4 hours ago by @Risk

In her speech last week at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Dr. Margaret Hamburg, Commissioner of Food and Drugs, announced that the FDA is deploying a new web-based information technology system designed to more reliably monitor imports of food and medical products at the port of ...

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1 day ago by TIP

Macro The Capitulation of Complacency Good morning! The last week before the whole of Asia takes a siesta for Chinese New Year next week. Let’s pick up where we left off on Friday. Last week I spent a lot of time talking about inflation and the looming sovereign debt crises facing the globe. The two ...

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3 days ago by profoundmen

Toyota is facing a monumental task of reclaiming consumer confidence and reviving sales

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4 days ago by TIP

Macro The Globalization of Bond Market Vigilantism: Sovereign Debt Intolerance and the Capitulation of Complacency I promised that I would expand on the issue of how the US yield curve obligations are heavily weighted at the short end and why this is a looming problem. Rather than paraphrasing, let ...

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5 days ago by MyBankTracker.com

After a strong start to the year, consumer confidence has retreated this month, dropping almost 19 points on the RBC Index from the high point in January. “Less-Bad” Not Good Enough The RBC Index read as high as 58.3 in January, spurred by New Year optimism and a rising stock market. However, despit ...

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5 days ago by wmcneil

By Warren McNeil According to the Kitchener Waterloo Real Estate board the numbers are in for January 2010 and we are up 64% in unit sales over 2009. This is great news and the main reason for this is increase is because of the low interest rates and a high level of consumer confidence. Another inte ...

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6 days ago by Sid Bridge

Toyota’s in a bit of a pickle. CNN even compared the crisis Toyota is facing to the Tylenol poisoning crisis of 1982 – a stable of all my public relations classes in college. Toyota took the high ground in reacting fairly quickly and doing an extremely wide-reaching recall. It looks as though Toyota ...

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6 days ago by Regis Skeehan

Home Prices Rise At 7.2% Annual Rate Over Last Seven Months Seasonally adjusted home prices in November of 2009 rose 0.2% from the prior month according to data released on January 26, 2010 by Standard and Poor’s in its 20-City Composite S&P/ Case-Shiller® Home Price Index. There were monthly increa ...

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6 days ago by Regis Skeehan

The National Association of Realtors (NAR) announced on January 25, 2010 that existing home sales in December 2009 fell -16. 7% from the previous month to an annual rate of 5.45 million, which was a larger decrease than was expected. However, Closings were still +15.0% above the December 2008 level ...

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6 days ago by peterkop

Consumer confidence in the final quarter of last year reached its highest level since mid2008, driven by improved job prospects and better personal finances, according to the Global Consumer Confidence Survey released yesterday by The Nielsen Company.

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