Is The Inflation Scare Over Yet?
Treasuries have been on a bit of a rally recently as the Lehman iShares 20+ year duration treasury fund (TLT) chart shows ... of credit via massive writedowns in banks and financials, accompanied by sharply rising unemployment rates, falling wages, and curtailment in credit lines everywhere is simply not an inflationary [more...]
Date: 2008-06-27 00:51:36
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USRant: How's That Rally Workin' For Ya?
Boy - this is interesting. For the Dow, the S&P500 and the Nasdaq Comp, anybody who bought the index after 10:05 a.m. last Monday is now underwater ... in credit card lines by major US institutions. I have a lot of respect for Ms Whitney (or perhaps I should ... from consumer credit? Economic News Construction Spending for October fell 1.2%, which was a [more...]
Date: 2008-12-01 21:56:00
Maintaining Excellent Credit Rating
Being approved for credit is a sign that someone is willing to take a risk on you with their money ... of all, get your free annual credit report from the credit bureau. Check for mistakes or false ... bills - food, utilities, rent, or mortgage. Before you go out shopping for credit lines, make sure [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 03:41:35
It’s Payback Time
From the Pioneer Press’ Inver Grove Heights Police Calls: I always heard old people drive tanks, but here’s the proof: Hit-and-run accident: ... for the damage. I guess I should think twice before confronting someone over line jumping: Theft of credit card: A shopper at Best Buy, 1350 50th St. E., called police at 9:45 a.m. Dec. 23 to report a [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 17:04:42
No Cash Yet For Chrysler; Treasury Favors GM?
Although I don’t necessarily agree with The Wall Street Journal’s editorial this past Friday (January 2, 2009, pg. A14) ... their credit score threshold from 700 points to 621. Before the federal government stepped ... t receiving a penny of the funds, which is okay with them as they only wanted a line of credit to keep [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 07:11:23
When will the recession end? Part 7 False signals of recovery
Many hopeful economists and political analysts are despirate to find any source of good news signaling that we may be at the bottom of the decession ... down by a credit squeeze and sliding demand for global trade. Now it's started to rebound off its lows ... Index (BDI). Frozen credit lines have paralyzed the shipping trade since mid-September [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 14:05:31
Four at Four: OPEC Gets Burned
This is a situation the market has not witnessed in some time: declines in oil, the dollar, bond yields and stocks ... Securing credit lines and making shoes fit. All in a day’s work. (Macys.com) The fragile nature of the credit markets is such that any company that manages to re-negotiate credit facilities [more...]
Date: 2008-12-17 12:26:00
Four at Four: OPEC Gets Burned
This is a situation the market has not witnessed in some time: declines in oil, the dollar, bond yields and stocks ... Securing credit lines and making shoes fit. All in a day’s work. (Macys.com) The fragile nature of the credit markets is such that any company that manages to re-negotiate credit facilities [more...]
Date: 2008-12-17 12:26:00
TD Rate Down 0.15%
That is the epilogue to the Bank of Canada rates dropping by 0.25% yesterday, so TD again shaves 0 ... back that 0.1% is if they find they are losing income from people with loans or lines of Credit taking ... , I will investigate and report on them). It’s interesting that TD announced their “prime” to be 4.00 [more...]
Date: 2008-10-22 10:40:15
"Amazon" Thanksgiving Day Parade?
Amazon had it's "best season ever." (results from Macy's 2008 holiday season results have yet to be released) But make no doubt about it ... payable in 2012, along with its bank line of revolving credit. So the "paradigm shift" I've ... . Analysts agreed Amazon's report was good news for the online shopping giant, but they were divided over [more...]
Date: 2008-12-29 17:32:00
Identity Theft
by Landon McGehee Immediately upon becoming aware that your identity has likely been stolen, it’s easy to begin to panic ... . In addition, reporting to the FTC (or their Consumer Alert website) will alert the three credit bureaus and put a Fraud Alert on your reports, which means that no new credit cards or other lines [more...]
Date: 2008-12-01 20:33:13
Identity Theft
by Landon McGehee Immediately upon becoming aware that your identity has likely been stolen, it’s easy to begin to panic ... . In addition, reporting to the FTC (or their Consumer Alert website) will alert the three credit bureaus and put a Fraud Alert on your reports, which means that no new credit cards or other lines [more...]
