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    <pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 05:02:26 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Was March The True Bottom? Here Is How You Will Know Soon</title>
      <guid>http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/3668406</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[It’s the most unique phenomenon of this rally. They are the large and successful group of investors – both individual and institutional – who see the economic reality around them and are naturally bearish. However, they’re still fully invested.<a href=http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/3668406>[More...]</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 17:45:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Daily Outlook In Fewer Words 11/26/09</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Quote of the day: A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power. — Brian Tracy

EURUSD

Trading strategy: stand aside<a href=http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/3668067>[More...]</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 17:30:40 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>How Big Is Too Big?</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[As legislation on restructuring the banking industry moves forward, attention on Capitol Hill is increasingly drawn to the issue of bank size. Should our biggest banks be made smaller?<a href=http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/3668066>[More...]</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 17:28:46 GMT</pubDate>
      <category domain="http://rss.financialcontent.com/stocksymbol">BAC</category>
      <category domain="http://rss.financialcontent.com/stocksymbol">GS</category>
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      <title>Default In The Desert Sparks Panic</title>
      <guid>http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/3668065</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[On Thanksgiving when Americans celebrate their first bailout, the big story is that the planned “orderly” decline in the Greenback is starting to be anything but! With most US investors probably thinking more about holiday than markets, it should be no surprise that markets have traded quietly for the most part overnight. The main action has been in currency markets, where the Dollar has been sold across the board after breaking through 1.50 against the Euro and slumping to a 14 year low versus the Yen.<a href=http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/3668065>[More...]</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 17:21:09 GMT</pubDate>
      <category domain="http://rss.financialcontent.com/stocksymbol">BCS</category>
      <category domain="http://rss.financialcontent.com/stocksymbol">BHP</category>
      <category domain="http://rss.financialcontent.com/stocksymbol">C</category>
      <category domain="http://rss.financialcontent.com/stocksymbol">GS</category>
      <category domain="http://rss.financialcontent.com/stocksymbol">ING</category>
      <category domain="http://rss.financialcontent.com/stocksymbol">RIO</category>
      <category domain="http://rss.financialcontent.com/stocksymbol">TGT</category>
      <category domain="http://rss.financialcontent.com/stocksymbol">WMT</category>
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      <title>Taxing Stock Trades Gets Closer</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[As I have noted in several posts in the recent past, Congress is getting closer to taxing certain securities transactions. The bill proposes a .25 percent tax on the sale and purchase of financial instruments such as stocks, options, derivatives and futures. Half of the proceeds would go to reduce the deficit and the other half of the proceeds from the tax would be used to create jobs. Retirement accounts would be exempt from the tax. Unions, such as the AFL-CIO and SEIU are in favor of the tax since they believe the tax will not have an impact on the average investor.<a href=http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/3666530>[More...]</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:36:16 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/3666530</link>
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      <title>Market Closing : Commodity Producers Lead Narrow Wall Street Advance - Oil Gains, Gold Breaks Another Record</title>
      <guid>http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/3666525</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Major stock averages close up around 0.3%-0.4% and in the middle of the day's range.
