Friday, December 31, 2010

Reunion for “Queen of Bermuda” Crew - Bernews

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Bernews

Reunion for “Queen of Bermuda” Crew
Bernews
Her grey hull and white superstructure were topped with three graceful red and black funnels and she was the only liner in history to have sailed with three ...

Thursday, December 30, 2010

6 Worst Financial Words of 2010 - CBS MoneyWatch.com (blog)

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6 Worst Financial Words of 2010
CBS MoneyWatch.com (blog)
Cunard retired the real QE2 back in 2008-hopefully 2011 will be the last of the financial version of the cruise ship.

Tom Lydon Makes the Case for Small Caps, Corporate Debt - Seeking Alpha

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Tom Lydon Makes the Case for Small Caps, Corporate Debt
Seeking Alpha
QE2, the Bush tax cut extension and strong corporate earnings make stocks more attractive and puts pressure on yields. As the economy improves, ...

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Banned expressions cover politics and media in 2011 - Vancouver Courier

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Banned expressions cover politics and media in 2011
Vancouver Courier
QE2: Not the cruise ship, but "Qualitative Easing" from the Federal Reserve, the second edition. Otherwise known as "printing money. ...

NBR Transcripts-December 30, 2010 - Nightly Business Report

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NBR Transcripts-December 30, 2010
Nightly Business Report
I think if the Fed will stop QE2 at the end of the program, that should result in high interest rates by sometime the middle of the year. ...

Reflecting and Looking Ahead: ETF Pullback Choices This Week - Seeking Alpha

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Reflecting and Looking Ahead: ETF Pullback Choices This Week
Seeking Alpha
Ditto if QE2 produces more inflation than investors are willing to accept. Suppose we have good news in the year ahead. Suppose the known international ...

Wednesday, December 29, 2010

8 Contrarian Signs Against a 2011 Rally: My Thoughts - Seeking Alpha

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8 Contrarian Signs Against a 2011 Rally: My Thoughts
Seeking Alpha
3) Interest rates are rising: Some have actually hailed the Fed's QE2 program as a success based on this; clearly investors are expecting more inflation ...

Yearender: Xinhua's top 10 world news events in 2010 - People's Daily Online

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Yearender: Xinhua's top 10 world news events in 2010
People's Daily Online
... members onboard sank off the west coast of the Korean Peninsula on March 26 after an explosion ripped the rear part of the ship, killing 46 sailors. ...

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Yearender: Xinhua's top 10 world news events in 2010 - Xinhua

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Yearender: Xinhua's top 10 world news events in 2010
Xinhua
... members onboard sank off the west coast of the Korean Peninsula on March 26 after an explosion ripped the rear part of the ship, killing 46 sailors. ...

No wonder the nuclear family goes into meltdown after Christmas - Independent

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No wonder the nuclear family goes into meltdown after Christmas
Independent
For fear of getting stuck on the QE2 with JOHN PRESCOTT. For FIFTEEN DAYS AND NIGHTS. Telling jokes about his wife's knickers. And VOMITING from noro-virus. ...

Brown budget: are you willing to share the pain? - 89.3 KPCC

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89.3 KPCC

Brown budget: are you willing to share the pain?
89.3 KPCC
Main Street is not stupid enough to believe that engineered rallies as a result of QE2 stimulus are making them wealthier and so they should go out and buy ...

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Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Baltic Dry Index: Indicator for Economy / S&P? - Seeking Alpha

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Baltic Dry Index: Indicator for Economy / S&P?
Seeking Alpha
The sinking ship (pun intended) has gone largely unnoticed, beyond a few mentions in the blogosphere. However, I've followed the decline, as I keep BALDRY ...

Monday, December 27, 2010

Some Thoughts on Market Timing - Jutia Group

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Jutia Group

Some Thoughts on Market Timing
Jutia Group
They also have 5 containers of needed medical supplies ready to ship to the Philippines in January alone. Ed Artis, the founder of Knightsbridge, ...

