Financial News - Ameriprise Financial

Capital Markets Weekly Recap

June 30, 2008 - The best this market can hope for in the short-run is a pullback in oil prices.
June 23, 2008 - It remains our forecast that the U.S. economy will experience a recession in 2009 and that equity markets will be challenged in such an environment.
June 16, 2008 - Wall Street is now setting itself up to be whipsawed.
June 9, 2008 - Has crude oil become this summer's "Jaws," circling just offshore, never far from investors minds, threatening to disrupt what had been a welcome recovery?
June 2, 2008 - The adverse implications of the negative wealth effect on consumer spending, as well as the prospect of additional mortgage defaults, remain a significant concern for the economy.

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