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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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Stock Options Explosion in Goldman Sachs (GS)

Posted: April 16, 2010 at 12:31 pm

Trying to count options contracts in shares of Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: GS) is nearly impossible, and this was copied from trade blotters with snapshots of 12:12 to 12:18 ...
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Goldman Sachs Speaks, The Empire Strikes Back (GS)

Posted: April 16, 2010 at 12:04 pm

You have already seen the news most likely about how Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: GS) was charged with civil fraud by the SEC over its conflicted role in certain ...
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Goldman Sachs, SEC Charges With Hand in Cookie Jar (GS)

Posted: April 16, 2010 at 10:52 am

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: GS) was already getting negative press for profiteering from the demise of the mortgage market.  It isn't that it made billions off that, it is ...
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Will Financial Reform Be Legitimate? (AIG, GE, GS, JPM, BAC, FNM, FRE)

Posted: March 24, 2010 at 12:09 pm

Congressman Barney Frank and Senator Chris Dodd are not wasting any time after health care reform.  In a press conference this morning, the two well-known Democrats said financial reform was ...
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AIG Discloses 2008 Troubled Derivatives Hand (AIG, BAC, GS, UBS, BCS)

Posted: January 29, 2010 at 3:43 pm

American International Group Inc. (NYSE: AIG) has released more information on many of the troubled Maiden Lane III derivatives transactions.  These are those contracts that helped to knock the company ...
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