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06 Mar 07

Dollars to Spare in China’s Trove - New York Times

  • In the insular world of China’s central bank they are known as the Three Xiaos,
    three women with similar names who oversee the greatest fortune ever assembled:
    China’s more than $1 trillion in foreign exchange reserves
05 Mar 07

Sebastian Mallaby - Crazy Like A Financial Market - washingtonpost.com

  • The truth is that market sentiment shifted for no satisfying reason. One day
    investors made light of storm clouds; the next day they yelled in terror.
01 Mar 07

Asia Times Online :: Middle East News - US's Iraq oil grab is a done deal

  • "By 2010 we will need [a further] 50 million barrels a day. The Middle East, with two-thirds of the oil and the lowest cost, is still where the prize lies." - US Vice President Dick Cheney - ashleystar on 2007-03-01
28 Feb 07

OpinionJournal - Credit Correction

  • The question is whether this is a forecast or merely a correction. As evidence
    of the latter, we'd point to Mr. Greenspan, whose Monday remarks seem to have
    been over-interpreted as a recession prediction.

A Recession That Arrived on Cats’ Paws - New York Times

  • The economic news certainly isn’t all bad. The housing problems still haven’t
    turned into a crisis, thanks in part to interest rates that are still not high
    by historical standards. So the most likely situation is not a full-blown
    recession (often defined as two consecutive quarters of a shrinking economy).
  • Is it possible that we’re headed for a real recession?

Stocks plummet after sell off in China - New York Times

  • a correction is likely - ashleystar on 2007-02-28
  • One sign of the nature of the sell-off was what went up. United
    States Treasury
    prices soared, and yields fell, as some investors sought
    safety.
  • The sell-off left almost every major stock lower, including all 30 stocks in the
    Dow industrials and all but two in the S.& P. 500 and one in the Nasdaq 100.
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