http://finadviserweblog.com News: Finance and Economic Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:24:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en China http://finadviserweblog.com/rio-catching-up-to-bhp-in-bond-market-on-resurgent-china-australia-credit-bloomberg/ Denmark http://finadviserweblog.com/denmarks-credit-crunch-worsening-as-retrenching-banks-spur-vicious-circle-bloomberg/ BOSTON • The Federal Reserve is making it increasingly hard for investors to earn anything, unless they're willing to accept plenty of risk. Ben Bernanke and his Fed are playing the role of adviser, encouraging Americans to get a little more adventurous by shifting savings out of low-yielding bonds and ... http://finadviserweblog.com/fed-dangles-carrot-over-stocks/ The St. Louis region is set to have its newest public company debut. Post Holdings Inc., the branded cereal business unit of Ralcorp Holdings, will be spun off as a separate publicly traded company after markets close Friday. The spinoff was announced last July. After the close of trading Friday, Post will ... http://finadviserweblog.com/post-cereal-spinoff-set-for-tomorrow/ If Mitt Romney is elected president, he will have to make some tough choices about what to do with his personal fortune.In order to avoid conflicts of interest and satisfy ethics watchdogs, soon-to-be presidents often sell assets or relinquish control of their investments to a trustee.Romney, who has ... http://finadviserweblog.com/what-will-become-of-romneys-fortune/ Battered by the strong yen and supply disruptions from Thailand's floods, Honda said Tuesday that its net earnings in the October-December quarter tumbled 41 percent to 47.6 billion yen ($625 million) and projected a sharply lower full-year profit. The Japanese automobile and motorcycle maker forecast it would earn 215 billion ... http://finadviserweblog.com/honda-sees-sharp-drop-in-profit-on-thai-floods/ On the day the Deepwater Horizon sank, BP officials warned in an internal memo that if the well was not protected by the blow-out preventer at the drill site, crude oil could burst into the Gulf of Mexico at a rate of 3.4 million gallons a day, an amount a ... http://finadviserweblog.com/bp-emails-reveal-company-veiling-spill-rate/ The U.S. economy is growing at 2-3 percent but still faces big challenges to repair damage wrought by the financial crisis, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said on Friday. "I think if you look at the Fed's forecast and the consensus of private forecasters, people are pretty clustered in ... http://finadviserweblog.com/us-growing-at-2-3-percent-rate-geithner/ Greece's prime minister will hold new talks with representatives of the country's private sector creditors on a crucial euro100 billion ($129 billion) debt writedown. Lucas Papademos will meet late Thursday with Charles Dallara, managing director of the Institute of International Finance, a banking lobby, and Jean Lemierre, senior adviser to ... http://finadviserweblog.com/greece-to-hold-new-talks-on-debt-relief-deal/ Johnson & Johnson said Tuesday that fourth-quarter profit was barely a tenth what it made a year ago as a slew of charges for recalls, litigation and an acquisition dragged down income. But the health care giant's revenue jumped last year, ending an unprecedented two-year decline. After two tough years ... http://finadviserweblog.com/charges-drag-down-jj-4q-profit-but-sales-rebound/