Shares of commodity producers and materials stocks led a modest broad market rally in thin pre-holiday trading Wednesday as gold notched a ninth straight closing record Wednesday. A string of largely upbeat economic reports added to bullish sentiment.<a href=http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/3666525>[More...]</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:35:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category domain="http://rss.financialcontent.com/stocksymbol">BNHN</category>
      <category domain="http://rss.financialcontent.com/stocksymbol">DE</category>
      <category domain="http://rss.financialcontent.com/stocksymbol">HAL</category>
      <category domain="http://rss.financialcontent.com/stocksymbol">JCG</category>
      <category domain="http://rss.financialcontent.com/stocksymbol">TIF</category>
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      <title>An Overview Of Unconventional Monetary Policies</title>
      <guid>http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/3666502</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[The excellent research edifice at the Bank of International Settlements have conjured up one of those papers which needed to be written (by Claudio Borio and Piti Disyatat) on the back of the myriad of different monetary policy responses we have observed in the contex of the economic crisis. The abstract and conclusion look as follows;<a href=http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/3666502>[More...]</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:24:07 GMT</pubDate>
      <category domain="http://rss.financialcontent.com/stocksymbol">WAT</category>
      <link>http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/3666502</link>
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      <title>Warning Signs Are Starting To Mount</title>
      <guid>http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/3666348</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Many of the market internals are now starting to flash warning signs. Despite moving to within a hairs breadth of making new highs yesterday many stocks have now dropped below their 50 day moving averages.<a href=http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/3666348>[More...]</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:11:32 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/3666348</link>
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      <title>An Expanded Look At The Hedge Fund Industry</title>
      <guid>http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/3666340</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[An expanded look at the prospects for the Hedge Fund industry. Not many surprises: the hedge fund boom is expected to resume courtesy of the bubble building that made billionaires out of some of the most pro-cyclical, unimaginative permabulls in existence. With the concept of a free-market out of the picture as a result of direct intervention by the Fed for years to come, hedge funds inflows are coming back with a bang. Yet it appears that in the future, the generous fee and lock up structures that were prevalent in the last bubble, will be increasingly more difficult to replicate.<a href=http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/3666340>[More...]</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:05:16 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>FDIC Fund In The Negative</title>
      <guid>http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/3666218</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[In its quarterly report on the banks, issued on Tuesday, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) said that the deposit insurance fund used to protect customer accounts dropped by $18.6 billion during the third quarter of 2009 to a deficit of $8.2 billion, while banks earned only $2.8 billion as loan defaults continued to hurt bank balance sheets. The agency said that the decline in the insurance fund was due primarily to an additional $21.7 billion set aside by the FDIC during the quarter for additional bank failures.<a href=http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/3666218>[More...]</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:13:20 GMT</pubDate>
      <category domain="http://rss.financialcontent.com/stocksymbol">BBT</category>
      <category domain="http://rss.financialcontent.com/stocksymbol">FITB</category>
      <category domain="http://rss.financialcontent.com/stocksymbol">JPM</category>
      <category domain="http://rss.financialcontent.com/stocksymbol">PNC</category>
      <category domain="http://rss.financialcontent.com/stocksymbol">STI</category>
      <category domain="http://rss.financialcontent.com/stocksymbol">USB</category>
      <category domain="http://rss.financialcontent.com/stocksymbol">WM</category>
      <category domain="http://rss.financialcontent.com/stocksymbol">ZION</category>
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      <title>Turnaround Expert: 8 Stocks Below 1999 Highs</title>
      <guid>http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/3665455</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[&quot;We all know that, despite the big run-up recently, many stocks are still below their highs of a year or two ago,&quot; observes turnaround expert George Putnam.<a href=http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/3665455>[More...]</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:17:49 GMT</pubDate>
      <category domain="http://rss.financialcontent.com/stocksymbol">AA</category>
      <category domain="http://rss.financialcontent.com/stocksymbol">DIS</category>
      <category domain="http://rss.financialcontent.com/stocksymbol">HD</category>
      <category domain="http://rss.financialcontent.com/stocksymbol">INTC</category>
      <category domain="http://rss.financialcontent.com/stocksymbol">KO</category>
      <category domain="http://rss.financialcontent.com/stocksymbol">PFE</category>
      <category domain="http://rss.financialcontent.com/stocksymbol">WMT</category>
      <category domain="http://rss.financialcontent.com/stocksymbol">WYE</category>
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      <title>Check-In Brazil ADRS vs Local Shares</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[One of the noteworthy developments here in Q4 has been the renewed interest in capital controls by countries trying to manage the flood of portfolio capital. Brazil's 2% tax on purchases of Brazilian stocks and bonds is among the most significant examples. 
