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Retail Stocks, One Week After Black Friday

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 21:37:00 GMT

Friday saw some crazy trading, as investors reacted to a surprisingly good employment number. Price gapped up to start the day, proceeded to fall sharply, before gaining traction late in the day to close slightly positive on very heavy volume. The dollar also saw a strong rally, as traders considered the possibility that a stronger economy may result in higher interest rates.[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...]

Best Buy: This Season's Top Retail Stock?

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:59:53 GMT

“I think it’s Best Buy, BBY for all you home gamers. It reports December 15th and I think it will deliver, yes, indeed… We went to a local Best Buy, under cover, of course, and found that…They have 47 different sets of flat panel TVs, versus 11 at Walmart. Average price, $957, cheaper than Walmart. This best buy beat Walmart on price. Hallelujah! Best Buy had great Black Friday traffic. The crowds were quote, materially bigger than last year.[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...]

Thrilling Thursday - Japan Jump Juices Futures

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 13:30:20 GMT

Officially Cyber Monday sales were up 5%. Unfortunately, on-line sales make up just 6% of all retail sales so 5% of 6% is 0.3% and that’s the contribution to retail sales this year IF the Monday madness continues through the holidays in cyber-world.[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...]

Movies made in Wilmington released on Netflix

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 23:53:00 GMT

Dec. 5--"Forgiven," a feature filmed in Wilmington in 2004, was released on NetFlix this week, months before anoter made-in Wilmingtoon feature becomes available through the video-by-mail service.
Soon, the politician's past comes to light.
The feature spent some time on the film festival circuit, including the local Cucalorus Film Festival in 2006, and was nominated for a 2006 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize in the drama category.

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Retail Stocks, One Week After Black Friday

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

Best Buy: This Season's Top Retail Stock?

China Will Continue To Drive The Global Economic Recovery In 2010

Thrilling Thursday - Japan Jump Juices Futures

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

Movies made in Wilmington released on Netflix

Diapers.com to open distribution facility in Covington Industrial Park

President concludes LCCC speech

Diapers.com to open distribution facility in Covington Industrial Park

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

Diapers.com to open distribution facility in Covington Industrial Park

GameStop shares tumble on Wal-Mart game deals

Morning biz update: Change coming to NBC and GM

Staples sees N.A. retail sales improvement

Cyber Monday sales start strong for some area retailers

Ridgewater Equity Undertakes Study on Services, Financial and Industrial Goods Sectors

Black Friday Online Spending Rebounds Reports Coremetrics

Rothman Research Initiates Research on Companies in the Basic Materials & Services Sectors

Signet Reports Third Quarter Results

RidgewaterEquity.com Free Fundamental Sector & Market Research on COG, NEM, ODP, DAL, NBR and PPG

Office Depot Shows Holiday Shoppers How to Gift Smarter This Holiday Season

Avanquest Software and SED International, Inc. Expand Netbook Sales Initiative

Amazon.Com Acquires Zappos.Com

Avanquest Software's Nova Development Unit Now Number Two in Unit Sales in Imaging &Amp; Graphics Software Category

Burger King Holdings Inc. Reports First Quarter Fiscal 2010 Results

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