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• The market is propped up by a virtuous circle:

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 156
  the banks borrow from the government and then, wisely sensing that it is not safe to make normal loans, invest in stock market indices, foreign currencies, commodities, treasuries. The banks have nothing to lose by risking capital in this way. After all, if the stock market crashes, they are toast anyhow, so why the ...
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• Trustmark Completes Share Repurchases; Hopes to Also Buy Warrant

  
  Bear Market Investments — Authority: 449
  By Chris Carey, Bailout Sleuth Trustmark Corp. completed its repurchase of 215,000 shares of preferred stock from the U.S. Treasury on Wednesday. (We noted the plan to repurchase the stock in this post , published last week.)   The Jackson, Miss.-based company issued the preferred stock to the ...
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• FTU: Fibozachi Technical Update – 12.10.09

  
  Bear Market Investments — Authority: 449
  Zero Hedge Fibozachi FTU: Fibozachi Technical Update – 12.10.09   In this edition of the Fibozachi Technical Update ( FTU ), we present you with a hodgepodge of 13 charts, which span financial markets.   Please click on any of the snapshots below to open a large, crystal-clear ...
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• Are Food Stamps the Soup Lines of this Great Recession?

  
  Bear Market Investments — Authority: 449
  Zero Hedge Bloomberg notes that, as of 2007: In Missouri, about 100 percent who were eligible [for food stamps] that year took advantage of the program, the highest rate in the nation, followed by residents of Maine and Michigan, at 91 percent and 89 percent, respectively … Things have ...
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• Daily Credit Summary: December 10 – Like Clockwork

  
  Bear Market Investments — Authority: 449
  Zero Hedge Spreads were tighter in the US today as the ten-day swing cycle in IG has once again reached channel tights. Overnight outperformance on a weakening dollar was stymied by a weak jobless claims number that stalled the performance in the US after a decent open. Breadth was very positive though ...
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• Goldman on Dubai "Dubai Doubts & Implications on Finance"

  
  Bear Market Investments — Authority: 449
  Zero Hedge Goldman on Dubai (12/01/2009) “ Dubai Doubts & Implications on Finance ” (1:03 hours). Some hightlights: “Unfortunately we don’t have very much data… unfortunately we don’t even know how much outstanding debt Dubai has….” “We don’t have official GDP numbers….” ...
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• Guest Post: Rating Agency Scandal – SEC Chooses Remedial Over Preventative

  
  Bear Market Investments — Authority: 449
  Zero Hedge Submitted by Damien Hoffman of Wall St. Cheat Sheet Extra, Extra! Read all about it : SEC Enforcement Director Robert Khuzami told the Senate Judiciary Committee the SEC is “looking very closely at credit rating agencies” — Moody’s Investors Service (MCO), Standard & ...
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• Oh, You Think You’re Gonna Crank Out Bonds?

  
  Bear Market Investments — Authority: 449
  By Karl Denninger, The Market Ticker I’d give the 30 year auction today a big fat stinking “F”… The so-called yield curve touched 373 basis points, the most in at least 29 years, as the bonds drew a yield of 4.52 percent, compared with an average forecast of 4.483 percent in a Bloomberg News survey of ...
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• Sit back and relax: the US and China, this is gonna take a while

  
  Bear Market Investments — Authority: 449
  China exported its way to a $2 trillion dollar fortress of F/X reserves ($ USD mostly), while the US borrowed its way into a hole deep enough to spark a vast global recession. Who’s to blame? Given the symbiotic relationship in the chart above, it’s hard to blame any one individual, group, or even country. ...
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• RBI circular on AIFIs – Provisioning Coverage for Advances

  
  LEGAL & FINANCIAL UPDATES FROM TAX GURU — Authority: 454
  Please find enclosed Circular DBOD.No.BP.BC.64/21.04.048/2009-10 dated December 1, 2009 on the above subject. In this connection, it is advised that the above guidelines issued to banks, shall mutatis mutandis apply to the select All-India Financial... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website ...
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• Big banks Lead by Citigroup higher on TARP payoff talk

  
  Fair Loan Rate! — Authority: 139
  On Thursday there has been a rise in shares of Citigroup following reports of an expected share offering that would raise money. This money would help the bank repay the U.S. government’s investment under the Troubled Asset Relief Program , or TARP. While it has been acknowledged by the analysts that current ...
  19 hours ago

• Ghana Association of Bankers announces new exchange rate

  
  The Ghanaian Journal — Authority: 453
  GNA – The following is the average inter-bank exchange rate of the dollar and derived rates for the major currencies against the cedi as issued by the Ghana Association of Bankers on Thursday, December 10, 2009.CURRENCY [...]
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• Whats your point?

  
  Credit Slips — Authority: 486
  Over the past year there have many, many articles about the perils of our nations debt load, and Ive been largely context to see these dispatched by that other New Jersey professor . But now the WSJ has entered my territory , arguing in a recent personal finance column that the CDS market shows that US ...
  23 hours ago

• No Canadian bank bailouts? Says who?

  
  Wellington Financial Blog - News, Views & Purviews — Authority: 424
  Institutional brokerage staff at Canada’s bank-owned investment dealers are in line for a record payday this month. And I see in my morning DTM offering that one of the justifications of this largess is that the public pursue was not used to keep our large financial institutions afloat during the recent global ...
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• Bangladeshi Nobel Laureate Yunus terms poverty as an artificial human-made entity

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  New Delhi, Dec 10 (ANI): Terming poverty as an artificial and external imposition on society, Bangladesh Nobel Laureate Mohammad Yunus has said that it can be removed. Delivering the second Hiren Mukherjee memorial lecture in the Central Hall of Parliament here on Wednesday, Yunus said: “Poverty has not been created ...
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• Sapient, Geezeo partner for financial social media products (DMNews)

  
  Stompernet SEO Course — Authority: 165
  Interactive marketing agency Sapient is partnering with Geezeo, an online banking firm, to create social media capabilities for financial institutions.
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• Paul Volcker Disses Financial Innovations

  
  Daily Kos — Authority: 796
  Julia Werdigier reports from England: Paul A. Volcker, the former chairman of the Federal Reserve and an adviser to President Obama, told a room packed with banking executives on Tuesday to "wake up" to the need for more drastic regulatory changes. "Has there been one financial leader standing up and saying, ...
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• Fact Checking the Post’s Fact Checkers

  
  Bear Market Investments — Authority: 449
  The Post’s fact checkers want to point out that blame for the economic crisis is bi-partisan as a jibe at President Obama. This is true, but they have the wrong story. The bubble economy dates back to the Clinton administration’s stock bubble driven boom. (Which was applauded by the Post for its budget ...
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• Washington Post Joins Birthers

  
  Bear Market Investments — Authority: 449
  Okay, they haven’t actually questioned whether President Obama is a real American, but it wants Congress to approve trade deals (inaccurately terms “free-trade agreements”) with South Korea and Colombia to create jobs. There can be an economic argument for these bills (although the deadweight loss from ...
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• The Current Health Care Reform Compromise

  
  Bear Market Investments — Authority: 449
  So the Sen Ten have reached a secret deal. The main points seem to be that the public option is replaced by an sub – exchange of private non profit insurers (which is very close to nothing at all) and people from 55 to 65 can buy into Medicare. I was going to give a post about why I like this compromise. Ezra ...
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