Date: 2008-12-20 13:16:13
Potect Yourself From Identity Theft
by Landon McGehee Immediately upon becoming aware that your identity has likely been stolen, it’s easy to begin to panic ... . In addition, reporting to the FTC (or their Consumer Alert website) will alert the three credit bureaus and put a Fraud Alert on your reports, which means that no new credit cards or other lines [more...]
Date: 2008-12-20 13:12:15
Potect Yourself From Identity Theft
by Landon McGehee Immediately upon becoming aware that your identity has likely been stolen, it’s easy to begin to panic ... . In addition, reporting to the FTC (or their Consumer Alert website) will alert the three credit bureaus and put a Fraud Alert on your reports, which means that no new credit cards or other lines [more...]
Date: 2008-12-11 09:32:42
Bill Heard’s $2.2 Billion Reputation Lesson
You know me; always on the lookout for examples of why it’s so vital to maintain a positive business reputation ... against the company were filed in recent years with the Better Business Bureau chapters in the seven ... . Add rising gas prices, $280k in state fines, and having its credit line yanked, and you can see [more...]
Date: 2008-10-10 14:00:37
Sucky Stocks Increase Reverse Mortgage Biz
by Rimj Vanrock I understand the stock market may be down a little. What? Did you say 40%? Well I know it is somewhere around that figure ... : You may consider using a Texas reverse mortgage to invest. Learn first and read this report. Also ... a bunch of money in the market. Is having a bunch of money in a line of credit really going to help them [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 02:10:17
Stimulus - Hold Your Horses.
Stimulus - Hold Your Horses. December 21st, 2008 | 1 Comment | Posted in Economy Two thirds of Canadians polled on Canadian Business’ site believe ... $4 billion Canadian in loans and supports, including credit lines to consumers to get people buying cars ... loans to the Canadian arms of Detroit’s ailing automakers to keep them operating while they [more...]
Date: 2008-12-21 16:52:13
Jan-10-We are in double digit days already
Very frosty morning today as you can see from the view from my study.Sermon preparation all day today-though I will try and go for a walk later ... . I am pretty sure I have written enough to get hung already. God help us.Not much more to report really ... FOR PURCHASE RIGHT NOW! SECURE ON LINE PURCHASE. ALL DEBIT AND CREDIT CARDS ACCEPTED. Click [more...]
Date: 2009-01-10 08:40:00
Debit Cards
Debit cards look like regular MasterCard and Visa cards but are linked to your bank checking account instead of a line of credit. They work like an electronic check. When you use one, the amount you spend is withdrawn ... those credit cards. So if you’re at a restaurant, short on cash, and don’t want to rack up charges [more...]
Date: 2008-12-30 14:26:30
Refi Problems
While mortgage rates may be a historic lows the screening that lenders are doing are stricter than ever ... rates, you'll need a FICO credit score of 720 or higher, says Cameron Findlay, chief economist ... it's not worth the trouble. ...If you have a home equity loan or line of credit, you'll probably need [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 13:13:00
Hey, hey!!! It's a Contest!
Everybody loves a contest, so here at Bernstein Crisis Management, we thought that a good contest to begin 2009 would be a great idea ... trafficked website.The business links and URLs that you can include in the artcle "credit line" will -- experience demonstrates -- generate traffic to and improve the SEO of your website, as well [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 22:32:00
Tribune Company Weighing Bankruptcy
Tribune Company is considering whether to file for bankruptcy, according to several news reports out today ... how seriously Tribune is considering bankruptcy, according to a cautiously written report in The New ... . has cash and could draw on an existing line of credit with its senior lenders to pay Monday's bill [more...]
Date: 2008-12-08 20:57:31
The “Mini Trend”: Is Bigger No Longer Better?
Jump to CommentsWhile reading the Sun this afternoon, I stumbled upon an intriguing concept emerging from this recession, the “mini trend” ... have the cash (or more likely, the credit line to buy a full outfit), may instead buy one item ... to check out the Fashion Sensei Services page for more information on Fashion Consultations in the Metro [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 19:55:03
Design An Open Source T-Shirt With Mozilla
My personal opinion is that Mozilla is the second most interesting web name out there, just behind the big company with the little search box ... s store uses the Zazzle online storefront and its acknowledged real-view technology which allows ... or more) in JPG or PNG with your own name for the credit line. The guidelines do not curb your creative [more...]
