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    .S. federal budget deficit yr-to-date $927 bln

    WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- The U.S. government ran a $57.6 billion budget deficit in May, the Treasury Department reported Friday. A year ago in May the deficit was $135.9 billion. Receipts were $175 billion in May, the Treasury said, about $28 billion higher than receipts in May 2010. Outlays...
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    FED's Dudley warns of falling house prices and cut in government spending as threat..

    for economic recovery.... http://www.marketwatch.com/story/risks-to-recovery-have-increased-feds-dudley-2011-06-10 I recall the same warnings before QE I, QE II....
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    ECB's Stark Urges End to Greek Row-Finally

    FRANKFURT—A German member of the European Central Bank urged governments to halt the "fruitless" discussion over a private-sector role in granting Greece additional support, further isolating the German government's position, which it reiterated Friday, that such involvement must be a...
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    Trichet: Strong vigilance needed to contain upside price rise

    Next rate hike in Europe - here we come... :cool:
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    ECB may increase rates to show independence

    European Central Bank President Jean- Claude Trichet may today play the interest-rate card and signal to European governments that the euro region’s debt crisis is theirs to solve. Two days after German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble opened a rift with the ECB over how to fix...
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    Stimulus Needed for ‘Frustratingly Slow’ Recovery: Bernanke

    Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said the central bank should maintain record monetary stimulus to boost an “uneven” and “frustratingly slow” economic recovery. “The economy is still producing at levels well below its potential; consequently, accommodative monetary...
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    Recovery can't be put at risk: Obama, Merkel

    Obama, Merkel talked job creation in meeting http://www.marketwatch.com/ I smell a Marshall plan coming up for the US of A. Germany has good reasons to say thank you to the US after WW II happenings... :cool:
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    Hangseng Leadership...

    China stocks set to rise as tightening ends: HSBC http://www.marketwatch.com/story/china-stocks-set-to-rise-as-tightening-ends-hsbc-2011-06-07?dist=beforebell The release of this analysis must be coincidence....
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    Hangseng Leadership...

    Long time no visit to this thread. Time for a refresher: long HSI@22762. Target above 24000. Let´s see ;=)
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    John Paulson: US stock market could rally 40% from 1st Q level...

    NO RISK, NO FUN !!!! :D
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    John Paulson: US stock market could rally 40% from 1st Q level...

    In the firm’s most recent correspondence with investors Mr Paulson said difficulties for US banks had been a particular drag on his portfolios but that he remained optimistic. The US stock market could rally as much as 40 per cent from its first quarter level this year, he said...
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    Oh Zerohedge, you always know how to cheer me up...

    Agreed. :cool:
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    Bank runs in Greece (NBG and others)

    This article is biased and most probably paid by an "interested party". Some assumptions being made by the author - a professor by the way - are ridiculous.
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    First German bank writes down voluntarily Greek government bond investment

    http://www.ftd.de/unternehmen/finanzdienstleister/:schuldenkrise-erste-landesbank-schreibt-griechenland-ab/60059559.html Nord / LB breaks the taboo and called a debt-section for Greek bonds likely. The Institute has its consequences - and provides the real thing in front of for. Meike...
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    German Newspaper: IMF will NOT pay current aid at end of June to Greece

    http://forex.fxdd.com/112678/forex-trading/euro-falls-after-a-german-newspaper-says-it-is-considered-certain-that-imf-will-not-pay-its-share-of-current-aid-to-greece-at-the-end-of-june
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    China factory activity hits 10-month low: HSBC PMI

    LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) -- A privately compiled version of the China Purchasing Managers' Index slipped to a 10-month low of 51.6 in May from April's reading of 51.8. HSBC said its PMI survey, compiled by Markit and released Wednesday, "pointed to only modest growth of China's manufacturing...
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    US home price double dip erases post-crisis gains

    US house prices are in a double dip that has erased all of their bounce since the recession and threatens to derail a stuttering economic recovery. The S&P/Case-Shiller house price index fell by 4.2 per cent in the first quarter of 2011, breaking through a 2009 low to hit its weakest level...
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    German FDP expert calls for Greek euro zone exit

    Schaeffler is a clueless populist...:cool:
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    Fed very unlikely to launch QE3: JP Morgan Chase

    WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) - The Fed is "very, very unlikely" to launch another round of asset purchases because of the potential negative political fallout, Michael Feroli, economist at JP Morgan Chase, said Tuesday. Many members of Congress were incensed over the Fed's second asset purchase...
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    German FDP expert calls for Greek euro zone exit

    May 31 (Reuters) - A leading finance expert of the junior coalition partner in Germany's parliament called on Tuesday for debt-laden Greece to exit the euro zone. "As long as Greece hasn't privatised a single cent worth of assets, increasing the aid would be absolutely the wrong signal," Free...
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