Japan’s stock market is more than 70 percent off its 1989 record high and last month the country’s debt was downgraded for the first time in nine years. Time to buy Japanese equities, says David Herro.
“At these prices Japanese stocks are a steal,” said Herro, 50, manager of the $6.9 [...]
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Oakmark’s David Herro Says Unloved Japanese Stocks a ‘Steal’
February 3rd, 2011 by Financial Writer
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more...Canadian bonds beat world
January 8th, 2011 by Financial Writer
Returns in Canada’s bond market exceeded the rest of the world in 2010, gaining the most in five years, and may outperform again this year amid record foreign purchases of the nation’s fixed-income securities.
The Bank of America Merrill Lynch Canada Broad Market Index, which tracks 1,150 federal, provincial and corporate bonds with a par value [...]
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Refinancing Your Home Loan – You Must Use A Mortgage Broker?
January 4th, 2011 by Financial Writer
mortgage brokers can be an excellent resource for refinancing your mortgage, especially if you have less than perfect credit. The problem with using a mortgage broker is that it is easy to be very interested to overpay thousands of dollars in unnecessary expenses and mortgages. Here are some tips to help you decide whether [...]
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Increase In Mortgage Rates Predictions
December 22nd, 2010 by Financial Writer
The current mortgage interest rate forecast for the United States is the mortgage interest will remain at historically low levels in November until after the election, and then start rising too high. Homeowners in the United States can not presume that mortgage rates are at low levels historically, as it has since been a [...]
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Caliber Mortgage Finance – The Future Of The Residential Loans Or A Wolf In Sheep's Clothing
December 14th, 2010 by Financial Writer
We’ve all been affected in one way or the other of the whole mortgage mess (or for many of us, we hit many, many possibilities). For the most part, I think it’s fair to say that most of the average person was affected by the collapse of mortgages in recent years has been nothing [...]
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Mortgage-Bond Slump ‘Won’t Be Fun’ for Housing: Credit Markets
December 13th, 2010 by Financial Writer
A slump in government-backed mortgage securities that’s sent yields to the highest level since May is threatening a recovery in the U.S. housing market, which had been bolstered by record-low borrowing costs.
Yields on Fannie Mae-guaranteed securities that most affect loan rates jumped as high as 4.21 percent today, an increase [...]
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San Diego Real Estate, Million Dollar Homes
November 30th, 2010 by Financial Writer
County of San Diego has always been known for its Luxury Homes, in the year 2004, in San Diego County home sales luxury (homes over $ 1,000,000) hit an incredible 2774 total units, an increase of almost 170% of total sales in 2003!
Throughout the State of California, a total of 33 107 [...]
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Carney, Volcker see long haul to recovery
November 20th, 2010 by Financial Writer
The world economy faces a long, hard slog toward recovery and could slide into deflation and financial instability if leaders fail to deliver on promises of reform, top policy markers said on Friday.
At a conference in Calgary, White House special adviser Paul Volcker warned it would likely take years for the American economy to [...]
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Dollar flat as ECB, BoE leave rates unchanged
November 5th, 2009 by Financial Writer
The dollar was nearly flat Thursday after the European Central Bank and Bank of England left their respective key interest rates unchanged.
Higher interest rates can support a currency as investors transfer funds in search of better returns. The ECB and BoE maintained their rates at 1 percent and 0.5 percent, respectively, higher than the Federal [...]
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Dollar falls to 14-month euro low
October 15th, 2009 by Financial Writer
The dollar hit a 14-month low against the euro Thursday on fears that US interest rates would remain super-low for a long time and as a stock market rally sparked appetite for riskier assets, traders said.
At 0615 GMT, the European single currency reached 1.4968 dollars, the highest level since August 2008. The euro later pulled [...]
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