Archive - Apr 7, 2011 - Blog entry

Crisis? What crisis? Nuclear power is TOTALLY safe!

The CMBS market gives us an inside look at the credit quality of many CRE loans which are the key to recovery. This article tells you why it's important.

Got me them Quadruple Bogey blues...

“Operating against the backdrop of well-documented disarray and fraud in mortgage documentation, the shortcuts taken in Lee County courts mean that homeowners may never have a meaningful opportunity to refute faulty evidence supposedly supporting foreclosure.”

I love/hate when things line up like this.

Canadian companies have crossed a “pension Rubicon” and are continuing to dismantle traditional defined benefit plans even as the economy improves, according to a review by Towers Watson...

As destructive as the Japanese tsunami has been, it may have left some investment pearls in its wake. It has suddenly made available some of the country’s best of breed, world beating companies available at throw away prices. But this is going to be an investment for longer term money, not a trade, as some patients may be required for a payday.

Thanks for looking out Strade.

The price of corn has moved up sharply higher during the last couple of trading days. This time around, the newest USDA figures were giving (short) traders headaches over U.S. corn inventories. And there’s more where that came from…