Barbarians at the Printing Press: The Wall Street Journal as Propaganda

The Wall Street Journal exists in a bizarre intellectual and publishing space: they hold a commanding position in the heirarchy of newspaper respect and influence, while serving as the quasi-official house organ of the free-market cult, and yet consistently publish the stupidest drivel, [more...]

Date: 2008-12-30 22:28:26

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Putting Faith in Liberals: Church of England puts its faith in Al Gore’s investment arm

Putting Faith in Liberals: Church of England puts its faith in Al Gore’s investment arm Posted by admin at January 1, ... Management. On Nov 18 the First Church Estates Commissioner, Andreas Whittam Smith reported ... Sachs Asset Management, and had almost £5 billion under management before the market collapse. Source [more...]

Date: 2009-01-01 20:15:07

Citi in Talks With Morgan Stanley Over Smith Barney

Citi in Talks With Morgan Stanley Over Smith Barney January 9, 2009, 5:21 pm From Eric Dash and Louise Story, colleagues of DealBook [ ... INSERT DESCRIPTION Citigroup is in talks to sell an interest in its Smith Barney brokerage and asset management unit to Morgan Stanley, according to two people with knowledge of the discussions [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 22:21:59

Economic Jihad: $700 Billion Bail-Out Aids Oil Rich Arab Sheikhs

ByPaul L. Williams(author of The Day of Islam) Oh, you Muslims everywhere, sever the ties of their nation, tear them apart, ruin their economy, ... that has been spent under the Troubled Asset Relief Program. The megabank, thus far, has received [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 02:37:00

Citigroup, the Incredible Shrinking Bank

The Citi never sleeps. Shares never awaken ... up capital. Walter Gerasimowicz, CEO of hedge fund Meditron Asset Management, said that the deal “ ... . The institution that was too big to fail is being reduced in size, both by company management [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 16:54:54

Markets Get an 'F' in P/E

by The Mogambo Guru "The Next Big Storm to Hit the Markets" is the headline for an essay by John Robson & Andrew Selsby of Full Circle Asset Management ... ?") that it is still near where, historically, the market soon started down in a huge bear market [more...]

Date: 2008-12-15 21:47:54

Predictions for the insurance-linked security and weather risk markets in 2009

2008 was a year of ups and downs for the insurance linked security and catastrophe bond markets, while the weather risk management market did not fare so badly (although it has been quiet on the news front). At the start of 2009, we thought we’d ask some of our friends within these markets [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 13:36:27

Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News

Morgan Stanley Smith Barney. Citigroup (C) and Morgan Stanley (MS) confirmed they’re merging their wealth management units into Morgan Stanley Smith Barney. Morgan ... shrinking. Citigroup’s (C) deal with Morgan Stanley (MS) is just one part of its radical restructuring [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 12:15:28

War on VAR

This post from Urbanomics set me thinking about the most popular tool in risk management- Value at Risk (VAR) ... - the scenario changes over a period of time. Stock/Asset prices are influenced by numerous investors [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 07:31:48

What is Wall Street Management Thinking?

Good Evening: When this weekend’s G-20 meeting produced little more than promises and photo ops, ... will be achieved not entirely through pink slips, but will also be effected through attrition and asset sales [more...]

Date: 2008-11-18 04:50:17

The Financial Crisis: Views From the Private-Equity Front

Our friends at sister Dow Jones publication Private Equity Analyst asked a number of people in the private-equity industry what they make of the ... will continue to appear. Private ownership continues to demonstrate itself to be the superior method [more...]

Date: 2008-10-09 09:30:00

Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News

Morgan Stanley Smith Barney. Citigroup (C) and Morgan Stanley (MS) confirmed they're merging their wealth management units into Morgan Stanley Smith Barney. Morgan will pay $2.7B for a 51% stake with the option of taking full control after five years. Citi [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 12:15:31

Church of England puts faith in Al Gore’s investment arm: CEN 12.30.08

The Church of England’s Church Commissioners have gone green, ... in 2004 by Mr Gore and David Blood, former head of Goldman Sachs Asset Management, and had almost ... firm, Generation Investment Management. On Nov 18 the First Church Estates Commissioner, Andreas [more...]

Date: 2008-12-30 13:25:18

10 American Financial Meltdowns in the Past Century

Banks failed, stock prices collapsed, and panic descended on Wall Street. Americans were holding their collective breath as a rescue plan was hastily drafted. The 2008 financial crisis? Nope - it was the Panic of 1907, and again in 1929, 1987, and so on [more...]