A number of ADRs on Brazilian companies trade in the United States and often with very good liquidity. When we initially compared the price of the local shares for Petrobras and the ADR, we found the ADR pricing did not account for the 2% tax on the local shares.<a href=http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/3665445>[More...]</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:12:40 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Options Intelligence Report: Volatility Declines Yet Again In Options Land</title>
      <guid>http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/3665443</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Today's tickers: VIX, IYR, GPS, CTXS, JPM, JCG, BKC, &amp; TIF<a href=http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/3665443>[More...]</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:08:28 GMT</pubDate>
      <category domain="http://rss.financialcontent.com/stocksymbol">BKC</category>
      <category domain="http://rss.financialcontent.com/stocksymbol">CTXS</category>
      <category domain="http://rss.financialcontent.com/stocksymbol">GPS</category>
      <category domain="http://rss.financialcontent.com/stocksymbol">IYR</category>
      <category domain="http://rss.financialcontent.com/stocksymbol">JCG</category>
      <category domain="http://rss.financialcontent.com/stocksymbol">JPM</category>
      <category domain="http://rss.financialcontent.com/stocksymbol">TIF</category>
      <category domain="http://rss.financialcontent.com/stocksymbol">VIX</category>
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      <title>The CLO Market May Be Making A Comeback</title>
      <guid>http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/3665435</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Amazingly, the primary CLO market, which has been shut down since late 2007, may be making a comeback in 2010. The volumes will be a fraction of the peak, the capital structure will be simple, and the equity structures will be thicker, but the deals will get done. Unlike other securitization markets such as ABS and CMBS, it seems that the vast majority of the original AAA tranches will get their principal back in spite of record levels of corporate loan defaults. The AAA subordination of 25-30% has been sufficient to cushion the senior tranches from principal losses. In addition, deals that have had a relatively large portion of their collateral default or get downgraded have been forced to start using income to down the AAA principal, amortizing/deleveraging the transactions early. These facts may bring institutional investors back into the market.<a href=http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/3665435>[More...]</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:04:51 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/3665435</link>
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      <title>Lehman's Resistance</title>
      <guid>http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/3665432</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[After spending the majority of the day coiling up only to go nowhere, the indices finish the day with losses less than a third of a percent across the board. The stage is set for stocks to move higher, we just need a catalyst.<a href=http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/3665432>[More...]</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:03:50 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/3665432</link>
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      <title>The 'Investmentless' Recovery</title>
      <guid>http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/3665428</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[The behavior of U.S. employment at the end of the last two recessions (1991 and 2001) was different than in previous recessions. Employment did not grow fast and it took several years to reach the pre-recession levels. Because of this, the recovery years that followed both of these two recessions have been labeled &quot;jobless recoveries&quot;. Below is a chart from Brad de Long that compares them to two other previous recessions (original posting is here).<a href=http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/3665428>[More...]</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:00:13 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>More On Goldman (GS) And AIG</title>
      <guid>http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/3665423</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Thomas Adams, a lawyer and former bond insurer executive, wrote a guest post for naked capitalism on the question of why AIG was bailed out and the monoline bond insurers were not (wow, is it really almost two years since the monoline insurer crisis?). He estimates that the monolines together had roughly the same amount of exposure to CDOs that AIG did; in addition, since the monolines also insured trillions of dollars of municipal debt, there were potential spillover effects. (AIG, by contrast, insured tens of trillions of non-financial stuff — people’s lives, houses, cars, commercial liability, etc. — but that was in separately capitalized subsidiaries.)<a href=http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/3665423>[More...]</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:55:20 GMT</pubDate>
      <category domain="http://rss.financialcontent.com/stocksymbol">AIG</category>
      <category domain="http://rss.financialcontent.com/stocksymbol">GS</category>
      <link>http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/3665423</link>
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      <title>What The Market's False Recovery Means For Investors</title>
      <guid>http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/3665400</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[With investors feeling more confident than ever about the state of the economy as we approach retail’s biggest day of the year, Black Friday, it’s time to take a sober look at where things really stand. Two very serious metrics stand to trip up and hopes of a sustained recovery – unless you’re positioned to ride out the storm.<a href=http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/3665400>[More...]</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:50:07 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/3665400</link>
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      <title>Using Put Options: How To Grab Discounts And Instant Money Everyday</title>
      <guid>http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/3665327</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Forget Black Friday. The stock market has 3,000 items on sale – and ready to give you cash back… instantly.
