Obama may never get his way as he tries to shut down deepwater drilling in the Gulf as a reaction to the BP disaster An appellate court upheld a ruling the the government does not have the right to close the operations of companies drilling in the region.A federal appeals court rejected a bid by [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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The weekly jobless claims from the Labor Department are still headed in the right direction, albeit they are still very high for historic levels. The weekly claims came down by 14,000 to 442,000 for the week ended March 20. We had estimates expecting a drop of 7,000, so this is a better than expected number [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (ACI, BRCD, EBAY, GENZ, MAR, MIR, NTES, SNDA, GAME, SBUX, VOD)
Mar 25
These are the some of the top research call summaries for upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street analyst calls this Thursday morning: Arch Coal Inc. (NYSE: ACI) Started as Buy at Deutsche Bank. Brocade Communications Systems, Inc
Everyday, we make financial decisions that ultimately affect whether or not we will be able to live independently and retire comfortably. Do we opt for the Starbucks Caramel Latte or the Dunkin Donuts regular coffee? Do we hop on the subway or hail a taxi for the morning commute
CRE: "Almost FREE"
Jan 12
Talk about falling rents … Doug in Chicago sends along this photo “a storefront in a normally bustling neighborhood retail district on North Clark St in Chicago, about a mile south of Wrigley Field”.
By Paul Ausick Media giants Time Warner (NYSE:TWC) and News Corporation (NASDAQ:NWS) have settled a scuffle between Time Warner Cable and News Corp.’s Fox TV. Fox stands to receive a per-subscriber payment from Time Warner for the right to carry Fox network programming. As might be expected, Time Warner announced that subscriber rates were going up.
I’ve added two polls on the right sidebar. Predict the 2010 GDP growth and the Dec 2010 unemployment rate. I’ll post the poll results here tomorrow and post my own thoughts over the weekend
Two modification-renter related quotes: the first on modifications essentially turning homeowners into renters, and the second, a proposal from Dean Baker on making the renter-landlord relationship more formal. From an article by Carolyn Said in the San Francisco Chronicle: 2009’s mortgage modifications pretty minor “The problem with affordability-only modification is that it essentially makes homeowners renters for the foreseeable future and locks them into their homes so they can’t move elsewhere for better jobs.” [said] Paul Leonard, director of the California office at the Center for Responsible Lending in Oakland
From Barron’s: Sam Zell: Too Soon for Dancing Sam Zell … said …
CR Note: This is a guest post from albrt. A great deal has been written in the last year or so about cases in which a court has denied a lender the right to foreclose on a mortgaged house. Lately many of the decisions have involved MERS , an acronym for the nationwide Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc
