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Recent Stock Market Chatter on Twitter – 2009-11-07 20:20:46.0

Sun, 8 Nov 2009 01:14:44 +0000

Stocks in the Twitter stream:2009-11-08 00:07:31.0 - @MDabbles I hope so. I'm in two swings that I am waiting for movement on. In $BEST at 1.70 and $CTIC at .98. I'm trying to diversify better2009-11-07 23:14:39.0 - @ThaSoriano o//, to na pais'zinhaaa, paizÃ£o eh acho difiÃ§Ã£o, mas t indo e ...

ecahoon posted 3 hours ago from deepmarket.com

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Thoughts from the Frontline

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 12:00:02 +0000

I first wrote about the Muddle Through Economy in 2002, and the term has more or less become a theme we have returned to from time to time. In 2007 I wrote that we would indeed get back to a Muddle Through Economy after the end of the coming recession. If you Google the term, at least for the ...

The Big Picture found this 16 hours ago on 2000wave.com

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EQUITIES Magazine

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 12:00:02 +0000

A Look At the Old, New, and Forthcoming In Market Analysis and Investment Bloomberg by Bloomberg By Michael Bloomberg John Wiley & Sons, 2001 In 1982, Michael Bloomberg took his hefty termination compensation from Salomon and started Bloomberg Financial Services with financial backing from ...

The Big Picture found this 16 hours ago on equitiesmagazine.com

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TRADING THE ODDS on Monday – November 9, 2009

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 21:08:22 +0000

Friday marked the second consecutive session where the ES E-MINI S&P 500 showed the expected weakness already during the GLOBEX session (posting a pre-opening low of at least -0.75% ), but recouped all of it’s pre-opening and/or intraday losses and managed a gain on the close. ...

fhogelucht posted 7 hours ago from tradingtheodds.com

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High Premium Money Links

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 20:57:01 +0000

Dealing with Diapers and Baby Supplies on a BudgetThe Big Picture For The Week Of November 8, 2009The New Trickle Down Economics Western Oil Majors Reluctantly Return to IraqIt s A Wonderful WeekendWhat We LoveThe Glide Path OptionTV Tourism: Visiting Your Favorite ShowsBest of the Week: Free ...

ecahoon posted 7 hours ago from deepmarket.com

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Head and Shoulders chart pattern for 2009-11-06

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 20:57:01 +0000

Head and Shoulders chart found for the following stocks:Sono-Tek Corp (SOTK) over a 7 day period with about a 94% match.Williams Pipeline Partners Lp (WMZ) over a 7 day period with about a 93% match.Onyx Pharmaceuticals Inc. (ONXX) over a 7 day period with about a 92% match.Test Zxzzt (ZXZZT) ...

ecahoon posted 7 hours ago from deepmarket.com

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Inverted Head and Shoulders chart pattern for 2009-11-06

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 20:57:01 +0000

Inverted Head and Shoulders chart found for the following stocks:Eaton Vance Fl Plus Muni Incm (FEV) over a 7 day period with about a 97% match.Ishares Ftse Epra/Nareit North America Index Fund (IFNA) over a 7 day period with about a 95% match.Garibaldi Res Corp (GGIFF) over a 7 day ...

ecahoon posted 7 hours ago from deepmarket.com

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A Reader Asks "How Did 558,000 People Lose Their Jobs When Only 190,000 Jobs Were Lost?"

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 20:33:43 +0000

"An astute reader noticed that the BLS press release says that 190,000 jobs were lost from payroll employment, but the number of unemployed persons increased by 558,000. What's up with that?"

iehi posted 8 hours ago from hf-implode.com

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JPMorgan’s Dimon Hires His Father for Bear Stearns Brokerage

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 20:37:56 +0000

" Theodore “Ted” Dimon, the 78-year-old father of JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s chief executive officer, quit Bank of America Corp.’s Merrill Lynch unit yesterday to join his son’s firm, according to a person familiar with the matter. JPMorgan spokesman Darin Oduyoye confirmed the decision and said ...

