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The trading week is over and Wall Street has a three-day weekend.

There were a few more items I wanted to cover so I’ll use this post to tie up some loose ends.

My post on the Fed funds interest rate model drew a lot of attention. Professor Mankiw discussed it here which drew a response from Paul Krugman. Ryan Avent, Matthew Yglesias and Scott Sumner also added comments.

Bloomberg conducted a survey of primary dealers and found that they think the Fed won’t raise rates until the second quarter of 2014.

S&P downgrades several European countries.

Lisa Du at Business Insider selected some highlights from Jamie Dimon’s earnings conference call. Glad to see Jamie coming out of his shell.

Today, the Morgan Stanley Cylical Index (^CYC) snapped its 10-session streak of beating the S&P 500.

DirecTV ($DTV) is raising rates.

Hudson City ($HCBK) was downgraded by Nomura.

Ford ($F) recalls 539,000 minivans, SUVs worldwide

Williams-Sonoma ($WMS) cut its outlook which is bad for them. The problem is that it led to selling of Bed Bath & Beyond ($BBBY).

Posted by on January 13th, 2012 at 6:33 pm


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