links for 2010-04-30

Spanish Unemployment Rate Tops 20%, Undermining Deficit Fight – Bloomberg.com Spain’s unemployment rate rose above 20 percent for the first time in more than a decade, undermining Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero’s fight to cut the euro region’s third-largest budget deficit. (tags: Spain unemployment debt) Federal Prosecutors Open Inquiry into Goldman Trading – CNBC … Read more

links for 2010-04-29

Commentary: Europe's Debt Crisis Is About to End – CNBC With the likes Nouriel Roubini, Jim Rogers and George Soros predicting a disastrous default by Greece and others in the euro zone, the contrarian in me has to ask if they could be very wrong. (tags: Greece default debt)

links for 2010-04-28

Best in Class: Everybody Loves Trina Solar; Should You? | TheStreet.com There's just no contest right now in terms of the bull herd mentality from the Street for solar stocks: all are charging after shares of Trina Solar…for Street analysts and investors who like the thesis that the truly vertically integrated, low cost Chinese solar … Read more

links for 2010-04-26

Goldman's Defense: We Lost Money on Subprime Market – CNBC When Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein and six other company executives testify before a Senate subcommittee on Tuesday there likely will be talk about how the firm manages risk, a lot about how they took actions to protect the firm and its clients during the … Read more

links for 2010-04-25

The Busted Homes Behind a Big Bet: Personal Finance News from Yahoo! Finance The government's civil-fraud allegation against Goldman Sachs Group Inc. centers on a deal the firm crafted so that hedge-fund king John Paulson could bet on a collapse in U.S. housing prices. It was a dizzyingly complex transaction, involving 90 bonds and a … Read more