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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...]

The Oil Services Industry's 3Q--A Fragile Recovery

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:17:26 GMT

We look back at the industry's third quarter and offer early thoughts on 2010.[More...]

Forget Yesterday, It's All About Jobs

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 13:21:30 GMT

Good morning. Stocks tanked in the last half-hour on Thursday and while the major news outlets attributed the decline to either profit taking or some trepidation in front of this morning's big Jobs report, we'd like to offer a little more substantial reason for the 85 point dive on an otherwise subdued day of trading.[More...]

Fed Balance Sheet Declines By $15 Billion After Improbable Reduction In MBS, Excess Reserves, Monetary Base Hit Record

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 04:14:41 GMT

The Federal Reserve's balance sheet declined by $15 billion to $2,183 billion from the prior week, after the Fed presumably offloaded $2.7 billion in MBS: this is the first time since QE started that MBS holdings have declined. If anyone can tell us just who the idiots are who bought MBS from the Fed (and at what price), and who the even greater idiots are who are supposed to believe this, please send us an email.[More...]

CompanionLink announces synchronization between PC and Android phones

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 10:51:00 GMT

CompanionLink Software has announced two-way USB synchronization between PC and Motorola DROID, Motorola CLIQ, and other Android-based phones.
According to CompanionLink, the PC software will synchronize contacts, calendar, tasks, and notes from information management software like Microsoft Outlook and IBM Lotus Notes to phones running Android OS.
Rushang Shah, director of marketing at CompanionLink Software, said: "We are excited to introduce a direct way to synchronization PC data to Motorola Droid and other phones running the Android OS platform.

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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

The Oil Services Industry's 3Q--A Fragile Recovery

Forget Yesterday, It's All About Jobs

Fed Balance Sheet Declines By $15 Billion After Improbable Reduction In MBS, Excess Reserves, Monetary Base Hit Record

CompanionLink announces synchronization between PC and Android phones

Dubai, Kuwait recovery 'to lag behind'

AP source: Apple in talks to buy Lala.com

AP source: Apple in talks to buy Lala.com

Sector Snap: Information technology shares gain

Chinese official raps foreign banks on derivatives

Chinese official raps foreign banks on derivatives

Daily Mail, London, market report column

100% Profitable Stock Trading Streak Climbs to 51 in a Row

ADDING MULTIMEDIA Comcast and GE to Create Leading Entertainment Company

BlackRock CEO to Speak at Goldman Sachs US Financial Services Conference on December 9th

TD AMERITRADE CEO to Speak at Goldman Sachs US Financial Services Conference 2009

Forest Conservation Can Supply 25% of Climate Solutions Through 2020, Saving $40 Billion

Citi Private Bank Announces Key Hires

Noetix Simplifies Reporting for Oracle® and PeopleSoft® Time and Labor

Cloud Computing Comes to Hong Kong as CSL Selects SIMtone's "SIMply Safe Everywhere" Universal Computing Platform

Stock to Watch: China Armco Metals -- December 3, 2009

Form 4 BlackRock Inc. For: Nov 13 Filed by: BANK OF AMERICA CORP /DE/ (10K)

Form 4 PULTE HOMES INC/MI/ For: Dec 03 Filed by: ROBINSON BRUCE E (10K)

Form 4 APPLE INC For: Dec 01 Filed by: JOHNSON RONALD B (10K)

Form 4 BlackRock Inc. For: Dec 01 Filed by: PNC BANCORP INC/ (10K)

Form 4 BlackRock Inc. For: Dec 01 Filed by: BARCLAYS BANK PLC /ENG/ (10K)

Form 3 BlackRock Inc. For: Dec 01 Filed by: BARCLAYS BANK PLC /ENG/ (10K)

Form 4 SCHLUMBERGER LTD /NV/ For: Dec 01 Filed by: GOULD ANDREW (10K)

Form 4 SMITH INTERNATIONAL INC For: Dec 01 Filed by: Taylor Brian E. (10K)

Form 4 FREEPORT MCMORAN COPPER For: Dec 01 Filed by: WHITMIRE C DONALD JR (10K)

Form 4 CITIGROUP INC For: Nov 30 Filed by: Mills William (10K)