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The Motley Fool May 20, 2009 Morgan Housel |
Look How Far We've Come Credit markets have shown huge improvement. But can they keep it up? |
The Motley Fool September 19, 2008 Alex Dumortier |
The Day Banks Froze Interbank lending -- how it works, why it's broken, and what that means. |
BusinessWeek June 11, 2009 James Cooper |
Business Outlook: Signs of Progress on the Road to Recovery Improved financial conditions are laying the groundwork for a turnaround as investors' appetite for risk increases. Still, a second-half stumble could halt the momentum. |
The Motley Fool September 30, 2008 David Forrest & Bill Mann |
Fool Blog: No Depression? Really? Meet TED, your new best friend. That's the difference in rates between the interest rate paid on three-month U.S. Treasury Bills (the "T"), and the three-month Eurodollars (the "ED") contract, represented by the London Interbank Offering Rate, or LIBOR. |
The Motley Fool August 27, 2007 S.J. Caplan |
Investor 007's Bond Dossier Bond basics and beyond. Spying on rates: U.S. Treasury -- 2-year... 5-year... Clues to the market... Detecting developments... Hot tip: Over the last two weeks, the commercial-paper market has become the latest casualty... |
BusinessWeek October 1, 2007 Coy & Der Hovanesian |
The Debt Market: Signs Of Life The jump in stocks may have grabbed the headlines, but a budding recovery in the credit market is the real good news. |
The Motley Fool October 13, 2009 Morgan Housel |
Will This Squash Bank Earnings? Earlier this year, as things hit the fan in unison, an odd accounting rule allowed troubled banks to offset losses at just the right time. Now that things are improving, the other side of this insane accounting rule takes hold. |
The Motley Fool December 11, 2008 Chuck Saletta |
A Government Guarantee That You'll Lose Money For the first -- or perhaps second -- time in history, the auction on short-term U.S. Treasury Bills actually had government debt briefly trading at negative yields. |
The Motley Fool August 21, 2007 Dan Caplinger |
The Rundown on Rates If the stock market's latest gyrations are making you suffer, just wait until you see where the real action is: Treasury bills. |
InternetNews August 15, 2007 Paul Shread |
Technical Analysis: Bears Take Charge Again The bulls have been unable to stem the relentless selling. Will Dow 12,800 be any different? |
The Motley Fool August 28, 2008 Morgan Housel |
The Banking Capital Crunch Continues By the end of 2009, banks will have to repay a record $871 billion in maturing bonds. That due date will cause quite a scramble in the banking world over the cheapest ways to roll over the maturing debt in the months to come. |
National Real Estate Investor February 1, 2006 Beth Mattson-Teig |
Encore Performance? Mortgage bankers are hoping that 2006 will be a repeat performance of 2005 -- a phenomenal year for commercial and multifamily mortgage originations. But whether those expectations materialize depends largely on interest rates. |
U.S. Banker July 2008 Karen Krebsbach |
Repairing Libor's Credibility Crisis The credit crunch is highlighting the cracks in the foundation of Libor, illuminating how a benchmark dependent on participants' trust unravels when fear dominates the market. |
The Motley Fool May 21, 2009 Alex Dumortier |
Is It Time to Get Back Into Stocks? One indicator Wall Street has been watching. |
The Motley Fool September 11, 2007 Dan Caplinger |
Understanding Your Mortgage Rate For homeowners with adjustable-rate mortgages, recent talk about possible cuts in interest rates is sparking celebrations. There's a catch, though. While some interest rates have already gone down, others will still rise. Will yours go up? |
InternetNews August 16, 2007 Paul Shread |
Technical Analysis: Bulls Try Again Stocks bounced back big-time on Thursday. Is it the start of something real? |
The Motley Fool October 15, 2009 |
Roundtable: Dow 10,000. What Now? Motley Fool analysts weigh in. |
HBS Working Knowledge October 13, 2010 |
How Government can Discourage Private Sector Reliance on Short-Term Debt Harvard researchers Robin Greenwood, Samuel Hanson, and Jeremy C. Stein propose a "comparative advantage approach" that allows government to actively influence the corporate sector's borrowing decisions. |