In Soviet Russia, television watches you! Also Japan: Samsung Electronics Co. said its televisions can transmit user data to third-parties, becoming the latest technology company to face a backlash for how data is collected from …
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February 9, 2015
The major strength of capitalism is that people will make and sell what other people want. The major weakness of capitalism is that sometimes the appeal is not in the actual product. The random nature …
February 6, 2015
Jobs, jobs, jobs! The U.S. labor market leaped forward in January, capping the greatest three-month jobs gain in 17 years and delivering the biggest wage increase since 2008. Payrolls advanced by 257,000 last month following …
February 5, 2015
Despite the best efforts of the Europeans to prohibit criticism, DBRS placed Greece on Review-Negative: DBRS, Inc. has today placed the Hellenic Republic’s long-term foreign and local currency issuer ratings of B and short-term foreign …
February 4, 2014
The EU is tightening the screws on Greece: The European Central Bank heaped pressure on Greece’s new government by restricting access to its direct liquidity lines, citing concerns about the country’s commitment to existing bailout …
February 3, 2015
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: Denmark’s central bank sold a record amount of kroner last month to weaken the currency and preserve its peg to the euro as speculators test policy makers’ …
February 2, 2015
The prospects for global deflation are attracting a lot of ink: European and Chinese factories slashed prices in January as production flat-lined, heightening global deflation risks that point to another wave of central bank stimulus …
Low Spread FixedResets: January 2015
As noted in MAPF Portfolio Composition: January 2015, the fund now has a fairly large allocation to FixedResets, although this segment remains below index weight. As these were largely purchased with proceeds of sales of …
MAPF Portfolio Composition: January 2015
Turnover continued to be above average in January, at about 18%. There is extreme segmentation in the marketplace, with OSFI’s NVCC rule changes in February 2011 having had the effect of splitting the formerly relatively …
January 30, 2015
You know what Russia needs? Russia needs another James Coyne, that’s what Russia needs: The message some Russia watchers are getting from Friday’s surprise interest-rate cut is this: Start listening more to what President Vladimir …