Analysis

RPT-ANALYSIS-OTC swaps clearinghouse has limits in managing risk

Author: Admin on Thu Jul 03 21:47:35 PDT 2008
(Repeats story that originally ran on July 2 with no changes to headline or text) By Joanne Morrison WASHINGTON, July 3 (Reuters) - A plan to establish a central clearinghouse for major dealers in...

ANALYSIS-Wage fears keep ECB's Trichet shadow-boxing

Author: Admin on Thu Jul 03 21:47:13 PDT 2008
By Brian Love, European Economics Correspondent PARIS, July 03 (Reuters) - If pay rises have been modest for years, why is the European Central Bank talking up the risks of a "wage-price...

ANALYSIS-UBS tax probe seen bruising U.S. broker unit

Author: Admin on Thu Jul 03 21:46:51 PDT 2008
By Joseph A. Giannone NEW YORK, July 3 (Reuters) - A federal probe into alleged tax evasion schemes at UBS AG could do lasting damage to its U.S. wealth management unit, just as the hard-hit...

ANALYSIS-Gold charts point to $1,000, but no one-way street

Author: Admin on Thu Jul 03 21:44:26 PDT 2008
By Frank Tang NEW YORK, July 3 (Reuters) - While gold has a shot at retesting $1,000 an ounce after this week's resurgence, will the latest rally have room to go further? Technical analysts say...

ANALYSIS-Hedge fund swindler's run to cost other criminals

Author: Admin on Thu Jul 03 21:43:53 PDT 2008
By Svea Herbst-Bayliss BOSTON, July 3 (Reuters) - U.S. financial criminals, who have the means and motive to flee, may soon face stiffer penalties after prosecutors ended an expensive and...

ANALYSIS-Bush, Paulson boxed in corner on dollar mantra

Author: Admin on Thu Jul 03 20:37:03 PDT 2008
By David Lawder LONDON, July 3 (Reuters) - Bush administration officials are increasingly finding themselves having to defend U.S. economic policies to foreign leaders who are battling inflation and...

ANALYSIS-Aluminium may hit new high, but for how long ?

Author: Admin on Thu Jul 03 20:19:51 PDT 2008
By Pratima Desai LONDON, July 3 (Reuters) - Record energy costs could drive aluminium prices to fresh all-time highs but some analysts say rising production and stocks and slowing demand mean these...

ANALYSIS-U.S. auto stocks, bonds plunge - but are they cheap?

Author: Admin on Thu Jul 03 20:03:39 PDT 2008
By Walden Siew and David Bailey NEW YORK/DETROIT, July 3 (Reuters) - General Motors Corp shares are at their lowest level since 1954 and its benchmark bonds yield 15 percent compared with the 10-year...

ANALYSIS-Activist investors face long haul in Japan

Author: Admin on Thu Jul 03 19:37:22 PDT 2008
By Nathan Layne and Tony Munroe TOKYO, July 3 (Reuters) - Activist investors in Japan scored few wins during this year's annual meeting season, and with companies erecting defences against them,...

ANALYSIS-Reuters Summit-Foreign bond sellers love Japan

Author: Admin on Thu Jul 03 03:10:02 PDT 2008
(For other news from the Reuters Japan Investment Summit, click on http://www.reuters.com/summit/JapanInvestment08?pid=500) By Rafael Nam and Rika Otsuka TOKYO, July 3 (Reuters) - From Australian...

ANALYSIS-Japanese banks take steps overseas, gingerly

Author: Admin on Thu Jul 03 03:06:04 PDT 2008
(For other news from the Reuters Japan Investment Summit, click on http://www.reuters.com/summit/JapanInvestment08?pid=500) By David Dolan TOKYO, July 3 (Reuters) - Japan's big banks, unburdened by...

ANALYSIS-Shrinking market sends Japan Inc buying abroad

Author: Admin on Thu Jul 03 02:16:45 PDT 2008
(For other news from the Reuters Japan Investment Summit, click on http://www.reuters.com/summit/JapanInvestment08?pid=500) By Tony Munroe and Emi Emoto TOKYO, July 3 (Reuters) - Japanese companies...

ANALYSIS-Asian rate policy, not intervention, to prop up FX

Author: Admin on Thu Jul 03 00:10:44 PDT 2008
By Kevin Yao SINGAPORE, July 3 (Reuters) - Asian central banks have sold billions of dollars recently to prop up their currencies, but such intervention will be money wasted unless policy makers are...

ANALYSIS-Paulson bank failure plan won't advance in '08

Author: Admin on Wed Jul 02 22:36:55 PDT 2008
By Karey Wutkowski and Rachelle Younglai WASHINGTON, July 2 (Reuters) - The Bush administration's call for an emergency mechanism to safely unwind a failing investment bank has no chance of...

Analysts see US auto recovery delayed beyond 2009

Author: Admin on Wed Jul 02 22:31:13 PDT 2008
By Soyoung Kim DETROIT, July 2 (Reuters) - A deepening slump in U.S. auto sales this year has already forced investors and automakers to abandon hopes for a second-half recovery. Now some analysts...

ANALYSIS-Anxious Argentines tighten their purse strings

Author: Admin on Wed Jul 02 20:34:43 PDT 2008
By Hilary Burke BUENOS AIRES, July 2 (Reuters) - Argentines are putting the brakes on a five-year spending spree as high inflation cuts into their wages and a farm revolt over export taxes saps...

ANALYSIS-US Congress may hit dry hole over oil speculators

Author: Admin on Wed Jul 02 20:31:00 PDT 2008
By Tom Doggett and Joanne Morrison WASHINGTON, July 2 (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers have introduced a spate of bills to rein in market speculators blamed for pushing up crude oil prices, but time is...

ANALYSIS-US top court sides with business in key cases

Author: Admin on Wed Jul 02 20:29:45 PDT 2008
By James Vicini WASHINGTON, July 2 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court under Chief Justice John Roberts has carved out a reputation for pro-business rulings in a series of important decisions. In its...

ANALYSIS-Merrill may have to sell $10 bln BlackRock stake

Author: Admin on Wed Jul 02 20:23:34 PDT 2008
By Dan Wilchins NEW YORK, July 2 (Reuters) - Merrill Lynch & Co Inc may not want to sell its $10 billion stake in top performing money manager BlackRock Inc. But it may have no...

ANALYSIS-Euro poised for $1.60+ but false dawns nag

Author: Admin on Wed Jul 02 20:13:05 PDT 2008
By Veronica Brown LONDON, July 2 (Reuters) - Event risks are stacking up in favour of the euro mounting another assault on record highs north of $1.60, but chartists are wary of previous false-starts...