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Blogging as Scholarship Redux

Thu, 3 Dec 2009 05:08:20 +0000

Orin Kerr revisits an old debate: Back in 2005 and 2006, a lot of law-professor bloggers wondered whether blog posts could and would serve as ways to advance scholarly ideas about law. At the time, I was very skeptical ... In the past five years, [however,] legal blogs have become an ...

Conglomerate found this 2 days ago on professorbainbridge.com

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10 dividend stocks for your nest egg - MSN Money

Sat, 5 Dec 2009 10:30:30 +0000

By Barron's The whipsawing of share prices over the past two years has left many investors anxious and uncertain. For the young, there's plenty of time to recover from big stock losses. But for anyone who recently retired or plans to do it soon, the 2009 rally has effectively applied a Band-Aid ...

Dividends Value found this 13 hours ago on articles.moneycentral.msn.com

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Weekly Links: December 5, 2009

Sat, 5 Dec 2009 10:30:30 +0000

Each Sunday I highlight the Carnivals I participated in over the past week, along with any notable articles that I came across. For those readers not familiar with carnivals, it’s where personal finance bloggers submit their best articles of the week with one blog serving as the ...

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TradeStation Hedge Fund Incubation Services

Sat, 5 Dec 2009 18:46:42 +0000

TradeStation Hedge Fund Incubator TradeStation Group Inc. Chairman, CEO and President Salomon Sredni believes his company's prime brokerage division can help create the hedge funds of tomorrow. TradeStation announced the launch of the prime brokerage division in September, and Sredni ...

rich4495 posted 5 hours ago from richard-wilson.blogspot.com

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Huntsman Options Trading Explosion (HUN, DD)

Sat, 5 Dec 2009 15:41:23 +0000

Huntsman Corporation (NYSE: HUN) is seeing a surge in options activity. There have been 30,698 calls traded, 15X average, and implied volatility is spiking 44% on rumors that Dupont (NYSE: DD) is looking at a possible $18 offer for shares of the company. The action has been extremely bullish ...

24/7 Wall St. found this 8 hours ago on vsinvestor.com

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Recent vintage Alt-A RMBS delinquency rates continue to rise

Sat, 5 Dec 2009 14:51:15 +0000

"Standard & Poor’s October performance report shows just how poorly recent vintage “not-quite-prime” Alt-A residential mortgage-backed securities are performing in absolute terms and relative to earlier vintages."

iehi posted 9 hours ago from hf-implode.com

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Best Penny Alerts-Review

Sat, 5 Dec 2009 14:43:12 +0000

If you are seriously looking to invest in the penny stock market and ACTUALLY make profit, then this will be the most important website you will ever read.

GuruAg posted 9 hours ago from docstoc.com

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Best Penny Alerts - Stock Trading Service

Sat, 5 Dec 2009 12:38:16 +0000

If you are seriously looking to invest in the penny stock market and ACTUALLY make profit, then this will be the most important website you will ever read. David Roy have spent around 7 years and developed a secret system which analyzes multiple factors for determining when a stock is about to ...

GuruAg posted 11 hours ago from slideshare.net

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High and Low Finance - A Primer on Why Many Home Loan Modifications Fail

Sat, 5 Dec 2009 04:55:00 +0000

Homeowners sought help avoiding foreclosure at an event in Daly City, Calif., in October.

Calculated Risk found this 18 hours ago on nytimes.com

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Best Buy Co. Inc.

Tue, 1 Dec 2009 18:08:04 +0000

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Abnormal Returns found this 4 days ago on stocktwits.com

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Joshua Kosman, Predicting The Next Credit Crisis

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 21:24:58 +0000

Private equity firms buy undervalued or underappreciated companies, impose short-term improvements and sell them for a fast profit. Some of the companies they've bought include Hertz, La Quinta, Dunkin Donuts, and Toys R Us. Josh Kosman, a private equity expert, says that the way the firms have ...

Rolfe Winkler found this 6 days ago on npr.org

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The Automatic Earth

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:49:26 +0000

Unemployment has exploded: "We've lost a ton of jobs since I was here last," Davidowitz says, noting the "real" unemployment rate is 17.5%. "That's an astounding number." Housing continues to sink: "The consumers' biggest asset is down trillions" in value while "foreclosures are exploding" and a ...

GoldSeek.com found this 11 days ago on theautomaticearth.blogspot.com

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Taylor Swift Stock Index Outperforms the Stock Market

Sat, 5 Dec 2009 06:15:00 +0000

Taylor Swift is the famous country singer, winner of 40 awards, and made more famous by the incident with Kanye West at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards. But she is successful for another reason. Taylor is connected to a lot of publicly traded companies, acting as spokesperson for their products, ...