iehi posted 8 hours ago from hf-implode.com

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Recent LBO Mega-Deals Have Much Higher Default Rates

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 20:27:16 +0000

"LBOs by Cerberus and Apollo are performing much worse than other private equity deals, while deals by KKR, JP Morgan and Welsh Carson have seen better performance."

iehi posted 8 hours ago from hf-implode.com

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Recent Stock Market Chatter on Twitter – 2009-11-07 15:19:02.0

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 20:18:31 +0000

Stocks in the Twitter stream:2009-11-07 19:14:30.0 - NI Technology report on cloud computing covering $GOOG $VMW $AAPL $PALM $RIMM - Have to optin but it's interesting - http://bit.ly/1obKIc2009-11-07 18:42:55.0 - RT @alleyinsider: iPhone For Verizon In 2010 $AAPL $VZ $T by @fromedome ...

ecahoon posted 8 hours ago from deepmarket.com

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RMBS Ratings Proposal Will Determine Insurers’ Capital Requirements

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 19:52:37 +0000

" The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) on Thursday approved a proposal to establish a new model for determining ratings of residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS).The new model will establish ratings designations for approximately 18,000 RMBS owned by US insurers by ...

iehi posted 9 hours ago from hf-implode.com

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Fannie Mae’s Sale of Tax Credits Is A Bad Deal, Treasury Says

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 19:59:47 +0000

Fannie Mae’s request to sell $2.6 billion in low-income housing tax credits would be a bad deal for taxpayers and won’t be allowed, the U.S. Treasury said. The government decided the deal would cost taxpayers more than Fannie Mae would gain from the sale, according to a letter sent to the ...

iehi posted 8 hours ago from hf-implode.com

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BarCap Sees ‘Limited Use’ of Fannie’s Deed-for-Lease Program

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 19:45:58 +0000

"Although a new foreclosure alternative program announced Thursday by Fannie Mae (FNM: 1.04 -7.14%) presents a new step in mitigating foreclosure risk among distressed borrowers, it looks to have only a “marginal” effect on prepayments within Fannie residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS), ...

iehi posted 9 hours ago from hf-implode.com

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Senator Seeks to Break Up Banks 'Too Big to Fail'

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 19:27:35 +0000

Senator Bernard Sanders of Vermont has introduced legislation that would force the Treasury Department to break up all financial institutions whose failure could cause a major disruption to the nation's financial system.

self-evident found this 9 hours ago on dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com

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Einhorn: First, Let’s Kill All the Credit Default Swaps

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 18:15:49 +0000

David Einhorn, who enjoys his considerable reputation for hard-fought battles against firms with shaky finances and dubious accounting (Alliance Capital and Lehman), has taken aim at a new and equally deserving target: credit default swaps. In an interesting bit of synchronicity, ...

Paul Kedrosky's Infectious Greed found this 10 hours ago on nakedcapitalism.com

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The Man Who Sunk Citigroup Launches Hubris Fund

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 03:47:11 +0000

Having just written a book on the subject ( When Mooks Fail , currently #15 on the Amazon.com best-seller list ), Charlie G. continues his intrepid reporting on the utter shamelessness of Wall Street. Now, Tom Maheras , the former Citigroup president, is hardly the only person who proves that, ...

Abnormal Returns found this 2 days ago on dealbreaker.com

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Best and Worst Performing S&P 500 Stocks Since Obama's Election Win

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 17:24:07 +0000

Interestingly, Ford Motor (F) has been the best performing S&P; 500 stock since the 2008 election. With all the troubles that the US auto industry has gone through over the past year, Ford has made it out alive and now appears to be getting stronger. Ford (F) is trailed by Whole Foods (WFMI) ...

UpsideTrader found this 11 hours ago on bespokeinvest.typepad.com

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3 Potential Bubbles for Retail Investors

Thu, 5 Nov 2009 15:41:53 +0000

The “everybody’s a real estate mogul” era started innocently enough, with a distaste for the stock market after the dot com meltdown and an incredibly long stretch of time with 1% interest rates. The leap from trading up in house size to using home equity loans for financing ...

