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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...]

2008 Finishes As the Third-Worst Stock Market Year in History

Thu, 01 Jan 2009 08:20:00 GMT

Jan. 1--An investor would have to be made of Pyrex to withstand the extremes of 2008.
The popular Standard & Poor's 500 stock index fell 38.5 percent in 2008, rivaling the 38.6 percent drop in 1937 and the record 47.1 percent plunge in 1931.
The closely watched Dow Jones industrial average, meanwhile, fell 33.8 percent in 2008, ranking only behind a 37.7 percent drop in 1907 and a record 52.7 percent plunge in 1931.

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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

2008 Finishes As the Third-Worst Stock Market Year in History

Kayne Anderson MLP Investment Company Provides Unaudited Balance Sheet Information and Announces its Net Asset Value and Asset Coverage Ratios at November 30, 2009

Tortoise Power and Energy Infrastructure Fund, Inc. Provides Preliminary Unaudited 2009 Fiscal Year-End Balance Sheet Information and Asset Coverage Ratio and Announces an Investor Conference Call

Tortoise North American Energy Corp. Provides Preliminary Unaudited 2009 Fiscal Year-End Balance Sheet Information and Asset Coverage Ratio and Announces an Investor Conference Call

Tortoise Energy Infrastructure Corp. Provides Unaudited Balance Sheet Information and Asset Coverage Ratio Update As of October 31, 2009

Tortoise Power and Energy Infrastructure Fund, Inc. Provides Unaudited Balance Sheet Information As of October 31, 2009

Tortoise North American Energy Corp. Provides Unaudited Balance Sheet Information and Asset Coverage Ratio Update As of October 31, 2009

Tortoise Power and Energy Infrastructure Fund, Inc. Provides Unaudited Balance Sheet Information As of September 30, 2009

Kayne Anderson MLP Investment Company Provides Unaudited Balance Sheet Information and Announces Its Net Asset Value and Asset Coverage Ratios at September 30, 2009

Tortoise North American Energy Corp. Provides Unaudited Balance Sheet Information and Asset Coverage Ratio Update As of September 30, 2009

Kayne Anderson MLP Investment Company Provides Unaudited Balance Sheet Information and Announces Its Net Asset Value and Asset Coverage Ratios at August 31, 2009

Form 4 INERGY L P For: Nov 25 Filed by: MOLER WILLIAM R. (10K)

Form 4 INERGY HOLDINGS, L.P. For: Nov 25 Filed by: MOLER WILLIAM R. (10K)

Form 4 GFELLER WARREN H For: Sep 11 (10K)

Form 4 INERGY L P For: Sep 14 Filed by: MOLER WILLIAM R. (10K)

Form 4 Atterbury Andrew L For: Aug 17 (10K)

Form 4 INERGY L P For: Jun 04 Filed by: OZENBERGER LAURA (10K)

Form 4 SHERMAN R BROOKS For: Jun 02 (10K)

Form 4 INERGY L P For: May 27 Filed by: HUGHES CARL A (10K)

Form 4 SHERMAN JOHN J For: May 07 (10K)

Form 4 INERGY L P For: Mar 20 Filed by: MOLER WILLIAM R. (10K)