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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...]

Credit Market Overview: Dec 4, 2009

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 13:07:42 GMT

Credit Market Overview December 4, 2009 When he and Bruce Willis are not saving the world from internet terrorists intent on shutting down the United States in “Live Free or Die Hard”, Justin Long spends his time battling John Hodgman to save the world from the other internet terrorist, Microsoft (MSFT), in ...[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...]

Wall Street Slips On Services Data, American Express (NYSE: AXP) Slumps

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 22:17:35 GMT

US stocks finished down on Thursday as investors were spooked by downbeat ISM services data.[More...]

Goldman Sachs Countdown To $100 Oil

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 20:41:57 GMT

This morning, Goldman Sachs reported their forecast for crude prices. That is, we're talking about the light sweet West Texas Intermediate crude. The U.S. investment bank is expecting crude prices to average $90 per barrel next year, before rising to an average of $110 per barrel in 2011.[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...]

MFI Stock Review: Nathans Famous (NATH)

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:18:24 GMT

Yes, it's the company that sponsors the hot dog eating contest. It's also a Magic Formula small-cap stock worth biting into, with a cheap valuation, good business model, and strong balance sheet.[More...]

Public Policy And Venture Capital

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:16:44 GMT

I did a "Room For Debate" on the New York Times yesterday with Ken Auletta and John Markoff. Here's the first part and here's the second part. The topic was Google; are they too powerful and if so, what the government should do about it.[More...]

AP source: Apple in talks to buy Lala.com

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 01:50:00 GMT

LOS ANGELES - Apple Inc. is in advanced talks to buy online music retailer Lala.com, a Silicon Valley startup that has threatened "the end of the MP3" with its fast song-streaming application.
In October, Lala co-founder Bill Nguyen demonstrated to the AP a working model of an application the company had developed for Apple's iPhone.
The song quality is lower than what Apple's iTunes songs offer, but "intelligent caching" allows tracks to load and play in seconds, with playback possible even outside of cell phone coverage.

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The Deep, Inner Meaning Of Bank of America's (BAC) TARP Repayment

Forget Yesterday, It's All About Jobs

Credit Market Overview: Dec 4, 2009

Fed Balance Sheet Declines By $15 Billion After Improbable Reduction In MBS, Excess Reserves, Monetary Base Hit Record

Wall Street Slips On Services Data, American Express (NYSE: AXP) Slumps

Goldman Sachs Countdown To $100 Oil

China Will Continue To Drive The Global Economic Recovery In 2010

MFI Stock Review: Nathans Famous (NATH)

Public Policy And Venture Capital

AP source: Apple in talks to buy Lala.com

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TSX Venture Exchange Daily Bulletins

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Chevron withdraws name from filling stations

Microsoft ironing out Bing glitch

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EnerNOC Customer Johnson & Johnson Wins Platts Global Energy Award; J&J Wins Energy Efficiency Program of the Year Award

Wall St Sense Reviews Equities in the Basic Materials, Consumer Goods and Services Sectors

Avago Technologies Limited Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2009 Financial Results

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Customers Switch to HP Workstations for Improved Performance, Value

Ayna.com, the Most Visited Arabic Search Engine, Selects Basis Technology for Multi-Language Text Analysis

Synovis Life Technologies Reports 18 Percent Revenue Growth for Fiscal 2009 Fourth Quarter

Mertech to Develop BTR2SQL for MySQL

Bit.ly Leverages Websense to Analyze Millions of Web Sites and Content Daily to Protect Users From Spam, Phishing and Malware

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