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Monthly Archives: May 2010

German Shorting Ban Fuels Chaos, Worries of Incompetence

Posted: May 19, 2010 at 1:27 pm

By Heather Horn, The Atlantic Wire On Tuesday, German authorities announced a ban, starting at midnight, on the naked short-selling of European government debt. The aim, according to The Telegraph, ...
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Mortgage Delinquencies Soar

Posted: May 19, 2010 at 10:23 am

On the back of today's news that mortgage applications had fallen, the Mortgage Bankers Association reported that the delinquency rate for mortgage loans had jumped higher in the first quarter ...
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In Defense of Reinsurance (ACGL, AXS, RE, PRE, RNR, TRH, XL)

Posted: May 19, 2010 at 9:39 am

If you want to know who is ultimately on the hook for the biggest part of catastrophic losses from natural (and man-made) disasters, look no further than reinsurers.  They are ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (5/19/2010)

Posted: May 19, 2010 at 8:59 am

Updated throughout the day. Eli Broad's money manager will work for Oprah Winfrey (WSJ) Jive Software plans an IPO (AllThingsD) Douglas A. McIntyre Sponsor: 26 Cheap Stocks to Sell - ...
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Top Day Trader Alerts (ABK, IMOS, DE, GERN, HAUP)

Posted: May 19, 2010 at 8:52 am

We have many stocks on the move this morning pre-market.  Some of the big percentage changes are being seen in Ambac Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE: ABK), ChipMOS TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (NASDAQ: ...
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The Twitter-24/7 Wall St. Stock Market Report 5.19 The Wisdom Of Crowds?

Posted: May 19, 2010 at 8:45 am

Twitter has, by most estimates, 100 million members, which makes it one of the largest social networks in the world. All major media companies are on Twitter and some have ...
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Top 10 Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (BP, SCHW, CCRT, LTD, MCK, MUSA, NTES, PT, VIP, WPI)

Posted: May 19, 2010 at 8:30 am

These are ten of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls early this Wednesday morning: BP plc (NYSE: BP) defended at Bank of America ...
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Housing: Mortgage Applications Plummet

Posted: May 19, 2010 at 8:12 am

Housing prices, already under pressure because of unemployment and the number of defaults, are likely to continue their drop. There are fewer and fewer buyers in the market. And, the ...
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Six Stocks To Double, Q2-2010 (BRCD, C, HIG, RAD, TSO, WEN)

Posted: May 19, 2010 at 7:45 am

Calling for a stock to double has its risks.  That is especially the case when the heady market has turned into a cautious one.   Worse still, we have already seen ...
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Signs Of The Apocalype: Thailand Stock Exchange On Fire As Euro Collapses

Posted: May 19, 2010 at 6:17 am

Protesters in Thailand, retreating from the army, have set the stock exchange on fire. The euro is about to break below $1.21 after Angela Merkel of Germany set new short ...
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Merkel Protests Too Much: Are German Banks Short The Euro?

Posted: May 19, 2010 at 6:00 am

"A failure of the euro means a failure of Europe," German Chancellor Angela Merkel said today, according to Dow Jones. This is after she banned naked shorting in some financial ...
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Handsets: Google Android Crushes Microsoft Windows Mobile

Posted: May 19, 2010 at 5:34 am

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) has been in the mobile software business for over a decade. Its Windows Mobile operating system has never done well. That may be because the Nokia Symbian ...
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Hewlett-Package: The Benefits Of Being Diverse

Posted: May 19, 2010 at 5:11 am

A chart of the shares of the large diversified tech companies’ stocks- IBM (NYSE: IBM), Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ), Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) and Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL)-- against monoline tech companies Dell ...
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The Double Dip Back On The Table

Posted: May 19, 2010 at 4:48 am

It has been a long time, at least as time has passed during the financial crisis, since economists regularly discussed the possibility of a double dip recession. The 2008 credit ...
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Media Digest 5/19/2010 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: May 19, 2010 at 4:03 am

Reuters:   Senate Democrats are fighting over financial reform. Reuters:   Fishing bans are growing in the Gulf. Reuters:   GM will stop paying union employees who quit. Reuters:   The euro fell after ...
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