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online.wsj.com - 15 hours ago
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Some of the largest shareholders in Goldman Sachs
Group Inc. have urged the Wall Street firm to
reduce the size of its bonus pool, arguing that it should pass along more of its blockbuster earnings to investors, according to people familiar with the ...
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Some Shareholders Want Goldman to Cut Back on 2009 Bonuses
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businessinsider.com - 5 hours ago
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You've probably heard of the controversial investment schemes
buy people's life insurance policies, pay them an annual
amount, and then collect money when each people die. If the people die early, and you only end up subsidizing them for a few years, ...
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How Deutsche Bank Bet On Americans Dying Early And Lost
marketwatch.com - 9 hours ago
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Alert Email Print By Steve Goldstein , MarketWatch
LONDON (MarketWatch) -- The IntercontinentalExchange is probing trades in
U.S. dollar index futures that briefly showed a massive 9% jump on Friday morning. The lead contract surged as high as ...
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ICE investigating spike in dollar index futures
bloomberg.com - 12 hours ago
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Harvard Poker Pro Says Texas Hold ‘Em Can
Teach Traders to Fold
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Harvard Poker Pro Says Texas Hold ‘Em Can Teach Traders ...
vsinvestor.com - 4 hours ago
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Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC) has seen
an absolute massive butterfly call spread for January 2011
as 50,000 January $20 and $40 calls are bought for $1.94, and 100,000 $30 calls are sold at $0.37, so a $1.20 debit, expecting shares to nearly ...
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Big Bullish Options Bet in B of A (BAC)
247wallst.com - 4 hours ago
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We have seen some unusual options trading today.
As you would expect, some is around today’s 4:00
PM close with today being options expiration date. But some bets are way out into 2011 and we have some around merger rumors. All have links ...
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Unusual Friday Options Activity (AAPL, GOOG, BAC, LEAP, ...
vsinvestor.com - 4 hours ago
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Yahoo Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) has seen a massive
trade for January 2011 as 20,000 January $12.50 puts
are sold for $1.10, and 20,000 January $17.50 and $30 calls are also sold for a total of $1.75, while 40,000 of the $20 calls are bought for $0.96, a ...
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The Big 2011 Yahoo! Options Bet (YHOO)
businessinsider.com - 26 hours ago
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Felix Salmon: Henry Blodget Should Be Banned From The ...
blogs.reuters.com - 8 hours ago
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Dear Henry , I'm not annoyed by you!
How could I be, when you call me the
"king of financial bloggers" no fewer than four times in one piece? I think you've created a powerful, innovative , and disruptive franchise in The Business Insider, which ...
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Disclosing journalists’ pasts
bloomberg.com - 11 hours ago
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Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Federal Reserve officials are
stepping up scrutiny of the biggest U.S. banks to
ensure the lenders can withstand a reversal of soaring global-asset prices, according to people with knowledge of the matter. Supervisors are ...
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Fed Makes Monitoring Bank Capital Foremost Concern (Update1)
247wallst.com - 4 hours ago
Top 10 Analyst Upgrades, Downgrades, Initiations (AFL, BRCM, DDS, D, INTC, MRVL, BTU, RTP, STP, TXN)
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These are Friday morning’s top 10 analyst upgrades,
downgrades, and initiations we have seen early this morning
in Wall Street research calls: AFLAC (NYSE: AFL) Raised to Overweight at Morgan Stanley. Broadcom Corp. (NASDAQ: BRCM) Started as ...
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Top 10 Analyst Upgrades, Downgrades, Initiations (AFL, ...
247wallst.com - 4 hours ago
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These are this morning’s top day trader alerts
and active trader alerts early this Friday morning. We
have links through to each stock at VSInvestor.com with more data and analysis on each: BioCryst Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: BCRX) down ...
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Top Day Trader Alerts (BCRX, DELL, DRYS, NVAX, WCRX)
seekingalpha.com - 12 hours ago
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Dell’s (DELL) fiscal third quarter financials fell well
short of estimates across the board. The company on
Thursday reported third quarter net income of $337 million, or 17 cents a share. That tally is down 54 percent from a year ago. Wall Street ...
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Dell's Third Quarter Disappoints, Yet It Sees IT Demand ...
benzinga.com - 12 hours ago
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Goldman Sachs resumes coverage on Dell Inc. (NASDAQ:
DELL ) and gave DELL a Buy rating at
a 12-month price target of $19. Goldman believes that DELL will benefit from a corporate PC refresh cycle and will show better earnings as DELL is trying to ...
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Dell Will Be A Key Beneficiary of The PC Upgrade Cycle
vsinvestor.com - 11 hours ago
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Novavax, Inc. (Nasdaq: NVAX) is trading down this
morning on reports from teh company that it plans
to offer common stock in a public secondary offering through Piper Jaffray and Lazard Capital Markets. Terms were not yet stated, but the shares at ...
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Novavax Offering Pressure (NVAX)
vsinvestor.com - 11 hours ago
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Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) is down, and you
know why… disappointing earnings…. say no more. This traded
over 8 million shares in the after-hours session last night and went out down 6.05% at $14.91 late in the after-hours session. But ...
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New Technical Levels on Dell (DELL)
247wallst.com - 12 hours ago
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Reuters: The Senate is near its first vote
on healthcare. Reuters: Dell (NASDAQ:DELL) is betting on corporate
spending for its recovery. Reuters: Time Warner’s (NYSE:TWX) AOL showed that the worst is not over for media job cuts. Reuters: ...
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Media Digest 11/20/2009 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, ...
ft.com - 22 hours ago
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Published: November 20 2009 01:40 | Last updated:
November 20 2009 01:40 Short-term US interest rates turned
negative on Thursday as banks frantically stockpiled government securities in order to polish their balance sheets for the end of the year. ...
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Short-term US interest rates turn negative
baselinescenario.com - 9 hours ago
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As everyone knows by now, Neil Barofsky, special
inspector general for TARP, has a new report out
on the decision by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York last Fall to make various AIG counterparties (primarily some very big banks with names you know) whole on the the CDS protection they had ...
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The AIG-Maiden Lane III Controversy
vsinvestor.com - 4 hours ago
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It is always said that options around the
options expiration dates tend to act as a magnet
to the closest strike price. That appears to be the case today in Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG). While it is easy to refute the ...
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Google & Apple Options Pulling Share Prices (GOOG, AAPL)
marketnewslive.blogspot.com - 8 hours ago
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Google's Chrome operating system took a big step
on Thursday with its release to the open source
community. The OS is targeted at netbooks and will be faster, simpler and more secure than existing operating systems, according to Google.
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Video: Google opens its Chrome OS to developers






