Tuesday morning links

TOP STORIES
• For U.S. and Carmakers, a Path Strewn With Pitfalls - NY Times
• OECD: China's growth may slow to 6.3% in 2009 - CHINADaily
• Financial Rescue Approaches $12.8 Trillion - Bloomberg
• The Future of Investing:Evolution or Revolution? - Gross, Pimco
• Pension insurer shifted to stocks - Boston.com
• My Manhattan Project - NY Magazine
• Obama’s Nobel Headache - Newsweek
• Greenspan's Folly - America Magazine

MARKETS/INVESTING
• Oil stays below $50 over economic jitters - AP
• India's gold imports plunge to zero level in March - Commodity Online
• 6 reasons I'm calling a bottom and a new bull - MarketWatch
• Morgan Stanley: "Sell the Rally" in Financial Stocks - CNBC
• “Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it” - Raymond James
• The Sting - Butler, Investment Rarities

ECONOMY
• U.S. recession easing but no bottom yet - Reuters
• Ford to cover car payments if buyer loses job - AP
• Looking for signposts in the dark - MarketWatch
• World Bank, OECD Warn of Jobless Jump - Bloomberg
• What’s the Real Risk of Deflation? - WSJ Economics

INTERNATIONAL
• Developing Nations Set to Get More Say - Wash. Post
• German jobless rate up to 8.6 pct in March - AP
• Japan Jobless Rate Jumps to a Three-Year High - Bloomberg
• Can the G-20 Save the World? - Spiegel Online
• Japan to propose new IMF lending facility - MarketWatch
• Is China Today the U.S. of 1929? - Seeking Alpha
• Spain gets deflation - Credit Writedowns
• France is threatening G20 walkout - BBC

HOUSING
• U.S. home values sink at record pace in January - MarketWatch
• FHA - Ready To Join Fannie And Freddie - Mortgaged Future
• Lennar Offers 3.625% Mortgages - WSJ Developments
• Banks Starting to Walk Away on Foreclosures - NY Times

FED/TREASURY/BANKING
• Fed Takes Lead Role in Executing Bank ‘Stress Tests’ - Bloomberg
• Equities show us the way to a recovery - Greenspan, FT
• Fed Buys $2.499 Billion in Treasuries to Lower Consumer Rates - Bloomberg
• Bernanke Treasury Plan Drives Pimco to Mortgage Bonds - Bloomberg

INTERESTING
• CIA hiring: Spies wanted - AP
• No ‘Pansies’ in London, City Braces for G-20 Protesters - Bloomberg
• Chavez to seek Arab backing for `petro-currency' - AP

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