The following describes the menu of five courses which will be served for a select number of students during the month of January 2009. Students from the Erasmus program has been free to choose their own menu but in the following only slight deviations will occur from the more general, and fixed course, programs of the MSc in Economics and the MSc in Finance. As an integral part of the menu it is not expected that every student will finish the individual courses. Students on the Erasmus program should aim for consuming, at... Continue Reading
Submitted ByContrarianProfits
Debt prices plummet, dollar gains… U.S. stocks fall on profit-taking but rise in Europe… Dollar at 3-week high vs euro on hopes for stimulus plan… Oil gains as Gaza fighting raises Mideast supply worries.
News about a planned U.S. stimulus package helped pull investors into the dollar on...
Submitted ByContrarianProfits
Debt prices plummet, dollar gains… U.S. stocks fall on profit-taking but rise in Europe… Dollar at 3-week high vs euro on hopes for stimulus plan… Oil gains as Gaza fighting raises Mideast supply worries.
News about a planned U.S. stimulus package helped pull investors into the dollar on...
Submitted ByClaus Vistesen
The following describes the menu of five courses which will be served for a select number of students during the month of January 2009. Students from the Erasmus program has been free to choose their own menu but in the following only slight deviations will occur from the more general, and fixed...
Submitted ByClaus Vistesen
The following describes the menu of five courses which will be served for a select number of students during the month of January 2009. Students from the Erasmus program has been free to choose their own menu but in the following only slight deviations will occur from the more general, and fixed...
Submitted BySean Hyman
During 2008, one of the few financial instruments in the world that went up was the U.S. dollar. It became a great defensive play as investors ran back to the “world’s reserve currency”. Also, investors began to flee the emerging markets and repatriated their funds back into the...
Submitted BySean Hyman
During 2008, one of the few financial instruments in the world that went up was the U.S. dollar. It became a great defensive play as investors ran back to the “world’s reserve currency”. Also, investors began to flee the emerging markets and repatriated their funds back into the...
Submitted BySean Hyman
Well, 2008 has been a period of deflation. The U.S. and global economy has slowed dramatically and thus corporate expansion has come to a halt as consumer spending dried up.
So the Fed didn’t sit idly by. No, they do what they feel they do best which is print money. It’s a great tactic...
Submitted ByContrarianProfits
While the U.S. Federal Reserve is expected to cut its benchmark Federal Funds target rate to a record-low 0.5% at its policymaking Federal Open Market Committee meeting tomorrow (Tuesday), the European Central Bank (ECB) is signaling a reluctance to drop its key rate below 2.0%.
Since the...
Submitted ByContrarianProfits
While the U.S. Federal Reserve is expected to cut its benchmark Federal Funds target rate to a record-low 0.5% at its policymaking Federal Open Market Committee meeting tomorrow (Tuesday), the European Central Bank (ECB) is signaling a reluctance to drop its key rate below 2.0%.
Since the...
Submitted ByContrarianProfits
U.S. employers cut 533,000 jobs in November… Oil prices near lowest level in four years… Market looking at $40 as slowdown hurts demand Oil fell below $42 a barrel on Friday, its lowest since January 2005, after a gloomy report on U.S. job losses underscored concern about weakening energy...