Today before the close of the market, former Fed-Head Alan Greenspan participated in an interview on CNBC with Maria Bartoromo.  The good news is that he’s no longer hard to understand at all. ...
The Nasdaq and NYSE have all sorts of rules about what a company has to have in terms of total shareholders, stock price, and balance sheet ratios to get listed. Both operations also have regulations...
At some point all stocks get too cheap. Enron go too cheap. So did Fannie Mae (FNM) and Freddie Mac (FRE).The next round of company shares that appear to be bargains is bank stocks. The government is...
Concerns about the financial health of Freddie Mac (FRE) and Fannie Mae (FNM) and the huge repercussions which would occur in the banking and mortgage industry if either one fails has cause the...
There are many bad things that can go wrong at public companies.  Fannie Mae (NYSE: FNM) and Freddie Mac (NYSE: FRE) have both seen their share of EVERYTHING go wrong.  And the good news for the...
CIT Group, Inc. (NYSE: CIT) is back to looking like its shares the paper they are printed on could be less valuable and less useful than toilet paper.  What is surprising is that this is not killing...
The government is slowly winding down its added liquidity additions via mortgage and securities purchases from banks and lenders.  Sort of.  Ben Bernanke’s outline of how to exit the end of free...
I will preface this by saying that I’m a big fan of David Dreman. I read his column in Forbes regularly, and his book Contrarian Investment Strategies is an all-time classic. Want to Retire Early?...
Fannie Mae (FNM) Barron’s says common shareholders may be wiped out by new capital. Drops to $6.08 from 52-week high of $70.57.Harman International  (HAR) Earnings miss. Drops to $33.61 from...
These are this morning’s top day trader alerts.  We have more detailed price and volume data along with added color over with links through to each stock at VSInvestor.com: Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:...
Some investors are still clinging to the hope that the share prices of Fannie Mae (FNM) and Freddie Mac (FRE) will recover with financial help from the federal government. Both stocks trade below $1...
America is short on czars. The ones in charge of energy, the war on drugs, intellectual property, and, perhaps, cars are not enough.The one segment of the economy that has needed a czar more than any...
Yesterday, a number of bank and mortgage company stocks began the day up sharply, with Fannie Mae (FNM), Freddie Mac (FRE), and Lehman (LEH) out in front. By the end of the day, most of these shares...
One of the most odd piece of financial news so far this year is that the federal government is sending in some of its accounting experts to see what the books of Fannie Mae (FNM) and Freddie Mac...
If you thought that things could not get much stranger at Freddie Mac (NYSE: FRE) or at Fannie Mae (NYSE: FNM), they may have taken an even stranger turn than most could imagine.  David Kellerman,...