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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...]

How To Profit From The 'Next' Dubai

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 13:51:42 GMT

The Dubai World default is a matter of only $60 billion – mere peanuts when compared to other elements of the global financial crisis. It’s thus of concern only to those silly enough to invest in real estate there (and the European banks foolish enough to finance it.) For the rest of us, it is a useful reminder that sudden collapses don’t really come out of nowhere – they can be foreseen, and smart investors can plan for them.[More...]

Nokia willing to pay more for Nortel assets

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:50:00 GMT

TORONTO - Nokia Siemens has asked a U.S. bankruptcy court to reject Ciena Corp. as the winning bidder for Nortel Networks' optical networking and carrier Ethernet businesses.
That would top the $530 million in cash plus $239 million of convertible notes that made up Ciena's winning bid for what was considered one of Nortel's more-prized units.
In its filing with the bankruptcy court, Nokia Siemens took issue with the valuation of the convertible note portion of the offer.

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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

How To Profit From The 'Next' Dubai

Nokia willing to pay more for Nortel assets

Silicon Valley stocks: Nasdaq falls, but AMD, Fortinet surge

Hitachi to raise over 415 bil. yen to bolster financial base

Red Wing to close Danville plant

Red Wing to close Danville plant

Small Loss at Hutch Tech Surprises Wall Street: The Battered Maker of Disk Drive Components Lost Just 4 Cents a Share and Announced Plans to Open a Plant in Thailand.

Hitachi to pay $10M for some Nortel network assets

Harrodsburg Auto Supplier to Close

Harrodsburg Auto Supplier to Close

Seagate Q1 Profit Triples to $179m Despite Dip in Sales

WinMagic Launches SecureDoc v4.9 Full-Disk Encryption for Mac OS X Snow Leopard

The Fortune Financial Covers Financial & Sector Analysis for Technology and Basic Materials Companies

Fitch Affirms Santa Cruz County Redevelopment Agency, California's TABs at 'A'

Softscape and Jobfox Deliver New Breakthrough Innovation for E-Recruitment

Fujitsu Selects Neterion for 10 Gigabit Ethernet in "SPARC Enterprise" Servers

i365, A Seagate Company, Collaborates on Multi-Platform, Cloud-Connected Data Protection Solution with Microsoft

i365®, A Seagate Company, Endorses Next Generation of Microsoft Products as Platinum Sponsor of Microsoft Efficiency Launch

Notice Concerning Capital Injection Changes for the NEC Electronics and Renesas Business Integration

Nortel Provides Update on Auction Date for the Sale of Its GSM/GSM-R Business; Obtains Further Extension of Stay Period Under CCAA

Hitachi Announces New Fiber-to-the-Premises Quad Play PON Equipment for Cable System Operators

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