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Bank Failures – This Time We Dig Into The Facts

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:11:47 GMT

Yesterday’s five bank failures bring the number of banks to fail during this economic storm to 120. Should these bank failures come as a surprise? No, some were already slapped with a Cease and Desist order prior to the FDIC shutting them down. The FDIC never announces to anyone, not even to the bank being closed that they will be seized ahead of time.[More...]

Most Active Stock Options November 6, 2009 & Trading Activity

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:34:01 GMT

As of today the top ten option contracts traded were: Volatility Index (VIX) January 22.50 Put OptionsVolatility Index November 22.50 Put OptionsFord (NYSE:F) January 2011 5 Call OptionsFord January 2011 5 Put OptionsS&P 500 SPDR (NYSE:SPY) November 105 Put OptionsS&P 500 SPDR November 107 Call OptionsPowerShares QQQ (NASDAQ:QQQQ) November 42 Put OptionsQualcomm (NASDAQ:QCOM) April 50 Call OptionsS&P 500 SPDR November 107[More...]

Estimating Future Dividend Growth

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:21:36 GMT

Estimating future dividend growth is difficult if not impossible. Companies which might have had a long history of consistent double digit increases might stop raising dividends and might even cut them.[More...]

Wall Street Closes Higher, General Electric (NYSE: GE) Rallies

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:14:45 GMT

US stocks finished higher on Friday as investors shrugged off disappointing government data showing the unemployment rate hit 10.2 percent in October - the highest in 26-1/2 years.[More...]

CBS Shows Upside But Maintains Guidance

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:32:07 GMT

CBS reported modest upside to estimates in 3Q09 with most of the excess coming from the syndication business.[More...]

Wells Fargo (WFC) Kicks The Can By Transofrming Option ARM Mortgages Into Interest Only

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:31:26 GMT

If you are not familiar with what an option ARM mortgage is, read this piece (Aug 13, 2008: Option ARMs- Who Thought Up these Time Bombs?)). I too was unfamiliar with it, despite following markets closely, until I read a BusinessWeek article in October 2006. Interest only mortgages? Yep I knew about those.[More...]

Biostar Raises $3.6 Million

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:26:18 GMT

Biostar Pharmaceuticals has completed a private placement that raised $3.6 million in new capital. Biostar will use the proceeds to complete its new raw materials processing facility. By taking its raw material production in house, Biostar will lower costs and ensure its product quality. Biostar plans to sell excess raw materials to other pharmaceutical companies in the Shaanxi province.[More...]

Accounting At B of A And Fannie

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:21:37 GMT

Via Yves Smith, John Hempton analyzes the quarterly results of Bank of America (so-so) and Fannie Mae (terrible). The underlying issue is that bank quarter-to-quarter results are largely driven by the amount of provisions they take against future loan losses. You can think of this as a very rough approximation to marking-to-market — instead of waiting for the loans to default, you estimate how many loans will default in the future (that estimate should change as the economic situation changes) and put that amount of money into reserves. Then when the defaults actually happen, you take the money out of reserves.[More...]

Bulls Back On Track?

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:21:18 GMT

Good morning. With chants of "Dow 10K… Dow 10K" once again rising from the streets at the corner of Broad and Wall yesterday, it is easy to believe that the bulls are back on track and that we'll soon be looking at new highs for the stock market. And when reviewing the data inputs to yesterday's 204 point romp, it is also easy to don the Dow10K hat once again and join in on the celebration.[More...]

Sanford's stubborn recklessness

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 23:47:00 GMT

Nov. 8--We were staring into an economic abyss.
Wall Street was teetering; trillions of dollars of 401(k) value vanished.
Using a variety of tools, including the $700 billion TARP implemented under the Bush administration and the $787 billion stimulus plan under the Obama administration, the government stopped the bleeding.

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Bank Failures – This Time We Dig Into The Facts

Most Active Stock Options November 6, 2009 & Trading Activity

Estimating Future Dividend Growth

Wall Street Closes Higher, General Electric (NYSE: GE) Rallies

CBS Shows Upside But Maintains Guidance

Wells Fargo (WFC) Kicks The Can By Transofrming Option ARM Mortgages Into Interest Only

Biostar Raises $3.6 Million

Accounting At B of A And Fannie

Bulls Back On Track?

Sanford's stubborn recklessness

St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Jim Gallagher column: Inflation's coming back _ but we don't know when

EDITORIAL: Banks are too big, if too big to fail: Ignoring British example, Obama wants to prop up financial behemoths.

Federal law gives rights to renters: Banks hide details during foreclosures

Owners, lenders offered a hand

Shuttered factories pose big challenges for communities

SBT Bancorp, Inc. Reports Third Quarter 2009 Results

Wells Fargo Named Best Consumer Internet Bank in North America by Global Finance Magazine

Gramercy Capital Corp. Reports Third Quarter 2009 Financial Results

Health Care REIT, Inc. Reports Third Quarter 2009 Results

GeoMet Announces Borrowing Base Determined at $135 Million

Signature Bank to Present at Bank of America Merrill Lynch 2009 Banking and Financial Services Conference

Central Bancorp, Inc. Reports Financial Results for the Three and Six Months Ended September 30, 2009

Goldman Sachs to Present at the Bank of America -- Merrill Lynch 2009 Banking & Financial Services Conference

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