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NYSSA Seeks Candidates for Board of Directors On behalf of NYSSA’s Board of Directors, I am inviting members to submit names of potential candidates to serve on the Board of NYSSA. During the coming months the Board will be searching for people with the experience, wisdom, and diligence to serve on your board as it continues to invigorate and solidify its governance foundations.		Results of Survey on Government Financial Market Intervention On October 9, NYSSA launched a survey on the Government Financial Market Intervention plan. The survey was designed to gather feedback from our members and some nonmembers on their opinions about the effectiveness of the Intervention and if the bailout was sufficient to meet the need. Other information gathered included the changes in investment habits of respondents firms, reaction to proposed regulation changes and the availability of cash.
NYSSA Challenge Kicks Off Phillips-Van Heusen Corp. (NYSE: PVH) is the subject company for the 7th Annual Investment Research Challenge. The Investment Research Challenge is a six-month educational initiative in which leading industry professionals teach business and finance students how to research and report on a publicly traded company.		Job Searches in a Slowing Economy Headway Corporate Resources––a market leader in the delivery of high quality recruitment, staffing, outsourcing, and professional development services––will now be writing monthly articles about career development and employment.
Overview: Cornelia Betsch's Preference for Intuition or Deliberation Scale By Mark Harbour, President, the Applied Behavioral Finance Group (ABFG) Recent work by Cornelia Betsch (Center for Empirical Research in Economics and Behavioral Sciences—CEREB, University of Erfurt, Nordhaeuser Strasse 63, D-99089, Erfurt, Germany) suggests some interesting findings regarding strategies used to make a choice.		World Is Curved: Hidden Dangers to the Global Economy by David M. Smick. Portfolio. September 2008. The title, The World Is Curved: The Mortgage Crisis Was Only the Beginning, is a reference to Tom Friedman's The World Is Flat. Smick says “for the financial markets, the world is curved. We cannot see over the horizon. As a result our straight lines are limited.”
CFA Institute and Fordham's Bachelor of Science in Finance Form CFA Program Partnership On October 28, 2008, CFA Institute sent the formal invitation to Fordham’s Bachelor of Science in Finance to join its Partnership program. Fordham’s addition to the Partnership program will add yet another top tier university to the already impressive list of global universities.		New Members Welcome and congratulations to NYSSA's newest members.
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Linkages Between Housing and Municipal Bond Markets

The housing recession has multiple flow-through effects, among them a potential for negatively impacting the financial condition of municipalities, and therefore, the municipal bond market. In this paper, Standard & Poor’s explores links between the housing and municipal bond markets at the county level. The data suggests an asymmetric relationship between home prices and municipal bond spreads, whereby the effect of home prices on municipal bond spreads is only prevalent in falling housing markets.
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