News: 2014-02-08
Number of the Week: $2 Million Homes Going Like Hotcakes in California – Real Time Economics – WSJ
Ukraine: fresh capital controls and plunging FX reserves | beyondbrics
Hilsenrath Analysis: Fed Likely to Stay Course on Rates and Bond Buying – Real Time Economics – WSJ
Brazil’s Central Bank Fights Many Evils to Kill Inflation – Real Time Economics – WSJ
Short-seller Chanos falls double digits in ’13
Puerto Rico Faces $940 Million Bill as Debt Is Cut to Junk – Bloomberg
Argentina War on Inflation Gets Personal – WSJ.com
Fed Seen Staying Course on Tapering Even Amid Weaker Job Growth – Bloomberg
Why bitcoin won’t disrupt digital transactions | Felix Salmon
US adds just 113,000 January jobs as unemployment rate dips to 6.6% | Business | theguardian.com
Emerging Market Debt-Linked Note Sales Plunge 89% on China, Fed
AOL Blames Obamacare for Plan to Reduce Retirement Benefits
Sony to sell off Vaio laptop division in effort to stem huge losses | Technology | The Guardian
ECB warns Hungary yet again to honor its central bank’s independence
Freezing weather hits natural gas output of 2nd biggest U.S. producer
Relief for Emerging Markets May Only be Temporary – MoneyBeat – WSJ
MtGox Halts Withdrawals – Business Insider
Grantham Against Shale – Business Insider
Would I Lie for You? – NYTimes.com
German court parks tank on ECB lawn, kills OMT bond rescue – Telegraph
“The German constitutional court refrained from issuing a final ruling on the legality of the plan, known as Outright Monetary Transactions (OMT). It referred the case to the European Court instead, but only after having pre-judged the issue in lacerating terms that effectively bind German institutions. “The Court considers the OMT decision incompatible with primary law,” it said.”
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