Sunday, December 26, 2010

Some Thoughts on Market Timing - Oakshire Financial

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Some Thoughts on Market Timing
Oakshire Financial
They also have 5 containers of needed medical supplies ready to ship to the Philippines in January alone. Ed Artis, the founder of Knightsbridge, ...

Mandarin Monday - China Tightens, While Snow Chills Markets - Seeking Alpha

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Mandarin Monday - China Tightens, While Snow Chills Markets
Seeking Alpha
Obama and Bernanke have already teamed up for a $2Tn money drop in 2011, and that $20 that oil has risen since The Bernank announce QE2 in September is $20 ...

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Test your brainwaves with the 4th annual Detroit Free Press travel quiz - Kansas City Star

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Test your brainwaves with the 4th annual Detroit Free Press travel quiz
Kansas City Star
C. Queen Elizabeth. Another namesake ship, the Queen Elizabeth 2, retired in 2008. The QE2 replaced an even earlier ship, the Queen Elizabeth. ...

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Surprise Appearance by Satan at Rowling Bash - The Spoof (satire)

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Surprise Appearance by Satan at Rowling Bash
The Spoof (satire)
Billionaire literary agent Christopher Little hired the QE2 for a huge bash in anticipation of his 'discovery' JKRowling's receiving a Damehood in the ...

Council worker jailed for scam that cost town hall £690000 - Manchester Evening News

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Council worker jailed for scam that cost town hall £690000
Manchester Evening News
He helped run a scam which cost the council more than £690000 — he even paid for a QE2 cruise with the proceeds. A court was told he lived beyond his means ...

Saturday, December 25, 2010

Words & phrases that made 2010 - Deccan Herald

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Deccan Herald

Words & phrases that made 2010
Deccan Herald
QE2: Not the ocean liner, but the abbreviation for the Fed's latest round of quantitative easing, its purchase of Treasury bonds. ...

Friday, December 24, 2010

Words to the wise: Summing up 2010 - Philadelphia Inquirer

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Words to the wise: Summing up 2010
Philadelphia Inquirer
QE2 in 2010 was not a cruise (who could afford one) but shorthand for the second bout of Federal Reserve "quantitative easing." There were appraisal mill, ...

Thoughts on Stock Market Timing and Hundreds of Billions in Municipal Bond ... - The Market Oracle

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Thoughts on Stock Market Timing and Hundreds of Billions in Municipal Bond ...
The Market Oracle
They also have 5 containers of needed medical supplies ready to ship to the Philippines in January alone. Ed Artis, the founder of Knightsbridge, ...

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Thursday, December 23, 2010

If I Were A Market-Timer I'd Say "It's Time To Get The Hell Out Of Stocks" - The Business Insider

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The Business Insider

If I Were A Market-Timer I'd Say "It's Time To Get The Hell Out Of Stocks"
The Business Insider
They also have 5 containers of needed medical supplies ready to ship to the Philippines in January alone. Ed Artis, the founder of Knightsbridge, ...

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Is Sarah Palin Intellectually-Challenged? - American Chronicle

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Is Sarah Palin Intellectually-Challenged?
American Chronicle
... statement on QE2; the former beauty queen probably thought that the Fed's QE2 monetary policy was a reference to the cruise ship of the same name. ...

The Overnight Report: Mixed Data, Mixed Markets - Ninemsn

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The Overnight Report: Mixed Data, Mixed Markets
Ninemsn
We know QE2's sitting there, but maybe we've pushed the market a little high in the short term given we're now back above Lehman levels. ...

Just Print More Money: The Easy Way to Manage and Economy - Daily Reckoning - Australian Edition

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Just Print More Money: The Easy Way to Manage and Economy
Daily Reckoning - Australian Edition
You can't ship anything because it must cost a fortune. If they made me dictator of either country I bet I could add a few points to GDP growth overnight. ...

