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- The Battle For Wachovia
It sounds like a war, doesn’t it? It’s the corporate type that will most likely end up in court somewhere. Citigroup (C) offered to pay $2.1 billion for Wachovia’s (WB) banking operations just 4 days ago. … [visit site to read more]
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Переслать - Is The VIX Index Artificially Inflated Due To Financials?
I believe that the VIX volatility index (^VIX) has become artificially inflated, and cannot be relied upon, presently, as an indicator of “TRUE” market volatility. The VIX is often times referred to as the “Fear Index”. It’s supposed to give us a reading on the fear factor in the stock markets. It’s based on the options premiums for the stocks in the SP500.
Here’s the Wikipedia definition of the … [visit site to read more]
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Переслать - As A Share Of Income, U.S. Has Lowest Food Prices On The Planet
Click on the chart above to enlarge, it shows the “Percent of personal consumption spent on food by selected countries, 2007″ based on data available … [visit site to read more]
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Переслать - SPX - Elliot Wave 3 Completed?
Longer Term Chart - SPX, sitting on trendline back to 1974 and 61.8% fibo retracement. This provides some support and could be evidence of a bounce coming.
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Переслать - Large Cap ETFs Have A Brighter Future
Large-cap stocks and companies could be on the verge of a transformation, with regulation under major scrutiny, making exchange traded funds (ETFs) with exposure to a broad range of companies a potentially safer bet.
Despite the fact that the bailout has been approved, the credit crisis is not going to suddenly go away. That said, it is important to note that one of the major … [visit site to read more]
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Переслать - Citigroup Takes Issue With Wells Fargo Bid For Wachovia
Wells Fargo & Co. (WFC) Friday agreed to buy all of Wachovia Corp. (WB) for about $15 billion in stock, however, Citigroup Inc. (C), which had already agreed to buy Wachovia's banking operations, immediately issued a protest that could jeopardize the deal.
"Citi has substantial legal rights regarding Wachovia and this transaction," Citi said in a statement. "Wachovia's agreement to a transaction with Wells Fargo is in … [visit site to read more]
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Переслать - Charting: Goldman Sachs
Goldman Sachs (GS) is in a holding pattern, forming a symmetrical triangle. The characteristic of this type of triangle is that a breakout of breakdown can happen on even 50/50 odds. The result, breakout or breakdown, will be the continuation of the … [visit site to read more]
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Переслать - Russian Oil Production, Exports Fall
The Export Land Model got another piece of strong evidence recently from a report by Bloomberg that Russian oil production dropped .4% in September (boy, that's quick - seems likely to be revised) but exports dropped 10%! If true, it almost sounds as though Russia is building some above ground strategic storage capacity. On the other hand, it also must reflect the arithmetic truth that an oil exporting country with a growing economy will export less oil … [visit site to read more]
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Переслать - Solar Market To Hit $100 Billion By 2013 Despite Price Erosion
According to a new report from Lux Research, a top advisory firm that provides ongoing intelligence for emerging technologies, despite an oversupply situation expected to occur in early 2009, the global solar market will reach $100.4 billion in 2013, up from $33.4 billion in 2008.
The report entitled "Solar State of the Market Q3 2008: The Rocky Road to $100 Billion," indicates that solar markets are poised for continued impressive growth, with new installations primed to increase nearly … [visit site to read more]
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Переслать - The Passage Of Bailout Bill - Questions For The Future
It’s official: the pork laden , ill-conceived bailout bill has passed the house and been signed by the President, or as this cynical Calvinistic individual would like to say it:
After letting laissez-faire economics run amuck and nearly bring the world’s economies and financial systems to its knees, the government has decided to go the opposite direction via ramming a so … [visit site to read more]
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Переслать - Week Ahead In U.S. Financial Markets (October 6-10 2008)
The week of October 6-10 will see a light week of economic data that will be dominated by the Tuesday FOMC minutes from the September 16 meeting and Fed Chair Ben Bernanke speech that same day. Other data to be released during the week will be the Wednesday pending home sales report for August and the weekly initial claims data on Thursday. The week will close with the publication of the August trade balance and the September import price estimate. Depending on events over the weekend out of … [visit site to read more]
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Переслать - Commodities, ETFs Close Up Bad Week
Commodities and their related exchange traded funds (ETFs) are on pace for their worst week in nearly 50 years.
Commodities, as measured by the Reuters/Jefferies CRB Index of 19 raw materials, have lost 9.9% this week - the most since at least 1956, reports Glenys Sim for Bloomberg. The UBS Bloomberg CMCI Index of 26 raw materials is having its worst week since 1997, after … [visit site to read more]
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Переслать - First Nine Months Of Year Have Lessons For ETF Investors
Exchange traded funds (ETFs) are in the homestretch of 2008, and the last nine months have got us reflecting on where we've been and where we're going from here.
The big question is: can it get much more volatile? Leslie Scism for the Wall Street Journal takes a look back. Back in 2000-2002, it was easy to find the culprit: dot com and technology stocks. This time … [visit site to read more]
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Переслать - Mortgage-Backed Securities: Wall Street Attempts To Create An Entity With No Consequences
Banks can’t stop lending forever, that’s how they make money. They take your money, pay you an interest rate on it, then lend it out at higher rates. They cannot axe out the latter part of the equation indefinitely if they wish to remain in business over the long run. Right now banks are just waiting out the storm just as we are to see which institutions are going to survive so they know which counterparties they can do business with confidently. Risk aversion is extremely high across the … [visit site to read more]
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