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Edward Harrison is a senior Editor at Bloomberg. He is also the founder of Credit Writedowns newsletter, a former career diplomat, investment banker and technology executive with over twenty five years of business experience. He speaks six languages and reads another five, skills he uses to provide a more global perspective. Edward holds an MBA in Finance from Columbia University and a BA in Economics from Dartmouth College.

Markets

Fridson Says Junk Debt Is ‘Extraordinary Opportunity’

Edward Harrison Mar 6, 2009

Martin Fridson is one of the best known high yield bond analysts out there. For a very long time he was the head of Merrill's high yield research group, the group that analyses the prospects of debt issued by companies with non-investment…

Economy

651,000 jobs lost but unemployment rate at 8.1% in U.S.

Edward Harrison Mar 6, 2009

This is the most important employment number in recent memory. Consensus estimates were for 650,000 with a wide range from 500,000 to 800,000. Everyone is looking to this number to determine where we are headed. There was a…

Business

Walt Mossberg says Apple’s new browser Safari is fast

Edward Harrison Mar 5, 2009

Apple Safari 4 is out and it's slick and lightning fast. Most people are still using Internet Explorer, which quite frankly does not meet the grade. Firefox, which I had been using, has huge memory bloat if you leave the browser open for…

Markets

Is the U.S. stock market close to bottoming?

Edward Harrison Mar 5, 2009

After another brutal day in the market, whether the market is bottoming does not seem like the question on most people's minds. Ten stocks declined for every one up today -- and on heavy volume. Retail investors are clearly switching into…

Economy

Canadian and British banks find access to capital markets

Edward Harrison Mar 5, 2009

Since Lehman Brothers declared bankruptcy in September, the capital markets have been all but shut to large banks globally. Investors were spooked by the evisceration at Lehman, Washington Mutual and Wachovia to name but a few cases of near…

News

Links: 2009-03-05

Edward Harrison Mar 5, 2009

Economist's View: "Ridding Ourselves of the Zombies" Wall Street on the Tundra - vanityfair.com Ford Equitizing $10.4 Billion In Debt - Tyler Durden Follow the money to see Hungary's plight - BBC News FDIC Insurance Fund May Run…

Economy

Jobless Claims: 639,000 beats the anticipated number

Edward Harrison Mar 5, 2009

Initial jobless claims came in at 639,000, down significantly from 670,000 the week before. This is one positive in a sea of bad news regarding the employment market. It does not mean that tomorrow's unemployment number will be good. Expect…

Economy

David Beim: Citi is too big to nationalize

Edward Harrison Mar 5, 2009

Beim was a Professor back when I was at Columbia, although I don't remember being in any of classes. Before he was a Professor, he worked as an Investment Banker at First Boston and Dillon Read, two white shoe firms that are now defunct,…

Business

Twitter founder Evan Williams on Charlie Rose

Edward Harrison Mar 4, 2009

Everyone is using Twitter these days. Econbloggers are getting in the spirit too. I have started to use it. I know Paul Kedrosky uses it. Even Yves Smith is thinking of getting in on it, although her inner luddite holds her back. So…

Political Economy

Ukraine’s Tymoshenko warns of a new Iron Curtain

Edward Harrison Mar 4, 2009

After Europe emerged from the worst war in human history, its cities lay in ruins. Its economy was in tatters. It was in this environment that an Iron Curtain fell over Europe dividing it into east and west, separating Europeans from each…

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