Noteworthy Financial Stories for March 9

WE WARNED YOU
https://www.cbre-ea.com/default.aspx?_title=AboutRealEstate&_id=2282

Hudgins: REITs Still Highly Correlated To Real Estate
http://www.reit.com/News/TopNewsStories/tabid/476/default.aspx?type=TNSD&ID=101

Litt: Cap Rates Down, Fundamentals Up
http://www.reit.com/tabid/477/News/default.aspx?type=E&ID=100

Inner City Housing Alternatives Growing Attractive for Young Professionals
http://www.housingwire.com/2010/03/08/inner-city-housing-alternatives-grow-attractive-for-young-professionals/

Foreign Investors Move into Property Markets More and More
http://www.housingwire.com/2010/03/08/foreign-investors-move-into-property-markets-more-and-more/

Real Estate's Link to the Small Business Credit Crunch
http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/content/mar2010/sb2010034_069601.htm

Special Servicing Units Look Like Good Buys
http://www.globest.com/news/1614_1614/newyork/183890-1.html

Fifth Third plans mortgage push in Tennessee
http://www.housingwire.com/2010/03/09/fifth-third-plans-mortgage-push-in-tennessee/


China May Raise Rates ‘Within Weeks’ as Prices, Exports Climb
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=ajilmEKXv7fM&pos=3

U.S. Stocks Erase Gain on Concern Rally Outpaced Economy
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aLgZBrVDVcao&pos=2

Eaton Vance Dumps Dirt Bonds as Florida Land Districts Default
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aaDGZWOLYCGI&pos=5

City of London Developers Start Skyscrapers as Rents End Slide
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=a12NH5jpn2Gg&pos=12

Workers More Confident About Retirement, EBRI Says
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20603037&sid=aUu8K6ZlCrRk

U.S. Stocks Advance on Anniversary of 2009 Bear-Market Low
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601084&sid=aLgZBrVDVcao

S&P 500 May Extend Gain, Sentiment Shows: Technical Analysis
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601084&sid=aTBuReLRcgz0

Emerging-Market Stocks May Retreat 15%, Aberdeen’s Kaloo Says
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601084&sid=aHMvgOKxsm0c

Repeat after me: CDS are not insurance
http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2010/03/09/169811/repeat-after-me-cds-are-not-insurance/

Riddle me this: what US retail bank is Barclays eyeing?
http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2010/03/09/169756/riddle-me-this-what-us-retail-bank-is-barclays-eyeing/

‘CDS may be more of an accurate reflection of pure default risk going forward’
http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2010/03/09/169421/cds-may-be-more-of-an-accurate-reflection-of-pure-default-risk-going-forward/

Roach: Pooh-pooh to Chinese bubbles
http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2010/03/09/168996/roach-pooh-pooh-to-chinese-bubbles/

A few comments on this blog’s harsher tone about the credit crisis
http://www.creditwritedowns.com/2010/03/a-few-comments-on-this-blogs-harsher-tone-about-the-credit-crisis.html?


What do the new data tell us?
http://voxeu.org/index.php?q=node/3421