Word: portfolios
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...foreign central banks - including China's - are doing the same thing private investors have been doing: pouring funds into short-term, highly liquid, dollar-based assets. If China reversed course and pulled money out of the U.S. in a big way, it would ravage the value of its own portfolio, which is still largely invested in long-term bonds and notes. This is the essence of mutually assured economic destruction, and the Chinese understand that as well as anyone...
What that means to you: "If you're looking for an apartment or want to renegotiate your lease, you should keep in mind that you have bargaining power," says Hans Nordby, U.S. strategist at Property & Portfolio Research (PPR), a real estate intelligence outfit...
...bank loans and other troubled debts, up from about $300 million at the end of 2006. In its most recent deal to sell California-based IndyMac to a group of private-equity investors, the FDIC agreed to shoulder as much as 75% of the bank's $16 billion lending portfolio in order to close the deal...
...bottom fishers, the message is clear: This is no time for casual market-dabbling with your portfolio. Be either a lightning-fast stock trader or a very-long-term investor...
...billion in federal loans last month, its finance arm GMAC, which GM jointly owns with Cerberus Capital LLC, got a Treasury Dept loan of $6 billion. GMAC has been hammered by both the sharp decline in sales of GM vehicles, which it finances, and steep losses in its mortgage portfolio over the past year. (Read "Is This Detroit's Last Winter...