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Bernanke’s Off the Hook: Emerging Markets Are Really to Blame for Rising Food Prices, Says Bremmer
Stacy Curtin
Yahoo Tech Ticker Feb 14, 2011 03:06pm EST
http://finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker/bernanke%27s-off-the-hook-emerging-markets-are-really-to-blame-for-rising-food-prices-says-bremmer-535927.html
"Dollar depreciation leads to higher inflation and ultimately forces foreign creditors to question their rationale and indeed their sanity for continuing purchases of U.S. Treasuries." -Bill Gross
Signs continue that European markets are getting tired. The Spanish and Italian stock markets, big beneficiaries of the sharp decline in their bond yields over the past few months are falling to the lowest since Feb 1. The European bank index is at a 1 1/2 week low after earnings reports from Commerzbank and Credit Ag (RBS bouncing although reporting weaker than expected earnings) were disappointing. This market action is in spite of the German IFO business confidence figure which rose to a 7 month high coming in a touch above expectations and Italian consumer confidence which bounced more than...
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