" Most banks are trading lower with the notable exception of JPMorgan.
Current increase in market cap after the Bear deal: around $11 billion
I will add that this number happens to be very close to Bear Stearns book value."It is actually more like 13B by the end of the...
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"""The Federal Reserve on Sunday announced two initiatives designed to bolster market liquidity and promote orderly market functioning. Liquid, well-functioning markets are essential for the promotion of economic...
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"Some of us run in stilettos every morning, so there is nothing really unusual in this fact, but Amsterdam fashionistas once a year get a chance to run in their stilettos for cash! About $15,000 are on the line...
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I can not see how this trend will be coming to the US but then again no one saw it coming to GB."Alistair Darling on Sunday announced the first nationalisation of a sizeable British bank in a quarter of a century as he put Northern Rock into public ownership, infuriating...
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check out the video This guy was the head of Goldman Sachs? I thought these types had some public speaking skills. I guess he found it very hard to tell us with a straight face that the worst is yet coming but the US can avoid recession... Mortgage Crisis Spreads...
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"One of the Toll family members decided to walkaway from a condo purchase:
"Luxury builder Toll Brothers Inc (TOL), hurt as many buyers to try to get out of contracts for new homes amid falling prices, says a member of its founding family is trying to walk away from an...
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"ngelina Jolie arrives by plane and makes her way into the Green Zone in Baghdad, Iraq on Thursday. As goodwill ambassador for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, the 32-year-old do-gooder was on a...
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Vouge's editor in chief of American Vogue, Anna Wintour, is said to be anything but impressed with the woman of the political hour (Hillary Clinton) as a result of being a NO - SHOW to a Vogue, (yes Vogue,...
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"“Love Sky,” a debut novel by a young woman named Mika, was read by 20 million people on cellphones or on computers, according to Maho no i-rando, where it was first uploaded. A tear-jerker featuring adolescent sex, rape, pregnancy and a fatal disease — the genre’s...
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"Charlie Gasparino reported on CNBC that sources inside the firm have told him the Citigroup write downs could be $24 billion when earnings are announced next Tuesday.
Usually I wouldn't post every discussion of possible future write downs, but these whisper numbers are...
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"MSNBC reports that Christina Aguilera’s baby has been born. They talked to Jim H. Fogel, a friend of Aguilera’s father-in-law. “He’s so thrilled to be a grandfather again,” Fogel said. No report...
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