Date: 2008-12-08 19:12:43
Slumping Auto Sales Hurt Auto Loans
Perhaps the one market to see the heaviest damages besides the mortgage industry is the automotive industry ... of the tremendous surge of gas prices and shrinking lines of credit, people have all but abandoned ... have been hit very hard and are scrambling to try and push larger vehicles off their lots. The credit [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 17:47:05
Paulson: Feeding failure at Fannie, Freddie…Legislate in haste, repent at leisure.
Reform: transitive verb1 a: to put or change into an improved form or condition b: ... /Freddie debt, many of whom are foreigners. Paulson has asked Congress for a blank check ... are unlikely to draw on the credit line. But the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimates [more...]
Date: 2008-07-24 12:48:25
California Bar Journal Article “Will A Bad Economy Force More Changes In The Profession?”
Thanks to Adrianos Facchetti over at the California Defamation Law Blog for sending me this interesting article from the California Bar Journal ... from the article: According to the Bureau of Labor and Statistics, the number of legal jobs declined ... on lines of credit when business gets slow. At same time, associates ignore billable hours [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 17:48:12
John Courson - The Next MBA President?
From the Sacramento Bee:A veteran Sacramento mortgage banker who has been lobbying Congress to pass the $700 billion bailout has been accused of ... & Co. slashed his available line of credit this summer from $26,000 to $10,000, he knew he'd gotten snared by the nation's credit crunch. The reduced financing prodded him to scale back his operation [more...]
Date: 2008-09-29 15:02:00
The Next Batman 3 Villain
The Next Batman 3 Villain Add comments Top Rising Stories Tough Weather At British Open Sends Golf Scores Soaring ... to check it out. Get the full story... Credit Lines FREEZE, But Not For Reverse Mortgages Frozen ... Gusting winds of 30mph and heavy rain sent the average score on the first morning [more...]
Date: 2008-07-18 12:42:13
GM and Chrysler get US$17.4 billion bailout
They’ve done it, the Detroit boys have managed to secure federal emergency loans to execute their plans to stay afloat ... by law, firms must allow the government to examine their accounting books and records, firms must report ... , the healther of the Detroit 3, is still asking for a US$9 billion government line of credit in case [more...]
Date: 2008-12-21 09:09:13
Sugar Daddy Economics
Sugar Daddy Economics By Catherine Rampell Over at The Daily Beast, ... like it amounts to being an on-call girlfriend, the author receives free rent, a “killer wardrobe,” vacations, spa weekends and an endless line of credit from her, umm, employer. (Let’s call him “John.” [more...]
Date: 2008-12-03 01:45:22
Pilgrim’s Pride files for bankruptcy protection
The Pittsburg, Texas-based company sought the bankruptcy protection in a filing with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Texas on Monday, saying that as of Sept. 27 ... , and it has had to extend its temporary credit line three times since September — most recently as last week. Its third [more...]
Date: 2008-12-01 18:20:17
Government help for small business: The key points
Working Capital Scheme - Open to “ordinary-risk” businesses with a turnover of up to &beat500m - Government will guarantee up to 50pc of new and existing working capital credit lines ... Fund - A £50m fund to convert businesses’ debt into justice, announced in the pre-budget report [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 08:09:09
“FINANCIAL FRAUD”
Credit Card it’s just plastic, but when your credit card falls into the wrong hands, it may do more harm than you can imagine ... process.” 3.Know you credit card company’s 24 hours hot line 0 in case you need to report a lost ... of the card) and other account information to anybody. “Your credit card issuer will not call [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 05:22:37
Flextronics Shrs Plunge; Sanmina, Celestica Also Crumble; Report All Three Companies Losing Alcatel Business
If the world is going to cut back buying PCs, cell phones and all other things electronic, ... targets. Credit Suisse’s William Stein lowered his target to $4, from $6, while keeping his Outperform ... billion in revolving credit lines. In an attempt to explain the massive selling in the sock, he says “ [more...]
Date: 2008-11-20 12:12:00
Save the Paper! Should Newspapers Steer Clear of the Web?
It’s time for an end of the year wrap-up of the news delivery biz ... approximately $400 million on credit lines and is considering refinancing its 8th Avenue building ... for free on the Internet? Duh!! Of course your business will fail if you give away your product for free [more...]
