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Investing in mortgages might not be as bad as many thought. Chimera Investment Corporation (NYSE: CIM) has already raised more capital on more than one occasion since coming public in 2007 when the...
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The FOMC is expected to give us a decision on interest rates this Wednesday, September 23 around 2:15 PM EST. One tool we prefer to use for determining the direction of Fed Funds is long standing...
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Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services is making a house-cleaning exercise which could have a broad impact on the ratings of thousands of already-troubled securities. S&P is changing its...
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Investors have just been given one more trading instrument meant to track a less-followed investment class. State Street Corporation (NYSE: STT) has announced that its State Street Global Advisors...
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The minutes of the August 11 and 12 FOMC meeting shows a Fed that is slowly growing more confident in things, yet the conviction is low. The FOMC was more confident that the recession is ending and...
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The debt ratings agencies might be tarnished on many fronts, but traders for debt and equities still pay attention to debt ratings agencies when they raise ratings on companies. That is exactly...
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Sirius XM Radio Inc. (NASDAQ: SIRI) has caught a debt upgrade from Standard & Poor’s. The cited reasons were that the liquidity position has improved after debt refinancings, and also that...
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The Blackstone Group L.P. (NYSE: BX) had a fairly busy day. It seems that reports of the death of private equity may have been exaggerated. The company had two key announcements today: it brought...
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CIT Group Inc. (NYSE: CIT) has seen its shares halted for news pending. That news is out. The troubled financial lender to small businesses and middle market companies has announced that, with...
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Moody’s Corporation (NYSE: MCO) just got a rather interesting insider selling shares, none other than Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A). The listed entities were Berkshire...
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Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) is not a company you think of needing cash. Yet, after the close, the chip and processor giant announced its intention to sell a $1.5 billion principal amount of...
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CIT Group, Inc. (NYSE: CIT) is trading no different than a warrant or way out of the money call option at this point. In short, any trading other than a forced sale here is nothing more than a Las...
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The SEC says that companies holding California IOUs can trade them like stocks or bonds by handing them over to a broker. According to the agency, “The staff of the SEC has expressed its belief...
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General Electric Capital Corporation, the hard-hit and recently criticized unit of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE), has just filed an automatic shelf registration with the SEC. Usually these ...
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An appetite for risky assets that has sent small-cap and emerging market stocks and junk bonds flying since March now is getting more scrutiny from a market heavyweight. Greg Peters, head of credit...
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