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Two Trade Setups: One Long, One Short

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 16:04:51 GMT

Here's an article that I wrote for the Slope of Hope today as a guest blogger. Great website if you haven't yet checked it out! Today I want to provide y'all with a couple of trade setups that I thought depending on your trading strategy and market bias, could fit nicely into your portfolio. The first is a short setup in Goldman Sachs (GS). For many of us, the opportunity to short GS goes well beyond a normal trade - there a sense of satisfaction seeing such a corrupt company depreciate in price, no doubt.[More...]

Jim Bunning Does Not ? Ben Bernanke

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:00:09 GMT

With a groundswell of public opinion against the Federal Reserve in general and Ben Bernanke in particular, Sen. Jim Bunning (R-KY) takes something of a victory lap for having been the only committee member to oppose Bernanke's nomination four years ago.[More...]

Biggest European IPO In Two Years Cancelled After Major Valuation Disconnect

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 23:50:15 GMT

Farewell IPO window. European construction company Hochtief was forced to cancel the IPO of its concessions business once investors became unwilling to pay more than €20 for the new shares, with the bottom of the range at €24 previously. Furthermore, according to market participants, the company was able to only fill half a book, after management disclosed during a roadshow lunch that the Dubai jitters made finding investors complicated. Watch for some material downside to the stock when it opens in Europe tomorrow.[More...]

Revealed: How The System Favors The Wealthy

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 21:07:08 GMT

"The U.S. tax code is the most political law in the world." -- Jonathan Blattmacher, tax lawyer to the super-wealthy "Taxes are what we pay for civilized society." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes[More...]

Goldman Sachs Countdown To $100 Oil

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 20:41:57 GMT

This morning, Goldman Sachs reported their forecast for crude prices. That is, we're talking about the light sweet West Texas Intermediate crude. The U.S. investment bank is expecting crude prices to average $90 per barrel next year, before rising to an average of $110 per barrel in 2011.[More...]

Bank of America (BAC) Hopes To Lure Top Shelf Talent By Paying Back TARP Loans

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 20:31:33 GMT

Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC), the nation’s biggest lender, reached an agreement to repay $45 billion of Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) bailout funds, removing government imposed restrictions on executive pay that have hindered its search for a new CEO.[More...]

Geeks Trump Alpha Males As High Frequency Trading Takes Over

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 17:05:39 GMT

For those newer to the website, we have been early pointing out the changing character of the market, due to the increasing dominance of computer based trading. I first started noticing it in 2006, when the market was wickedly "calm" if you will... this was pre blog and I had been noting on some message boards how the S&P 500 had not dropped more than 1% in any 1 session for more than 10 months (I don't remember the exact figures but it was some absurd statistic). I began wondering about computer based trading and the increasing dominance of ETFs as "monolithic trading" began to really enter my conscience.[More...]

Bank of America (BAC) To Repay Entire TARP Money

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 13:33:12 GMT

Bank of America Corporation (BAC) said on Wednesday that in a few days it will repay the entire $45 billion of bailout money it has received from the government for its participation in the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) at the height of the credit crisis last year and after its purchase of Merrill Lynch & Co. earlier this year.[More...]

Can Goldman’s Shareholders Rein In The Squid?

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 01:19:15 GMT

Maybe this represents progress, maybe it’s just a fad that gives way to business as usual in a year or so. According to the WSJ, Goldman Sach has been engaging some of its shareholders in a discussion about the firm’s compensation policies and, naturally, defending the status quo. The article seems to intimate that there is some level of discomfort among the shareholders with regard to the size of the payouts while Goldman maintains everyone is copacetick.[More...]

S&P Cuts Bank Of Ireland's Rating While Goldman Says Buy

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:22:19 GMT

After going bullish on bank stocks in April, two months ago I said most of the upside in bank shares was priced in. Since that time, shares have traded sideways to down. I expect this trend to continue as headwinds like another wave of writedowns in the housing sector is felt. Credit Suisse came to similar conclusions at just the same time, cutting estimates for the sector across the board.[More...]

Dubai, Kuwait recovery 'to lag behind'

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 07:51:00 GMT

Ahmet Akarli, an economist at Goldman Sachs has said that Dubai and Kuwait will lag behind other Gulf Arab countries as the region's economies recover, Bloomberg has reported.
The economies of the UAE and Kuwait had contracted by around 2.5% in 2009, he said.
The UAE will grow 2% in 2010 and 4% in 2011, driven by Abu Dhabi, he added.

: iStockAnalyst.com Symbols Feed

Two Trade Setups: One Long, One Short

Jim Bunning Does Not ? Ben Bernanke

Biggest European IPO In Two Years Cancelled After Major Valuation Disconnect

Revealed: How The System Favors The Wealthy

Goldman Sachs Countdown To $100 Oil

Bank of America (BAC) Hopes To Lure Top Shelf Talent By Paying Back TARP Loans

Geeks Trump Alpha Males As High Frequency Trading Takes Over

Bank of America (BAC) To Repay Entire TARP Money

Can Goldman’s Shareholders Rein In The Squid?

S&P Cuts Bank Of Ireland's Rating While Goldman Says Buy

Dubai, Kuwait recovery 'to lag behind'

Sector Snap: Information technology shares gain

Chinese official raps foreign banks on derivatives

Chinese official raps foreign banks on derivatives

Daily Mail, London, market report column

Evening Standard, London, market report column

Sector Snap: Analyst upgrades REITS

Roundly differing views on cyclical stocks

Bank of America to repay TARP, raise cash

Goldman invests $61 million in affordable housing

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TD AMERITRADE CEO to Speak at Goldman Sachs US Financial Services Conference 2009

Forest Conservation Can Supply 25% of Climate Solutions Through 2020, Saving $40 Billion

Comcast and GE to Create Leading Entertainment Company

Elite Portfolio Management Team Launches Boutique Investment Firm

Goldman Sachs Electronic Trading Releases REDIPlus®Version 9.1

Dynegy Announces Completion of Transaction With LS Power

Green Plains Renewable Energy, Inc. Announces Appointment of Chief Operating Officer

Health Discovery Corporation Appoints Tom Gallagher, Former Wall Street Attorney& a Vice President at Goldman, Sachs & Co., to Head the Company's Global Intellectual Property Strategies

Benchmark Journal Began Monthly Review on Stocks in the Basic Materials, Financial & Services Sectors

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