Date: 2008-10-08 09:45:59

Citi breakup in sight after Morgan Stanley deal (Reuters via Yahoo! News)

Citi breakup in sight after Morgan Stanley deal (Reuters via Yahoo! News) January 14th, 2009 Citigroup Inc agreed to merge its Smith Barney brokerage with Morgan Stanley’s wealth management unit on Tuesday, and is expected to make further asset sales to raise capital [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 14:55:10

Paul L. Williams: Bailing Out Jihad

SupertrampCrime of the CenturyEconomic Jihad:$700 Billion Bail-Out Aids Oil Rich Arab Sheikhs By Paul L. Williams(author of The Day of Islam) ... million that has been spent under the Troubled Asset Relief Program. The megabank, thus far, has received [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 21:04:00

Opinion: Housing bubbles and market sense

By Hugh Pavletich Recently - Professor Paul Krugman of Princeton University wrote within a brief New York Times article Bubble Blindness – “The ... things were going on in the housing market. Lots of firms [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 23:59:21

Caprock Analytics Stock Ratings

Stock-Net presents custom stock ratings, powered by Caprock Analytics ... are appropriate for your investing goals and objectives. BMC, B M C SOFTWARE Current Caprock Strength Rating: 56.533241 BMC Software, Inc. is a software vendor. The Company provides system [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 13:02:57

A Good Deal for Citigroup’s Smith Barney?

A Good Deal for Citigroup’s Smith Barney? Posted by Heidi N ... effort, in 2005. That year Citigroup swapped its asset management business to Legg Mason, which ... that was part of their 2005 asset swap. Since then, Bill Miller’s vaunted Legg Mason Value Fund [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 02:38:56

Leonid Teytelman: Obama For a Sound Economy

Leonid Teytelman asks: Obama For a Sound Economy:Barack Obama has repeatedly said that he will lower taxes for 95% of Americans. Those making $250,000 or above will see their tax rates rolled back to the pre-Bush levels, and the 15% on capital gains will go back to the 20% that it was before Bush [more...]

Date: 2008-10-31 18:38:41

Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News

Bigger profits for BP. BP (BP) reported Q3 results this morning, ... ). The world's largest maker of business-management software also withdrew its 2008 sales forecast and lowered [more...]

Date: 2008-10-28 11:20:05

Four at Four: Bank of Whatever

Never underestimate the power of the market to confound. Citigroup Inc ... confirmation that the open-bank assistance put in place last quarter is moving to management and other changes [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 16:04:41

Economic Jihad: $700 Billion Bail-Out Aids Oil Rich Arab Sheikhs

Posted by request: Economic Jihad: $700 Billion Bail-Out Aids Oil Rich Arab Sheikhs  By Paul L. Williams (author of The Day of Islam) ... the principal beneficiary of the $350 million that has been spent under the Troubled Asset Relief Program [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 14:02:13

Citi nears Morgan Stanley brokerage deal

Stock prices are delayed 15 minutes. Source: Globe and Mail. The break-up of U.S ... . Citigroup moved close to a deal to join its Smith Barney business with Morgan Stanley’s brokerage [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 02:09:23

Gold, Faith and Credit

by The Mogambo Guru Like many people, I have been looking at the price disparity between the market prices of gold and silver bullion (averaging about $1,000 an ounce for gold and $16.50 an ounce for silver) versus the prices of gold and silver futures (about $730 and $8.90 respectively) [more...]

Date: 2008-10-30 20:52:53

Oversight Hearing on Causes and Effects of the Lehman Brothers Bankruptcy

Oversight Hearing on Causes and Effects of the Lehman Brothers Bankruptcy October 6th, 2008 by Karina Today, ... and Editor, The Corporate Library Gregory W. Smith, General Counsel, Colorado Public Employees’ Retirement [more...]

Date: 2008-10-06 15:55:17

Citi, Morgan Stanley in brokerage talks; Rubin quits

09 Jan 09Citigroup Inc is in advanced talks to sell its Smith Barney brokerage unit to Morgan Stanley, ... chief Zoe Cruz. She had faulted Pandit for being unwilling to take enough risk.Shedding Smith Barney [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 16:41:55

2008 Lookback: Of All the Nerve

Market meltdowns have a way of revealing the true nature of many people ... through the Treasury’s Troubled Asset Relief Program (more than the initial $13.7 billion infusion [more...]

Date: 2008-12-24 09:54:00

Bank of America: What to Expect When You’re Expecting Merrill Lynch

For Bank of America, being a hero won’t come cheap ... because we believe that wealth management and corporate and investment banking represent [more...]

Date: 2009-01-02 09:07:00

Bank of America: What to Expect When You’re Expecting Merrill Lynch

For Bank of America, being a hero won’t come cheap ... because we believe that wealth management and corporate and investment banking represent [more...]

Date: 2009-01-02 09:07:00

SUN MICROSYSTEMS TO CUT 5,000 TO 6,000 JOBS

Sun Microsystems Inc said on Friday it will cut 5,000 to 6,000 jobs, ... Software, run by executive vice-president Anil Gadre; Systems Platforms, run by executive vice-president [more...]

Date: 2008-11-14 22:28:00

LAS REBAJAS EN LONDRES

Ya han empezado las rebajas en Inglaterra, y hay articulos con hasta 90% de descuento ... to intensify today.Boxing Day Sales 2008WH Smith - up to 75% off - Already started Tesco - 70% off clothes [more...]

Date: 2008-12-27 02:16:51

The Citigroup Empire Dismantles

One year ago, I wrote: "In the end, I expect Citigroup will be broken into pieces and eventually be a shell of its former self ... may also dump the CitiFinancial consumer-lending unit, tag Tokyo-based Nikko Asset Management Co ... of Citigroup shareholder Smith Asset Management Inc. in New York, who has repeatedly called [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 15:23:32

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