Frontrunning: February 22

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 02/22/2011 08:01 -0500
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•Housing data may have understated extent of collapse (Reuters)

•Powerful 6.3 Earthquake Hits New Zealand, NZD slides (FT)

•Shutdown Fears Raise Hopes for US Budget (FT)

•Oil price shock: Pandora's Box is opened (Telegraph)

•Spain's rotting corpse finally floats to surface: Spain Pegs Cajas' Possible Problem Debt at €100 billion (WSJ)

•Wal-Mart Fourth-Quarter U.S. Comparable Sales Trail Forecast (Bloomberg)

•New Property Rules Driving Rent Prices (People's Daily)

•BofA Doubles Writedown for Credit-Card Unit to $20.3 Billion (Bloomberg)

•Weber Sets Germany on Collision Course with EU (FT)

•Desperate Gaddafi Clings to Power (FT)

•Bond Market Swaps Back Bernanke's Benign Inflation View (Bloomberg)

•Sale of the Century (Newsweek)