Deflation

~ $275 Million of Asset Dispositions Completed by UDR in 4Q11 ~ DENVER -- UDR, Inc. (the "Company") (NYSE: UDR), a leading multifamily real estate investment trust, today announced that it has formed...

CHICAGO -- Fitch Ratings has assigned a rating of 'BBB' to The Kroger Co.'s (Kroger) $450 million issue of 2.2% notes due 2017, the proceeds of which will be used to fund a...

INDIANAPOLIS -- Indianapolis-based appliance and electronics retailer, hhgregg, Inc. (NYSE:HGG) today announced preliminary results for the fiscal third quarter ended December 31, 2011 and updated fiscal 2012 (year ending March 31, 2012) guidance....

~Company Comments on Fiscal 2011 Guidance~ YORK, Pa. -- The Bon-Ton Stores, Inc. (NASDAQ: BONT) today announced comparable store sales for the five weeks ended December 31, 2011 decreased 0.7%. Total sales decreased...

DENVER -- UDR, Inc. (NYSE: UDR) announced today that it has priced a $400 million offering of 4.625% senior unsecured notes under its existing shelf registration statement. Interest is payable semiannually on January...

VALLEY FORGE, Pa. -- AmerisourceBergen Corporation (NYSE: ABC) today announced that it plans to release its results for the 2012 Fiscal First Quarter on Thursday, January 26, 2012 prior to the opening of...

6 hours ago A simplistic view of 'risk parity' associated with multi-asset strategies has distorted its potential, argues Edgar Peters, partner and co-director of global macro at First Quadrant. 'Risk parity' is a...

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HEADNOTE Keywords Deflation, consumer price index, monetary policy, liquidity trap, total factor productivity In Japan, the rate of change in the consumer price index (CPI) turned negative in 1995, and has been almost...

HEADNOTE Lack of Clarity on U.S. Deficit Reduction Weighs on Greenback Following Standard & Poor's downgrade of the U.S. government's sovereign credit rating in mid-August, China's reaction was unequivocal with Xinhua (China's official...

HEADNOTE Real estate projects are getting capital injections from new and diverse sources as traditional bank lending dries up. IMAGE PHOTOGRAPH 1 Banks around the world have become skittish about lending. Although central...

HEADNOTE Although Texas future is brighter, sluggish job growth nationally will continue in 2012 One of my favorite phrases from the Federal Reserve came years ago when Chairman Bernanke stated that there "is...

GARY SHILLING The Age of Deleveraging We face a difficult and challenging era in the years ahead. This age of deleveraging, which began in 2007 and probably has another five to seven years...

What makes a prediction a good one? Like any announcement that must compete for attention in the public sphere, the predictions that gather the most notice are the strangest or the boldest, or...

Everyone on the Federal Reserve's policymaking Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) is willing to ease monetary policy further, but Fed officials' conditions for further credit easing vary widely. There are those who are...

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In what is beginning to sound like a broken record, the global credit crisis kept interest rates at historically low levels throughout 2011 and the Federal Reserve is determined to keep...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- Colonial Properties Trust (NYSE: CLP), a real estate investment trust (REIT), announced that its operating partnership, Colonial Realty Limited Partnership (CRLP), has completed the previously announced repurchase of its remaining...

HONG KONG -- A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength rating (FSR) of A+ (Superior) and issuer credit rating (ICR) of "aa-" of Sompo Japan Insurance Inc. (Sompo) (Japan). Concurrently, A.M. Best...

DENVER -- UDR, Inc. (the "Company") (NYSE: UDR), a leading multifamily real estate investment trust, announced today that its joint venture with Kuwait Finance House ("KFH") has acquired 1301 Thomas Circle in Washington,...