Welcome to another edition of Weekend Reading. First, a look back at the week that just finished, then a look forward to the week ahead, and finally, a summary of articles and papers worth reading.
It was another crummy week on the markets, and it capped an uneven month. The major U.S. markets had one up week during August and then lost ground. They capped the month with declines last week of 0.7% on both the Dow and S&P 500 and 1.9% on the Nasdaq Composite.
- Truck stop operators say diesel fuel sales volumes decline. (Oil & Gas Journal)
- Barron's pans private equity picks, and picks 'cheapish' European stocks. (Barrons)
- Great Sam Zell interview. (Bloomberg)
- Lehman Brothers in urgent talks on capital injection. (Telegraph)
- The death of the credit card economy (Slate)
- British economy facing 'worst downturn in 60 years': Darling - (Yahoo! News)
- Bank of China flees Fannie-Freddie (FT.com)
- Is there a wave of option repricing coming? (iGreed)
- Most U.S. Gulf oil output shut as Gustav threatens (Reuters)
- Bank profits are set to pay a price for Fed risk limits (Bloomberg.com)
- Microsoft stock performance newly besting Google's (iGreed)
- China: Warning signs from the center of the boom (Globe & Mail)
- Recommended reading in these confused times from Fed sorts, CEOs, economists and others. (The Washington Post)
- Inside the Halycon hedge fund partnership problems. (New York Post)
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| Dow Jones | S&P 500 | NASDAQ | 10-Year Note | |
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| 12,845.13 | 1,344.33 | 2,901.99 | 19.01 |
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116.38
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17.10 |
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0.57 |
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3.67 |
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0.48 |
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SPDR Gold
167.64
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-0.13%
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-0.04%
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-0.13%
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-2.46%
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