Articles by Jose Roncal

Learning from Lebanon
Today's news is still filled with grim financial statistics from all around the globe. Yet there is one headline that hasn't gotten much attention: Beirut is Booming!
Published 21Mar2009, viewed 270 times

Caffeine Fix for Market Jitters
Seems like there's no end to the indigestion-inducing economic news. Recently I woke up to the news that the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price index had fallen by 17.4 percent from a year earlier. Even worse, was the indication that things were accelerating—with home prices having decreased 1.8% in September from prior months. This is the biggest drop since the Shiller index first started reporting.
Published 02Feb2009, viewed 273 times

The Coming Credit Card Debt Meltdown
All over the world, people are keeping fingers crossed that the $700 billion financial system bailout works the way it is supposed to and eases the worsening global credit crunch and restores confidence in the markets. But while the government has been focusing its attention on worldwide fallout from the mortgage debacle and the Wall Street greed, another storm is gathering on the horizon.
Published 27Jan2009, viewed 212 times

Booms, Busts and Herd Mentality
Wall Street, the housing market and the whole economy have all gone from boom to bust. The global economic meltdown is a stark reminder of how giant bubbles tend to over-inflate until they reach critical mass and inevitably dash our hopes and dreams—dreams of comfortable retirements, steady incomes, education for the kids and even roofs over our heads.
Published 22Jan2009, viewed 270 times

Looking Ahead to Q1 of 2009
We've all heard the old adage, "it's always darkest before the dawn." But exactly when can we expect things to lighten up? There's so much paranoia and mistrust with a stock market in the tank and so many businesses already filing, or preparing to file, for bankruptcy, that while peering into the darkness, we see less than promising news for the first quarter of 2009.
Published 20Jan2009, viewed 240 times

The End of a Tumultuous Year
As we start the New Year, it's time to glance in the rear view mirror and rejoice that 2008 is behind us. It was a tumultuous year during which nearly every aspect of the global economy took a beating—from stocks and bonds to every other financial instrument on the major indexes. Hardly any industries or businesses were spared.
Published 10Jan2009, viewed 172 times

Investment Banking and the Future of Wall Street
The current economic meltdown has changed the face of Wall Street, possibly forever. For decades the energy in the market had been fueled by high-rolling investment bankers, but look what's happened in the last eight months. Lehman Brothers went bankrupt. Bear Stearns was snapped up by JPMorgan Chase, and Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley had to convert to bank holding companies just to stay in business.
Published 08Jan2009, viewed 353 times

Treasuries: The Next Bubble?
We've survived the tech bubble and the housing bubble, but are we headed for something more catastrophic than either of those? Some experts are beginning to fear the worst. There is so much money shifting into Treasuries, it can't last forever and now some fear the Treasury market is venturing into bubble territory.
Published 17Dec2008, viewed 216 times

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