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Indian Stock Market Closing Report: Sensex Closes Up 1% For The Week

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 19:02:41 GMT

The volatile trading session today largely mirrored the market movements during the week, which saw mixed investor sentiments. While some sectors managed to draw investor interest others continued to witness their apathy.[More...]

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...]

Meet the Scrooges: They're us! We're all looking to save a buck or two on holiday shopping

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:52:00 GMT

Nov. 22--PEORIA -- A recession-stressed nation, plagued all year by news of economic ills and mounting unemployment, now turns its weary eyes to the bargain counter for holiday cheer.
According to a September survey by the Chicago-based Performics marketing group, 60 percent of consumers plan to spend less this holiday season than last year, with 30 percent planning to spend the same amount and only 6 percent planning to spend more.
"As the global economy continues to recover from the worst economic crisis most retailers have ever seen, Americans will focus primarily on practical gifts and shop on a budget this holiday season," said Rosalind Wells, chief economist for the National Retail Federation.

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Indian Stock Market Closing Report: Sensex Closes Up 1% For The Week

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

Meet the Scrooges: They're us! We're all looking to save a buck or two on holiday shopping

Report: Women still underrepresented in key positions at Chicago companies: Census from the Chicago Network shows number of female directors declined

A look at economic developments around the globe

MUFG reports 53% jump in net profit, eyes raising 1 tril. yen

MUFG, Morgan Stanley to revise plan to merge Japanese brokerage units

Associated hires new CEO Executive from California's biggest bank has spent 30 years in the business

MUFG eyes 1 tril. yen capital boost via public offerings

5 major banks report group net profits for April-Sept.

Infosys BPO acquires US insurance business process solutions provider

A TASTE OF Training: Reporter wonders how airmen ever get used to chemical protection suits

Union Bank Vice Chairman John F. Woods Appointed Chief Financial Officer, Succeeding David I. Matson

Wall St Sense Offers Unbiased Analysis of Scrips Within Consumer Goods & Financial Sectors

Union Bank Launches Community Development Finance Web Site

Wall St Sense Sector & Financial Coverage of Sterlite Industries India Ltd., Turkcell Iletisim Hizmetleri AS, URS Corp., Celestica Inc., Owens- Illinois Inc. and Infosys Technologies Ltd.

Latin American Minerals Inc. Announces Addition of Richard Boulay to the Board of Directors

Union Bank Leverages Nextiva IP Video Portfolio from Verint Video Intelligence Solutions to Help Safeguard Retail Branch Locations

Union Bank Announces Changes to Executive Organizational Structure

Union Bank Re-Launches Upgraded Online Money Fund Trading System Powered by Cachematrix

Union Bank Earns "Outstanding" Rating for Community Reinvestment Activities

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