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Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:34:22 GMT

US stocks declined in Friday's holiday shortened session as worries over Dubai debt crisis spooked investors.[More...]

Dubai Friday

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 14:18:25 GMT

So much for a sleepy Thanksgiving Friday... a tiny Black Swan called Dubai reared its ugly head. There has been some hand wringing in the UK papers about the debt situation in Greece (all of which ignored by giddy US traders who only know 1 trade anymore:. US dollar down, buy anything), so Dubai was a bit out of left field.[More...]

US Stock Futures Plunge On Dubai Woes, Financials Eyed

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:05:43 GMT

US stock futures tumbled on Friday as investors remained worried about Dubai's debt crisis.[More...]

More On Goldman (GS) And AIG

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:55:20 GMT

Thomas Adams, a lawyer and former bond insurer executive, wrote a guest post for naked capitalism on the question of why AIG was bailed out and the monoline bond insurers were not (wow, is it really almost two years since the monoline insurer crisis?). He estimates that the monolines together had roughly the same amount of exposure to CDOs that AIG did; in addition, since the monolines also insured trillions of dollars of municipal debt, there were potential spillover effects. (AIG, by contrast, insured tens of trillions of non-financial stuff — people’s lives, houses, cars, commercial liability, etc. — but that was in separately capitalized subsidiaries.)[More...]

Guest Post: Goldman Sachs Responds To The New York Times

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:44:53 GMT

Pulitzer Prize winner Gretchen Morgenson of the New York Times wrote a must read article (“Revisiting a Fed Waltz with AIG,” November 21, 2009) on Sunday in which she recaps salient points from the November 17, 2009 report of the Office of the Special Inspector General (Neil Barofsky) for the Troubled Asset Relief Programs, “Factors Affecting Efforts to Limit Payments to AIG Counterparties,” and wrote:[More...]

The Biggest Rip-off of All Time

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:55:01 GMT

In the scenario I’m about to paint for you, the dialog is fictional, but all the facts and figures are real. The time: 1 AM, November 23, 2011, exactly two years from now. The place: the White House, suddenly and unexpectedly under siege as a new financial crisis erupts. The economic booms of 2010 have morphed into super booms … the super booms into bubbles … and the bubbles into busts.[More...]

Biggest Gainer ETFs Week Ended 22-Nov-2009

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:13:10 GMT

Each week, I like to publish the past week's hottest ETFs to share some new trends and niche ETFs (and ETNs) out there (check out this full ETF List of ~800 - every exchange traded fund I could find) and give investors some new investing/diversification ideas. Last week, it was metals, metals, metals. I made sure to include both conventional and leveraged ETFs in this week's hot list:[More...]

The AIG-Maiden Lane III Controversy

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:28:43 GMT

As everyone knows by now, Neil Barofsky, special inspector general for TARP, has a new report out on the decision by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York last Fall to make various AIG counterparties (primarily some very big banks with names you know) whole on the the CDS protection they had bought from AIG to cover their risk on some CDOs. The potentially juicy bit has to do with the Maiden Lane III transaction (New York Fed summary here).[More...]

Credit Market Overview: Nov 20, 2009

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:14:21 GMT

There is a scene in the movie “Animal House” (which completely rips off Dr. Suess’ “Horton Hears a Who” in one fell swoop but that’s a story for a different day) where a small group is at Professor Riegert’s house and after the room fills with a certain scent the discussion gets a bit heady and the concept that our entire universe could be on the head of a pin in another, larger, universe is proposed. Grand stuff for sure but in the good professor’s case merely an attempt to raise Pinto’s awareness of a world outside of his own “Private Idaho”.[More...]

Bond Market Open November 20 2009

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:03:39 GMT

Prices of Treasury coupon securities are registering, on balance, modest changes in overseas trading. The massive wall of liquidity sloshing through the market has driven short rates lower while the longer maturities are unchanged.[More...]

Business Highlights

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:03:00 GMT

Good news raises hopes recovery won't fizzle
WASHINGTON (AP) - A flurry of good news this week - including falling jobless claims, stronger consumer spending and higher new-home sales - suggests the economic rebound, modest though it is, might be here to stay.
The number of newly laid-off workers filing applications for unemployment aid fell by 35,000 last week to 466,000, the Labor Department said - the fewest new filings since September of last year.

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Hot Stocks Of The Day: BAC, MGM, MSL, AIG

Dubai Friday

US Stock Futures Plunge On Dubai Woes, Financials Eyed

More On Goldman (GS) And AIG

Guest Post: Goldman Sachs Responds To The New York Times

The Biggest Rip-off of All Time

Biggest Gainer ETFs Week Ended 22-Nov-2009

The AIG-Maiden Lane III Controversy

Credit Market Overview: Nov 20, 2009

Bond Market Open November 20 2009

Business Highlights

HP sales dip in Q4 and year

Strong banks, weak credit: Treasury rethinks TARP

BMO Financial Group Reports Strong Fourth Quarter Results

Strong banks, weak credit: Treasury rethinks TARP

Gensler helps lead the charge to expose OTC derivatives

US banks face scrutiny amid bubble fear

Blame Game on Hill - Geithner in Crossfire

A Democrat calls for Geithner to go

Republicans berate Geithner, call for him to resign

NYPPEX Report: Net Liquidity for Capital Calls Varies Widely Among Insurance Companies

CombiMatrix Corporation Reports Third Quarter 2009 Financial Results

PicksThatMove.com Announces Investment Opinion on American International Group Inc., JA Solar Holdings Company Ltd., Sinovac Biotech Ltd., Fresh Harvest Products Inc. and Royal Bank of Canada

AIG Reports Third Quarter 2009 Results

Former Nevada Deputy Insurance Commissioner Gary Cooper Joins Safety National

PicksThatMove.Com Announces Investment Opinion on Q, WTM, AIG, LFGB and QAU

nuBridges and PGP Corporation Partner to Protect Transported Digital Information

Wintrust Financial Corporation Reports Third Quarter 2009 Results

Pomerantz Law Firm Investigating Claims On Behalf of Investors in ProShares' UltraShort DJ-AIG-Crude Oil Fund

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