November 2011

 

Mortgage Applications -Purchase Index, Week/Week +4.8 % -Refinance Index, Week/Week +12.1 % -Composite Index, Week/Week +10.3 % -Lower rates = more mortgage applications. Wholesale Inventories -Inventories – Month/Month change -0.1% -This relates to the Consumer Metrics Institute Absolute Demand Index which had fallen from October 29 to November 6 and finally stopped falling yesterday. The

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This is going to get uglier. MF Global was what is called a FCM (Futures Commodities Merchant.) It was a major player in the options and futures business. Apparently they made a big bet on Eurozone debt which turned out to be a disaster. When they tried to sell the company to another FCM it

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