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On Tuesday, embattled Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff was dealt a bitter blow when PMDB - the party of VP Michel Temer and House Speaker Eduardo Cunha - officially left the coalition government.

"Dialogue, I regret to say, has been exhausted," Tourism Minister Henrique Eduardo Alves, a PMDB leader and former speaker of the lower house of Congress, said on Monday as he resigned from Rousseff's cabinet.

On the day Mario Draghi announced that the ECB would launch a historic corporate bond monetization program, the first of its kind, we said that we expect bond yields to tumble imminently as the market frontruns the ECB's open-market purchases of corporate bonds and soaks up all available supply in the market. Not even we expected what would happen next though.

By EconMatters

The typical buy the rumor sell the news trading day in the oil market. The RBOB and HO product contracts along with Brent contract expire tomorrow, watch for spikes at the close. This Friday is loaded with economic reports including the Employment Report and the Baker Hughes Rig Report where we saw a drop of 15 last week.

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Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,

America used to be the land of opportunity and optimism. Now opportunity is seen as the preserve of the elite: two-thirds of Americans believe the economy is rigged in favour of vested interests. And optimism has turned to anger. Voters’ fury fuels the insurgencies of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders and weakens insiders like Hillary Clinton.

 

Chipotle has had enough of being an e-coli associated Mexican food company: according to Bloomberg, the fast food (and at least in recent months, just as fast food-poisoning company) may be getting into the burger business.

The company filed a trademark application this month for “Better Burger,” according to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office website. Chipotle, which has already invested in two smaller chains, is considering opening another restaurant concept focused on hamburgers, according to Chris Arnold, a spokesman for the Denver-based company.