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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...]

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...]

How To Profit From The 'Next' Dubai

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 13:51:42 GMT

The Dubai World default is a matter of only $60 billion – mere peanuts when compared to other elements of the global financial crisis. It’s thus of concern only to those silly enough to invest in real estate there (and the European banks foolish enough to finance it.) For the rest of us, it is a useful reminder that sudden collapses don’t really come out of nowhere – they can be foreseen, and smart investors can plan for them.[More...]

Energy Transfer Equity Q2 Net Income Decreases

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 11:48:00 GMT

US-based midstream energy company Energy Transfer Equity has reported a net income of $141.76 million, or $0.47 per diluted share, for the second quarter of 2009, compared to $166.82 million, or $0.54 per diluted share, for the same period of 2008.
The company has reported total revenues of $1.15 billion for the second quarter of 2009, compared to $2.65 billion for the same quarter of 2008.
Energy Transfer Equity has reported a net income of $421.51 million, or $1.14 per diluted share, for the first six months of 2009, compared to $433.98 million, or $1.10 per diluted share, for the corresponding period of 2008.

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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

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

How To Profit From The 'Next' Dubai

Energy Transfer Equity Q2 Net Income Decreases

Tulsa Index Dips 5.5 Percent: But the Decline is Less Than the Drop in the Standard & Poor's 500 Index and the Russell 2000.

Kayne Anderson MLP Investment Company Provides Unaudited Balance Sheet Information and Announces its Net Asset Value and Asset Coverage Ratios at November 30, 2009

Tortoise North American Energy Corp. Provides Preliminary Unaudited 2009 Fiscal Year-End Balance Sheet Information and Asset Coverage Ratio and Announces an Investor Conference Call

American Equity Investment Life Holding Company Declares Cash Dividend and Wendy Carlson, President & CEO and John Matovina, CFO to Speak at 2009 FBR Fall Investor Conference

Invacare Declares Quarterly Dividend

Energy Transfer to Present at Analyst Conference in Dallas

Enterprise GP Holdings Reports Third Quarter 2009 Results

Energy Transfer Partners Reports Quarterly Results for the Period Ended September 30th

American Equity Hits Target of $3 Billion in Year-to-Date Annuity Sales and Reports Third Quarter 2009 Operating Earnings of $28.2 Million or $0.47 Per Diluted Common Share

Tortoise North American Energy Corp. Provides Unaudited Balance Sheet Information and Asset Coverage Ratio Update As of October 31, 2009

Enterprise GP Holdings Elects Creel and Teague to Board of Directors

Form 4 MULTI COLOR Corp For: Dec 04 Filed by: KELLER ROGER A (10K)

Form 4 INVACARE CORP For: Dec 01 Filed by: BLOUCH GERALD B (10K)

Form 4 INVACARE CORP For: Dec 01 Filed by: SLANGEN LOUIS F J (10K)

Form 4 INVACARE CORP For: Nov 15 Filed by: BLOUCH GERALD B (10K)

Form 4 INVACARE CORP For: Nov 15 Filed by: Gudbranson Robert K (10K)

Form 4 INVACARE CORP For: Nov 15 Filed by: LaPlaca Anthony (10K)

Form 4 INVACARE CORP For: Nov 12 Filed by: HEALY BERNADINE (10K)

Form 4 INVACARE CORP For: Nov 10 Filed by: DELANEY MICHAEL F (10K)

Form 4 INVACARE CORP For: Nov 10 Filed by: Boland James C (10K)

Form 4 INVACARE CORP For: Nov 09 Filed by: MOORE DAN T III (10K)