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Dividends: On the Rise Again?

Sat, 5 Dec 2009 11:00:12 +0000

Companies like AT&T;, Wal-Mart, and Progress Energy may hike dividends as a rebounding economy boosts cash available for payouts

The Dividend Guy Blog found this 12 hours ago on businessweek.com

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December 2 2009: It's foolish to ask for luxuries in times like these

Thu, 3 Dec 2009 15:00:10 +0000

IEHI Feed: The Hedge Fund Implode-o-Meter found this 2 days ago on theautomaticearth.blogspot.com

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Tom Brokaw Involved in Fatal Car Accident

Fri, 4 Dec 2009 23:02:45 +0000

Former Anchor and Wife "Saddened" By Loss of Life After Woman Thrown From Vehicle and Killed

Rover found this 24 hours ago on cbsnews.com

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Former Guantanamo detainee now al Qaeda in Arabian Peninsula's Mufti

Sat, 5 Dec 2009 08:03:00 +0000

Ibrahim Suleiman al Rubaish, al Qaeda in Arabian Peninsula's Mufti. A former Guantanamo detainee has emerged as a leading ideologue and theologian for al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula – one of the strongest al Qaeda affiliates in the world. Ibrahim Suleiman al Rubaish ...

Jihad Watch found this 15 hours ago on longwarjournal.org

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The Public Choice of the Ancient Hebrews

Sat, 5 Dec 2009 04:59:00 +0000

(December 4, 2009 12:18 AM, by Bryan Caplan) I just finished Richard Friedman's Who Wrote the Bible? It's a classic popularization of the Documentary Hypothesis, which claims that the Pentateuch (the first five books of the Bible) is actually a medley of four earlier sources called J (the...

Scrivener.net found this 18 hours ago on econlog.econlib.org

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Bernanke’s Two Magic Numbers: 60 and 16

Thu, 3 Dec 2009 17:46:23 +0000

Bernanke’s Two Magic Numbers: 60 and 16

Abnormal Returns found this 2 days ago on blogs.wsj.com

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Line in the sand

Sat, 5 Dec 2009 01:59:00 +0000

The line in the sand was drawn for many commodity stocks today. Take a look at these levels: ANR bounced on the trend-line today. If you're a bull, you want this to hold: The 50 SMA stopped the bleeding on BTU. Through this level and next stop is the trend-line at 40, and if that doesn't ...

hcpg posted 21 hours ago from highchartpatterns.blogspot.com

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Unemployment Rate Falls to 10%

Fri, 4 Dec 2009 14:26:00 +0000

U.S. job losses in November posted the smallest drop since the start of the recession and the unemployment rate unexpectedly declined, a sign the labor market is finally healing as the economy recovers. Nonfarm payrolls fell by just 11,000 last month, slowing down from a downwardly revised ...

CARPE DIEM found this 33 hours ago on online.wsj.com

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Food For Thought Going Into The Weekend

Fri, 4 Dec 2009 21:31:10 +0000

The full analysis of Friday's session will be available later this weekend, however I wanted to provide you all with one chart to examine during the "break". Friday's session was wild to say the least, but lets step back and see how it looks within the broader trend.

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Employment Report

Fri, 4 Dec 2009 17:18:31 +0000

The BLS just wished the Obama administration a very merry Christmas with a very encouraging employment report. It was still a report that things are worsening at a lesser rate as far as employment was concerned, but other employment reports were positive. The unemployment rate fell to 10.0% as ...

Economist's View found this 30 hours ago on angrybear.blogspot.com

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The jobs report: You have to admit, it's getting better

Fri, 4 Dec 2009 17:18:31 +0000

The unemployment rate is down to 10%. Payroll employment, a more reliable month-to-month indicator, was "essentially unchanged." That's Bureau of Labor Statistics lingo for 11,000 fewer jobs than the month before. So the number is still negative, but after 21 straight months of 100,000+ job ...

Economist's View found this 30 hours ago on curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com

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Web Watch: Best Blog Posts and Columns For the Week Ending Dec. 4, 2009

Fri, 4 Dec 2009 21:28:15 +0000

Here is the weekly summary for Securities Docket’s Web Watch (”This Week’s Best Blog Posts and Columns”): Of Telephones and Corruption in Latin America: How a Bribery Case Involving a Florida Company Contributed to the Fall of the Government in Honduras (Gregory Paw) Pepper Hamilton | ...

bcarton posted 26 hours ago from securitiesdocket.com

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Top Day Trader Alerts (SWHC, RGR, TTWO, BAC, MRVL, BRCM, TXN, FACT, JAVA)

Fri, 4 Dec 2009 21:00:00 +0000

These are this morning’s top day trader and active trader alert stocks. We have more detailed volume data and analysis on each stock story via a link over to VSInvestor.com: Smith & Wesson Holding Corp. (NASDAQ: SWHC) is off 12% on earnings and guidance; we’d watch for added ...

