It may not be comforting to Apple (AAPL), but a smartphone competitor could find solace in hitting the 100,000 sales mark on its first weekend. Mark McKechnie at Broadpoint AmTech estimates that Moto

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1. Total Bank Credit DeclinesGoing through morning readings from a number of credit market experts this week, there are a few things going on that those bearish stocks and Treasuries need to be

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Feel like shelling out greenbacks at the mall this holiday season? Neither do your neighbors. This morning, the National Retail Federation forecasted a 1% decline in total sales to $437.6 billion for

Once again everyone is hyperventilating over "secret" moves to trade oil in currencies other than the US dollar. Please consider The Demise of the Dollar by Robert Fisk.  “In

Standing in the middle of nowhere, Wondering how to begin. Lost between tomorrow and yesterday, Between now and then. And now we’re back where we started, Here we go round again. -- The Kinks&r

As the credit crisis commenced in 2007, paradoxically, nobody actually defaulted. Outside of sub-prime delinquencies, corporate defaults were at a record low. Instead, investors in high-quality (AAA-