Abnormal Returns found this 2 days ago on thereformedbroker.com

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Positive Seasonal Pattern Stocks on Saturday the 7th of November 2009

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 14:14:22 +0000

Seasonal Patterns found for the following stocks:AJT.EU (AJT.EU) over the next 1 trading days. Look at the seasonal patterns for AJT.EU in context.Tiens Biotech Group (Usa) Inc. (TBV) over the next 10 trading days. Look at the seasonal patterns for Tiens Biotech Group (Usa) Inc. in ...

ecahoon posted 14 hours ago from deepmarket.com

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Negative Seasonal Pattern Stocks on Saturday the 7th of November 2009

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 14:14:22 +0000

Seasonal Patterns found for the following stocks:Calpine Corp (CPN) over the next 9 trading days. Look at the seasonal patterns for Calpine Corp in context.Spirit Aerosystems Holdings Inc (SPR) over the next 9 trading days. Look at the seasonal patterns for Spirit Aerosystems Holdings Inc in ...

ecahoon posted 14 hours ago from deepmarket.com

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Recent Stock Market Chatter on Twitter – 2009-11-07 08:11:50.0

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 13:21:20 +0000

Stocks in the Twitter stream:2009-11-07 10:30:05.0 - White Hammer stock pick for 11/07/2009| $AAI | http://bit.ly/2MEBMJ2009-11-07 10:07:16.0 - PRESSTEK INC ($PRST): Stanley Freimuth, Jeffrey Cook Elected to Board, Director Frank D. Steenburgh R - http://www.implu.com/story/12230 #fb2009-11-07 ...

ecahoon posted 15 hours ago from deepmarket.com

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Sorry, Folks: Goldman's Bet Against Housing Was Hardly A "Secret" (GS)

Mon, 2 Nov 2009 18:02:03 +0000

It's time to finally lay to rest claims stretching back as far as 2007 that Goldman Sachs was peddling securities backed by risky home mortgages while it was secretly betting that the US housing market was in trouble. Far from being "secretly" down on the US housing market, very early on Goldman ...

Abnormal Returns found this 5 days ago on businessinsider.com

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The Cato Institute Needs to Exercise Some Quality Control

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 15:11:06 +0000

As long as it employs utter fools like Chris Edwards, the smart people who work there will have a hard time being taken seriously. Just saying... Think about it. Think hard about it.

Cato @ Liberty found this 37 hours ago on delong.typepad.com

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Progress Update – October 2009

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 10:30:20 +0000

Once again it is time for a goals/progress update. I am pleased to report that annualized dividend income rose in October, extending the streak to 8 months after February 2009’s decline. Since I began publicly tracking annualized dividend income in November 2007, it has increased ...

bbkjbbkj posted 18 hours ago from dividendsvalue.com

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Defense asks jury to clear ex-hedge fund managers (AP)

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 10:34:38 +0000

AP - Two former Bear Stearns hedge fund managers charged with lying to investors always were honest about the risks of investing in securities linked to the volatile subprime mortgage market, a defense lawyer told a jury on Friday.

Newsback found this 18 hours ago on news.yahoo.com

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Fannie Mae to rent out homes instead foreclosing (AP)

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 10:30:03 +0000

AP - Thousands of borrowers on the verge of foreclosure will soon have the option of renting their homes from Fannie Mae, under a policy announced Thursday.

Irvine Housing Blog found this 18 hours ago on news.yahoo.com

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Fort Hood Anti-Muslim Backlash Immediate

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 09:43:42 +0000

American Muslim's Fear Reprisals after Nidal Malik Hasan 's Alleged Attack; Blogosphere Abuzz

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Report: 237 millionaires in Congress

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 19:18:00 +0000

Center for Responsive Politics releases new report describing the wealth of members of Congress.

