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Inergy Midstream Prices IPO (NRGY, MS, BAC, JPM)

Posted: December 6, 2011 at 9:17 am

Inergy Midstream L.P. has indicated its IPO price range as being $19-$21/common unit and will offer 16 million units when the company goes public. It will trade on the NYSE ...
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Chimera Accounting Review, A Lesson For Other Mortgage REITs (CIM, NLY, AGNC, HTS, MORT)

Posted: November 15, 2011 at 11:01 am

Chimera Investment Corporation (NYSE: CIM) is the mortgage REIT which we used to dub "the vulture mortgage REIT" because of its targets in lower-rated mortgage-backed securities. Usually a delay in a ...
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SEC Seeks To Change Market Circuit Breakers

Posted: September 27, 2011 at 3:43 pm

The Securities and Exchange Commission has announced that the national securities exchanges and FINRA are filing proposals in a move to revise the current stock market circuit breakers in an ...
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Certain Stanford Investors Get Some SEC Support

Posted: June 15, 2011 at 2:53 pm

It looks like at least some of the investors who were screwed by Stanford may get to recover some assets.  This is not meant to be a catch-all recovery nor ...
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Huge Twist in Cell Tower Wars: Tax Accounting Issues from the SEC (AMT, CCI, SBAC)

Posted: June 3, 2011 at 9:45 am

American Tower Corporation (NYSE: AMT) and Crown Castle International Corp. (NYSE: CCI) are the two major players in the world of cellphone towers.  Go ahead and include 4G too.  This ...
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SEC Operational Plans If Government Closes Down (NYX, NDAQ, CME, ICE, CBOE)

Posted: April 8, 2011 at 11:50 am

If you are like the rest of who are upset about some 'minor market issues' like Bernie Madoff, Raj, Octopussy, and the dozens of other extreme violations of securities laws, ...
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Goldman Sachs Move Shows Why Facebook Is Already Public… Almost (GS)

Posted: January 18, 2011 at 3:08 pm

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: GS) is being viewed differently because of its Facebook investment that gave the social networking monster a valuation of about $50 billion.  In order to ...
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Insider Trading Woes Come Home (GS, MS, BAC, JPM, FAZ, FAS)

Posted: November 22, 2010 at 12:34 pm

Speculation is running rampant on insider trading.  This is over who is going to get caught up in the dragnet of insider trading charges rather than on which companies are ...
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BofA Tally on Mortgage Securities: $375 Billion (BAC)

Posted: November 5, 2010 at 3:01 pm

Bank of America Corporation (NYSE: BAC) filed its quarterly report with the SEC today as its 10-Q.  Generally speaking these filings are often nebulous and contain many factoids that are ...
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Green Mountain Game-Changer (GMCR)

Posted: September 28, 2010 at 5:34 pm

Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Inc. (NASDAQ: GMCR) may have just seen a change on how investors are going to treat its growth story ahead.  The company's latest SEC filing disclosed ...
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E.U. Bank Stress Tests, Kissing the PIIGS (STD, DB, BCS, NBG, AIB, IRE)

Posted: July 23, 2010 at 10:29 am

The E.U. bank stress tests are due at 12:00 PM EST today, an interesting time considering that the U.S. will be the only active market. Many of the top banks ...
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Dell Reaches Settlement, Agrees to Pay SEC $100 Million

Posted: July 22, 2010 at 5:33 pm

Today, Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) announced that it has agreed to a $100 million settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission regarding the agency's investigation into the company's business practices ...
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More Futility in Solar Land (CSIQ)

Posted: June 2, 2010 at 10:30 am

There are two words that investors fear inside of public companies:accounting irregularities.  That is what is hitting shares of Canadian Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: CSIQ) this morning.  The company said it ...
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Broker Revenge: BofA Cuts Goldman Sachs (BAC, GS)

Posted: April 30, 2010 at 10:00 am

All bulge bracket firms and most major banking and brokerage firms cover each other in traditional analyst calls.  Usually there is a coverage that involves trends in the sectors and ...
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Goldman Sachs Quick Take: “The Bank Status” (GS)

Posted: April 27, 2010 at 3:50 pm

If you have watched the tone, reaction, expressions, and pointed questions today from the Senate Hearing on Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: GS), how you interpret the whole stance of ...
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