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Wall Street Closes Higher, General Electric (NYSE: GE) Rallies

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:14:45 GMT

US stocks finished higher on Friday as investors shrugged off disappointing government data showing the unemployment rate hit 10.2 percent in October - the highest in 26-1/2 years.[More...]

US Stock Futures Slip After Disappointing Jobs Report, AIG (NYSE: AIG) Eye

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:44:24 GMT

US stock futures pointed to a weaker start on Friday after a government release showed jobless rate hit 10.2% in October.[More...]

Goldman Sachs Next Slaughter Of The Stock Market Lambs

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:15:27 GMT

I’m always interested in how Government ties in with the markets. It’s been a bit of a hobby of mine, along with WWII battles, over the past 2-3 years and there’s no bigger tie then Goldman and the Government then recently…and BOY is it bigger then we know! In my recent late night surfing I came across Greg Roy. Greg recently released a special report with the same title of this blog post, Goldman Sachs’ Next Slaughter of the Stock Market Lambs, and being the digger I am, I read the full report and cold called him. I asked if I could repost a part of the report for my Trader’s Blog members. After some convincing he said ok.[More...]

Indices Barely Salvage Gains In Volatile FOMC Announcement Session

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:38:47 GMT

The indices ended a bit positive on FOMC announcement day, but there were some wild gyrations in between. They gapped up at the opening, backed off, and then ran hard in the morning, reaching over 1700 on the Nasdaq 100 and just above 1060 on the S&P 500. Those were key resistance levels. At that point they drifted lower in a corrective looking pattern until the FOMC announcement, but shortly afterward had some wild gyrations, including a sharp drop and then a sharp rally back. At that point it looked like the rally might take out the early morning highs, but they stalled right at them and rolled over hard into the close, giving back most of the gains, but still managed to close a bit positive on the day.[More...]

The Creeping Power Grab By The Executive Branch And Federal Reserve

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:24:09 GMT

The power grab at the Federal Reserve is a topic I first broached back in February when the Federal Reserve was creating its alphabet soup of liquidity programs to pull us back from the brink of financial disaster. I was troubled about Fed policy then and I am still troubled today.[More...]

US Market Key Risers and Fallers

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:13:33 GMT

US Market Key Risers and Fallers for Tuesday 3rd November S&P 500 - Risers Black Decker Corp. (BDK) $62.00 +30.97% Burlingtn N Sante Fe (BNI) $97.00 +27.51% American International Group Inc. (AIG) $39.22 +14.31% Stanley Works The (SWK) $49.69 +10.06% GANNETT CO INC (GCI) $10.54 +7.99% Union Pacific Corp. (UNP) $59.41 +7.90% S&P 500 - Fallers Novellus Systems Inc. (NVLS) $19.65 -5.42% Vulcan Materials Co (VMC) $45.06 -4.37% Kla-Tencor Corp. ! (KLAC) $31.51 -4.10% Sandisk Corp. (SNDK) $20.04 -3.95% Applied Materials Inc. (AMAT) $11.89 -3.31% Rockwell Collins Inc. (COL) $49.24 -3.03% Dow Jones I.A - Risers Caterpillar Inc. (CAT) $56.46 +1.75% Alcoa Inc.[More...]

Mixed Close as Dow Edges Lower

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:26:21 GMT

The indices ended mixed at the end – but it was a pretty interesting day. There was a lot of back and forth vacillation and volatility in the morning, but they failed to break them down below 1660 NDX and 1035 SPX.[More...]

Did 'Hedge Everything' Policy Push Goldman Into A Bad Deal?

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:07:16 GMT

Ed Grebeck, CEO of Tempus Advisors had an interesting story to share that may be pertinent to the recent Sober Look post on the Goldman - Buffett transaction: 1999: gold price declining and volatile. GS approached me (Employers Re., a subsidiary of GE capital) with a transaction to hedge their exposure to 3 gold mines (These firms had sold gold forward to Goldman to hedge their gold production): Ashanti (Ghana; largely owned by Anglo-American), one in Indonesia (previously part of OK Tedi Gold/copper mine) and another in Southeast Asia that escapes my memory. One of the three was fringe BBB/BB. Other two were solid B.[More...]

Choppy Session Ends Positive

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:48:59 GMT

The indices ended to the plus side, but it was very choppy. The day started out with a down move and then an immediate reversal. When the Nasdaq 100 made new lows and the S&P 500 didn’t, that caused a positive divergence. They then snapped back very sharply on positive economic news, with the NDX jumping from1657 to 1689, or 32 points in about 35-40 minutes. The SPX rallied from 1037 to 1052.[More...]

5 C's Of Credit

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:01:18 GMT

Before the era of Frankenstein Finance and the fanatical focus on fee-based income, lenders tried to hold themselves out as models of probity (for the skeptics out there, I did say "try."). Those responsible for making credit-granting decisions and looking after the interests of shareholders also demanded that borrowers meet certain standards before they would see even a dime of their employers' money.[More...]

St. Louis Post-Dispatch, David Nicklaus column: The federal bailout of banks may not be as costly as feared

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:47:00 GMT

And the big banks -- the focus of the public's ire during the congressional debate -- may not cost the Treasury much, if any, money when the program is finally wound down.
Wells Fargo appears poised to do the same.
Citigroup isn't yet in a position to repay the TARP money, and the Treasury couldn't sell its shares quickly without depressing the price.

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Wall Street Closes Higher, General Electric (NYSE: GE) Rallies

US Stock Futures Slip After Disappointing Jobs Report, AIG (NYSE: AIG) Eye

Goldman Sachs Next Slaughter Of The Stock Market Lambs

Indices Barely Salvage Gains In Volatile FOMC Announcement Session

The Creeping Power Grab By The Executive Branch And Federal Reserve

US Market Key Risers and Fallers

Mixed Close as Dow Edges Lower

Did 'Hedge Everything' Policy Push Goldman Into A Bad Deal?

Choppy Session Ends Positive

5 C's Of Credit

St. Louis Post-Dispatch, David Nicklaus column: The federal bailout of banks may not be as costly as feared

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Annaly Capital Management Announces Monthly Commentary for September

Jefferies Expects Divestitures to Remain Dominant Source of Asset Management M&A in Q4 2009

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