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Marotta's 2012 Gone-Fishing Portfolio - Forbes

Marotta's 2012 Gone-Fishing Portfolio
Forbes
PIMCO Emerging Markets Bond (PEMDX/PEBIX) has a 4.72% yield. Michael and Jennifer will invest 5.8% in each. In the next few columns, I will explain why these two bond funds are appropriate choices for each category and why I chose mutual funds this ...

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Brown Tax Increase Gains Urgency as Deficit Rises to $16 Billion - Bloomberg

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Brown Tax Increase Gains Urgency as Deficit Rises to $16 Billion
Bloomberg
Today the 74-year-old Democrat will unveil his revised budget and explain what additional spending must be cut. Tax collections have run $3.5 billion below what he calculated four months ago. Spending has grown $2 billion above projections.

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FT's Gillian Tett provides the rationale for gold price suppression - Gold Seek

FT's Gillian Tett provides the rationale for gold price suppression
Gold Seek
Explaining "financial repression" as the coercion of investors to purchase government bonds that pay negative real interest rates, Gillian Tett of the Financial Times this week provided the perfect rationale for the Western central bank gold price ...

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Why JP Morgan's Jamie Dimon Should Resign - U.S. News & World Report (blog)

U.S. News & World Report (blog)

Why JP Morgan's Jamie Dimon Should Resign
U.S. News & World Report (blog)
The trade was a simple bet on the difference, or "spread," between the price of a group of bonds and an index based on those bonds. In theory, those two prices should be about the same. In practice, they may vary due to factors such as the relative ...
JPMorgan executives set to leave, sources sayCNBC.com
JP Morgan executives 'set to leave' after $2bn lossTelegraph.co.uk
JPMorgan executives may quit over loss: sourcesOrlando Sentinel

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Going Through Denial, Spain Suffers Painful Housing Hangover - Fox Business

Going Through Denial, Spain Suffers Painful Housing Hangover
Fox Business
The country's 10-year bond yields, which move in the opposite direction of prices, spiked above 6.3% and the cost to insure its debt hit a fresh all-time record. “The past four years have witnessed a crisis of unprecedented proportion in the Spanish ...

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