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Car Company Chapter 11 Still Not An Option For Government

The US car companies still have an ace in the hole. The Administration cannot take Chrysler and GM (GM) into…

UBS (UBS) Signal: Bank Losses To Heat Up Again

Fixing The Car Companies: Does Chrysler’s Nardelli Get To Keep His Job? (TM)(GM)(F)(HMC)

The current word in the news media is that Chrysler chief Robert Nardelli will keep his job, unlike his counterpart…

The Financial News Cycle Turns Ugly

In early March, the financial news began to turn good, Citigroup (C) said it has been profitable for the first…

IBM And Its Workers: A War Of Silence Vs. Loquaciousness

IBM (IBM) will fire or is firing 5,000 US workers. The press has several reports describing how the functions of…

The G-20 Summit: Obama Can Stay Home

The G-20 “crisis summit” looks like it will turn into a crisis all its own. For the weeks leading up…

Saving Las Vegas One Airplane Ticket At A Time (WYNN)(LCC)(MGM)

One of the largest casino projects in history almost fell apart last week. CitiCenter, an $8.7 billion casino being built…

Media Digest 3/30/2008 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

According to Reuters, the Administration has forced GM (GM) CEO Rick Wagoner out of his job. Reuters reports that in…

Asia Markets And Europe Open 3/30/2009

Markets in Asia fell sharply. The Nikkei was off 4.6% to 7,236. The Hang Seng fell 4.1% to 13,538. The Shanghai…

GM’s Rick Wagoner Takes One For The Team

It may be that GM’s (GM) Rick Wagoner was associated too much with the car company’s failures. To get the…

Will The World’s Hedge Funds Move Off-Shore?

What will hedge funds do if large governments start to regulate their activities, tax them at higher rates, and make…

Is a Hedge Fund ETF For You? (QAI, EEM, AGG)

No one has refrained from saying that there is beginning to be an ETF for almost every index or every…

Is IBM (IBM) Deal To Buy Sun (JAVA) In Trouble?

Inevitably, when a corporate buyout is announced or rumored, the target company’s stock prices trades up to the level of…

52-Week Low Club (ADG, BTI, ESRX, MAC, INDM)

The rally has been large enough that even with a sell-off of this magnitude we saw very few stocks on…

Bankers Try To Make Up With The Administration (JPM, MS, GS, BAC)

Today was a critical day for the banking sector.  The country’s top banking chiefs met with President Obama over the…