Money & Markets – Week of 1.09.11

Dimon, Gorman, Moynihan Pitch For AIG Share Sale
Yahoo News (13 Jan 11)

AT&T Moves US$17 Billion Pension Plan And Benefit Losses to The Past
The Canadian Press (13 Jan 11)

JPMorgan CEO Warns of Muni Defaults
The Street (12 Jan 11)

New Front in Whitney Muni Bond Spat
New York Post (13 Jan 11)

Could The U.S. Central Bank go Broke?
Reuters (11 Jan 11)

EU Prepares to Approve 1 Trillion Euro Master Energy Plan
Safehaven.com (10 Jan 11)

US Jobless Figures Show Labour Market Woes
Financial Times (13 Jan 11)

ITT to Break Itself Up, Fueling Share Rally
Reuters (13 Jan 11)

Stocks Rally as Eurozone Worries Ease
Financial Times (13 Jan 11)

How to Revive the California Dream
Free Republic (10 Jan 11)

Long Shadows Cast Over US Economy
Financial Sense (12 Jan 11)

The War of Words Over Muni Bonds
The Wall Street Journal (12 Jan 11)

Small-Business Sentiment Takes Step Back
The Wall Street Journal (11 Jan 11)

Groupon: First Private Company Ever to Raise $1 Billion
The Wall Street Journal (10 Jan 11)

EMU Debt Crisis Edges Ever Closer to The Core
Telegraph (12 Jan 11)

Seeding Small Business: 5 Ideas from Detroit
Axisoflogic.com (18 Dec 10)

Trade War Looming, Warns Brazil[Full news story (requires subscription)]
Financial Times (12 Jan 11)

Japan Will Buy Euro-Region Bonds, Joining China in Assisting Irish Bailout
Bloomberg (11 Jan 11)

California’s Brown Unveils $12.5 Billion in Spending Cuts
Blomberg (10 Jan 11)

The Fed’s QE2 Traders, Buying Bonds by the Billions
The New York Times (10 Jan 11)

US Audit Watchdog Gains Access to UK Auditors
Accountancy Age (10 Jan 11)

The New Realities of Retirement
Yahoo Finance (10 Jan 11)

China’s Trade Surplus Tumbles in Dec. As Export Growth Collapses
Yahoo Finance (10 Jan 11)

Wow: Texas Deficit Estimate Comes In Worse Than The Worst Expectations
Business Insider (10 Jan 11)

Sound Navigation Requires Sound Measurement
24hGold (10 Jan 11)

DuPont Buying Danisco For $5.8 Billion in Food Sector Push
Reuters (10 Jan 11)

Goldman Traders to Leave to Start Hedge Fund – Report
Reuters (10 Jan 11)

Biggest US Pension Funds Get Into Fraudclosure Fray, Demand Banks “Immediately Examine Foreclosure Practices”
Zero Hedge (9 Jan 11)

Debt Default Fears Will Spread to US And Japan, Warns Citigroup’s Willem Buiter
The Telegraph (8 Jan 11)

Another City Goes: Chowchilla, Calif. Defaults On Bond
Business Insider (7 Jan 11)

Currency Amounts in New Special Drawing Rights (SDR) Basket
International Monetary Fund (30 Dec 10)

Federal Reserve Continues to Shovel Money to AIG
EconomicPolicyJournal.com (7 Jan 11)


Alan Greenspan Sees A Huge Chance Of A Bond Collapse, While Lashing Out At His Critics
Business Insider (7 Jan 11)