Over the past few weeks, I've discussed how you could have sold put options to go long on gold or silver through their respective ETFs – the SPDR Gold Shares (NYSE: GLD) and the iShares Silver Trust (NYSE: SLV).<a href=http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/3665327>[More...]</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:16:31 GMT</pubDate>
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      <category domain="http://rss.financialcontent.com/stocksymbol">GLD</category>
      <category domain="http://rss.financialcontent.com/stocksymbol">SLV</category>
      <link>http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/3665327</link>
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      <title>US Investors Now Have Direct Access To Poland</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Van Eck, a leading company for providing ETF investors with access to new investment categories, has done it again.&#160; Today’s launch of Market Vectors Poland ETF (PLND) is the first pure-play single-country ETF focusing on Poland for US investors.&#160; PLND trades on the NYSE and expenses are capped at 0.76%<a href=http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/3665307>[More...]</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:11:24 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/3665307</link>
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      <title>According To Fed, Super-Low Rates Could Lead To A Speculative Bubble</title>
      <guid>http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/3665303</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[In an effort to fuel the nation’s economic recovery, super-low interest rates are not expected to be strong enough to decrease the unemployment rate, and according to the Fed, could feed a new speculative bubble. Not only could record-low interest rates lead to excessive risk-taking in the financial markets, but they could also cause consumers, investors and businesses to worry about inflation taking off.<a href=http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/3665303>[More...]</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:10:19 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/3665303</link>
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      <title>Selling Theta: 5 Option Write Ideas For A Closed Market</title>
      <guid>http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/3665104</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Today is Wednesday November 25, 2009 and I am in a selling mood, not because I am extremely bearish but because I see a potential profit play. I am looking to sell covered calls on some of my holdings. If you're thinking about selling covered calls like me, today may be the day to do it! This won't make anyone rich but it's simple, safe, and may give a couple extra dollars to spend over the holiday's.<a href=http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/3665104>[More...]</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:44:04 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/3665104</link>
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      <title>Which Of The 'Rich Four' Countries Will Default First?</title>
      <guid>http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/3665096</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Volume in the credit default swap market for rich countries has soared and so have credit spreads, according to a recent Financial Times story, while volume in emerging markets CDS has stagnated. In other words, traders are betting against the governments with high budget deficits, like Britain and the United States, as well as against those with high debt levels, like Japan and Italy.<a href=http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/3665096>[More...]</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:40:19 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/3665096</link>
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      <title>Fraudie/Phoney MBS And More Lies From Congress</title>
      <guid>http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/3665049</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Heh Ben, how's that sphincter (pick which one) feel about now?
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Fannie Mae (FNM.N), shrunk its gross mortgage portfolio by an annual rate of about 28 percent in October and delinquencies on loans it guarantees rose sharply in September, the largest U.S. home funding company said on Tuesday.<a href=http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/3665049>[More...]</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:01:42 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Spot Commodities Spell Megaton Trouble For Deflationists</title>
      <guid>http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/3665044</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[The popular commodity indices such as the Goldman, Rogers, DJUBS, and CRB suggest that commodities are in a rather confused state. The “trends” are somewhat messy with no clear indication as to which way they are likely to break over the coming days.<a href=http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/3665044>[More...]</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:59:29 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/3665044</link>
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      <title>Gold Bullion – Overdue For A Pullback?</title>
      <guid>http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/3665016</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Gold closed up $1.10 yesterday to scale a fresh high of $1,165.80. Amazingly, this was the 14th higher close of the last 15 sessions..
It doesn’t take much analysis to conclude that gold is overbought, at least in the short term, but here is Richard Russel’s (Dow Theory Letters) answer to the question “Should I buy more gold here?”.<a href=http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/3665016>[More...]</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:46:53 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/3665016</link>
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      <title>Adjusting Financial Statements</title>
      <guid>http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/3664935</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Investors should be aware that certain stakeholders of financial statements can exert pressure or political influence that results in accounting rules that distort the true economic picture of a business. Investors need to be aware that such situations exist so that they ensure they have made adjustments that reverse these distortions.<a href=http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/3664935>[More...]</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:44:20 GMT</pubDate>
      <category domain="http://rss.financialcontent.com/stocksymbol">AXP</category>
      <link>http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/3664935</link>
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      <title>Interesting Convergence To Watch At 10,500 On Dow Jones</title>
