Interactive from the WSJ showing how banks reduce short term borrowing each quarter before releasing info to the public. Related article. (via)
Among the several measures it examined were fiscal deficits, debt loans, growth rates and inflation. The ‘sovereign risk’ index includes those and others. The higher the number the riskier the country.
Biggest NE storms of all time. Strangely, excludes the Blizzard of ’77, which I remember in upstate NY.
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