How will R??ter's business survive the planned reductions in buying rate?

FORBES: Sunny Optimist

Fearing all markets could soon fall, El-Erian injected what he referred to as "Armageddon insurance" into HMC's portfolio for the first time by buying interest rate floors, or a wager that rates would fall, and betting, via credit default swaps, that companies could soon struggle to pay their debts.

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"Department of Homeland Security and the federal government itself is buying up ammunition and components at such a rate, it's causing artificial shortage of supplies for the regular consumer, " said Jesse Alday, a state corrections officer who was buying a couple of boxes of primers at Hunter's Haven.

WSJ: Laws, rumors have ammo flying off store shelves

Even if the Fed doesn't ramp up its mortgage buying, an interest-rate shock could derail Mr. Gross's strategy.

WSJ: Bond King's Trade Pays Off

He should put the ECB's money where his mouth is, selling euros and buying dollars to keep the exchange rate stable.

ECONOMIST: Brutal, in every sense | The

Bank of America ( BAC - news - people ) aims its bank- card pitch at employers who buy them in bulk as staff gifts. (BofA declined to comment on whether employers receive a discount rate for buying scads of cards at a time.) There's no dormancy fee with BofA's product, but after nine months the cards become worthless, whatever the remaining balance is.

FORBES: Holiday Shopping

Its growth rate is suspect, but it's trading under 12 times 1999 earnings and buying back gobs of stocks, at least 5% of its capitalization per annum.

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Its growth rate is suspect, but it's trading under 12 times 1999 earnings and buying back gobs of stock, at least 5% of its capitalization per annum.

FORBES: How to surf the yield curve