      <guid>http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/3664930</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[There’s an interesting convergence of two ‘advanced’ technical trading methods that show potential overhead resistance - or upcoming technical breakthrough - at the 10,500 on the Dow Jones Index - the upper trendline from an Andrew’s Pitchfork and the 100% Fibonacci Price Projection.&#160; Let’s see them both.<a href=http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/3664930>[More...]</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:39:48 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/3664930</link>
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      <title>Fed Gives Clear Message</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The minutes of the Federal Reserve meeting of November 3rd and 4th were released yesterday. The clear message of the minutes is that short-term rates are going to stay very low for a long time to come.? Below is the summary of the participants' view of the economy, and my translation/commentary/analysis of it interspersed.<a href=http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/3664924>[More...]</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:38:01 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Hedge Funds Investing More In Stock Market</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Hedge funds invested heavily in the stock market during the third quarter of 2009.  This represents hedge funds' biggest appetite for stock market risk in two years and may signal a broader recovery of the financial industry.<a href=http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/3664923>[More...]</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:36:13 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Why The Dollar Is Broadly Lower</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The combination of the apparent resolution of the West LB situation and the FOMC minutes have conspired to send the US dollar broadly lower today. The FOMC minutes in particular have been seized upon. On one hand, it is unusual for the FOMC to give so much space to a discussion about the dollar. This is, however consistent with what appears to be a stepped up campaign by both Treasury and Fed officials to cite the dollar in an unsolicited way. The ostensible purpose is likely to demonstrate that there is no &quot;malign neglect&quot;. On the other hand, what they did say was essentially what Bernanke said last week. The Fed is monitoring developments in the foreign exchange market and the dollar's price action is not jeopardizing the FOMC's ability to pursue its dual mandate.<a href=http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/3664916>[More...]</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:24:48 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Swing Trades For The Day - High Fliers</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[I'm back in better health today and I've got a bunch of swing trading candidates for the model portfolio. I'm choosing to center to stocks with a lot of momentum on the upside, as index futures are strong this morning (Asia closed out pretty well, while Europe is strong), and a breakout in the S&amp;P 500 above 1,112 would be a momentum-based move. I'd expect stocks with strong momentum to outperform the market. On the other hand, since<a href=http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/3664915>[More...]</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:21:49 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The Fed Fears A New Mortgage Crisis</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Although the number was just revised downward, the U.S. economy still expanded by 2.8 percent during the third quarter. So it definitely looks like the recession is history. 
 What's more, last Thursday the Conference Board published its Leading Economic Indicator (LEI) for October.<a href=http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/3664911>[More...]</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:17:53 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Data On The Debt</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[So far, my foray into the world of the national debt has consisted of this:

 Don’t try to scare people with hyperinflation unless you have some basis for doing so. The recent deterioration in the projected debt situation is mainly due to the financial crisis and recession, not some kind of runaway spending under the Obama administration. (See Econbrowser for the deterioration over the last eight years.)<a href=http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/3664910>[More...]</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:15:01 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Waiting (Hoping) For Clarity</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[“We have to be sure that the recovery is final, that domestic demand is self-sustaining and the peak in unemployment is on the foreseeable horizon,” Dominique Strauss-Kahn, managing director of the IMF, said yesterday in London yesterday in connection with a speech he gave at a British industry conference.<a href=http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/3664907>[More...]</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:07:17 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Credit Market Overview:  Nov 25, 2009</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[November 25, 2009
 To say that the world is a different place than it was yesterday is a bit clich&#233;; to say it is a different place than it was on Thanksgiving Day 2007 is the grossest of understatements.
 Having hopefully been through the worst of the back side of ...<a href=http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/3664893>[More...]</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:42:34 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Debt Financing Crowding Out: Now Even Landlords</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[I read yesterday on retailtrafficmag.com a provocative article: When the Landlord Can’t Pay the Mortgage.
There are discussions among economists about the “crowding out” phenomena. It occurs when the government is required to issue so much debt that it crowds out the private sector. This is happening all over the develop world where governments have stepped in to avoid a more severe recession and now are not paying the price, they are financing it.<a href=http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/3664210>[More...]</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 03:44:01 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The FDIC Reserve Is Gone</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The cash reserves needed for the FDIC to keep paying depositors at failed banks has all been used up. Don’t panic (yet anyways), the FDIC has an open credit line to the Treasury Department (uh, that means us tax payers) that will keep the FDIC floating in cash to keep paying out money to Grandma and Grandpa at the failed banks.<a href=http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/3664209>[More...]</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 03:37:06 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>U.S.A. Consumers Confidence Rose In November 2009 ! Will The Market Make Big Gains Today ?</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[-- Confidence among U.S. consumers unexpectedly rose in November as a brightening outlook masked growing concern over joblessness. 
