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Troubled Ratings Agency Moody’s Caught Red Handed

Article and commentary on rating agency Moody's scandal on fraudulent ratings.

Stock Symbol: MCO MOODY'S CORP Stock Price: $35.14 Todays Change: +0.35 (+1.01%)

Get Shorty

It looks like we have reached an all time short interest level in the NYSE as of February 15.

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Stock Symbol: SPY S&P DEP RECEIPTS Stock Price: $125.98 Todays Change: +0.78 (+0.62%)

Bond Insurers Not Fed Drove Markets

This article looks at how trouble among bond insurers is influencing investor sentiment. It also examines how the bond insurers got into trouble in the first place.

It’s the year of living dangerously, but how bad will it get?

 

The West’s big economies have entered 2008 in a state of high anxiety.