Between the Hedges found this 33 hours ago on politico.com

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Fort Hood: The Victims

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 23:19:16 +0000

A Look at Some of the People Killed or Wounded During the Fort Hood, Texas, Shooting Rampage

Rover found this 29 hours ago on cbsnews.com

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Combining Bollinger Bands on Rates of Change in the VIX

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 06:21:00 +0000

As far as I can tell, I have not yet posted about the use of Bollinger bands in conjunction a rate of change (ROC) indicator to identify volatility breakouts. In summarizing the action in the VIX over the course of the past two weeks, the chart below captures some of the drama in terms of 10% ...

VIXandMore posted 22 hours ago from vixandmore.blogspot.com

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Pacers Win 1st By Stopping Knicks In 4th Quarter

Thu, 5 Nov 2009 02:05:28 +0000

Pacers Hold Knicks Without Basket For Final 9 Minutes, Win 101-89 For First Victory

Rover found this 3 days ago on cbsnews.com

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Facebook Grabs for Greener Data Centers

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 23:30:56 +0000

Facebook’s 300 million users, logging 8 billion minutes per day on the site , leave the social network with a massive — and growing — appetite for data center real estate, and energy bills to match. According to Richard Miller at Data Center Knowledge, Facebook has just ...

Rover found this 29 hours ago on earth2tech.com

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Staples Firm – Proctor & Gamble Options Suggest Further Upside

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 21:53:50 +0000

Today’s tickers: PG, CTXS, LINTA, HIG, CVS, UUP, VIX, AONE, SWKS, CLX, BCSI & NVDA PG - The Proctor & Gamble Co. – Bullish action on Proctor & Gamble today suggests one investor expects shares to continue to rally ahead of expiration in November. Shares are currently ...

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Ten Ways to Make Your Boss Love You (Or Two If You Prefer)

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 21:30:00 +0000

Smart Money lists ten ways to make your boss love you as follows: 1. Put in the Hours -- When It Counts 2. Empathize 3. Defuse a Bad Situation 4. Be a Conduit 5. Ask for Help 6. Connect the Boss's Way 7. Show Initiative 8. Be Positive 9. Make Like Mini-Me 10. Get Your Face Time This is a ...

FinanceProfessor.com found this 31 hours ago on freemoneyfinance.com

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NFL Power Rankings -- TSE Style

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 21:30:00 +0000

Looking over SI.com's and ESPN NFL "Power Rankings," I wondered what drives them. They are part beauty contest trying to attract readers but contain some kind of informational content. Particularly, do the power rankings suffer from "path dependence" -- punishing teams for an early loss or two, ...

FinanceProfessor.com found this 31 hours ago on thesportseconomist.com

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Landry's: The New Frankenstein?

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 21:30:00 +0000

The Deal Professor examines the buyout of Landry's Restaurant, a leveraged deal that was terminated in the financial crisis and resurrected from the dead this week.

FinanceProfessor.com found this 31 hours ago on dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com

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Today’s Best Market Rumors (11/6/2009) (RTP)(BHP)(BRK.A)

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 21:00:00 +0000

Updated throughout the day. Citigroup (NYSE:C) will re-launch some of its least successful hedge funds (FT) The stock market is at risk of not holding 10,000. (TheStreet) AIG (NYSE:AIG) will not hold a conference call to avoid uncomfortable questions about its balance sheet (The Deal) Sales ...

BloggingStocks found this 31 hours ago on 247wallst.com

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Top 10 Analyst Upgrades, Downgrades, Initiations (AMZN, ANSS, BEBE, CAH, CNQ, CROX, GCO, PEET, O, SBUX)

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 21:00:00 +0000

These are this morning’s top 10 analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls: Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) Raised to Outperform at Bernstein and target raised from $125 to $160. ANSYS (NASDAQ: ANSS) Raised to Buy at Jefferies. bebe Stores (NASDAQ: BEBE) ...

BloggingStocks found this 31 hours ago on 247wallst.com

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Amazon: Bernstein Turns Bullish; Sets $160 Target

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 20:55:41 +0000

Amazon.com (AMZN) shares are getting a boost this morning from Bernstein Research analyst Jeffrey Lindsay , who lifted his rating on the stock to Outperform from Market Perform, and boosted his price target to $160 from $125. “We believe that current valuations give Amazon insufficient credit in three areas,” he writes in a research note. His list: Lindsay thinks consensus revenue growth estimates of 32% for Q4 and 25% for 2010 are too low; he sees 41% in the quarter and at ...

