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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...]

11 Dividend Stocks Giving You More To Spend

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 13:54:45 GMT

You can't spend earnings! At first glance, this seems like an odd statement, possibly even incorrect. However, it is not only correct, but an important axiom for all types of investors. Through fraud and manipulation financial statements can be made to look quite impressive, but the cash that arrives in your brokerage account is real.[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...]

Barrick Breaks Free Of Hedges

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:59:59 GMT

Canadian gold miner Barrick Gold Corp. (ABX) has eliminated its gold hedges and now has full leverage to the gold price on the industry's largest gold production and reserves. Barrick now expects to fully benefit from the rising gold prices.[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...]

ANALYSIS: Falklands: The final frontier

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:51:00 GMT

Dec. 3--For a 20th century punctuated by truly bloody global conflicts, the battle for the Falkland Islands in 1982 is a historical peculiarity.
The Falklands Conflict -- Britain and Argentina, of course, never actually declared war on each other though they still managed to kill more than 900 servicemen between them -- has among historians of the Left been regarded as a cynical jingoistic ploy by Margaret Thatcher: the Prime Minister happily participating in a war to fire up her wilting ratings to the point she won a second General Election the next year.
Fevered talk in private investor chatrooms is that the British-owned Falklands will prove to be one of the last great frontier oil provinces of the world, a region so rich in hydrocarbons that it might eclipse the UK's North Sea oil and gas bonanza.

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

11 Dividend Stocks Giving You More To Spend

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

Barrick Breaks Free Of Hedges

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

ANALYSIS: Falklands: The final frontier

Evening Standard, London, market report column

Judge close to ruling on validity of sewer fees: Keys RV says just by going condo, the city upped the number of EDUs

ExxonMobil finds oil traces off Sulu

Evening Standard, London, market report column

UPI NewsTrack Business

Canadian gold miners fight foreign bill

Billiton to drill anew for oil

Evening Standard, London, market report column

Evening Standard, London, market report column

ADM Receives $24.8 Million U.S. Department of Energy Grant to Develop and Commercialize Advanced Biofuels

Cameco Approves Dividend Increase for 2010

Kinder Morgan Energy up 42% Since Added to Galtstock Portfolio

Steep Declines in 3G Spending in China Impact Mobile Infrastructure Market, According to Dell'Oro Group

The Asia Tigers Fund, Inc. Announces Earnings For The Twelve Months Ended October 31, 2009

Infonetics Research: Carrier VoIP equipment holds steady at $595M in 3Q09; IMS market on track for growth

Barrick Completes Elimination of All Gold Hedges

Barrick Gold Sets Out Position on Bill C-300 and Provides Facts

Everton Amends Stock Option Plan and Retains Investor Relations Advisors

Rye Patch Arranges the Acquisition of Carlin Trend Gold Resources

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