BloggingStocks found this 26 hours ago on 247wallst.com

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Top 10 Analyst Upgrades, Downgrades, Initiations (APD, AKAM, FSLR, MA, MHP, MCO, NFLX, SVNT, UA, V)

Fri, 4 Dec 2009 13:42:51 +0000

These are this Friday’s top ten analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls: Air Products & Chemicals (NYSE: APD) Started as Outperform at William Blair. Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM) Raised to Buy at Citigroup. First Solar Inc. ...

24/7 Wall St. found this 34 hours ago on 247wallst.com

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Mixed Sentiment on BAC Pits Bulls Against Bears

Fri, 4 Dec 2009 21:11:30 +0000

Today’s tickers: BAC, XRX, XLF, CAR, XLU, BIG, SLM, TTWO, MRVL & TSN BAC - Bank of America Corp. – Investors employed two contradictory option strategies in the February contract on Bank of America today. One trader initiated a large bearish risk reversal while the other put ...

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November same-store sales miss expectations

Thu, 3 Dec 2009 15:21:00 +0000

Alert Email Print By Andria Cheng , MarketWatch NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Retailers, hurt by unseasonably warm weather that damped demand for coats and sweaters and consumers holding out and delaying purchases, failed to deliver November same-store-sales improvements, setting the stage for a ...

Stefan Karlsson's blog found this 2 days ago on marketwatch.com

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Take-Two’s Bad Quarter Causes Investors to Double Take

Fri, 4 Dec 2009 19:02:30 +0000

It was not long ago that Take-Two Interactive Software ( TTWO ) seemed to be on top of the world with one of the most successful video game launches in history for the fourth edition of its Grand Theft Auto franchise. The highly anticipated release of the game brought Electronic Arts ( ...

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The NotMakingThisUp Interview with Alice Schroeder

Fri, 4 Dec 2009 18:55:29 +0000

Editor’s Note: . We had the opportunity to interview author Alice Schroeder as the paperbook version of her best-selling, and eye-opening, "The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life" was hitting stores. We emailed more than a dozen questions to Alice, including a few that ...

Abnormal Returns found this 28 hours ago on jeffmatthewsisnotmakingthisup.blogspot.com

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Stocks and dollar rally after US jobs report

Fri, 4 Dec 2009 12:21:42 +0000

Published: December 4 2009 07:11 | Last updated: December 4 2009 18:03 17:25 GMT. Stocks and the dollar surged higher on Friday following news the US lost far fewer jobs than feared in November. But gains in equities were later curtailed as investors became nervous that the better than forecast ...

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Bernanke Will Get His Second Term

Fri, 4 Dec 2009 13:42:51 +0000

Several Senators cuffed Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke around during hearings today. Chris Dodd, who runs the Senate Banking Committee in whose presence Bernanke appeared, gave the world assurances that the Fed chief would be reappointed for a second term. The unkindest comment about Mr. Bernanke’s ...

24/7 Wall St. found this 34 hours ago on 247wallst.com

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Why Goldman Sachs Is JPMorgan’s Biggest Asset: David Reilly

Fri, 4 Dec 2009 00:41:00 +0000

Why Goldman Sachs Is JPMorgan’s Biggest Asset: David Reilly

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My Comments on the Trader Tax

Fri, 4 Dec 2009 18:55:29 +0000

There is a bill being drafted by Representatives DeFazio (Ore.) and Perlmutter (Colo. ) called the “”Let Wall Street Pay for the Restoration of Main Street Act.” This legislation would charge a percentage tax to help fund the cost of the Bailouts in 2008. At first glance, this ...

