Noteworthy Financial Stories for September 16, 2010

Real Estate
Pent-up CRE investors targeting quality commercial properties: PwC
http://www.housingwire.com/2010/09/15/pent-up-cre-investors-targeting-quality-commercial-properties-pwc

Best Practices in Distress Investing: No Single Strategy Fits All
http://www.costar.com/news/Article.aspx?id=3589FA335CD0CC91018D99672E87FC4A

Foreign Investors Hover Over U.S. Real Estate, But Few Swoop In
http://www.costar.com/news/Article.aspx?id=D0D06D43B31BE821ADFA6955B4C2EAEA

Record Loan Resolutions Stem Climb in CMBS Delinquencies
http://www.costar.com/news/Article.aspx?id=72C6CD32AB31794A8344165311FE4245

What Can We Expect for Real Estate?
http://www.advisorone.com/article/what-can-we-expect-real-estate


Economy
Chase economist sees 'positive' signs in economy
http://www.bizjournals.com/dayton/stories/2010/09/13/daily38.html?ana=e_du_pub

Tough choices taking shape for Bernanke, Fed
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/15/AR2010091507224.html


Banking
Fifth Third a buyout target, analyst says
http://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/blog/2010/09/fifth_third_a_buyout_target_analyst_says.html?ana=e_du_pub

Credit Markets
Stocks vs Bonds & Risk vs Reward: Value & Risk in the Eye of the Beholder
http://www.marketfolly.com/2010/09/stocks-vs-bonds-risk-vs-reward-value.html#ixzz0zkWkS3CM


Equity Market
Marc Faber Outlook
http://www.investmentpostcards.com/2010/09/15/marc-faber-stock-markets-in-a-trading-range/

Equity Risk Premium 'Exceptionally Large' & Investors Shun Stocks: Jeff Saut
http://www.marketfolly.com/2010/09/equity-risk-premium-exceptionally-large.html

Election Year Seasonality to Turbo-Boost Stock Market
http://www.tradersnarrative.com/election-year-seasonality-to-turbo-boost-stock-market-4714.html

Sentiment/Options/MoneyFlow
The Investor Sentiment Cycle
http://www.kirkreport.com/2010/09/16/the-investor-sentiment-cycle/

Important Lessons From Market Internals Now and the Prior Two Rallies into Resistance
http://blog.afraidtotrade.com/important-lessons-from-market-internals-now-and-the-prior-two-rallies-into-resistance/

Alternative Investments
Gold to hit $1,350 by year-end?
http://www.bizjournals.com/southflorida/blog/2010/09/gold_to_hit_1350_by_year-end.html?ana=e_du_pub



Other

An American innovation in light bulbs, but will manufacturing stay in the U.S.?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/15/AR2010091507173.html?wpisrc=nl_wonk

Study Finds Public Workers Make Less
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2010/09/15/study-finds-public-workers-make-less/

Greenspan: Fiscal Stimulus Worked Far Less Than Expected
http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2010/09/15/greenspan-fiscal-stimulus-worked-far-less-than-expected/

Hey Boomers: Leave Some Money to the Government
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2010/09/dont-tax-boomers-let-them-give-to-government-charity/63046/?wpisrc=nl_wonk