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Options Intelligence Report: Award-Winning Avis Attracts Bullish Option Plays

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:17:16 GMT

Today's tickers: CAR, XLU, BIG, SLM, TTWO, MRVL & TSN[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...]

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...]

St. Petersburg Times, Fla., Mark Albright column: FiOS subscribers can be an HSN couch potato

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 16:51:00 GMT

Dec. 4--FiOS TV subscribers in Florida no longer have to leave the La-Z-Boy to order HSN merchandise.
News that Verizon and Comcast Corp. signed up to offer the St. Petersburg TV shopping channel's Shop by Remote service extends its reach to more than 23 million homes and opens the door to millions more.
Locally FiOS subscribers can download the service from FiOS Bazaar but must have a credit card account on file with HSN.

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Options Intelligence Report: Award-Winning Avis Attracts Bullish Option Plays

Seven Bull Stocks To Know In Media

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

St. Petersburg Times, Fla., Mark Albright column: FiOS subscribers can be an HSN couch potato

FDA sent Tyson warning on soup plant

Triangle jobless rate at 8.9%

New grassroots group to push for more Barnett regulation

FDA cites unsafe conditions at Tyson Foods plant

Tecan selects Magic Software's integration suite

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Ciena to buy Nortel assets, double in size: Purchase of Nortel assets will make it North America's largest fiber-optic networking gear provider

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Pacific Ethanol Planning January 2010 Restart of Idaho Ethanol Plant, an Industrial Info News Alert

Benchmark Journal Reviews Equities Within the Financial & Services Sectors

Tyson Reports Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2009 Results

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Magic Software Reports Results for the Third Quarter of 2009; Company Maintaining Profitability Despite Challenging Economic Conditions

Syntroleum Announces Third Quarter 2009 Financial Results Conference Call Scheduled for November 5, 2009

RidgewaterEquity.Com Free Fundamental Sector &Amp; Market Research on ALD, LUV, NSM, PHH, ME and RGS

Halter USX China Index Up 10.59% for Third Quarter 2009

Form 4 Harbin Electric, Inc For: Dec 03 Filed by: Yang Tianli (10K)

Form 4 Harbin Electric, Inc For: Dec 02 Filed by: Gao Lanxiang (10K)

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