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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...]

Tech Talk From McMillan

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:45:07 GMT

"Nothing has changed to unseat this liquidity-driven rally," says options expert Larry McMillan. In The Daily Strategist, he eyes the technical side of the market and some new trading ideas.[More...]

Oil And Natural Gas Investments: Why You Should Buy Black Gold Now

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:42:35 GMT

Some day in the future, human beings will likely colonize Mars. But if I suggested you invest in its colonization now, you'd rightly think I was a few cards short of a full deck.[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...]

Will the next decade be better for stocks than this decade has been?

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 10:04:00 GMT

In the next month or so, you'll be reading a lot about "The Lost Decade," and it doesn't have anything to do with your career as lead guitarist for Deth Bongo.
The Lost Decade refers to the past 10 years of stock returns, which have been wretched.
The question: Do the past 10 years mean that the next 10 years will be any better for the stock market?

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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

Tech Talk From McMillan

Oil And Natural Gas Investments: Why You Should Buy Black Gold Now

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

Will the next decade be better for stocks than this decade has been?

Business leaders offer their 2 cents

Job gap is 'greatest fear,' says president

Productivity up at 8.1 percent rate in 3Q

New jobless claims fall unexpectedly to 457K

Ahead of the Bell: Jobless Claims

Ahead of the Bell: Productivity

Obama puts renewed focus on job creation

Report: Many minorities shun banks

Steady November auto sales lift 2010 hopes

The Fortune Financial Global Market Perspective Review on Schnitzer Steel Industries Inc., ViroPharma Inc., T. Rowe Price Group Inc., Cirrus Logic Inc., Veeco Instruments Inc. and Teton Energy Corp.

ExactTarget Launches Industry's First On-Demand Integration with Pivotal Veracity's MailboxIQ

Stock Watch: PrimeGen Energy -- November 12, 2009

Occidental Petroleum, Mubadala and NOGA Form Joint Operating Company in Bahrain to Further Develop the Bahrain Field

RidgewaterEquity.com Free Fundamental Sector & Market Research on POT, SBH, PALM, NVDA, PBCT and TROW

Tri-Valley Concludes Annual Meeting With Positive Votes; Continues Capital Formation To Strengthen Balance Sheet and Advance Oil and Gold Projects

Occidental Petroleum Announces Third Quarter Net Income

Akamai HD Media Analytics for Broadband Video & Audio Provides Rich Business Metrics for HD Delivery Formats

ExactTarget Adds Social Networking Platform to Its Suite of One-to-One Communications Products

ATi-ExactTarget Partnership Extends Predictive Analytics Offering to Improve Precision of Target Marketing

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