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		<title>U.S. commercial paper shrank for the week by $20 billion</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 22:49:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LJ Miehe</dc:creator>
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Editor&#8217;s Note: This is an important statistic to watch, if the U.S. economy is really seeing recovery, we should see steady increases in the commercial paper market.  That would show that businesses are needing more short-term funding for operation like increasing production and payroll and that would show up in increases of issuance of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Piper Jaffray starts $300 million dollar commercial paper program</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 21:27:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LJ Miehe</dc:creator>
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Piper Jaffray Companies plans to start a $300 million commercial paper program, the investment bank said in a regulatory filing on Wednesday.The program will in part fund Piper Jaffray&#8217;s securities portfolio and provide general working capital, the filing said.
Piper Jaffray, which caters to small and mid-size business customers, is recovering from five consecutive quarters of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Commercial paper rises $35.8 billion to hint U.S. economy is growing</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:35:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LJ Miehe</dc:creator>
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Editor&#8217;s Note: This is a good sign for now.  In the article they mention that inventory levels have been drawn down and this may be the signal that companies are restocking and that is part of the incease in commercial paper activity.   We will have to continue to watch this development almong others to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Federal Reserve: Commercial Paper Outstanding Rises By $10.7 Billion This Week</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 19:45:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LJ Miehe</dc:creator>
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Dow Jones, New York - The U.S. commercial paper market increased this week, reversing course after several weeks of declines, according to data released by the Federal Reserve Board on Thursday.  This week, the outstanding level went up by $10.7 billion, after a decline of $27.6 billion last week.
The asset-backed portion of this short-term market [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. commercial paper outstanding resumes decline</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2009 19:46:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LJ Miehe</dc:creator>
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The U.S. commercial paper outstanding fell in the latest week, resuming its recent decline, suggesting persistent tension in short-term credit markets, Federal Reserve data released on Thursday showed.
The U.S. government hopes to break this stubborn credit logjam as it kicked off its Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility (TALF) in a bid to stimulate lending to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. commercial paper market recovers a bit compared to last week</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:29:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LJ Miehe</dc:creator>
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The size of the U.S. commercial paper market rebounded slightly in the latest week after last week&#8217;s huge drop, suggesting some stability in this critical part of the credit market.
These short-term IOU&#8217;s &#8211; which many companies rely on to fund their daily operations &#8212; rose $3.9 billion to $1.484 trillion in the week ended Wednesday, [...]]]></description>
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