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U.S. Stock Market Forecast: Tech, Energy, Commodities and Gold Are Top Plays ... - Seeking Alpha

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U.S. Stock Market Forecast: Tech, Energy, Commodities and Gold Are Top Plays ...
Seeking Alpha
Treasury yields have backed up considerably since QE2 began. While the Fed was trying to keep interest rates low by buying Treasuries and flooding the ...

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US Stock Market Forecast 2011, Outperform for Tech, Energy and Commodity, Gold ... - The Market Oracle

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US Stock Market Forecast 2011, Outperform for Tech, Energy and Commodity, Gold ...
The Market Oracle
Treasury yields have backed up considerably since QE2 began. While the Fed was trying to keep interest rates low by buying Treasuries and flooding the ...

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Tuesday, December 21, 2010

US Stock Market Forecast: Tech, Energy, Commodities and Gold Are Top Plays For ... - Money Morning

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US Stock Market Forecast: Tech, Energy, Commodities and Gold Are Top Plays For ...
Money Morning
Treasury yields have backed up considerably since QE2 began. While the Fed was trying to keep interest rates low by buying Treasuries and flooding the ...

Market Comment (21st Dec 2010, 15:30) - Market Moves

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Market Comment (21st Dec 2010, 15:30)
Market Moves
Signs that the US is tackling the large funding gap would prove positive for the US dollar, which has suffered of late on the back of Ben Bernanke's QE2 ...

One of Bernanke's aims was realized - Equitymaster.com

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One of Bernanke's aims was realized
Equitymaster.com
You can't ship anything because it must cost a fortune. If they made me dictator of either country I bet I could add a few points to GDP growth overnight. ...

Monday, December 20, 2010

UK Research Team, IG Group - IG Markets CFD Trading

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UK Research Team, IG Group
IG Markets CFD Trading
Signs that the US is tackling the large funding gap would prove positive for the US dollar, which has suffered of late on the back of Ben Bernanke's QE2 ...

High life of road worker in huge waste disposal scam - Manchester Evening News

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High life of road worker in huge waste disposal scam
Manchester Evening News
A council worker at the centre of a waste disposal scam lived the high-life outside work and even went on a QE2 cruise, a court was told. ...

Scoops and Scrapes - Kimberley Daily Bulletin

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Scoops and Scrapes
Kimberley Daily Bulletin
P-14-30 called for 57 tons of explosive and broke well over a million tons of ore, 13 times the weight of the liner Queen Mary. The 2-89 pillar blast took ...

Does Anyone Dare Refudiate My Claim That Sarah Palin Is An Idiot? - Student Operated Press

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Student Operated Press

Does Anyone Dare Refudiate My Claim That Sarah Palin Is An Idiot?
Student Operated Press
... statement on QE2; the former beauty queen probably thought that the Fed`s QE2 monetary policy was a reference to the cruise ship of the same name. ...

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Sunday, December 19, 2010

Recommended: The final legislative drama -- New START - msnbc.com

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Recommended: The final legislative drama -- New START
msnbc.com
All the products are free shipping, and the the price is competitive, and also can accept the paypal payment.,after the payment, can ship within short time. ...

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Ex-Liverpool chief pilot drums up support for Daily Post's Get on Board campaign - Liverpool Daily Post

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Ex-Liverpool chief pilot drums up support for Daily Post's Get on Board campaign
Liverpool Daily Post
“It's a natural progression after building up the cruise liner-visiting business over the last three years and having put ourselves back on the maritime map ...

Friday, December 17, 2010

QE2 My Ship

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A chance meeting with my old ship...the QE2 in New York almost 16 years after working on board this magnificent liner

dailymotion.com

Confessions of a Money Manager: QE2 kerfuffle provides opportunity in bond ... - Madison.com

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Confessions of a Money Manager: QE2 kerfuffle provides opportunity in bond ...
Madison.com
The big concern, however, is the Federal Reserve's QE2 program. No, it's not an acronym for the Queen Elizabeth II ocean liner, it's short for Quantitative ...

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Thursday, December 16, 2010

Real Progress for the Real US Economy - Morningstar

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Real Progress for the Real US Economy
Morningstar
And certainly QE2, while it certainly hasn't helped rates the way maybe the Fed had hoped, it has certainly done the right thing and created a better ...

