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Dell Plans To Sell Polish Plant

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 18:45:57 GMT

Dell Inc. (DELL) recently announced that it will sell the two-year-old manufacturing facility at Lodz, Poland to a Taiwan-based company Foxconn Technology. Although the company did not mention the sale value. This manufacturing facility mainly serves customers in the Europe, the Middle East and Africa and has a headcount of nearly 1,600 workers.[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...]

Credit Market Overview: Dec 4, 2009

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 13:07:42 GMT

Credit Market Overview December 4, 2009 When he and Bruce Willis are not saving the world from internet terrorists intent on shutting down the United States in “Live Free or Die Hard”, Justin Long spends his time battling John Hodgman to save the world from the other internet terrorist, Microsoft (MSFT), in ...[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...]

Unemployment rises for south-central Idaho

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 14:48:00 GMT

Dec. 5--Unemployment jumped more than two percentage points in Mini-Cassia and nearly a full percentage point in Twin Falls and Jerome counties in November, according to Idaho Department of Labor.
According to the department of labor's monthly unemployment report, Lincoln County reported more than 15 percent of its population -- or about 400 people -- were unemployed.
Camas County, which reported one of the highest unemployment rates in Idaho in October, declined four percentage points to 12.8 percent.

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Dell Plans To Sell Polish Plant

The Deep, Inner Meaning Of Bank of America's (BAC) TARP Repayment

Forget Yesterday, It's All About Jobs

Credit Market Overview: Dec 4, 2009

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

Unemployment rises for south-central Idaho

Blanco students study the ins and outs of the stock market

Contractor to take on production in Poland: Dell plans to transfer ownership of factory in Lodz to Taiwan vendor

Richards' computer still not returned: Fired county human resources director has $1,500 laptop.

Dell to transfer production at plant in Poland to third-party vendor in Taiwan

Dell unloads Polish manufacturing plant

Triad jobless rate rises to 11.1 percent in October, ending trend of slight declines

Retailers post strong sales: Online discounts continue through holiday season

Evening Standard, London, Anthony Hilton column

TSX Venture Exchange Daily Bulletins

Dell Unveils the World's Most Powerful Mobile Workstation

Stellar Pacific Ventures Inc. Acquires GoldenFrank Resources Inc.

Dell Launches $2 Million Dell YouthConnect Program in China

China Mobile Becomes First to Sell Dell Mini 3i Smart Phones

Fitch Rates Forsyth County, North Carolina's LOBs 'AA+'; Outlook Stable

Dell Sees Continuing Improvement in Demand Environment, Delivers Solid Progress Against Strategic Agenda

Dell Enhances Its Digital Forensics Solution with Guidance Software's EnCase® Solution

First Merger Arbitrage ETF Introduced by IndexIQ

Dell Confirms Smart Phone Plans; Announces China Mobile and Claro as First Supporting Operators

KACE Expands Dell Support With New Appliance

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