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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...]

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...]

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...]

Diapers.com to open distribution facility in Covington Industrial Park

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 18:04:00 GMT

Dec. 4--An Internet retailer of baby products will create 120 jobs initially and up to 300 long-term at a massive distribution facility in the North Pocono area.
Quidsi Inc., the parent company of www.Diapers.com, will move this month into part of a vacant, 1.3-million-square-foot structure at Covington Industrial Park.
He said the region's geographic position figures in the transition.

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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

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

Diapers.com to open distribution facility in Covington Industrial Park

Diapers.com to open distribution facility in Covington Industrial Park

Retail sales dip a bit: The November slide comes after two months of sales gains and shows just how fragile the economy is.

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

Diapers.com to open distribution facility in Covington Industrial Park

San Jose Mercury News, Calif., Scott Harris column: Startup that links online, offline worlds impressing investors

Online may be retail's Christmas star for '09

The Times Leader, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Andrew M. Seder column: Steals and Deals: Pace yourself, the season of savings is just beginning -

St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Jim Gallagher column: Investing gets even less certain as economy snails upward

PicksThatMove.com Announces Investment Opinion on Ico Inc., Almaden Minerals Ltd., MGIC Investment Corp., Compu Credit Holdings Inc. and Best Buy Company

Internet's Leading Stock Newsletter Finishes 13th Consecutive Month With a Gain

Best Buy Makes Transition to Windows® 7 Easy

RidgewaterEquity.Com Free Fundamental Sector &Amp; Market Research on THI, RZ, FCN, NSU, CBY and MDZ

Innovate Media Helps Napster Find New Subscribers Using Latest Online Video Technology

Best Buy® Wants to Know: Is Your House Haunted By Old, Outdated Technology?

Dell Consumer Laptops and Desktops in the US, UK and Germany to Come With a Year of Napster

Best Buy's Second Quarter Revenue Rises 12 Percent to $11.0 Billion

FTI Technology Welcomes E-Discovery Leaders to Seattle for Fifth Annual Partner Summit

FTI Technology Adds Concordance(TM) Load File Import to Provide Clients Easy 'On Ramp' to Attenex Patterns

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