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Friday links: market mood swings

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:32:00 +0000

“For better or worse, the more likely culprit for the uptick in market mood swings is the increased popularity of ETFs . As more take bets on sectors and asset classes rather than individual stocks, it has become a market where good news lifts all boats, and bad news sinks all ...

TraderFeed found this 34 minutes ago on abnormalreturns.com

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Ohio Sues Credit Rating Agencies for Pension Fund Losses

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:49:01 +0000

Richard Cordray, Ohio’s attorney general, sued the nation’s largest credit rating agencies, alleging that they cost the state’s pension funds $457 million by approving securities that went bust.

Securities Docket found this 22 hours ago on nytimes.com

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Kicked out of finance, and into journalism

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:05:11 +0000

Up until yesterday, Michael Whitney was a presenter on Bloomberg TV; he would occasionally get his byline on Bloomberg News stories. Whitney was fined $55,000 last year by the CFTC and is subject to a permanent injunction, after being charged with false reporting and attempting to manipulate ...

FT Alphaville found this 2 days ago on blogs.reuters.com

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WHAT ARE THE BEST HEDGE FUNDS BUYING?

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:52:00 +0000

It’s 13-f season and many of the largest and best hedge funds are out with their holdings for the quarter ending September 30, 2009 ( see the 50 most powerful hedge funds here ). Although many of these positions may have changed since the filing date, it’s always useful to review these filings ...

Between the Hedges found this 43 hours ago on pragcap.com

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The NEW NEW Nasdaq

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 18:47:56 +0000

I don’t trust Cisco or John Chambers, I think Ballmer is a putz, Ebay is Web 1.0, Dell makes microwave ovens, and Craigslist at it’s best is for midget porn. But in the post ‘Financial Leverage’ era, certain companies exist are thriving and accelerating without capital ...

Abnormal Returns found this 5 days ago on howardlindzon.com

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Hedgies Unhinged

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:29:00 +0000

T he financial crisis long ago revealed the blustery truth about the wizards of Wall Street: They could be as self-dealing as they were brilliant. That was the basis, in fact, for the prosecution of Ralph Cioffi and Matthew Tannin, the Bear Stearns hedge-fund managers the government accused of ...

Dealbreaker found this 7 days ago on nymag.com

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Housing bust halts growing suburbs

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:44:12 +0000

Twenty-four of the 53 cities of 100,000 or more that grew by at least 10% every decade since 1970 lost population in the last two years. Fifteen are likely to end the decade with less than a 10% gain in population, largely because of recent losses. Among them: Bellevue , Wash., near Seattle ; ...

The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and ... found this 25 hours ago on usatoday.com

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Note to Myself: Key Points to Investing During a Bear Market Part1: Remember High Yield Bonds

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:00:29 +0000

I have made a major point of honour to take note of what life teaches me. We sometimes go through tough periods and we don’t really know why it is happening to us. We get hit as hard as being creamed by a train and we are standing in the middle of nowhere asking the very same question over ...

The Dividend Guy Blog found this 4 hours ago on thefinancialblogger.com

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Cheaper Prices—More Than Tax Credit—Motivating Home Buyers

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:11:26 +0000

Cheaper Prices—More Than Tax Credit—Motivating Home Buyers

Yahoo! News: Personal Finance News found this 2 days ago on usnews.com

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TRADING THE ODDS on Monday – November 23, 2009

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:58:14 +0000

Although the ES E-MINI S&P 500 did not comply to the positive outlook (concerning the close) based on those setups which were triggered on Thursday’s close (market internals like Calls and Puts traded on an uptick/downtick, and the percentage of stocks penetrating their previous ...

fhogelucht posted 7 minutes ago from tradingtheodds.com

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P & T

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:19:30 +0000

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Weak Weekly Wrap-Up

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:26:48 +0000

This chart says it all ( thanks Jesse ). In last week’s wrap-up I said: " Since early September our upside targets for the indexes have been: Dow 10,087, S&P 1,096, Nasdaq 2,173, NYSE 7,204 and Russell 623 and nothing has happened to change our fundamental outlook ...

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Securities Docket A.M. News Wire for 2009-11-21

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:55:00 +0000

Former Vivendi boss rejects fraud claims http://bit.ly/6jAY3L # Web Watch: Best Blog Posts and Columns For the Week Ending Nov. 20, 2009 http://bit.ly/4HmhBF # Ohio AG: Rating Suit Not Meant To Be Class-Action http://bit.ly/54cfx3 # Ohio Pension Funds Sue Credit Rating Agencies ...

bcarton posted 3 hours ago from securitiesdocket.com

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Pension board member directed funds to a firm with ties to his, documents show

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:12:02 +0000

"An appointee of Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa voted two years ago to direct millions in public pension dollars to a company that invested in his own private equity fund, according to documents obtained by The Times."

iehi posted 4 hours ago from hf-implode.com

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ICE investigating spike in dollar index futures

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:18:00 +0000

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 82.18, up from a 75.38 close on Thursday. Such a ...

FT Alphaville found this 23 hours ago on marketwatch.com

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Some Shareholders Want Goldman to Cut Back on 2009 Bonuses

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:55:07 +0000

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 situation. The investors hold tens of ...

24/7 Wall St. found this 29 hours ago on online.wsj.com

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Harvard Poker Pro Says Texas Hold ‘Em Can Teach Traders to Fold

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:10:37 +0000

Harvard Poker Pro Says Texas Hold ‘Em Can Teach Traders to Fold

Dealbreaker found this 26 hours ago on bloomberg.com

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How Deutsche Bank Bet On Americans Dying Early And Lost

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:01:00 +0000

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, you get big gains. But when people live to be ...

Between the Hedges found this 19 hours ago on businessinsider.com

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The AIG-Maiden Lane III Controversy

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:51:39 +0000

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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Big Bullish Options Bet in B of A (BAC)

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:24:51 +0000

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 double over the next year and volatility to come ...

24/7 Wall St. found this 19 hours ago on vsinvestor.com

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