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12/10/09 Midday Report: Take our cheap shit, please
The market is off to the races again as a rise in US exports turned on the cold water and created some shrinkage to the US trade deficit. The trade deficit dropped by 7% which was better than expectations of a rising deficit (and I know, it is hard to believe expectations were wrong much…
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12/08/09 Midday Report: Formidable headwinds, not as good as formidable head
The news driving the market down today comes from Ben Bernanke’s speech yesterday (apparently the joke about the rabbi, the priest, and the horse did not go over well) where he warned that there are still “formidable headwinds” to an economic recovery. And in an additional exercise of overstating the obvious, he also concluded that…
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12/03/09 Midday Report: BAC does not need your stinking funds (well at least not until next time)
The market is abuzz today with BAC’s repayment of $45B to Uncle Sam who apparently got drunk and touched BAC in their loan loss reserves just one too many times. So to break the cycle, BAC is going to pay back their bail out funds through the profits they made by being able to borrow…