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Investment Watch
2009
Investment Watch - 3rd Quarter, 2009 - Summary: President Obama concluded the Summit, ?Finally, we agreed to reform our system of global economic coopera-tion and governance.Investment Watch
3rd Quarter, 2009
G-20 SummitInvestment Watch - 2nd Quarter 2009 - Summary: Macro Economic Advisers, as reported in a Wall Street Journal article, predict that our Gross Do-mestic Product will contract by a 1.3% annual rate in the second quarter.Investment Watch
2nd Quarter 2009
Green Shoots?Investment Watch - 1st Quarter, 2009 - Summary: Can the Obama administration?s new program clean up the Toxic Asset Waste, shore up big banks? balance sheets and finally end credit market paralysis.Investment Watch
1st Quarter, 2009
Toxic Asset Waste
2008
Investment Watch - 4th Quarter, 2008 - Summary: 2008 will be remembered as the stock market?s steepest decline since the Great Depression.Investment Watch
4th Quarter, 2008
2008 Recession. 2009 Recovery?Investment Watch - 3rd Quarter, 2008 - Summary: Wall Street will never look the same again.Investment Watch
3rd Quarter, 2008
Credit Crisis or Collapse?Investment Watch - 2nd Quarter 2008 - Summary: Fed and regulators are concerned that without a lifeline of fresh capital, some banks who need cash will have a tough time attracting new investors.Investment Watch
2nd Quarter 2008
Doctor, DoctorInvestment Watch - 1st Quarter, 2008 - Summary: Not even to mention, the Federal Reserves' direct intervention to avert a collapse of Bear Stearns, one of the largest global investment banks and securities trading and brokerage firms in the world.Investment Watch
1st Quarter, 2008
Patience is a Virtue
2007
Investment Watch - 4th Quarter 2007 - Summary: Although the housing downturn and resultant credit crisis has dampened our growth, it may only be short lived.Investment Watch
4th Quarter 2007
The Year of the Roller CoasterInvestement Watch - 3rd Quarter. 2007 - Summary: mortgages are made at higher interest rates to borrowers who have poor credit histories.Investement Watch
3rd Quarter. 2007
SUBPRIME SUBMERGED!Investment Watch - 2nd Quarter. 2007 - Summary: doors to the world.Investment Watch
2nd Quarter. 2007
"Fireworks"Investment Watch - 1st Quarter. 2007 - Summary: The Banc of America Security analysts recapped the madness reporting that there were net withdrawals of $3.3 billion from stock funds for the week of March 7th.Investment Watch
1st Quarter. 2007
"March Madness"
2006
Investment Watch - 4th Quarter. 2006 - Summary: In the yearend Barron's. the P/E ratio of the S&P 500 declined from the end of last year to this year. even with the 15.8% boost in the prices.Investment Watch
4th Quarter. 2006
"Holidays in July"Investment Watch - 3rd Quarter. 2006 - Summary: Some investors have that uneasy feeling that our flight path is too-steep to land safely. that the Fed already has slowed growth too much by raising the Fed Funds rateInvestment Watch
3rd Quarter. 2006
"Trains and Boats and Planes"Investment Watch - 2nd Quarter 2006 - Summary: The risk exists that a slowdown more pronounced than we currently expect could prove a drag on growth this year and next. Energy Rising energy prices pose risks to both eco-nomic activity and inflation.Investment Watch
2nd Quarter 2006
"Blame It On Ben!"Investment Watch - 1st Quarter 2006 - Summary: What's more. the Bank of Japan this month finally ended its five year deflation-fighting policy of holding interest rates near zero percent.Investment Watch
1st Quarter 2006
"No More Cheap Money!"
2005
Investment Watch - 4th Quarter 2005 - Summary: high inflation and high interest rates of the '80s.Investment Watch
4th Quarter 2005
"Ho Hum"Investment Watch - 3rd Quarter 2005 - Summary: city is the lowest point in Louisiana averaging 8 feet below sea level and is sinking only slightly less than ?? per year. requiring an intricate system of pumps and canals to keep it dry.Investment Watch
3rd Quarter 2005
KatrinaInvestment Watch - 2nd Quarter. 2005 - Summary: Will it unwind in an orderly manner or will our increased wealth be swept away by a tidal wave.Investment Watch
2nd Quarter. 2005
TSUNAMIInvestment Watch - 1st Quarter. 2005 - Summary: How did this happen right under our noses.Investment Watch
1st Quarter. 2005
"Globalization"
2004
Investment Watch - 4th Quarter. 2004 - Summary: Investment Watch
4th Quarter. 2004
Are Small Packages Better?Investment Watch - 3rd Quarter. 2004 - Summary: Light. sweet crude oil. sounds good enough to eat.Investment Watch
3rd Quarter. 2004
Oil!Investment Watch - 2nd Quarter. 2004 - Summary: Now we are entering a new economic era.Investment Watch
2nd Quarter. 2004
Voodoo d?j? vuInvestment Watch - 1st Quarter. 2004 - Summary: Inflation results in higher interest rates.Investment Watch
1st Quarter. 2004
"Rebalance?"
2003
Investment Watch - 4th Quarter. 2003 - Summary: On top of the Nice side of Santa's list this year was Productivity.Investment Watch
4th Quarter. 2003
Naughty or Nice?Investment Watch - 3rd Quarter. 2003 - Summary: The experts agree we are positively in a sustained economic rebound and have been for some time.Investment Watch
3rd Quarter. 2003
"The Jobless Recovery"Investment Watch - 2nd Quarter. 2003 - Summary: We don't have any control over the markets.Investment Watch
2nd Quarter. 2003
"Rebuilding"Investment Watch - 1st Quarter. 2003 - Summary: Or do we now need more assurances of cause-and effects and ultimate outcomes.Investment Watch
1st Quarter. 2003
"Uncertainty"
2002
Investment Watach - 4th Quarter. 2002 - Summary: Also. it seems that the disparity between the best and worst is wider today than any time before.Investment Watach
4th Quarter. 2002
"Bah Humbug"Investment Watch - 3rd Quarter. 2002 - Summary: 3rd Quarter. 2002 After another brutal quarter in the stock market you'd expect me to lament our most recent losses in this seemingly never ending Bear Market. remind all of us that everything eventually comes to an end and that we're in this for the long run.Investment Watch
3rd Quarter. 2002
"One Dip or Two?"Investment Watch - 2nd Quarter. 2002 - Summary: Would I be handsome. Would I be rich? Here's what she said to me: Que sera sera. Whatever will be. will be. The future's not ours to see.Investment Watch
2nd Quarter. 2002
"Que sera sera"Investment Watch - 1st Quarter. 2000 - Summary: 1st Quarter. 2002 An old poem has been whirling around in my mind over the last few days.Investment Watch
1st Quarter. 2000
"Spring has Sprung"
2001
Investment Watch - 4th Quarter. 2001 - Summary: However. they also tell us that over a long period of time the markets are very predictable.Investment Watch
4th Quarter. 2001
"Dazed and Confused"Investment Watch - 3rd Quarter. 2001 - Summary: The pummeling has lasted an eternity bad news followed by worse news.Investment Watch
3rd Quarter. 2001
"Black Tuesday"