Here are today’s gold stock screens and data, along with cycle conditions and projections for gold and HUI index, and Chart of the Day...
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Reports from the twelve Federal Reserve Districts indicated that economic activity continued to expand at a modest pace, though some Districts noted mixed or weakening activity. The St. Louis, Minneapolis, Kansas City, Dallas, and San Francisco Distric...
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One minute you hear commercial real estate is in the dumps...the next it's at record surges. It's so hard to tell the truth.
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The Real Estate Washout That Wasn't
Brian Louis and David M. Levitt, On Friday February 11, 2011, 8:08 am EST
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Howard Davidowitz, chairman of Davidowitz & Associates Inc., talks about U.S. consumers and the outlook for the retail industry. Davidowitz also discusses the performance of Sears Holdings Corp., (Wal-Mart, Best Buy, Toys-R-Us, etc.) prospects for onli...
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November 26, 2010
Banks Start to Dig Out From Troubled Loans
By FLOYD NORRIS
AFTER several years of decline, this is shaping up to be the year in which the problems of America’s banks began to recede.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation repo...
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Once in a blue moon I stumble across a document chock full of relevant material. Such is the commercial real estate (CRE) marketCongressional Oversight Report (COR) produced by a committee chaired by Elizabeth Warren. Much of the source and chart material I provide is from this well-written report. Most CRE lending is concentrated in commercial banks and asset-backed...
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Russ Winter and Lee Adler discuss the QE 2 schizo trade, the worthless China development projects, government pink slips, inevitable military industrial cuts, the costs of extend and pretend in commercial real estate, the unwillingness of people to bor...
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Russ Winter and Lee Adler discuss the $5 trillion coming due at the bank, big trouble for commercial real estate finance, new problems for money market funds, and the dirty truth about mortgage defaults by the wealthy, along strategies and tactics to t...
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Commercial real estate (CRE), valued at $3.5 trillion in the U.S., has experienced a 39% decline in prices from the peak only two years ago, according to the MIT Center for Real Estate. Further Real Capital Analytics reports that over $2 trillion in commercial properties bought or refinanced in the past five years are...
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In addition to a housing overshoot, the sugar high market is going to have to deal with a commercial real estate financing crisis over the duration of 2009 when $178 billion in maturities come due. This is against the backdrop of a CMBS market that has not put forth even one new issue in...
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