loller dollar


CNBC’s interviewing President of the Philly Fed Charles Plosser as I type this; interesting points from the interview include that he has finally noticed we have inflation outside of food and oil, that he preferred a “hem-and-haw” answer to whether there’s a Fed put under Lehman, and, of course, his disavowing that anything the Fed has done could possibly have affected the price of oil.

I can has dilution? National City issues 1.2 BILLION (126 million, 1, 260,000, whatever you wanna call it) shares to raise capital.

national city issues stock

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So this morning there are huge changes in everything tied to the weaksauce lollerdollar, namely gold, oil, and EUR/USD and USD/JPY… because the European banks got caught with their pants down re: LIBOR rates. Credit markets overseas apparently aren’t as sunshine-and-LOLlipops as they would have had us believe. Alas.

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Euro reaches $1.58 today on strong, efficient German production numbers, general lack of win in US housing market, etc, etc.