The Conference Board’s confidence index increased to 49.5 from 48.7 the prior month. The New York-based Conference Board’s index, which focuses on the labor market and purchase plans, averaged 58 in 2008 and 103.4 in 2007.<a href=http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/3664207>[More...]</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 03:20:29 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>As Bank Failures Grow, FDIC Options Narrow</title>
      <guid>http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/3663756</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC) will likely have tap its credit line with the U.S. Treasury or impose more special premiums on banks, to ensure U.S. banks are fully supported.<a href=http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/3663756>[More...]</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:15:19 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Guest Post: Goldman Sachs Responds To The New York Times</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Pulitzer Prize winner Gretchen Morgenson of the New York Times wrote a must read article (“Revisiting a Fed Waltz with AIG,” November 21, 2009) on Sunday in which she recaps salient points from the November 17, 2009 report of the Office of the Special Inspector General (Neil Barofsky) for the Troubled Asset Relief Programs, “Factors Affecting Efforts to Limit Payments to AIG Counterparties,” and wrote:<a href=http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/3663709>[More...]</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:44:53 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Wall Street Ends Choppy Session Lower, Boeing (NYSE: BA) Falls</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[US stocks finished lower on Tuesday after Federal Reserve upped its forecast for economic growth in 2010 but warned that jobless rate would likely remain high next year.<a href=http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/3663543>[More...]</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:38:28 GMT</pubDate>
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      <category domain="http://rss.financialcontent.com/stocksymbol">JPM</category>
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      <title>Banking Center Updates</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Developments in the banking sector have somewhat overshadowed German economic news today. Yet German GDP data may stand in contrast to US GDP due this morning. It’s not that German Q3 GDP was stellar. Q3 GDP was unchanged from the preliminary data at 0.7% q/q (and -4.8% y/y) and a breakdown of the data showed consumption continued to fall (down 0.9%q/q), offset by investment spending (up 1.3% q/q) as companies invested in machinery and equipment while exports gained 3.4% though that was offset by a 5.0% gain in imports with next exports detracting 0.5% from GDP.<a href=http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/3663271>[More...]</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:23:43 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Bank Of America On Gold's Imminent Rise To $1,500</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Earlier we presented one view on why gold is about to plunge. While that perspective was somewhat truncated, a report recently issued by Bank Of America's commodities team presents the case for gold at $1,500/ounce. As BACMLCFC observes, and agrees with other observations presented on Zero Hedge by both SocGen and by Jim Grant, &quot;(d)uring the last decade we found that three variables alone could explain the fluctuations in the price of gold: risk, currency and commodity prices. In a nutshell, our analysis showed that gold is sometimes a currency, sometimes a commodity and sometimes a store of value. Of course, the elusive question<a href=http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/3663241>[More...]</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:11:35 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Lower Fees For Longer Lock-Ups</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[2009 was the year for major structural changes at hedge funds. According to the latest E&amp;Y survey of hedge funds, lowering the management fees has been one such key change. Apparently the majority (87%) of managers has lowered their fees or plans to do so shortly. For those who are fans of Venn diagrams, the chart below is a good illustration of the structural changes taking place.<a href=http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/3663210>[More...]</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:01:22 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Revised Recovery</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[About a month ago the Commerce Department announced that the economy had  a 3.5% growth rate for the July-September period, or third quarter. A lot of people claimed that the number was strong enough to call it an official end of recession, or ”jobless recovery”, very peculiar name indeed. Today these numbers were revised, and not in an optimistic way.<a href=http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/3663090>[More...]</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:43:18 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Interest Rates At Center Stage</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[In case you were just yesterday wondering if interest rates could get any lower, the answer was &quot;yes&quot;<a href=http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/3663097>[More...]</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:42:46 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Hedge Funds Frozen Assets</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Hedge funds have been fighting to regain over $35 billion of hedge fund assets which were frozen following the investment bank's fall last year.   Hedge funds are now considering a proposal that would return at least $11 billion of the frozen assets by March.  The proposal, put together by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC.UL), requires approval by 90% of Lehman's clients.<a href=http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/3663077>[More...]</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:33:36 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Options Intelligence Report : Bank of America (BAC) Call Options Fly Off The Shelves</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Long-term Bank of America bulls are out in full force today, scooping up call options like they’re going out of style. BAC’s shares are off slightly by less than 1% to $16.19. Plain-vanilla call buying in the January 2011 contract indicates investors expect shares to surge over the next 13 months. A large chunk of 50,000 calls were picked up at the January 25 strike for an average premium of 86 cents apiece. Shares must rally 60% from the current price to breach the $25.86 break-even point on the trade.<a href=http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/3663082>[More...]</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:33:22 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Banks Raise 40% of Capital From Hedge Funds This Year</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Banks have been looking to anyone for capital to overcome the credit crisis and apparently hedge funds have been one of the largest rescuers.&#160; A recent report estimates that hedge funds<a href=http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/3662867>[More...]</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:56:19 GMT</pubDate>
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