Morning News Thursday June 21st 2007
General News: - Unemployment claims rose unexpectedly to 324,000 when 311,000 was expected. Continuing claims were 2.523 million versus an expectation of 2.500 million. - Wall Street Journal reports that the Fed may not change rates, but keep a hawkish bias. - Bloomberg and Financial Times are writing about the danger of CDO risk spreading throughout the market in the wake of the Bear Stearns hedge fund blowup. The worry is that the market will re-price down and create massive losses for fixed-income holdings at pension funds and other hedge funds. - CNN is discussing a $1 trillion mortgage payment…