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Strategies & Market Trends : The Epic American Credit and Bond Bubble Laboratory -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: mishedlo who wrote (28469)	3/12/2005 7:12:39 AM
From: russwinter	Respond to of 110194

<nitwits....started the "epic american credit and bond bubble" in what 2003?> Yep, I guess if one is to cast such an intellectually packed dispersion, he should at least get his facts straight, as this nitwit timed the 2003 top of the bond market pretty closely, plus they way things are acting of late, it's still an open call. finance.yahoo.com As far as that credit Bubble and borrowing for consumption thang, well suppose I could remedy that by renaming the trend from just "Epic" to the really really enormous Mr. Creosote "just more thin wafer" Credit Bubble". A thinking person might give me a little license here? <vbg> arago4.tn.utwente.nl idorfman.com idorfman.com idorfman.com idorfman.com idorfman.com idorfman.com idorfman.com idorfman.com

To: mishedlo who wrote (28469)	3/12/2005 8:49:09 AM
From: russwinter	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110194

Moodys: Defaults Increase, Possible Turning Point The credit rating firm Moodys announced a higher junk bond default rate in the US. "Thus far in 2005, nine issuers have defaulted on a total of $2.1 billion of bonds, with all but three defaulters based in the U.S.. Among U.S. issuers, the speculative-grade default rate rose to 3.0% in February from 2.8% in January." "The global speculative-grade default rate edged up to 2.5% in February from 2.3% in January, possibly signaling a turning point in the direction..For several months now, Moody's has been predicting that default rates would reach a cyclical low near the second quarter of this year."