blogs.wsj.com - 1/2/2009
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Now that 2008 is finally history, it’s time to look back at the year in numbers — most of them pretty terrible. -33.84% The percentage loss in the Dow industrials, worst since 1931, third-worst in history. -38.49% The percentage loss in the S&P 500, worst since 1937. -40.54% The percentage loss ...
cboe.com - 1/9/2009
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cboe.com —
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CBOE S&P 500 PUTWRITE INDEX
(PUT) WINS AWARD FOR MOST INNOVATIVE BENCHMARK INDEX; Fourth...
Award in Four Years At The Super Bowl of Indexing Conference CHICAGO, December 4, 2007 - The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) announced ...
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CBOE Press Releases
bespokeinvest.typepad.com - 1/7/2009
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Below we list the 2009 S&P; 500 strategist
price targets in the final Bloomberg survey of 2008...
(on 12/29). The average 2009 year-end S&P; 500 estimate of the 11 sell-side strategists that participated is 1,056, or 16.9% above the S&P;'s year-end price ...
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"Official" 2009 Strategist S&P 500 Price Targets
bloomberg.com - 12/30/2008
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Dec. 29 (Bloomberg) -- There’s more cash available
to buy shares than at any time in almost...
two decades, a sign to some of the most successful investors that equities will rebound after the worst year for U.S. stocks since the Great Depression. The ...
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Cash at 18-Year High Makes Stocks a Buy at Leuthold ...
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2008 By the Numbers
The Big Picture —
... Great data collection, via David Gaffen of the WSJ’s MarketBeat, titled By the Numbers — How 2008 Shakes Out. Unfortunately, it got lost last week during the vacation days. ...
Linkstock: Venture IPOs, NYX Investor Day, Tech Spending, CDS Clearing, Madoff Mess, and More
Exchanges —
... Venture-Backed Exits in 2008; IPO Exits at 30 Year Low, M&A; Activity Slows (Thomson Reuters/National Venture Capital Association)
NYSE Euronext to Host Investor Day on Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2009 (NYSE.com)
Spending Cuts Could Spare Execution, Order Management Systems (SecuritiesIndustry.com)
For Centralized CDS Clearing, More May Not Be Merrier (SecuritiesIndustry.com)
How Did Madoff Fool the SEC? (Portfolio.com)
By The Numbers: How 2008 Shakes Out (MarketBeat)
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