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Wednesday, December 15, 2010

QE2 And Commercial Real Estate: Rough Waters Ahead? - Forbes (blog)

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Forbes (blog)

QE2 And Commercial Real Estate: Rough Waters Ahead?
Forbes (blog)
At one point, the Titanic was the largest cruise ship in operation. The conventional wisdom was that it was unsinkable. Well, we all know how that turned ...

Unintended Consequences - Oakshire Financial

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Unintended Consequences
Oakshire Financial
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I seem to remember that one of the reasons for QE2 was to lower rates on the longer end of the US yield curve. ...

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Quantitative Easing Unintended Consequences, Rising Interest Rates - The Market Oracle

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Quantitative Easing Unintended Consequences, Rising Interest Rates
The Market Oracle
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I seem to remember that one of the reasons for QE2 was to lower rates on the longer end of the US yield curve. ...

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Why This Market is Risky as Hell - Money Morning Australia

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Why This Market is Risky as Hell
Money Morning Australia
Bernanke wrote an article in the Washington Post a day or so after starting QE2. In it he said, “This approach eased financial conditions in the past and, ...

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Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Unintended Consequences - Gold Seek

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Unintended Consequences
Gold Seek
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I seem to remember that one of the reasons for QE2 was to lower rates on the longer end of the US yield curve. ...

Otago remain winless as Canterbury cruise - TVNZ

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Otago remain winless as Canterbury cruise
TVNZ
Today's win at QE2 park was set up by opener Rob Nicol who stroked a breezy 75 off 54 balls including five boundaries and four sixes, before exiting late in ...

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Rensburg Sheppards' Investment Management Simon Kaye looks for a thaw in ... - Huddersfield Examiner

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Rensburg Sheppards' Investment Management Simon Kaye looks for a thaw in ...
Huddersfield Examiner
The delivery of an extended programme of quantitative easing – QE2 – in America appears to have been successful in reassuring risk-takers there that a ...

World stock markets daily report (December 14, 2010) - Stock Markets Review

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World stock markets daily report (December 14, 2010)
Stock Markets Review
One of the QE2 targets was to push bonds yields lower. The 10y UST is trading above 3.25% (even after Monday's rally), up by nearly 70bp since QE2 was ...

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Monday, December 13, 2010

Japan's Sengoku Deflects Pressure From BOJ - Wall Street Journal

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Japan's Sengoku Deflects Pressure From BOJ
Wall Street Journal
"QE2 seems to have a bad reputation," he said. "I tend to think there is a strong possibility the US will be following in the footsteps of Japan, ...

Divisional director at Rensburg Sheppards Investment Management Simon Kaye ... - Huddersfield Examiner

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Divisional director at Rensburg Sheppards Investment Management Simon Kaye ...
Huddersfield Examiner
The delivery of an extended programme of quantitative easing – QE2 – in America appears to have been successful in reassuring risk-takers there that a ...

Stocks: Anticipator Of Economic Health? - istockAnalyst.com (press release)

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Stocks: Anticipator Of Economic Health?
istockAnalyst.com (press release)
... at the Fed are heavily influenced by the trend in the stock market and therefore felt strongly about implementing QE2 to prevent the ship from sinking. ...

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Sunday, December 12, 2010

Stocks Indicate Economic Improvement for 2011 - Minyanville.com

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Minyanville.com

Stocks Indicate Economic Improvement for 2011
Minyanville.com
... at the Fed are heavily influenced by the trend in the stock market and therefore felt strongly about implementing QE2 to prevent the ship from sinking. ...

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Zacks Earnings Preview: Federal Express, Oracle, Discover, Best Buy and ... - Insurance News Net (press release)

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Zacks Earnings Preview: Federal Express, Oracle, Discover, Best Buy and ...
Insurance News Net (press release)
There should not be any major announcements out of the meeting like there was with the announcement of QE2 last meeting. The market will, however, ...

