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Nov 30-Dec 4: Solar Tops Dow, NASDAQ

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 14:00:58 GMT

Decent jobs report bolsters week... While the Dow struggled to a small gain this week, the NASDAQ was up 2.6% and the 20 Solar Stocks Index gained over 30 points to finish at 413.99,[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...]

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...]

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...]

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...]

Grab Some Northern Exposure With EWC

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 21:39:42 GMT

Emerging markets are captivating investors again, but tidy profits aren’t always far away. Placing your bets on well-established global markets can also prove rewarding. That's why we're looking at Canada.[More...]

Unemployment Struggling To Turn A Corner As Job Losses Mount In November

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 21:20:20 GMT

U.S. job losses in the private sector slowed in November but still exceeded economists’ projections, a report by payroll-processing firm Automatic Data Processing (Nasdaq: ADP) indicated yesterday (Wednesday).[More...]

Why Barrick Closed Their Gold Hedge

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:15:14 GMT

It sure looks like gold is going to close above $1,200 an ounce today in New York. And large open market purchases from central banks in China, India and Russia are only helping the price surge more. (Just one year ago, some of these same central banks were actually selling gold in an attempt to fill an annual 10,000-ton supply gap.)[More...]

State worried about air pollution near Barnett Shale wells

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:46:00 GMT

Nov. 23--FORT WORTH -- State environmental regulators want natural gas companies to voluntarily emit less air pollution after tests showed high levels of a cancer-causing chemical near wells in the Barnett Shale gas field.
On Nov. 13, regulators from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and the Barnett's eight biggest operators discussed ways to cut benzene emissions, said Michael Honeycutt, chief of the commission's toxicology section.
Honeycutt told a meeting of the Fort Worth League of Neighborhoods that his agency is taking the pollution problem seriously.

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Nov 30-Dec 4: Solar Tops Dow, NASDAQ

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

China Will Continue To Drive The Global Economic Recovery In 2010

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

Credit Market Overview: Dec 3, 2009

Grab Some Northern Exposure With EWC

Unemployment Struggling To Turn A Corner As Job Losses Mount In November

Why Barrick Closed Their Gold Hedge

State worried about air pollution near Barnett Shale wells

State is asking Barnett Shale drillers to voluntarily cut air pollution

Saks, Home Depot, Applied Materials are big movers

Law Review: Green tech likely to keep growing as profits beckon

China's eager to harness the sun

Quicksilver says West Texas Barnett field more difficult than North Texas' shale

How the Job Market Depends on the Stock Market

Tech layoffs continue, despite signs of economic improvement

Applied Materials to cut 1,300 to 1,500 jobs

Applied Materials to cut 1,300 to 1,500 jobs

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

Applied Materials to Re-File HSR Act Notification in Connection with Semitool Tender Offer

Applied Materials' Smart Emissions Control Solution Cuts Energy Use, Cost in Semiconductor Fabs

Health Discovery Corporation Appoints Tom Gallagher, Former Wall Street Attorney& a Vice President at Goldman, Sachs & Co., to Head the Company's Global Intellectual Property Strategies

Morgan Joseph Names Bruce D. Jackson a Senior Vice President in Equity Research Covering the Medical Device Industry

PicksThatMove.com Announces Investment Opinion on Mercator Minerals Ltd., Assured Guaranty Ltd., Semitool Inc., InstaCare Corp. and Air Canada

Applied Materials to Acquire Semitool

PanGenetics Announces Acquisition by Abbott of PG110 anti-NGF Antibody to Treat Chronic Pain

Applied Materials Announces Solid Fourth Quarter Results

Provident Announces 2009 Third Quarter Results and November Cash Distribution

Form 4 Alexza Pharmaceuticals For: Dec 01 Filed by: BUSSER ANDREW L (10K)

Form 4 QUICKSILVER RESOURCES For: Dec 01 Filed by: WAGNER ROBERT N (10K)

Form 4 ABBOTT LABORATORIES For: Nov 24 Filed by: Mason Heather L (10K)

Form 4 APPLIED MATERIALS INC For: Nov 20 Filed by: JANKER FRANZ (10K)

Form 4 ABBOTT LABORATORIES For: Oct 01 Filed by: WHITE MILES D (10K)

Form 4 ABBOTT LABORATORIES For: Nov 18 Filed by: Fussell Stephen R (10K)

Form 4 QUICKSILVER RESOURCES For: Nov 16 Filed by: DARDEN GLENN (10K)

Form 4 QUICKSILVER RESOURCES For: Nov 12 Filed by: SELF ANNE DARDEN (10K)

Form 4 ABBOTT LABORATORIES For: Nov 12 Filed by: Bohuon Olivier (10K)

Form 4 ABBOTT LABORATORIES For: Oct 22 Filed by: Landgraf John C (10K)