Articles by Daniel Pereira
Student loans: America's next financial crisis
12/8/2011, 12:00 pm from Daniel Pereira in News Headlines, Credit and Debt, Economy
The housing crisis continues to churn through communities around
the United States, and after a relatively brief lull induced by the
"robo-signing" scandal, foreclosure rates are ... Read >>
Standard & Poor's threatens to downgrade all of Europe
12/6/2011, 1:03 am from Daniel Pereira in News Headlines, Bonds, International
Maybe it's too paranoid-delusional to expect that top executives
at Standard & Poor's are massively short the global equities
market - but the U.S.-based rating agency does seem to take... Read >>
Trade war with China on the horizon
12/5/2011, 4:24 am from Daniel Pereira in News Headlines, Economy, International, US Markets
Despite the tight economic ties between the world's first- and
second-largest economies, the threat of a hot or cold trade war
between the United States and China has always loomed over... Read >>
The end of the euro as we know it
11/29/2011, 5:37 am from Daniel Pereira in News Headlines, Bonds, International
One of the most audacious experiments in internationalism and
political-economic unification, the euro, appears to be on the
verge of collapse.
What's destroying the common
currency
?... Read >>
AT&T backpedals on T-Mobile buyout
11/28/2011, 11:01 am from Daniel Pereira in News Headlines, Stocks, US Markets
AT&T (
T
) has withdrawn (temporarily, it says) its bid for the Deutsche
Telekom-owned T-Mobile, putting a hole beneath the waterline of its
efforts to become the largest mobile... Read >>
The looming Chinese debt bomb
11/22/2011, 10:27 am from Daniel Pereira in News Headlines, Bonds, International
Some days, it seems like the modern
banking
industry never learns. Tucked into this otherwise rosily optimistic
Economist
report on the
return
of municipal
bonds
to the Chinese... Read >>
Solyndra and the future of solar power
11/16/2011, 8:54 am from Daniel Pereira in News Headlines, Economy, Technology
Of all the currently viable clean
energy
solutions, solar power makes the most sense. Unlike hydroelectric
dams, solar plants don't disrupt the flow of rivers and uproot
ecosystems and can... Read >>
The China dilemma
11/14/2011, 9:43 am from Daniel Pereira in News Headlines, ETFs, International, Investing Ideas
For many economists and financial analysts, China represents the
last best hope of the global
economy
. Its massive population, growing middle class and total dominance
of many manufacturing... Read >>
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 sets all-time 1st-day sales record, might be last remaining growth industry
11/11/2011, 5:50 am from Daniel Pereira in News Headlines, Stocks, Technology
In just 24 hours, the blockbuster first-person shooter franchise
developed by Infinity Ward and published by
Activision
(
ATVI
) set an all-time day-one sales record for any form... Read >>
Berlusconi's resignation and the future of the euro zone
11/8/2011, 10:20 am from Daniel Pereira in News Headlines, Bonds, International
The Ides of March is still four months away (though the
movie
was just released). For Italian Prime Minister Silvio
Berlusconi, though, November 8, 2011 will probably hold the... Read >>