Money & Markets – Week of 6.20.10

BP Share Slide as Oil Spill Bill Climbs to $2.35bn
Guardian.co.uk (25 June 10)

Musk Bets on $178 Million Tesla IPO to Fund Battery-Car Gambit
Bloomberg (25 June 10)

ECRI Leading Economic Index Plunges At -6.9% Rate, Back To December 2007 Levels When Recession Officially Started
Zero Hedge (25 June 10)

Hedging Millionaires Buy Jets, Art, Bling, Give Less to Charity
Bloomberg (24 June 10)

Baltic Dry Index
The Big Picture (24 June 10)

On Wall Street, So Much Cash, So Little Time
The New York Times (23 June 10)

Deutsche Bank: U.S. Financial Conditions Just Collapsed Back To Crisis Levels
Business Insider (24 June 10)

Bank Bill Talks Center on Bank Trading Limits
Yahoo Finance (23 June 10)

What’s Ben Gonna Do?
Zero Hedge (23 June 10)

Fed Keeps Rate Pledge, Says Markets ‘Less Supportive’
Bloomberg (23 June 10)

Private Equity Firms Focus on Small U.S. Banks
Reuters (23 June 10)

Orange County Tells Harrisburg Bankruptcy Has ‘Positive’ Side
Bloomberg (17 May 10)

New York Pension Fund to Sue BP For Investment Losses
Yahoo Finance (23 June 10)

Russia Cuts Gas Supplies to Belarus by 60%
Guardian.co.uk (23 June 10)

The World’s Richest Self-Made Women
Yahoo Finance (22 June 10)

BP Ranks Sixth on List of Most Hated Companies
The Daily Beast (22 June 10)

Business Rallies to Shape Finance Endgame
The Wall Street Journal (21 June 10)

Hedge Funds Whipsawed by Gas Bets
The Wall Street Journal (21 June 10)

Russia Backs Stronger Rivals to Dollar
The Wall Street Journal (19 June 10)

The New Bank Fees: How to Fight Back
The Wall Street Journal (19 June 10)

Cash Crops: Buying Farmland for Income
The Wall Street Journal (19 June 10)

Kan Seeks Cuts in Japan’s 40% Corporate Tax Rate
The Wall Street Journal (18 June 10)

Brown Brothers Warns On Deterioration In State And Local Government Deficits, Cautions Of Comparable European Collapse
Zero Hedge (21 June 10)

China Signals a Gradual Rise in Value of Its Currency
The New York Times (19 June 10)

The Food Bubble:
How Wall Street Starved Millions And Got Away With It
[Full news story (requires subscription)]
Harper’s Magazine (July 2010)

Germany And France Examine ‘Two-tier’ Euro
Telegraph.co.uk (19 June 10)

Workers Get More Hours as Companies Reluctant to Hire
USA Today (20 June 10 )

Baltic Exchange Dry Index (BDI) & Freight Rates
InvestmentTools.com (June 2010)

The Great GDP Swindle
Guardian.co.uk (13 Sept 09)

Medvedev Promotes Ruble as World Reserve Currency to Cut Dollar Dominance
Bloomberg (19 June 10)

California on ‘Verge of System Failure’
The Globe and Mail (18 June 10)

German-Spanish Whispering Wars Hit Euro Zone
Reuters (18 June 10)

States Want Your Trust
The Wall Street Journal (14 June 10)