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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 (48511)	12/31/2005 5:34:35 AM
From: Crimson Ghost	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 110194

The housing bubbles in Britain and Australia have rolled over but the corrections have been modest so far and their economies continue to grow.

To: mishedlo who wrote (48511)	12/31/2005 8:19:11 AM
From: Wyätt Gwyön	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110194

Chicken Feed by Tom Sullivan Bondholders have little to show for their efforts in '05. The Treasury component of the Lehman Brothers U.S. Aggregate Index for intermediate maturities returned barely than 1.5% in 2005, which was "rather disappointing," says Gary Pollack, a managing director at Deutsche Bank Private Wealth Management. The huge U.S. trade deficit piled dollars offshore, which foreign central banks plowed back into U.S. investments, including Treasuries and the implicitly federally guaranteed debt of mortgage lenders Fannie Mae (FNM) and Freddie Mac (FRE). "Without foreign investment, 10-year yields would be 100 basis points [one percentage point] higher," he reckons. online.barrons.com