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Wall Street Ends Higher On Stronger-Than Expected Data, DuPont (NYSE: DD) Sinks

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 23:00:46 GMT

US stocks finished up as as a government release showed that economy lost far fewer jobs than expected in November, as the unemployment rate fell to 10 percent.[More...]

Indian Stock Market Closing Report: Sensex Closes Up 1% For The Week

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 19:02:41 GMT

The volatile trading session today largely mirrored the market movements during the week, which saw mixed investor sentiments. While some sectors managed to draw investor interest others continued to witness their apathy.[More...]

Unemployment Duration Still Rising

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 19:00:00 GMT

While we got some very good news with the employment report today (see "Unemployment Report - WOW!"), there was one part of the report that was very troubling. While it looks like the number of people entering the pool of unemployed is falling, once people are out of work it is extremely difficult for them to find new jobs.[More...]

Two Trade Setups: One Long, One Short

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 16:04:51 GMT

Here's an article that I wrote for the Slope of Hope today as a guest blogger. Great website if you haven't yet checked it out! Today I want to provide y'all with a couple of trade setups that I thought depending on your trading strategy and market bias, could fit nicely into your portfolio. The first is a short setup in Goldman Sachs (GS). For many of us, the opportunity to short GS goes well beyond a normal trade - there a sense of satisfaction seeing such a corrupt company depreciate in price, no doubt.[More...]

Reaching For Yield In The Post-TARP Era

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:42:49 GMT

Bank of America’s repayment of its TARP funds, I couldn’t help but think of a post I wrote six months ago called "Asymmetric information and corporate governance in bank bailouts." The gist is of the post is about the same as Yves’ and it was inspired by lessons of the S&L crisis of the 1980s.[More...]

Citi Issues Notes

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:10:01 GMT

Citigroup Inc. (C) yesterday announced the sale of $1.875 billion worth of senior remarketing notes. The notes will mature on Jan 15, 2015. These will bear interest at a fixed rate of 6.01% per annum. Interest on the notes is payable semi-annually in equal installments on the 15th day of each June and December, commencing Jun 15, 2010.[More...]

The Deep, Inner Meaning Of Bank of America's (BAC) TARP Repayment

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:19:07 GMT

As expected, Bank of America (BAC) will repurchase its $45 billion TARP preferreds, funded in part by an additional $18.8 billion in "common stock equivalents", $4.0 billion in asset sales, and $1.7 billion in restricted stock issued to employees in lieu of cash bonuses.[More...]

Treasury gets $146.5M for Capital One warrants

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 22:48:00 GMT

WASHINGTON - The Treasury Department said Friday it received $146.5 million for the warrants of Capital One Financial Corp. in the first auction of the warrants the government received as part of the $700 billion financial system bailout.
Capital One stock closed trading Friday at $37.92 Friday, up from Thursday's close of $36.92.
The government had received nearly 12.7 million warrants in return for providing Capital One $3.56 billion in support from the financial rescue fund in November 2008 at the height of the financial crisis.

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Wall Street Ends Higher On Stronger-Than Expected Data, DuPont (NYSE: DD) Sinks

Indian Stock Market Closing Report: Sensex Closes Up 1% For The Week

Unemployment Duration Still Rising

Two Trade Setups: One Long, One Short

Reaching For Yield In The Post-TARP Era

Citi Issues Notes

The Deep, Inner Meaning Of Bank of America's (BAC) TARP Repayment

Treasury gets $146.5M for Capital One warrants

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Citi Private Bank Announces Key Hires

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