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Indian Stock Market Closing Report: Sensex Closes Up 1% For The Week

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 19:02:41 GMT

The volatile trading session today largely mirrored the market movements during the week, which saw mixed investor sentiments. While some sectors managed to draw investor interest others continued to witness their apathy.[More...]

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...]

Credit Market Overview: Dec 4, 2009

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 13:07:42 GMT

Credit Market Overview December 4, 2009 When he and Bruce Willis are not saving the world from internet terrorists intent on shutting down the United States in “Live Free or Die Hard”, Justin Long spends his time battling John Hodgman to save the world from the other internet terrorist, Microsoft (MSFT), in ...[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...]

UPI NewsTrack Business

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 20:36:00 GMT

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Microsoft ironing out Bing glitch

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 18:34:00 GMT

Microsoft ironing out Bing glitch[More...]

Pawlowski in spotlight at jobs summit

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 13:51:00 GMT

Dec. 4--Allentown Mayor Ed Pawlowski walked toward the Dwight D. Eisenhower Executive Office Building on Thursday to join more than 100 panelists from around the country at President Barack Obama's jobs summit.
And he said he wants more stimulus money going to small businesses through loans and to consumers through home mortgages rather than huge lump sums given directly to large financial institutions.
"They have to find some way to free up the credit markets," Pawlowski said before the summit.

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Indian Stock Market Closing Report: Sensex Closes Up 1% For The Week

The Deep, Inner Meaning Of Bank of America's (BAC) TARP Repayment

Forget Yesterday, It's All About Jobs

Credit Market Overview: Dec 4, 2009

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

UPI NewsTrack Business

Microsoft ironing out Bing glitch

Pawlowski in spotlight at jobs summit

Sigma Designs shares hit after 3Q sales shortfall

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Key dates in history of National Broadcasting Co.

Microsoft and Consumers Take Action Against Global Software Piracy

Microsoft says some Windows PCs get `Black Screen'

Microsoft launches redesigned map search with apps

Microsoft denies update problem

New Sopheon Strategic Roadmapping Software Enables Users to Quickly Adjust Strategies in Response to Changing Market Conditions

Mertech to Develop BTR2SQL for MySQL

BlueCat Networks Receives "Positive" Rating in Leading Analyst Firms DNS, DHCP & IP Address Management (DDI) MarketScope Report

Pamela Passman With Microsoft and Economist, Robert Atkinson and Mark Harrer From Diskeeper Corporation to Be Featured on Let's Talk Computers (R)

DataCert Hosts IP Focus Group in Basel, Switzerland

IBM Announces Expiration of Early Exchange Period for Debt Exchange Offers

Royce Focus Trust (NASDAQ: FUND) as of October 31, 2009

InQuinox Announces First SAN Booting System Migration Utility

Avistar Expands New Product Offerings in the UK

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