CrossingWallStreet.com found this 32 hours ago on blogs.barrons.com

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Stay in School...

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 03:47:11 +0000

Source: BLS

Abnormal Returns found this 2 days ago on econompicdata.blogspot.com

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Citigroup Wants to Relaunch Hedge Fund Unit But Can't Think of a Good Name

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 03:47:11 +0000

Citigroup is set to relaunch the unit that oversees all of its hedge fund operations — Vikram Pandit's old stomping grounds — but one of the biggest problems is picking a name for the damn thing. Citi Alternative Investments, as it's called now, is in need of a new start after underperforming ...

Abnormal Returns found this 2 days ago on nymag.com

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The Fantasy of the Clearing House Magic Bullet

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 03:47:11 +0000

As Gillian Tett points out in the Financial Times today, clearing derivatives centrally has come to be viewed in policy circles as a magical solution. As a result, it has not gotten the scrutiny it deserves. The reason for the enthusiasm is that, in theory, a clearinghouse would make sure all ...

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Top Books on Investment Bubbles and Stock Distributions

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 03:47:11 +0000

Below is my list of the top books that chat about stock distributions and rare events. I also included some market history and bubbles lists too for comparison. Is there anything important I’m missing? (I’ll have a follow up post with some academic papers on financial return ...

Abnormal Returns found this 2 days ago on mebanefaber.com

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IndexIQ Planning Merger Arbitrage ETF

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 03:47:11 +0000

IndexIQ , a pioneer in the area of hedge fund and inflation hedge ETFs, is preparing to launch another fund, the IQ ARB Merger Arbitrage ETF. The fund is scheduled to begin trading later this month under the clever ticker MNA. The proposed ETF will track the IQ ARB Merger Arbitrage Index, a ...

Abnormal Returns found this 2 days ago on etfdb.com

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Employment Report: 190K Jobs Lost, 10.2% Unemployment Rate

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 03:47:11 +0000

From the BLS : The unemployment rate rose from 9.8 to 10.2 percent in October, and nonfarm payroll employment continued to decline (-190,000), the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. The largest job losses over the month were in construction, manufacturing, and retail trade. Click ...

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Schottenfeld Draws Scrutiny After Goffer Arrest in Insider Case

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 13:05:47 +0000

Nov. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Schottenfeld Group LLC, the firm where three of the people arrested yesterday on insider-trading charges worked, said it was “deeply troubled and shocked” by the allegations against its former employees. It wasn’t the first time the New York-based company has had to react ...

Dealbreaker found this 39 hours ago on bloomberg.com

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Poynter Online

Thu, 5 Nov 2009 20:59:00 +0000

Days after Twitter Lists were introduced to the public , the shootings at Fort Hood on Thursday showed the power of this feature to cover a major news event in real-time. News organizations quickly created a trusted set of Twitter Lists to follow developments out of Texas. Lists from The ...

The Mess That Greenspan Made found this 2 days ago on poynter.org

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Hedge Funds Target Transparency Liquidity and Fraud

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 19:14:22 +0000

Transparency Liquidity and Fraud A study just came out from the TABB Group showing a growing trend in the use of managed accounts. Hedge fund managers particularly are looking for ways in which they can increase transparency and liquidity while decreasing the chance that someone within ...

rich4495 posted 33 hours ago from richard-wilson.blogspot.com

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Report: Pre-Retirees in Denial on Savings

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 18:35:25 +0000

From CNBC: Boomers in Denial About Retirement Savings Wells Fargo just released the results of its Retirement Fitness survey and looked hard at the investment habits of pre-retirees ages 50 to 59. What did they find? “There is a sense of denial among the pre-retirees,” said Lynne Ford, head of ...

Rolfe Winkler found this 34 hours ago on calculatedriskblog.com

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