Easter Sunday links

TOP STORIES
• Market rally could trip over the bottom line - AP
• Credit Suisse starts shutting U.S. offshore accounts - Reuters
• Investments Can Yield More on K Street, Study Indicates - Wash. Post
• China's twin-pronged strategy on commodities - Commodity Online
• Is That Recovery We See? - Mauldin, SafeHaven
• Crisis Altering Wall Street as Big Banks Lose Top Talent - NY Times
• Obama Stakes His Fortunes on Failed Banksters - Bloomberg
• Up from the abyss - LA Times

MARKETS/INVESTING
• Wall Street: Bracing for profit shock - CNN/Money
• Gold is an undervalued asset held by IMF - Commodity Online
• Target-date retirement funds: Not quite 'set it and forget it' - LA Times
• Investing Rules Remade for the Post-Crisis Era* - Wash. Post
• Demand for oil drops as outlook for G7 remains grim - Guardian
• He Doesn’t Let Money Managers Off the Hook - NY Times

ECONOMY
• Preview: Retail Sales Probably Rose, Output Fell - Bloomberg
• Obama sees signs of economic progess - Reuters
• Staying Covered After a Layoff - Wash. Post
• When an Economic Cure Fights Itself - Stein, NY Times
• Green shoots and tea leaves - Krugman, NY Times

INTERNATIONAL
• Chinese premier says economy improving - AP
• Ireland is ECB's sacrifical lamb to satisfy Germans - Telegraph
• China Must Make Yuan Convertible to Extend Influence - Bloomberg
• The shoots of recovery look pale green at best - Guardian
• China Loans, Money Supply Jump to Records on Stimulus - Bloomberg
• Dubai emerges as big export market for Indian gold - Commodity Online
• Toyota operating loss may hit $5 billion in 2009/10: report - AP
• China's runaway steel train - Globe & Mail

HOUSING
• Real Estate: Taking a look at pending home sales - Hometown Annapolis
• First-time buyers a ray of sunshine in dismal housing market - Eagle Tribune
• It's Now a Renter's Market - BusinessWeek
• Hamptons, N.Y. Home Sales Plunge 67% in First Quarter - Bloomberg

FED/TREASURY/BANKING
• Restore Order and Win a Financial War - Blinder, NY Times
• North Carolina, Colorado Banks Shut as 2009 Failures Reach 23 - Bloomberg
• Banking Luddites threaten to wreck the engine of recovery - Telegraph
• U.S. budget deficit triples to $957 billion for year - MarketWatch

INTERESTING
• International Space Station Comes Together - USA Today
• Some U.S. troops tempted by reconstruction cash - LA Times
• Software That Monitors Your Work, Wherever You Are - NY Times

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