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El-Erian, Gross: Job Growth ‘Frustratingly Gradual’
By John SullivanMohamed El-Erian and Bill Gross, the conjoined twins of the bond world, wasted little time in commenting on the December jobs report.
January 02, 2013
S&P’s Stovall: Pleasing Market Tally for 2012, Warning for 2013Substantial gains across asset classes in 2012 confirmed the old adage about the market ascending a wall of worry. But the certainty of political fighting over spending cuts in the first quarter should provide market entry opportunities to those who missed last year's ride.
January 02, 2013
PIMCO’s El-Erian: Fiscal Cliff Deal Makes Little Economic SensePIMCO CEO doesnt think much of the last-minute deal struck by Congress to avert the fiscal cliff.
January 02, 2013
House Passes Fiscal Cliff Bill, Averting Plunge—for NowHouse passes Senate bill, 257-167, shortly before midnight, sending legislation to President Barack Obama to sign.
January 01, 2013
House Takes Up Senate’s Fiscal Cliff BillLegislation to negate a fiscal cliff of across-the-board tax increases and sweeping spending cuts to the Pentagon and other government agencies is headed to the GOP-dominated House after bipartisan, middle-of-the-night approval in the Senate.
December 31, 2012
Obama Says Cliff Deal ‘in Sight’Speaking from the White House, President Obama said Monday afternoon that a deal to avert the fiscal cliff--at least making sure taxes don't go up on middle class Americans--is "in sight."
December 28, 2012
Wall St. Ignores Noise, Sees Bullish 2013 for StocksWall Street believes that the worlds central banks will do their best in 2013 to force reluctant investors to move their money out of bonds and into stocks.
December 28, 2012
Interest-Rate Risk's Ticking Time Bomb: News AnalysisWhat may seem to Americans like an annual budget crisis, recurring at the end of each year, could morph into a more European style perma-crisis...