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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...]

Airlines: Upgrading To Attractive; Bullish On Airline Cycle At Current Levels - Morgan Stanley

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 14:21:02 GMT

Morgan Stanley is out upgrading the Airline sector to Attractive, upgrading AMR Corp (NYSE: AMR) and Ual Corp. (NASDAQ: UAUA) to Overweight from Equal-Weight.[More...]

Passenger numbers up at RIC as holiday begins

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 08:09:00 GMT

Nov. 25--Thanksgiving holiday passenger traffic at Richmond International Airport is running strong so far despite the economic slowdown.
"We're trending ahead of Thanksgiving last year," airport spokesman Troy Bell said.
Passengers getting on planes at RIC for five of the past six days were ahead of the same period a year ago, Bell said yesterday, though it is unlikely the airport will equal last year's passenger volume.

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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

Airlines: Upgrading To Attractive; Bullish On Airline Cycle At Current Levels - Morgan Stanley

Passenger numbers up at RIC as holiday begins

Sector Snap: Airlines mostly down on economic news

Safety, Transportation, Personal Issues Weigh into City Race

Sector Snap: Economic news gives airlines boost

American Loses $359 Million

Business Highlights

Airlines still looking for business travelers

MGM Mirage, Caterpillar, Apple are big movers

UAL posts 3Q loss, sees business travel improving

Sector Snap: Airline shares mostly higher

PicksThatMove.com Announces Investment Opinion on B2Gold Corp., UAL Corp., Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd., Groupe Aeroplan Inc. and Elite Pharmaceuticals Inc.

American Savings Bank Sells Securities to Reduce Risk

D.A. Davidson & Co. Investment Banking Group Reports Strong Fiscal Year-End Results

Benchmark Journal Brings In-Depth Research to Stocks Trading on the Basic Materials, Services & Technology Sectors

Fitch Rates UAL Corp.'s Senior Convertible Notes 'C'/RR6

Maui Electric Files 2010 Rate Request With Public Utilities Commission

Halter USX China Index Up 10.59% for Third Quarter 2009

Ensign Energy Services Inc. - Webcast from the Peters & Co. 2009 North American Oil & Gas Conference - September 17, 2009

United Airlines Moves to Cash-Free Environment on Trans-Atlantic, Brazil and Argentina Flights

Hanwei announces financial results for the second quarter and first half of 2009

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