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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...]

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...]

How To Profit From The 'Next' Dubai

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 13:51:42 GMT

The Dubai World default is a matter of only $60 billion – mere peanuts when compared to other elements of the global financial crisis. It’s thus of concern only to those silly enough to invest in real estate there (and the European banks foolish enough to finance it.) For the rest of us, it is a useful reminder that sudden collapses don’t really come out of nowhere – they can be foreseen, and smart investors can plan for them.[More...]

Finding the Road to Riches

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:46:00 GMT

Have you run across statements like this?
Of course, X is always a large number like $500,000 or $1 million.
Back when he made that investment, he paid a very large commission, as brokers charged a lot at the time and they also charged more for trades involving fewer shares than a "round lot" of 100.

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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

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

How To Profit From The 'Next' Dubai

Finding the Road to Riches

Lennar, Wal-Mart, Jack in the Box big movers

Celgene Q2 Net Income Rises

Stocks Finish Mixed

Stocks: Finding Long-Term Winners

Takeda Incurs 1st Profit Fall in 4 Years in FY 2008

Taking Stock: Nobody Wins for 2008

Investors Can Consider No-Risk, Low-Risk Options

Health Care Poised to Weather Recession

Health care, defense poised to weather recession

Agennix AG Reports Financial Results for Third Quarter and First Nine Months of 2009

MethylGene Reports Third Quarter 2009 Financial Results

Celgene Reports Record Third Quarter 2009 Operating and Financial Results

Lawsuit Claims Celgene Corporation Misappropriated the Idea Behind its Multiple Myeloma Treatments

GPC Biotech Reports Financial Results for Second Quarter and First Six Months of 2009

Clinical Data Evaluating Amrubicin® as Potential Therapy for Patients with Small Cell Lung Cancer Presented at 13th World Conference on Lung Cancer

VIDAZA Upgraded to Category 1 Based on Unprecedented Survival and Selected Preferred Treatment for Intermediate-2 and High-Risk Myelodysplastic Syndromes by the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) in Its Clinical Practice Guidelines

Celgene Corporation to Present at Two Upcoming Investor Conferences

MethylGene Reports Second Quarter 2009 Financial Results

Celgene Reports Record Second Quarter 2009 Operating and Financial Results

Form 4 CELGENE CORP /DE/ For: Oct 27 Filed by: Burton Graham (10K)

Form 4 GRYSKA DAVID W For: Oct 13 (10K)

Form 4 Burton Graham For: Oct 13 (10K)

Form 4 BARER SOL J For: Oct 13 (10K)

Form 4 HUGIN ROBERT J For: Oct 13 (10K)

Form 4 Van Hoek Andre For: Oct 13 (10K)

Form 4 HUGIN ROBERT J For: Oct 05 (10K)

Form 4 Van Hoek Andre For: Oct 01 (10K)

Form 4 BARER SOL J For: Sep 14 (10K)

Form 4 CELGENE CORP /DE/ For: Sep 04 Filed by: KAPLAN GILLA (10K)