Money & Markets – Week of 9.9.12

Quantitative Easing Made Simple
The Burning Platform | 10 September 2012

Germany Approves New Eurozone Bailout Fund
DW | 12 September 2012
Germany’s top court has conditionally cleared the way for the eurozone’s new bailout fund to be signed into law.

Treasury Flash Crash Could Become Reality
CNN Money | 10 September 2012
In the new age of high speed trading, U.S. Treasuries could become the next flash crash victim.

Shell Begins Oil, Gas Drilling off Alaska Coast
USA Today | 10 September 2012
More than four years after Royal Dutch Shell paid $2.8 billion to the federal government for petroleum leases in the Chukchi Sea.

Stockman: Our Problem is the Federal Reserve
Info Wars | 10 September 2012

AIG Stock Sale Raises Questions About Investor Appetite
Reuters | 10 September 2012
American International Group (AIG.N) shares fell on Monday after the U.S. Treasury Department said it would sell $18 billion of the insurance company’s stock.


Debt Crisis: as it Happened

The Telegraph | 10 September 2012
Germany’s Constitutional Court said it will examine whether to postpone its long-awaited verdict on the eurozone’s permanent rescue fund.

Egypt’s OCI to Build $1.4 Billion Fertilizer Plant in Iowa
Bloomberg | 5 September 2012
Orascom Construction Industries (OCIC), Egypt’s biggest publicly traded company, said it will build a $1.4-billion fertilizer plant in Iowa.

SEC Proposes Rules to Implement JOBS Act Provision About General Solicitation and Advertising in Securities Offerings
Securities and Exchange Commission | 29 August 2012
The Securities and Exchange Commission today proposed rules to eliminate the prohibition against general solicitation

Sept. 11, 2012
Financial Perspectives | 9 September 2012
“Fool’s Paradise” — noun: A state of happiness based on false hopes.

AIG Shares Fall After U.S. Says it Plans $18 Billion Sale
Reuters | 10 September 2012
American International Group (AIG.N) shares fell 1.5 percent on Monday

Treasury Flash Crash Could Become Reality
CNN | 10 September 2012
In the new age of high speed trading, U.S. Treasuries could become the next flash crash victim.