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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...]

Bank of America (BAC) Hopes To Lure Top Shelf Talent By Paying Back TARP Loans

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 20:31:33 GMT

Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC), the nation’s biggest lender, reached an agreement to repay $45 billion of Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) bailout funds, removing government imposed restrictions on executive pay that have hindered its search for a new CEO.[More...]

A Look At Strength in Airlines Delta DAL And Continental CAL

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 19:01:11 GMT

A reader pointed out to me that there has been three days of strength in some of the major US Airline stocks including Delta Airlines (DAL) and Continental (CAL) and to a lesser degree in other airlines.[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...]

15 European Banks Now Have Assets Larger Than Their Domestic Economies, Versus 10 Pre-Crisis

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 13:39:38 GMT

It appears just as in the US, where "the big 4" financial oligarchs now dominate, gave become even "too bigger to fail" post crisis and make a farce of "8000 competitors"....[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...]

Senator John Kerry out million$: Study: Senator lost one-third of fortune amid economic crisis

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 07:46:00 GMT

Dec. 5--THE NATION'S RICHEST SENATOR -- the Bay State's own John Forbes Kerry -- has been knocked down a few notches after seeing his fortune sliced by one-third by the fiscal meltdown that ripped down Wall Street.
The Boston Democrat's staggering losses dropped him from first to third among the wealthiest senators, trailing Herb Kohl (D-Wis.)
and Mark Warner (D-Va.)

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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

Bank of America (BAC) Hopes To Lure Top Shelf Talent By Paying Back TARP Loans

A Look At Strength in Airlines Delta DAL And Continental CAL

China Will Continue To Drive The Global Economic Recovery In 2010

15 European Banks Now Have Assets Larger Than Their Domestic Economies, Versus 10 Pre-Crisis

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

Credit Market Overview: Dec 3, 2009

Senator John Kerry out million$: Study: Senator lost one-third of fortune amid economic crisis

Will the next decade be better for stocks than this decade has been?

Business leaders offer their 2 cents

Job gap is 'greatest fear,' says president

Serial bank robbery suspect charged in federal indictment

67.5% of state-based banks unprofitable: That's twice as many as last year; total loss $824 million in 3Q

Delta flight 23 hours late, new windshield

Business leaders split on economy: Bankers' outlook upbeat. Duke chief's not so rosy.

Obama's jobs summit faces worst statistics since WWII

Productivity up at 8.1 percent rate in 3Q

Wachovia Preferred Funding Corp. Declares Dividend on Series A Preferred Securities

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

The Fortune Financial Undertakes Review of Stocks in the Healthcare and Services Sectors

Ridgewater Equity Completes Analytical Study of Equities Within Financial & Basic Materials Sectors

First Regional Bancorp Receives Nasdaq Notice

First Regional Bancorp Announces Anticipated Tax Recovery Due to Recent Legislative Action; Increases Loss Provisions for Third Quarter of 2009

AFS Technologies, Inc. Acquires Assets of Softrax Corporation

Quality Systems, Inc. to Present at the 21st Annual Piper Jaffray Healthcare Conference

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

ExactTarget Launches Industry's First On-Demand Integration with Pivotal Veracity's MailboxIQ

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