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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...]

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...]

Wall Street Slips On Services Data, American Express (NYSE: AXP) Slumps

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 22:17:35 GMT

US stocks finished down on Thursday as investors were spooked by downbeat ISM services data.[More...]

Goldman Sachs Countdown To $100 Oil

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 20:41:57 GMT

This morning, Goldman Sachs reported their forecast for crude prices. That is, we're talking about the light sweet West Texas Intermediate crude. The U.S. investment bank is expecting crude prices to average $90 per barrel next year, before rising to an average of $110 per barrel in 2011.[More...]

China Will Continue To Drive The Global Economic Recovery In 2010

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:38:07 GMT

China isn’t just leading the global economic recovery – it’s lapping the field.[More...]

MFI Stock Review: Nathans Famous (NATH)

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:18:24 GMT

Yes, it's the company that sponsors the hot dog eating contest. It's also a Magic Formula small-cap stock worth biting into, with a cheap valuation, good business model, and strong balance sheet.[More...]

Public Policy And Venture Capital

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:16:44 GMT

I did a "Room For Debate" on the New York Times yesterday with Ken Auletta and John Markoff. Here's the first part and here's the second part. The topic was Google; are they too powerful and if so, what the government should do about it.[More...]

Interesting Stat: How Much Private Sector GDP Is From Construction And Real Estate?

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 13:15:56 GMT

Back in June, we discussed commercial real estate at length following attendance at a large real estate conference in NYC. Our tone was cautious and one question we wondered about was the percentage of GDP that real estate represents. We actually came across the answer back in August and meant to share then, but didn't get to it. Since the question/topic remains highly relevant to considering the potential negative economic drag from depressed real estate activity, we're sharing now -- the following table is from an 8/28/09 NYTs article, "Construction That Fueled Growth in the Sun Belt Slows":[More...]

Credit Market Overview: Dec 3, 2009

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 12:59:02 GMT

The credit crunch crisis of confidence which we appear to be crawling out of even though the debt and equity markets catapulted themselves higher earlier this year could be similarly argued to be a crisis that started in the credit markets which crunched confidence around the world as it could a collapse in confidence in the value of the securities investors held which corrupted the credit markets causing them to cease funding.[More...]

AP source: Apple in talks to buy Lala.com

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 03:51:00 GMT

LOS ANGELES - Apple Inc. is in advanced talks to buy online music retailer Lala.com, a Silicon Valley startup that has threatened "the end of the MP3" with its fast song-streaming application.
In October, Lala co-founder Bill Nguyen demonstrated to the AP a working model of an application the company had developed for Apple's iPhone.
The song quality is lower than what Apple's iTunes songs offer, but "intelligent caching" allows tracks to load and play in seconds, with playback possible even outside of cell phone coverage.

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

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

Wall Street Slips On Services Data, American Express (NYSE: AXP) Slumps

Goldman Sachs Countdown To $100 Oil

China Will Continue To Drive The Global Economic Recovery In 2010

MFI Stock Review: Nathans Famous (NATH)

Public Policy And Venture Capital

Interesting Stat: How Much Private Sector GDP Is From Construction And Real Estate?

Credit Market Overview: Dec 3, 2009

AP source: Apple in talks to buy Lala.com

AP source: Apple in talks to buy Lala.com

Chevron latest major to remove name from stations

UPI NewsTrack Business

Chevron withdraws name from filling stations

Microsoft ironing out Bing glitch

Daily Mail, London, market report column

Fix is in for these pranksters

Denbury Resources taking big stake in Conroe oil field

Sinopec, Exxon sign deal for Papua New Guinea gas

Wall St Sense Reviews Equities in the Basic Materials, Consumer Goods and Services Sectors

AmerisourceBergen to Hold Investor Day in New York

The Big Money Facebook 50 Unveiled Today

Rothman Research Monthly Analysis on Stocks Trading Under the Basic Materials, Consumer Goods & Financial Sectors

AmerisourceBergen Completes Public Offering of $400 Million 4.875% Senior Notes Due 2019

EGPI Firecreek, Inc. Secures $15 Million Financing From Kodiak Capital Group, LLC

MIPS Technologies Announces Availability of Arriba for Android Porting Kit; MIPS and Viosoft Corp. Ease Adoption of Android(TM) for MIPS-Based(TM) Platforms

EGPI Firecreek, Inc. Subsidiary, South Atlantic Traffic Corp., Announces Strategic Partnership; Recently Acquired Subsidiary Forms Partnership With Manufacturing/Engineering Co.

EGPI Firecreek, Inc. Signs Letter of Intent to Acquire Georgia Based Electrical Construction Company; Company Continues to Aggressively Bolster Its Position in the DOT Construction Industry

Recovery Requires Policies to Support Energy Development, says Tillerson

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