However, interest rate traders dampened expectations for future rate increases when Trichet lowered the forecast range for 2012 inflation albeit by a smidgeon.
The return of "NCIS" (20.2 million viewers, 4.1) was the night's top-rated show and only down a smidgeon from last year, followed by a similar story for NCIS: LA (16.7 million, 3.4).
They hear a tidbit about this stock, a smidgeon of infotainment on that stock and when they fire up their online brokerage account, it is this random collection of stocks they happened to have heard something on that they begin to trade.
The yield curve is flattening in America (the gap between the short-term federal funds rate and yields on ten-year Treasuries is only a smidgeon more than one percentage point) and in Britain it is inverted (long bonds yield less than shorter ones).
It should be obvious there is something deeply wrong with our laws when someone like Casey Anthony can turn to the bankruptcy courts for a fresh financial start, but men and women who incurred debt in an effort to better themselves or their loved ones cannot get even a smidgeon of such aid.