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Spanish Bond Sale Disappoints
By Marlene Y. SatterAn auction of Spanish bonds on Wednesday only made it to the low end of the country's target range, as yields rose to entice investors not yet convinced that Madrid's tough budget would cure the nation's financial woes.
March 30, 2012
How Are Guns N’ Roses and TCW Fund the Same? Reformed Broker Has AnswerDowntown Josh Brown, the Twitterati's favorite Reformed Broker, is at it again, stirring up trouble this time by comparing TCW's recent performance with Guns n Roses.
March 30, 2012
Top Portfolio Products: New Funds From Linde Hansen, Pyxis CapitalNew products introduced over the last week include a contrarian value fund from Linde, Hansen & Co. and a natural resources fund from Pyxis Capital.
March 30, 2012
Tim Guinness: China, Energy and Really Good Beer—Weekend InterviewChina is the best-run country in the world," the Guinness Atkinson Funds CIO says.
March 30, 2012
Ireland to Use Bond, Not Cash, to Make PaymentIreland will make a scheduled payment of 3.1 billion euros to the Irish Bank Resolution Corp. at the end of March with a bond, not with bailout cash.
March 30, 2012
Euro Zone Agrees on FirewallThe temporary European Financial Stability Facility and permanent European Stability Mechanism will be combined for a year, for a total of 940 billion euros. But that figure seems to include money already spent.
March 29, 2012
Is Delaware Funds’ Ericksen the Next ‘Star’ Manager?The time is right for the emergence of a new star manager, and it could very well be Delaware Select Growth Funds manager Christopher Ericksen.
March 28, 2012
Bill Gross Talks QE3, PIMCO’s New ETFPIMCO founder and co-CIO Bill Gross spoke with Bloomberg Television's Margaret Brennan Wednesday, telling her the Fed will likely shift focus to mortgage securities to keep borrowing rates low when Operation Twist ends in June.