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Weston, Nov 20 (FlowTrades.com) – The majority of stocks fell for the week, with only the Dow posting a gain after surging to new highs on better than expected economic news overseas and a pledge by the APEC to maintain economic stimulus measures. The Dollar rebounded from a 15-month low against the euro, sending . Read More --

By Ellis MnyanduNEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks fell for a third straight day on Friday as investors took weaker-than-expected results from computer maker Dell DELL and homebuilder D.R. Horton DHI as a further sign that the recovery would be anemic.Following the S&P 500's gain of more than 60 percent...

“We believe that the credit rating agencies in exchange for fees departed from their objective neutral role as arbiters. At minimum they were aiding and abetting misconduct by issuers.”-- Richard Cordray Ohio attorney general on filing suit against Moody’s Standard & Poor’s and Fitch (MHP)“Trust dies but mistrust blossoms.”-- Sophocles***“F.H.A. financing was a lost language in San Francisco the real-estate equivalent of Aramaic. Once the limits were raised smart buyers started calling.”-- Michael Ackerman a Bay Area real-estate agent“Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.”-- Samuel Goldwyn***“I love this show. This show has been my ...

By Ellis MnyanduNEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks fell for third straight day on Friday as investors took weaker-than-expected results from computer maker Dell and homebuilder D.R. Horton as a further sign that the recovery would be anemic.Following the S&P 500's gain of more than 60 percent from its 12-year...

The bankruptcy filings of Lehman Brothers and General Motors took dramatically different turns.

After almost a year of initiating the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) to rescue the nation’s financial industry, the U.S. Treasury Department said on Thursday that it would auction off stock warrants it acquired from three big banks that received a significant portion of taxpayers’ money and have fully repaid the same. The [...]

(JPM) Treasury to Auction TARP Warrants

We think the significant divergence among international banks during the last two years will extend into the recovery.[More...]

“For better or worse, the more likely culprit for the uptick in market mood swings is the increased popularity of ETFs.  As more take bets on sectors and asset classes rather than individual stocks, it has become a market where good news lifts all boats, and bad news sinks all ships.”  (Bespoke) The stock market is [...]

It appears lately Goldman can't get enough of bashing the economy. First the Oracle of Delphi's bank debt short-selling enabling trading desk (i.e., Hatzius of Goldman Sachs for the slower readers) had some harsh words about GDP and why at some point soon he will be once again within 0.0001 bps of the actual result, even if the short squeeze inducing ploy worked out just perfectly last time, thanks, signed Goldman prop. This time around Hatzius take the entire housing space to the woodshed. Who knows, maybe it is time for readers to do what the prop desk says this time (quadruple reverse psychology: beware).[More...]

In another interesting move, Meredith Whitney cuts her rating on Goldman Sachs (GS) just before earnings on Thursday. This is reminiscent of last quarter. If you remember, it was a Monday morning and markets were continuing to sell off more than 7% over the previous few weeks. Then, she announced on CNBC that Goldman was [...] Related posts:

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Wall Street to Main Street: News, Views and Commentary: April 14, 2009

Schaeffer's analyst Morgan Searcy takes a look at news on the Street.