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Two-Week Price Inflation in Argentina hits 30%, US Products Lead the Way; Currency Devaluations Hit P&G Earnings

MishTalk

Retail investors aren’t the only ones suffering from the woes of the emerging markets: Procter & Gamble PG +2.06% is feeling the pain of foreign currencies, too. bolivare-per-USD rate, thus the near-$300 million charge P&G now expects to incur on its third quarter balance sheet. bolivares per one U.S.

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China Cash Crunch Eases, For How Long? Three Things China Needs to Avoid; When can Beijing Truly move to Market-Determined Interest Rates?

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China''s Move to Market-Set Rates Let''s step back to December 8 and look at China Relaxes Grip on Interest Rates China is relaxing its grip on interest rates with the launch of a financial instrument that allows banks to trade deposits with each other at market-determined prices. China’s credit boom is still in full swing.

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Persistent Overoptimism Three Ways: Truckers, Fed Economists, Manufacturers

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Of course, there is also persistent overoptimism about earnings growth and stock market expectations. In November 2007, the Federal Open Market Committee began releasing projections for real GDP growth four times per year in its Summary of Economic Projections (SEP). The track record on recessions is perfect. A study by Alessi, et al.

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Midsize Cities Are Entrepreneurship’s Real Test

Harvard Business

But the Scalerator is very different from your typical startup accelerator: in our program, startups of any sector or age are accepted only if they have already demonstrated real market traction, high levels of ambition, and have a significant ownership stake. The average participant in the first cohort has actually doubled its sales.

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Swiss Bank Hits Customers With Negative Interest Rates; Crazy? What About Velocity?

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per cent rate to their institutional clients, but Alternative Bank Schweiz is believed to be the first retail bank to hit savers with a charge. With its balance sheet totalling nearly 1.6 Either way, it’s an unorthodox choice that has distorted financial markets and triggered warnings that the strategy could backfire.

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Right on Cue: Fed's Dudley Delivers Dovish Speech

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Futures were negative following Friday''s dismal job showing but that lasted only as long as the the market open. If I am correct, then this would lead to a further reduction of labor market slack, with the unemployment rate approaching 5 percent by the second half of the year. Reuters reports Rate Hike Timing Now Unclear.

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Reflections on 2013; What's Important, What's Not? What's Ahead?

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Had I suggested in 2007 that the Fed balance sheet expansion of $75 billion a month would have been considered "tightening" people would have thought I was nuts. A similar crash in public opinion awaits Bernanke for fueling one of the biggest, if not the biggest stock and bond market bubbles in history. Here we are.