk-new-thread-to-talk-about.html Getting ugly out there now...Post article snippets, use tinyurl.com, keep it clean, have a good chat http://housingpanic.blogspot.com/2007/09/bubbletalk-open-thread-to-talk-about.html Things fall apart. The center will not hold...Post interesting articles (snippets only), use tinyurl.com, let me know what I've missed, chat about random topics, and keep it clean for the kids. http://housingpanic.blogspot.com/2008/09/bubbletalk-open-thread-to-talk-about.html A balance transfer offer from a credit card is a great way to either save some money or to make some money. For example if you have $1000 in debt with 18.99% APR interest rate, and you estimate that it will take you a year to pay off that debt, ... http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/PersonalFinanceForStudentsAndFreshGrads/~3/183918886/what-to-look-out-for-before.html A colleague, Bruce Blonigen, and his co-author Alyson Ma say there's little evidence to support the view that "China extracts rents and technology from foreign competitors, thus allowing it to grow even faster and longer than most would have imagined possible." China has managed to attract considerable foreign investment, but ... http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EconomistsView/~3/183952676/the-unsophistic.html La gran compañía energética se desmarca de sus competidoras con esta nueva medida anunciada en el nuevo convenio colectivo que acaba de firmar. Sorprende sobre todo, porque va contracorriente de lo que está pasando en otros sectores. El nuevo acuerdo establece una jornada intensiva todo el año para 9.000 empleados en ... http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/finanzzas/~3/183990034/los-trabajadores-de-iberdrola-saldran-a-las-1530-durante-todo-el-ano-para-mejorar-la-productividad A classic growth scare appears to have commenced, warns CLSA’s Christopher Wood in a “flash edition” of his Greed & Fear client newsletter. Oil, copper, gold and Baltic freight rates are all showing initial signs of topping out, he notes. But the catalysts are growing evidence of a US slowdown and ... http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2007/11/13/8846/greed-fear-its-only-just-beginning/?source=rss The most amazing statistic you never heard, according to Ken Fisher, chief executive of Fisher Investments and Fisher Wealth Management, is the year-to-date daily correlation between ups and downs in the global stock market versus spreads between the yen and the euro: 93 per cent, or “beyond eye-popping”,... http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2007/11/13/8823/ken-fisher-it%e2%80%99s-the-yen-stupid/?source=rss To 1966! The year one! Rosemary - the connection between Mia Farrow, Sharon Tate, Charlie Manson and The Beatles Non-PC: Men who look like old lesbians James Woods reportedly has an I.Q. of 180. (From Highest IQs On Record) Classic Movie Star Cigarette Ads ... http://growabrain.typepad.com/growabrain/2007/11/the-name-is-an-.html Have the quants had an accident?, wonders the FT's John Authers in his latest Short View column. Or have many people, operating in separate markets, independently decided to take profits at the same time? Or has a dose of risk aversion suddenly grasped almost everyone in the world markets?The answer ... http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2007/11/13/8842/short-view-whats-going-on-with-the-quants/?source=rss Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt Short slideshow of small town libraries in Massachusetts. (From Information Junk) “My mother and Norman Mailer were longtime friends. So it made sense that Betsy Mailer and I were roommates in our first year of college. ... http://growabrain.typepad.com/growabrain/2007/11/and-so-it-goes.html Cooking is something that I know very little about. In fact 'very little' is an overstatement. If it's not a microwave or a barbecue, I am pretty clueless. That's why I was pretty happy to read a post today by our sister site, Diethack.In his post, ... http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/DumbLittleMan/~3/183950421/broil-bake-steamdo-you-know-how-to-cook.html New chief executives used to enjoy a relatively lengthy honeymoon period. These days, judging from the experience at BHP Billiton (for Rio Tinto), Carlsberg (going after Scottish & Newcastle) and Rio Tinto itself (which successfully bid for Alcan), newly anointed bosses are spending the wedding night poring over plans to ... http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2007/11/13/8841/lombard-takeover-targets-beware-the-unbashful-bridegrooms/?source=rss With my bankruptcy filing coming along, I’m starting to think of how I’m going to attack the debt that is underneath my business. It’s not a small amount by any means. Most of the original creditors are gone, replaced and or hired by collection agencies. The exception being the 0% ... http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/debtkid/~3/183978652/making-a-debt-attack-plan Is it possible to buy an income trust for no money down and still own it free and clear in less than 7.5 years? While browsing the Standard & Poors and DBRS rating pages looking for income trusts with strong stability ratings, I came across the power utility trust, Boralex Power ... http://financialjungle.com/2007/11/13/investing/hydroelectric-power-stations-for-zero-down-and-no-monthly-payments/ Today we are going to have an interview with Mr. John Rubino, author of  How to Profit from the Coming Real Estate Bust: Money-Making Strategies for the End of the Housing Bubble and owner of the website Dollar Collapse.  