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Investing for Profit in the Russian Mafia States Stock Market, Goodbye Chinese ... - The Market Oracle

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Investing for Profit in the Russian Mafia States Stock Market, Goodbye Chinese ...
The Market Oracle
Without elaborating, he cited the strange case of the "Arctic Sea" ship in mid-2009 as "a clear example" of arms trafficking. 9. ...

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This Is Bigger Than A QE2 Misfire: Bond Yields Are Rising Everywhere - The Business Insider

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This Is Bigger Than A QE2 Misfire: Bond Yields Are Rising Everywhere
The Business Insider
The Forbes Cruise was a lot of fun. It had been a while since I was in Mexico, and now I remember why I love it. I may need to dust off some back issues of ...

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Stocks: Anticipator Of Economic Health? - Daily Markets

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Stocks: Anticipator Of Economic Health?
Daily Markets
... at the Fed are heavily influenced by the trend in the stock market and therefore felt strongly about implementing QE2 to prevent the ship from sinking. ...

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Santa Claus Rally Cleared for Landing - Seeking Alpha

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Santa Claus Rally Cleared for Landing
Seeking Alpha
The captain of the ship seeks a course along which the winds can be expected to blow in the direction of travel. Likewise, one has to be aware of the ...

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Saturday, December 11, 2010

UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES - Benzinga

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UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES
Benzinga
By TPC By John Mauldin Correct me if I'm wrong, but I seem to remember that one of the reasons for QE2 was to lower rates on the longer end of the US yield ...

Friday, December 10, 2010

Heavy Data Week Ahead - Zacks.com

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Heavy Data Week Ahead
Zacks.com
There should not be any major announcements out of the meeting like there was with the announcement of QE2 last meeting. The market will, however, ...

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Thursday, December 9, 2010

Iconic Cunard Line Queens to Meet for historic rendezvous in New York on 13 ... - Breaking Travel News

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Iconic Cunard Line Queens to Meet for historic rendezvous in New York on 13 ...
Breaking Travel News
Cunard Line's three luxury cruise ships – flagship Queen Mary 2, Queen Victoria and the new Queen Elizabeth – will meet together in New York Harbour for a ...

The Overnight Report: Who's The Grinch? - Ninemsn

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The Overnight Report: Who's The Grinch?
Ninemsn
It's a bit of a stalemate, because Wall Street wants to be bullish on QE2 and tax cuts but Europe still hangs like a cloud. December had been tipped to see ...

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

The American People Are Mad As Hell and Can't Take It Anymore - 24/7 Wall St. (blog)

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The American People Are Mad As Hell and Can't Take It Anymore
24/7 Wall St. (blog)
... the Fed for helping the US avoid financial disaster though some questionable policies such as QE2 (quantitative easing, not the famous cruise ship. ...

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Sirius: Apple Rumor Is Beneficial, No Matter How It's Cut - Seeking Alpha

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Sirius: Apple Rumor Is Beneficial, No Matter How It's Cut
Seeking Alpha
With QE2 doing its magic, and also the extension of the Bush tax-cuts for the investor class, Sirius will be scooped up. Even if Stern does abandon Sirius ...

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Will Commodities Go The Same Way As Bonds? - Money Morning Australia

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Money Morning Australia

Will Commodities Go The Same Way As Bonds?
Money Morning Australia
The rotation of new money from the Fed to the market to the government is speeding up… then it'll reach terminal velocity, and the economic ship won't be ...

Iconic Cunard Line Queens to Meet for Historic Royal Rendezvous in New York ... - PR Newswire (press release)

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Iconic Cunard Line Queens to Meet for Historic Royal Rendezvous in New York ...
PR Newswire (press release)
Cunard's first Royal Rendezvous in New York was in 2008 when its fleet – Queen Mary 2, Queen Elizabeth 2 and Queen Victoria – met for the first and only ...