Date: 2008-12-30 21:19:50
1. What are the application objects that support View Accounting and Drilldown?GL_Import_Reference_Table (modified) ... as Credit lines) 3.Generate Recurring period 4.Review Journal Batch 5.Post the batch1. Standard [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 17:45:42
FRB SF: The Economic Outlook
John Fernald of the San Francisco Fed gives his view of the economic outlook. The bottom line? ... from housing, credit markets, and commodity prices, are likely to weigh on activity for some time ... , housing should begin to stabilize; credit conditions should gradually ease; and energy and food [more...]
Date: 2008-07-15 07:33:00
National and International Headlines for December 8
Headlines from Democracynow.org, a daily TV/radio news program, hosted by Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, ... of America had canceled Republic's line of credit. The laid-off workers have hoisted placards saying [more...]
Date: 2008-12-08 16:24:32
Lawyers seek to attach a string to automakers’ bailout
Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) (source: markey.house.gov) ... .” “It must destroy forever the industry’s fear of change,” he said during a hearing on how to mesh ... has requested a $9-billion line of credit as an emergency backstop if the recession deepens [more...]
Date: 2008-12-10 21:31:50
Hypo Real Estate and insider trading scandal about to blow in Berlin tomorrw
The ordure is due to enter the air conditioning in Berlin , Monday am ... and the country's central bank in October - followed by complaint filed by small shareholders that HRE directors ... out by the German government and the country's central bank in October.This involved a credit line [more...]
Date: 2008-12-28 10:11:00
Are You Overpaying CPP and EI?
Tax Tips - CPP and EI If this is your first time here, You may want to subscribe to ADJ via RSS ... to check your T4 slip every 2/3 years to find out if you are paying more than you require ... by claiming the excess amount as a refundable credit on line 448 of the T1. Here is the calculation [more...]
Date: 2008-11-23 23:42:27
Four at Four: A Familiar, Comforting Sort of Lousiness
The extended Santa Claus rally was cut off late last week and has run into a more alarming reality this week (other than Santa not being real) ... on the financial companies, and the silver lining appears to be that credit spreads and short-term lending [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 12:59:00
Lawmakers Seek to Attach a String to Detriot Bailout
Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) ... .” “It must destroy forever the industry’s fear of change,” he said during a hearing on how to mesh ... has requested a $9-billion line of credit as an emergency backstop if the recession deepens [more...]
Date: 2008-12-10 00:48:54
net worth update november, 2008
Results for the 2 Months Ended November 14, 2008:Debt/Asset ratio rose to 0.53 from 0.50Net Worth moved down 7.9% ($12,129) ... worth report/post together. Our net worth has been hammered down almost 8% since the last bi ... % this update due to us utilizing line of credit funds in order to fund our non-registered portfolio [more...]
Date: 2008-11-15 04:05:00
Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News
Lehman shops 50% stake, comes up empty-handed. Sources say Lehman (LEH) ... ... The Fed is listening. The Fed quietly called Credit Suisse (CS) last month to ask if there was truth to rumors it pulled a major credit line from Lehman (LEH), sources say. CS told Fed officials [more...]
Date: 2008-08-21 11:19:50
IRS Opened Back Door for Illegal Aliens to Enter U.S. Credit Market
Friday, October 17, 2008 By Tiffany Gabbay CNSNews.com) ... the U.S. credit market. The IRS uses ITINs to process tax payments owed by people who are not eligible ... across the country are accepting ITINs to open new accounts and extend lines of credit to customers [more...]
Date: 2008-10-20 09:20:54
BCBG 30% off Coat Sale!
I guess one of the silver linings to this credit crunch is that sales and special/private sales are creeping in on us way earlier this year ... it an instant classic. And isn't the trench coat like design at the back just beautiful?Alas, even at 30% off [more...]
Date: 2008-10-11 19:25:00
Beating Collectors With Credit Repair
You may encounter a reasonable, mild mannered collector someday, but do not hold your breath. Collectors are trained to be emotionally effective. This means aggressive. They will keep you on the phone as long as they can in an attempt to bend your will to theirs. Their goal is to get money out of you, whatever it takes. Unfortunately, in their effort to dominate, they often step over the line of legality, and hence arises the need for credit repair techniques to neutralize their wayward conduct. [more...]
Date: 2009-09-25 15:17:42
Texture of the Credit Crunch, Not So Good
Mortgage brokers view of the mortgage meltdown. As a mortgage broker I can tell you that the past several years have been bludgeoned with careless ... to such as the small business owner who grosses $500,000 per year but has a bottom line of $50,000. With a decent ... credit score mortgage with no money down and no real income verification. Are you [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 21:05:00
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