Do you see what’s happening to the dollar. I believe, and this is just a theory, the reason that the stock market is seeing growth is because most of the major companies on the DOW and S&P today are international companies, and are generating a great deal of the profits from international sources. As the [...]

Recently Wall Street has been blushing with optimism, based largely on good returns from the American Banking sector. However many question have come up with regards to how those numbers where reached, and how the banks accounted for the large loans received via the Government bailout program, TARP. The program allowed the banks great freedom [...]

How much can the average American Joe take, as their political leaders show greater willingness to feed the rich and care little for the everyman? After the September 11 attacks, Americans where asked to go out and spend. The strength of American was in its ability to spend money like there was no tomorrow. As [...]

Read Article: Hedge fund takes HSBC short position

HSBC, has been positioned well recently as most analyst believe that Asia is better off then the rest of the world, and will emerge stronger from the global recession. However, the bank recently needed to conduct a huge rights offering of $17.7 billon.
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As the economic crisis of 2008/09 plays out, we are forced to take a closer look at the Japanese economy Much of the US Government proposed bailout, stimulus, restructuring plans are based on the Japanese model of the 1990’s which did little for the Japanese other then keep them in a prolonged recession for nearly [...]

Mounting additional pressure on the American, another country has started to do more to help its companies directly. “The Japanese government on Tuesday outlined a plan to inject state money into ailing companies in exchange for equity stakes, a move that echoes the partial nationalization of some troubled financial firms in the United States and [...]