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Mortgage research firm RealtyTrac reported that the rate of mortgage defaults slowed to a four-year low in February, but the trend of foreclosures was still up by 6% compared with the same month last year. The federal government continues to do what it can which includes the President’s $75 billion Homeowner Stability Initiative. One of [[ This is a content summary only
The Disposable CEO
Mar 12
It is proxy season and as public companies put out the lists of compensations for their CEOs it is plain that the recession did not do much to damage chief executive pay packages in most cases. New research shows that the recession was unkind to some CEOs who have recently lost their job as part of [[ This is a content summary only.
Direxion is launching six new Direxion Shares Daily ETFs, making the leveraged ETF trading instruments now at 34 ETFs. These will seek 200% of the daily performance or 200% of the inverse of the daily performance of the BNY Mellon BRIC Select ADR Index and the Indus India Index. There is also a 300% bull [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Updated throughout the day. Citigroup (C) may earn $20 billion in 2012 (FT) Macquarie Group, Australia’s largest investment bank, is on the hunt for more U.S. assets
China’s statistics bureau said that the rise in housing prices over the last year was 1.5%.
The unemployment rate is slightly below the 10% mark, which seems terribly important psychologically. It seems that the economy is fine if the jobless rate is 9.7% but is in horrible shape if the number is 10.1%. The Labor Department put the statistic in perspective when it said that unemployment went up in 30 states [[ This is a content summary only
It was less than two years ago that defunct business magazine Portfolio named Citigroup(C) CEO Vikram Pandit one of the twenty worst CEOs of all time. Pandit may be about to jump onto the list of greatest turnaround CEOs, if his forecasts about the bank’s performance are correct. According to the FT, Pandit “will on Thursday raise [[ This is a content summary only.
Wal-Mart (WMT), the world’s largest retailer which has sales greater than the GDP of many countries, has decided it is so successful that it can stock products that no one wants. According to Reuters, Wal-Mart has put roughly 300 items back on its U.S. store shelves after the retailer said it “disappointed” customers by not stocking certain [[ This is a content summary only
The price tag for Toyota’s (TM) massive recall of eight of its popular models plus the Prius hybrid and its Tundra truck is estimated as high as $5 billion according to experts surveyed by The Wall Street Journal. These costs include repairs, litigation, and the incentives that the car company will have to give to [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