I’ve been in touch with Mr. Rubino for well over a ... http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/DrHousingBubble-HowILearnedToLoveSocal/~3/183982733/ Global financial stocks have been oversold, both in absolute terms and relative to the rest of the market, says Ian Scott, a strategist at Lehman Brothers, in the FT's View of the Day column."Since the first subprimerelated problems began to hit the equity market in February this year, global financial ... http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2007/11/13/8843/ian-scott-theres-life-in-them-there-stocks/?source=rss There are many markers in our life that make us stop and take a look back to see how far we’ve come and how strong we have become because of it. My personal favorite holiday is New Years day, a chance to look back over the previous 365 days and ... http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/BuNO/~3/183977394/festival-of-frugality-100-remembering.html Typepad featured weblog! Grow-a-brain was picked as Typepad’s Featured Blog on November 10th, and appeared on their home page for the whole day! Thank you Typepad 6.5 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Blog. No. 3: Your ideas are not focused. …Another mega site that will keep you clicking ... http://growabrain.typepad.com/growabrain/2007/11/typepad-feature.html Need to be up to speed from the moment you rise? Sign up for FT Alphaville's 6AM Cut.This morning briefing note is published right at the beginning of the European working day. Designed for busy readers on the move, our email service provides a quick and accessible digest of key ... http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2007/11/13/8839/the-6am-cut-a-free-news-by-email-service-from-ft-alphaville-131/?source=rss For nearly as long as I have been blogging, I have kicked around the idea of conducting a book discussion with AFM readers. I’m not talking about doing a book club like Trent’s doing but rather a discussion about a particular book that we pick out, purchase (or borrow ... http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AllFinancialMatters/~3/183965805/ Here’s a question from a recent Ask Annie column: Dear Annie: My boss, who is also a longtime mentor and friend, will be retiring at the end of the year, and he’s trying to help me position myself to take over his job. He’s been telling me that, if I want ... http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AllFinancialMatters/~3/183962428/ Zecco is a online stock broker offering free online stock trades. That’s right, free. As Zecco says, the price war is over and you won. You can make up to 10 free stock trades every month as long as you maintain a $2,500 minimum account balance, and after ... http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AccumulatingMoney/~3/183959031/ There are plenty of market worries, and major indices broke technical support today.  Our TCA model flipped negative as a result, but there are still plenty of attractive sectors. What does this mean for investors? Housing and Recession Regular readers of "A Dash" know that we do not expect a recession.  We have ... http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/typepad/WuQQ/~3/183955007/analyzing-marke.html The US mortgage crisis is “deeper” and “scarier” than anyone expected, Tony James, president of Blackstone, said Monday, as shares in the US private equity group slid on news that its Q3 revenues had fallen sharply below expectations. Blackstone was hit hard by market turmoil, posting a net loss of ... http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2007/11/13/8837/blackstone-warns-on-mortgage-%e2%80%98black-hole%e2%80%99/?source=rss Shares in E-Trade, the online broker that has seen its expansion into the mortgage market backfire, plunged nearly 59% on Monday and cut the company’s market value to $1.5bn, amid fears its dependence on uninsured deposits could force a fire-sale of its assets. Investors were shaken by a note from ... http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2007/11/13/8836/subprime-mortgage-fears-batter-e-trade/?source=rss IBM unveiled its biggest acquisition on Monday with the $5bn cash purchase of software maker Cognos. The deal marks Big Blue’s response to the rapid consolidation of the business intelligence software market, triggered by Oracle’s recent purchase of Hyperion and SAP’s agreement to buy Business Objects.... http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2007/11/13/8835/ibm-in-5bn-cash-deal-for-cognos/?source=rss Comcast has issued a press release claiming that they're helping to solve crimes with something called "Police Blotter On Demand" a trial program launched in the Philadelphia area. The program shows suveillance video of recent crimes as well as video profiles of bank robbers and missing persons from the Philadelphia Police ... http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/consumerist/full/~3/183961764/police-blotter-on-demand-comcast-helps-catch-bank-robbers-thanks-to-bored-people-321914.php Porsche on Monday revealed it earned three times as much money from trading derivatives as it did from selling cars, prompting accusations it was acting more like a hedge fund. The German luxury sports carmaker said €3.6bn ($5.2bn) of its €5.86bn pre-tax profit in the year to July was from ... http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2007/11/13/8834/it%e2%80%99s-a-porsche-no-it%e2%80%99s-a-hedge-fund/?source=rss Consumer Reports wanted to know if leaf blowers were really worth the money and ear damage, so they marked off a parts of lawn, filled it with leaves and had the ultimate man vs. blower showdown. Anyone who has ever had to rake a lawn can immediately tell you who won, ... http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/consumerist/full/~3/183961765/consumer-reports-man-vs-leaf-blower-321911.php The BOJ kept its benchmark lending rate at  0.5% with an 8-1 vote.  Note that the Japanese economy grew a bit faster than I had expected, and as usual, I worry about the fine balance that Japan must maintain due to its export-based economy.  