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Capital One Warrants Netted $146.5 Million in Treasury Auction

Fri, 4 Dec 2009 17:01:59 +0000

" Capital One Financial Corp. warrants held by the U.S. government’s bank bailout program sold for $146.5 million in the first auction designed to reward taxpayers for helping rescue the financial system."

iehi posted 30 hours ago from hf-implode.com

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US banks premature in reducing provisioning for bad loans

Fri, 4 Dec 2009 17:10:46 +0000

"There are some interesting tidbits in Moody’s latest quarterly report on the US banking system, notably that US banks are premature in reducing provisioning for bad loans, and the charge-off trend now shows that the erosion of commercial real estate surpasses that of residential real estate."

iehi posted 30 hours ago from hf-implode.com

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Morgan Stanley Looks to Restructure CMBS

Fri, 4 Dec 2009 17:15:35 +0000

" A real-estate fund managed by Morgan Stanley is trying to restructure a $1 billion securitized mortgage on five resorts it bought in 2007 in the latest example of a bad commercial-property bet made by the firm."

iehi posted 30 hours ago from hf-implode.com

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Seasonal Retail Hiring, Employment-Population Ratio, Part Time Workers

Fri, 4 Dec 2009 17:18:31 +0000

Here are a few more graphs based on the employment report ... Seasonal Retail Hiring Retailers are hiring seasonal workers at slightly above the pace of last year ... Typically retail companies start hiring for the holiday season in October, and really increase hiring in November. Here is a ...

Economist's View found this 30 hours ago on calculatedriskblog.com

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Employment Report: 11K Jobs Lost, 10% Unemployment Rate

Fri, 4 Dec 2009 17:18:31 +0000

From the BLS : The unemployment rate edged down to 10.0 percent in November, and nonfarm payroll employment was essentially unchanged (-11,000), the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Click on graph for larger image. This graph shows the unemployment rate and the year over year ...

Economist's View found this 30 hours ago on calculatedriskblog.com

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Employment News Still Bad, But Better than Expected

Fri, 4 Dec 2009 17:18:31 +0000

The BLS says: "nonfarm payroll employment was essentially unchanged (-11,000)..."

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Paul Kedrosky and Brad Feld: Start-up Visas Can Jump-Start the Economy

Wed, 2 Dec 2009 18:04:23 +0000

PAUL KEDROSKY AND BRAD FELD While fast-growing companies have long been the main source of new jobs and innovation, this country makes it outrageously difficult for immigrants to launch new companies here. This doesn't make any sense. After all, Google, Pfizer, Intel, Yahoo, DuPont, eBay and ...

Abnormal Returns found this 3 days ago on online.wsj.com

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Freaky Friday Potpourri: The Rubber Meets the Road

Fri, 4 Dec 2009 17:15:53 +0000

It's Festivus Friday in the 'Ville and that means one thing; time management! One would think that after six major events--this being the seventh--hosting upwards of 500 people would be old hat. It may be for some but when you stop trying you start dying; growth in any way shape or form is a ...

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Today Should Be a Breakout or a Key Reversal

Fri, 4 Dec 2009 16:12:12 +0000

Editor's Note: This article was written by Richard Suttmeier chief market strategist at ValuEngine.com which is a fundamentally-based quant research firm in Princeton New Jersey that covers more than 5 000 stocks every day.The Dow remains positive but overbought on its weekly chart with ...

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Bank of America Raises $19 Billion in New Equity

Fri, 4 Dec 2009 15:53:23 +0000

Bank of America sold more than $19 billion of equity on Thursday amid strong investor interest as it races to shed government regulatory curbs that have bedeviled its search for a new chief executive.

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Why Did Bank of America Pay Back the Money?

Fri, 4 Dec 2009 15:53:23 +0000

Everybody knows by now that Bank of America is buying back the $45 billion of preferred stock that the government currently owns. While the reason why they are doing this is obvious, I’m going to pretend it isn’t for a few paragraphs. Buying back stock costs money — real ...

jamesykwak posted 31 hours ago from baselinescenario.com

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Groupons: Crowdsourcing Coupons

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:07:15 +0000

Groupons, or group coupons, are gaining traction as a discounting trend. Groupon.com , one prominent groupon site, lets you find a deal a day in your city (they operate in 35 cities). If you get enough people to sign up for that deal, you can all enjoy the advertised discount. Groupon ...

Rover found this 5 days ago on businesspundit.com

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Bank of America Securities Sale Raises $19.3 Billion

Fri, 4 Dec 2009 14:31:36 +0000

" Bank of America Corp., the largest U.S. lender, raised $19.3 billion selling securities at $15 apiece in the biggest sale of stock or preferred shares by a U.S. public company since at least 2000."

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How utilities are just like banks

Fri, 4 Dec 2009 14:15:38 +0000

As we've reported before, UK natural gas prices are destined to stay low for the foreseeable future as a slew of liquefied natural gas cargoes, unwanted elsewhere, is redirected to British shores. Most cargoes will have originally been intended for the US market, but a boom in alternative ...

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Bernanke Fights for Second Term

Thu, 3 Dec 2009 20:03:08 +0000

Bernanke's Tumultuous Tenure Track the Dow Jones Industrial Average during Bernanke's term and see Fed highlights. More Journal Community

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