Economy Blog

And this may help to ease inflationary pressures in the region.…
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Several surveys have probed investors and managers about 130/30. But a new poll of nearly 500 alternative investment professionals contains some new insights….
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Not much. Never has. Mostly about ego’s and noise.
Who else, but Fake Steve Jobs (Dan Lyons) could have more to say on the shitstorm and the aftermath .
It’s more important I think to guess tomorrow’s opening and closing price …
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The Party May Not Be Over in India

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I've been talking quite a bit about the formiddable resistance areas the indices are now testing and not much has changed there, so I'll keep it brief and just throw up the charts.  Actually, the real reason is that it's Sunday and a real beauty in Seattle where I'm visiting for the weekend.  The [...]
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News You Need: Microsoft, Yahoo!

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But exports will likely moderate in the coming months as the U.S. heads into recession.…
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Berkshire Hathaway’s annual shareholder meeting kicked off Friday and, as luck would have it, one of the 27,000 (tiny) fractional owners of the company is a DealBreaker reader. Curtis Walker has been liveblogging the jamboree, which, in year’s past, has included Warren Buffett losing to an 1…
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One thing that distinguishes professional traders is that they keep score religiously. They know how much risk they’re taking, how well they’re performing, and whether their trading is better or worse than usual….
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I have been out of pocket a lot this week at meetings — I just inked the deal on a huge new project. Details will be forthcoming soon, but I am very jazzed about it.

Hint: It involves Bear Stearns . . .

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Marvel Needs ‘Iron Man’ to Do Some Heavy Lifting

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Marvel Entertainment (MVL) and Viacom (VIA), parent of Paramount, benefitted as “Iron Man” based on a Marvel comic book character brought in over $100 million. According to the AP The film also scored overseas with $96.7 million in 57 countries where it began opening Wednesday, putting its worldwide total at $201 million. The move makes that management at Marvel look brilliant for handling the production of “Iron Man” themselves instead of having it handled by a major studio. Paramount handed distribution. Douglas A. McIntyre
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If you missed our big Friday Payroll roundup, you can see all the details below:

Bracing for NFP Day   
http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/2008/05/bracing-for-nfp.htmlOnce more unto the breach
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Take a look at this great clipping from the Buenos Aires newspaper from 1959, when Mises visited. This is courtesy of the Hayek Foundation, which has lots of photos I’ve not seen. (Thanks Adrian Ravier)…
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Fight Food Inflation With These ETNs

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Amusing stuff, via Barry Ritholtz: "In response to recent events Federal Reserve Board voted unanimously to authorize the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to create Yahoo Lending Facility (YLF) to avoid significant stock market disruption and to support Yahoo! Inc shares. Yahoo! Inc and its authorized agents will be able to borrow from the facility to support stock price. …
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Eric Dash reports that investors in Vikram Pandit’s Old Lane funds redeemed "substantially all" of their funds when they were given the opportunity in late March. Old Lane, which had $4.5 billion in funds under management last year, is now down to just $1.5 billion - and that money belongs to Citigroup, Pandit, and other Old Lane principals.
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Cable’s paper: Will Cablevision buy Newsday? Maybe: "They haven’t been able to agree with their board on more than one offer to take their company private; it’s almost as if they hope that a newspaper would be dead weight sufficient to lower the price of the empire so they could finally buy it."
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Excellent Sunday morning chart porn in the Business section of today’s NYT, regarding the various components of CPI inflation measures:

click for interactive chart

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