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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...]

A Breakout Trade Setting Up In REITS

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 21:42:00 GMT

Part of my idea this week of watching the "high risk" assets included the REITS. My history with them to date this year has been multiple bearish strikes with no better than 50/50 success. The hype surrounding the commercial real estate market points to it as being the "next shoe to drop," however, price action in many of these names this week looks to me like it supports a totally different outcome.[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...]

It's tree trimming time again

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:48:00 GMT

Dec. 3--They're trying to get ready for the worst, while hoping for the best --weather, that is.
Carrying whirring chain saws and being hoisted by bucket trucks, workers with the Asplundh Tree Expert Co. have been fanning out across McAlester.
The company has contracted with Public Service Co. of Oklahoma, which is a unit of American Electric Power, to complete a major project in McAlester.

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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

A Breakout Trade Setting Up In REITS

Grab Some Northern Exposure With EWC

Unemployment Struggling To Turn A Corner As Job Losses Mount In November

It's tree trimming time again

Benefits of wind power extolled: Aspects ranging from national security to the environmental are cited.

Grant for Swanton sewer plant to benefit residents

State should look at potential in wind energy, Bode says

Wind energy summit to look at options: Several high-profile experts will be speakers at the OKC conference next week.

Wind energy summit to look at options: Several high-profile experts will be speakers at the OKC conference next week.

High-profile experts to speak at wind conference

Motorola, Research in Motion sued over voicemail

Spending on IT seen to create more jobs

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DeviceLock's Full-Text Search Engine to Ease Fact Finding within Its Audit Databases

Equity Residential Announces Tender Offer by ERP Operating Limited Partnership for Any and All of Certain of its Outstanding Notes

Interactive Data to Launch BondEdge Analytical Platform for Fixed Income Asset Managers

Wall St Sense Undertakes Financial Research on Stocks Trading on Basic Materials, Financial & Services Sectors

Pervasive Software Inc. Partners with Tiara Consulting

Pervasive Software Announces General Availability of Pervasive PSQL v10 Update

Que Publishing to Release 19th Edition of Scott Mueller's Upgrading and Repairing PCs

BioPharm Insight and i3 Pharma Informatics Announce Clinical Information Alliance

PicksThatMove.com Announces Investment Opinion on Osisko Mining Corporation, Research in Motion, Kodiak Oil & Gas Corp., Avion Gold Corporation and Savoy Energy Corp.

Marlin & Associates Adds Senior Technology Banker, Afsaneh Naimollah, to Lead Its Technology Investment Banking Practice

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