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Investors in the superhot optics sector read the writing on the wall.
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But since 1996, FHA's share of the mortgage market has dropped from 32% to 6%, largely because the private sector began offering exotic (read: easier to qualify for) products--such as adjustable-rate mortgages, or ARMs--to an increasingly risky pool of investors.
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Oil prices fell something like 15% in the third quarter as markets began to price in the prospects for substantially slower growth across the developed world and tightening in the fast-growing emerging markets. (Read Oil Down More Than 15% This Quarter As Sector Stocks Price In Recession).
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So when, below, you read about the "Brady Bond" solution applying to the private sector, the first thing you have to ask is which part?
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Investors digested an array of factors through the week including the Swiss-Euro peg, speeches by Bernanke and Obama, and continued ripple effects from the German-Greece-Eurozone debt crisis. (Read Greek Euro Exit: 60% Currency Devaluation, Default, Banking Sector Collapse).
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During the week, ISM numbers showed both the manufacturing and non-manufacturing parts of the economy continue to move forward at the speed of a slug, while the discredited ADP private payroll report showed the private sector adding only 114, 000 jobs in June. (Read Economy Moving At Snail Speed, ISM, Jobs Report Show).
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Better-than-expected reports from the big banks and in the technology sector could be a clue to more gains ahead, and the early read from WhisperNumber.com is that both Wells Fargo and JPMorgan may top expectations Friday.
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And I suspect, as most media coverage I read suggests, this is also the exciting part for most casual observers of the clean technology sector.
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