“The fear is that this Bear situation is the tip of the iceberg and it could lead to other funds being liquidated.” – Todd Clark (subscription required), Director of Stock Trading, Nollenberger Capital Partners “There’s fear of further liquidations.” – Jeffrey…
“Negative sentiment took a firm hold of the [subprime bond] market” this past week. “We think the weakness in the ABX will continue.” – JP Morgan in a report from Friday June 15 In “Ills Deepen in Subprime Bond Arena”…
“You don’t understand what drives him. Money is the measuring stick.” – Arline Schwarzman (subscription required), Mother of Steve Schwarzman, on the subject of Blackstone’s IPO A few months ago Fortune ran a magazine cover with the picture of Steve Schwarzman,…
“The [consumer price index] is what spurred this rally. We lost a lot of the gains [to record highs] and now we’re getting them back.” – Jim Herrick (subscription required), Head Trader, Robert W. Baird So the Consumer Price Index (CPI)…
Last November, the voters of CA approved more than $37 billion in bond issuance to improve the state’s infrastructure. Next Monday and Tuesday retail investors will be able to place orders for $2.5 billion in bonds that go on sale…
This morning Barry Ritholtz put up a post on saying that bonds are oversold on sentiment and technicals if not valuation. In that post, he links to an article by Barron’s interest rate columnist Randall Forsyth, “It’s For Real: Bond…
“People were fearing disaster [in this morning’s Producer Price Index (PPI) report]. They got a report that wasn’t too far from the consensus, and it led to a rally.” – Brian Reynolds (subscription required), Chief Market Strategist, MS Howells May Core PPI…
What a ride it’s been in Blockbuster the last 6 months. On Nov 2, 2006 Blockbuster reported an excellent 3rd quarter. While revenue was down slightly and they posted a loss of $27.5 million they in fact made alot of…
A couple weeks ago David Gaffen at the WSJ’s MarketBeat blog had a post everyone should read on five reasons for rising interest rates: (1) Higher Yields Around the Globe (2) Diminished Expectations for a Rate Cut (3) China Diversifying…
“No question that the bottom of the market hasn’t hit yet.” – Esmael Adibi, Economist, Chapman University in Orange County “I think we’re going to be dealing with this all the way through 2008.” – Jack Haynes, Executive Vice President,…