Noteworthy Financial Stories for January 7

Small Banks Say a Cure Hurts
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703882804574642662226853946.html?mod=dist_smartbrief

Commercial Real Estate in 2010: Weak Fundamentals and Constrained Liquidity
http://www.costar.com/News/Article.aspx?id=2951DBFAB56E0DC71572BAE678F8929A

Record U.S. Apartment Vacancies Force Landlords to Cut Rents
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601206&sid=auCo6z6a_B0U

U.S. Now a Renters' Market
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB126282425648418817.html?ru=yahoo&mod=dist_smartbrief

Small Business: Get Fit! Three Financial Resolutions for the New Year
http://www.openforum.com/idea-hub/topics/money/article/get-fit-three-financial-resolutions-for-the-new-year-julie-hansen

Wall Street's Memo to Meredith Whitney: You're So 2009
http://finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker/article/399286/Wall-Streets-Memo-to-Meredith-Whitney%3A-Youre-So-2009

Rubin, Oil Rally Predictor, Sees $100 Crude in 2010
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aZmJGmyDUVXM&pos=6

China Guides Bill Yields Higher, Seeking to Curb Record Lending
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601068&sid=a3PGV0FFfJcg

Black Swans Abound as Year of Tiger Shows Teeth
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&sid=a6oJ.p_VFnSw

Global Stocks to Rally 10% in 2010, Citigroup Strategists Say
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601084&sid=aO4mNCdv2FOo

I move markets, therefore I am a US NFP
http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2010/01/07/121586/i-move-markets-therefore-i-am-a-us-nfp/

New Research on Mortgage Modifications and Principal Reduction
http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2010/01/new-research-on-mortgage-modifications.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+CalculatedRisk+%28Calculated+Risk%29&utm_content=Bloglines


Krugman: Bernanke and the bubble
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/06/bernanke-and-the-bubble/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+creditwritedownsnews+%28Credit+Writedowns%27+News+Feed%29

U.K. Bad news for the stock market: retail investors are flooding back
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/finance/jeremywarner/100002871/bad-news-for-the-stock-market-retail-investors-are-flooding-back/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+creditwritedownsnews+%28Credit+Writedowns%27+News+Feed%29

Fed Missed This Bubble. Will It See a New One?
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/06/business/economy/06leonhardt.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+creditwritedownsnews+%28Credit+Writedowns%27+News+Feed%29

Our White Collar Nation
http://www.cenedella.com/stone/archives/2010/01/our_white_collar_nation.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+creditwritedownsnews+%28Credit+Writedowns%27+News+Feed%29