2009 Strategist S&P 500 Price Targets

The average 2009 year-end S&P 500 is 1,056, or 16.9% above the S&P's year-end price of 903.25.

clipped from www.bloomberg.com Firm Strategist Target %Change Barclays Plc Barry Knapp 874 -3.2% Citigroup Inc. Tobias Levkovich 1,000 11% Credit Suisse Andrew Garthwaite 1,050 16% Deutsche Bank Binky Chadha 1,140 26% Goldman Sachs David Kostin 1,100 22% HSBC Holdings Kevin Gardiner 1,000 11% JPMorgan Chase Thomas Lee 1,100 22% Merrill Lynch Richard Bernstein 975 7.9% Morgan Stanley Abhijit Chakrabortti 975 7.9% Strategas Research Jason Trennert 1,100 22% UBS AG David Bianco 1,300 44% clipped from bespokeinvest.typepad.com "Official" 2009 Strategist S&P 500 Price Targets

‘Generation E’ — Innovating, Motivating

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clipped from dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com I’ve gotten to know a heap of young people of late — people I call “Generation E” — who are working on every facet of the climate-energy challenge. Some are trying to spread awareness of climate science and its implications. Others are working on ways to cut the human impact on the environment as inventors or entrepreneurs.

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Fed Officials Worry Inflation Rates Could Ease Too Much

Key words: Fed’s efforts to purchase debt--Fed’s efforts to purchase debt.

clipped from blogs.wsj.com Federal Reserve officials at the annual meeting of the American Economic Association indicated they are growing more worried that inflation rates could get too low. With gasoline prices tumbling, the year-to-year change in the consumer price index is likely to tip into negative territory in the months ahead. Meantime, increases in core consumer prices, which exclude food and energy, have slowed sharply in recent months. Fed officials don’t foresee deflation happening, but they’d like to avoid even getting close to it. “It is especially important in such circumstances for the Fed to emphasize its commitment to returning inflation over time to the higher levels that are most appropriate to the attainment of its longer-term objectives,” Ms. Yellen said. The Fed’s balance sheet has ballooned from less than $900 billion to more than $2 trillion since September Fed’s efforts to purchase debt “have only just begun.”

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