From the FT:
 
Since March there has
been a massive rally in all sorts of risky assets – equities, oil,
energy and commodity prices – a narrowing of high-yield and high-grade
credit spreads, and an even bigger rally in …

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After a free-fall of output in the last quarter of 2008
and the first quarter of 2009, second derivatives of U.S. economic activity
have turned positive between Q2 and Q3 of 2009. That was a clear indication …

From Bloomberg:
Oct. 29 (Bloomberg) — The Oracle of Omaha retains his
pre-eminence as a market visionary, outshining a new wave of
financial strategists and the best-known central bankers.
Billionaire investor Warren Buffett, chairman and chief
executive officer of Berkshire …

From the International Herald Tribune:
Global imbalances — roughly defined, the different emphasis the
world’s leading economies place on savings, spending and debt — is a
phrase much used and little acted upon.
Well before the
current financial crisis began, …