I am very closely watching the ... http://hedgefolios.com/read/japans-rate-decision http://financeninja.wordpress.com/2007/11/13/energy-drinks-smoothies-pickles-and-apples-makin-it/ I have a phone interview for a job in Edmonton ... it's for a Marketing Specialist position. I didn't think I'd get an interview, as I'm not really qualified ... and I don't really want to move away at this point in my life ... but I'm still going to ... http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GiveMeBackMyFiveBucks/~3/183953141/on-job-front.html 'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there. ~ Clement C Moore (1779 - 1863), A Visit from St NicholasA ... http://10qdetective.blogspot.com/2007/11/empty-stockings-for-retailers-this.html The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center is cracking down on drug reps, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Details are still sketchy, but the general idea is that drug reps will no longer have direct access to doctors, but will instead drop off samples via a central office that will then ... http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/consumerist/full/~3/183961766/university-of-pittsburgh-medical-center-cracks-down-on-drug-reps-321906.php [This post is written and copyrighted by FIRE Finance (http://firefinance.blogspot.com).]Wells Fargo is offering a $50 sign-up bonus for opening a FREE checking account with them. It is a part of their efforts to build a community and celebrate diversity. It is to be noted that Wells Fargo usually does ... http://firefinance.blogspot.com/2007/11/50-bonus-from-wells-fargo.html Some of you know the area that I live in, but for those who don't - I'm located on Vancouver Island, which is just off the west coast of BC, Canada. It's a fairly large island, and unless you're near the water, it doesn't really feel like an island at ... http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GiveMeBackMyFiveBucks/~3/183953142/inconvenience-of-island-life.html The credit crunch seems to be worsening, rather than lessening, and the conundrum seems to have disappeared. Chart 2 from DB, GEP Nov. 12, 2007. From Deutsch Bank's Global Economic Perspectives of November 12th: Chart 2 illustrates the development of tensions in the credit market using credit default swaps for investment and high yield European ... http://www.econbrowser.com/archives/2007/11/the_credit_crun.html On this Veterans Day I want to say a special thank you to the men and women that I know personally and those that I have never met for what they do for me, my family, and all of us. Please, if you see a person in uniform today ... http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/typepad/blownmortgage_blog/~3/183925836/ I planned my meals on paper, made a grocery list, and then forgot the list in the kitchen when I went to the store. So I winged it and I managed to remember everything that was on there, thank goodness.Here is this week's meal plan:Roast chicken (that was tonight) plus ... http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ClawingOurWayToFinancialHealth/~3/183922810/meal-planning-monday-week-two.html A http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ChristianFinanceBlog/~3/183918202/ Although I agree with the view that financials are oversold and due for a short-term technical bounce, that doesn't mean 1) the negative news flow will stop; 2) the sector has hit the bottom (after all, there have been plenty of bogus trading rallies in the homebuilding stocks as they've ... http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/financialarmageddon/~3/183916699/bagholder-alert.html Reader John tells us that he witnessed some Best Buy employees announcing "the very last Wii" over and over again. Oh those crafty kids at Best Buy! Saturday morning (11/10) I witnessed some amazing sleaziness over at the Princeton,NJ Best Buy. I was standing near the back of the ... http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/consumerist/full/~3/183938391/best-buy-employees-selling-the-last-wii-over-and-over-again-321892.php We have analyzed Nortel Networks (NT) financial statements for the September 2007 quarter as filed with the SEC in a 10-Q. This post reports the results of our evaluation.Nortel is the Canadian-based supplier of products and services to telecom carriers, other networking enterprises, and businesses. Nortel has defied ... http://www.financial-gauges.com/2007/11/nt-financial-analysis-through-september.html Your Source Feed, http://www.hustlermoneyblog.com/?feed=rss2, is now working fine. Carry on! We will let you know if anything bad happens in the future. http://www.money-and-financial-business.com/all-clear-feedmedic-alert-for-httpfeedsfeedburnercomhustlerblog/ It’s nothing new for gas prices to make headlines. It seems like every day for the last few years the media has kept a very close watch on the daily fluctuations of fuel. And Americans across the country have been tracking prices at the pump and feeling the effects. While ... http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/22Dollars/~3/183914811/pain_at_the_pump_this_holiday_season_will_gas_prices_on_the_rise_impact_your_family_ties.php We may have to work on lowering that, though: all the really cool bloggers are in Junior High. http://insureblog.blogspot.com/2007/11/not-to-brag-but.html Do you have a belly? Come on, don't be ashamed...I do too. Getting rid of the pocket of love is something we all drool over however most of us aren't willing to put in the time required to lose it.On her blog, DLM writer K. Stone does a ... http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/DumbLittleMan/~3/183919261/so-how-can-i-lose-belly-fat.html FeedBurner had trouble retrieving your Source Feed: http://www.hustlermoneyblog.com/?feed=rss2 The error message is: Read timed out Actions you can take: Validate your Source Feed with Feed Validator. This service provides additional detail about the problem, and how to repair it. Resync your FeedBurner feed once you have repaired the source feed. Contact FeedBurner for help with ... http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hustlermoneyblog.com%2F%3Ffeed%3Drss2