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Nov 30-Dec 4: Solar Tops Dow, NASDAQ

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 14:00:58 GMT

Decent jobs report bolsters week... While the Dow struggled to a small gain this week, the NASDAQ was up 2.6% and the 20 Solar Stocks Index gained over 30 points to finish at 413.99,[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...]

Hanover mall nearing default: Owner has stopped paying $87.5M loan

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 08:04:00 GMT

Dec. 4--The Hanover Mall is close to defaulting on an $87.5 million loan after the 38-year-old property's performance declined in the past year, according to a credit rating agency.
The Chicago private equity firm, which bought the 705,943-square-foot mall for $99.4 million in 2007, declined comment.
Rental revenues at the mall, which is anchored by Sears, Wal-Mart, Macy's and JCPenney, have dropped 22 percent since the loan was issued, according to Fitch.

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Nov 30-Dec 4: Solar Tops Dow, NASDAQ

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

Hanover mall nearing default: Owner has stopped paying $87.5M loan

KBank eyes 10% SME loan growth next year

KBank plans to stay the king of the hill: Expects 30% growth in capital markets

MEMC amends revolving credit agreement

Three banks rev up loan goals: SCB, KTB, KBank upbeat on projections

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Ice River quiets

Are There Jingle Bells in Your Jack-O'-Lantern? Christmas Creep Hits Stores

MEMC posts 3Q loss; to pay $200 mln for SunEdison

MEMC to buy SunEdison for $200 million

Home Diagnostics Reports Third Quarter 2009 Financial Results

InvestorSoup.Com Issues Technical Trading Outlook for Joy Global Inc.

MEMC Provides Business Update; Announces Consolidation of Wafer Manufacturing Operations

Alexza Stockholders Approve Share Issuance to Symphony Capital and Alexza Completes Acquisition of Symphony Allegro

The Home Diagnostics TRUE Family of Products Make Diabetes Testing More Affordable

Home Diagnostics Reports Second Quarter 2009 Financial Results

Alexza Reports 2009 Second Quarter Financial Results and Updates Clinical Pipeline Status

Alexza to Announce 2009 Second Quarter Financial Results and Update Its Clinical Pipeline Status on Wednesday, August 5, 2009

MEMC Reports Second Quarter Results

Home Diagnostics to Report Second Quarter 2009 Financial Results on August 6, 2009

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Form 4 MEMC ELECTRONIC MATERIAL For: Nov 20 Filed by: DOMENECH CARLOS (10K)

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