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Monday, August 8, 2011

Tips & News

How to Trade the U.S. Downgrade: Morning Call at TheStreet 
G-7 seeks to avert collapse in world confidence- Bloomberg
Oil dives under $85 after S&P downgrades U.S. debt- AP
Gold tops $1,700 for first time on U.S. rating- Bloomberg
Gross praises S&P’s ‘spine’ on U.S. rating- Bloomberg
Investors reaching for panic buttons - NYTimes
By MIN-JEONG LEE SEOUL—For a case study on the fear and confusion that coursed through Asian markets on Monday, take South Korea.

ATHENS -(Dow Jones)- Europe should triple the size of its temporary bailout mechanism--the European Financial Stability Facility--in order to cope with the continent's widening debt crisis, Greece's former labor minister said Monday.

By DAVID JOLLY PARIS - The interest rates on Spanish and Italian bonds plummeted Monday after the European Central Bank expanded its purchases of government debt to support Madrid and Rome for the first time.

Poor Standards 
On Friday night, Standard and Poor's downgraded US Government debt to AA+ from AAA. My initial reaction is “So what”? This is just an opinion from a bunch of folks that have often been disastrously wrong in the past.

Economy, not debt rating, will send markets lower- AP

U.S. investors will have their first chance Monday to react to Standard & Poor's 
decision to strip the U.S. government of its top credit rating. But the bigger issues
facing Wall Street and stock markets worldwide remain debt-ridden countries in
Europe and 
No Chance of Default, US Can Print Money: Greenspan 
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan on Sunday ruled out the chance
of a US default following S&P's decision to downgrade America's credit rating.
S&P: A Cut Below the Rest 
By RICHARD BARLEY The first cut isn't necessarily the deepest—at least not in the
world of credit ratings. Standard & Poor's decision to strip the US of its triple-A 
rating is clearly a historic moment, with unquantifiable implications for investor ...


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