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Tuesday, December 7, 2010

The Rand Navigating Big Winds - Daily Markets

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The Rand Navigating Big Winds
Daily Markets
Last month it embarked on a second programme of buying Treasury bonds held privately (QE2), at a rate of $75bn monthly, plus reinvesting repaid debt ...

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GOP leaders criticize Fed, call for monetary policy debate - The Hill (blog)

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GOP leaders criticize Fed, call for monetary policy debate
The Hill (blog)
"They think they can put a Cruise missile through the goal posts." Republicans have been critical of the Fed's decision to embark on a second round of ...

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Monday, December 6, 2010

One Hot Dollar in Your Chinese Pocket - Gapers Block

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One Hot Dollar in Your Chinese Pocket
Gapers Block
If QE2 works, and exports increase due to a cheaper dollar, there may indeed be signs of a real recovery. But there is the fear that a cheaper dollar, ...

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US Federal Reserve releases secret data to appease critics - Daily Athenaeum

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US Federal Reserve releases secret data to appease critics
Daily Athenaeum
This brings us back to the aptly named QE2, which also shares its nickname with the now retired but one of the largest constructed cruise liners, ...

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US' unilateral pressure toward the yuan is in vain - Global Times

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US' unilateral pressure toward the yuan is in vain
Global Times
It is the US' quantitative easing (QE2) that should have taken the credit. To save its economy from deflation, the unilateral QE has stirred up controversy ...

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Sunday, December 5, 2010

Currency insight from Halo Financial with Guide2Midi-Pyrenees - Guide 2 Midi-Pyrenees

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Currency insight from Halo Financial with Guide2Midi-Pyrenees
Guide 2 Midi-Pyrenees
The drop in durable goods orders will be part of that change and tension ahead of the 1st round of QE2; the second phase of quantitative easing is keeping ...

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Stocks Chug Higher, Impervious to Bad News - Gold Seek

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Stocks Chug Higher, Impervious to Bad News
Gold Seek
Stocks initially fell on the news, but bears were easily repelled by the so-far invincible OPM/QE2 juggernaut in the opening minutes of the session. ...

Saturday, December 4, 2010

All Aboard the QE2 - Seeking Alpha

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All Aboard the QE2
Seeking Alpha
Some believe the Fed's tugboat was necessary to rescue an economy aimlessly drifting about like the powerless Carnival Cruise ship. ...

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Thursday, December 2, 2010

Top marks for Queen Elizabeth - Mirror.co.uk (blog)

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Top marks for Queen Elizabeth
Mirror.co.uk (blog)
For many, this is the umpteenth cruise with the company, as the jackets and T-shirts bearing the logos of QE2 and QM2 testify. ...

An ugly jobs report - Washington Post (blog)

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An ugly jobs report
Washington Post (blog)
It all guarantees that QE2 will reach the full 600 billion, and opens the door to the possibility of a QE3. That's why the 10 year has dropped this morning, ...

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The Rising Sea of Debt, Part One of Two - Daily Reckoning - American Edition

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The Rising Sea of Debt, Part One of Two
Daily Reckoning - American Edition
In this regard, isn't it convenient that the Fed's recently adopted QE2 program requires the Fed to purchase almost exactly the amount of planned US ...

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Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Simpson-Bowles: $4 Trillion of Beltway Mumbo Jumbo - Minyanville.com

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Simpson-Bowles: $4 Trillion of Beltway Mumbo Jumbo
Minyanville.com
But only $600 billion of QE2 monetization has been so far announced by the Fed -- meaning that at the current $100 billion monthly rate, the bucket will be ...

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It's all up to Trichet now - ForexLive

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It's all up to Trichet now
ForexLive
If the ECB decides to buy bonds, would not it be a similar to QE2. If this is the case should we expect a kind of Euro correction down to 1.25-27 No. ...

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Captain 'DJ' Scott-Masson - Telegraph.co.uk

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Telegraph.co.uk

Captain 'DJ' Scott-Masson
Telegraph.co.uk
Next Scott-Masson was ordered to rendezvous with the Cunard liner QE2, which had also been requisitioned as a troopship and ordered to South Georgia, ...