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The Comcast And NBC Universal Mega-Deal

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 14:31:06 GMT

Welcome to the Wealth Daily Weekend Edition — our insights from the week in investing and links to our most-read Wealth Daily and sister publication articles. Another dizzying week of ups and downs was capped with good news yesterday...[More...]

Measuring The Fiscal Costs Of Not Fixing The Financial System

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 14:26:39 GMT

This post is a slightly edited version of remarks prepared for delivery at Unwinding Public Interventions in the Financial Sector: Preconditions and Practical Considerations, IMF High-Level Conference, Thursday, December 3, 2009, Washington D.C. I participated in Session 2: Managing Fiscal Risks—Public Finance Aspects of Unwinding.[More...]

Wall Street Ends Higher On Stronger-Than Expected Data, DuPont (NYSE: DD) Sinks

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 23:00:46 GMT

US stocks finished up as as a government release showed that economy lost far fewer jobs than expected in November, as the unemployment rate fell to 10 percent.[More...]

Seven Bull Stocks To Know In Media

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 16:48:26 GMT

Anticipation of Comcast Corp and General Electric JV has built a run-up in the media stock buying.[More...]

Reaching For Yield In The Post-TARP Era

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:42:49 GMT

Bank of America’s repayment of its TARP funds, I couldn’t help but think of a post I wrote six months ago called "Asymmetric information and corporate governance in bank bailouts." The gist is of the post is about the same as Yves’ and it was inspired by lessons of the S&L crisis of the 1980s.[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...]

Rachleff now the target of $7.5M fraud complaint: Attorney's claim ties late stockbroker to misappropriation of client's funds

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 19:50:00 GMT

Dec. 5--The late New London stockbroker Edwin F. Rachleff, already linked to the disappearance of nearly $12 million from a local credit union, has been accused of fraud in the alleged misappropriation of $7.5 million from one of his clients.
The attorney also was not identified.
FINRA, successor to the National Association of Securities Dealers, is a private corporation that acts as a self-regulatory agency for the brokerage community.

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The Comcast And NBC Universal Mega-Deal

Measuring The Fiscal Costs Of Not Fixing The Financial System

Wall Street Ends Higher On Stronger-Than Expected Data, DuPont (NYSE: DD) Sinks

Seven Bull Stocks To Know In Media

Reaching For Yield In The Post-TARP Era

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

Rachleff now the target of $7.5M fraud complaint: Attorney's claim ties late stockbroker to misappropriation of client's funds

Real estate expert sees good and bad going forward

Baird to open brokerage office in SouthPark area: Landrum Henderson Jr. to head financial firm's move into wealth management market.

Senator John Kerry out million$: Study: Senator lost one-third of fortune amid economic crisis

Treasury gets $146.5M for Capital One warrants

President concludes LCCC speech

Wachovia Preferred Funding Corp. Declares Dividend on Series A Preferred Securities

LMP Capital and Income Fund Inc. as of September 30, 2009

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

DRI Corporation Appoints New Independent Director

BlackRock Completes Merger With Barclays Global Investors

BlackRock Completes Merger with Barclays Global Investors

Frontier State Bank Selects Kroll Factual Data to Provide Independent Verifications

Integrity Media: a Revenue Bellwether

Anworth to Make Presentation at FBR Capital Markets 2009 Fall Investor Conference

Form 4 CB RICHARD ELLIS GROUP For: Dec 01 Filed by: Frese Calvin W Jr (10K)

Form 4 CB RICHARD ELLIS GROUP For: Dec 01 Filed by: WHITE W BRETT (10K)

Form 4 BANK OF AMERICA CORP For: Nov 30 Filed by: Price Joe L (10K)

Form 4 BANK OF AMERICA CORP For: Nov 30 Filed by: DESOER BARBARA J (10K)

Form 4 BANK OF AMERICA CORP For: Nov 30 Filed by: Montag Thomas K. (10K)

Form 4 WELLS FARGO & CO/MN For: Nov 30 Filed by: White Julie M (10K)

Form 4 WELLS FARGO & CO/MN For: Nov 30 Filed by: STROTHER JAMES M (10K)

Form 4 WELLS FARGO & CO/MN For: Nov 30 Filed by: CALLAHAN PATRICIA R (10K)

Form 4 WASTE MANAGEMENT INC For: Dec 01 Filed by: TREVATHAN JAMES E JR (10K)

Form 4 COOPER COMPANIES INC For: Nov 30 Filed by: Lindell Jody S (10K)