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Chimera Investment Corporation (NYSE: CIM) is the mortgage REIT which we used to dub “the vulture mortgage REIT” because of its targets in lower-rated mortgage-backed securities. Usually a delay...
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The Securities and Exchange Commission has announced that the national securities exchanges and FINRA are filing proposals in a move to revise the current stock market circuit breakers in an effort...
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It looks like at least some of the investors who were screwed by Stanford may get to recover some assets. This is not meant to be a catch-all recovery nor for all investors, at least not the way we...
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American Tower Corporation (NYSE: AMT) and Crown Castle International Corp. (NYSE: CCI) are the two major players in the world of cellphone towers. Go ahead and include 4G too. This morning is...
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The actions of Moody’s, Standard & Poor’s, and Fitch helped trigger the greatest credit crisis of all time. Each has been investigated and dragged before Congress because of AAA ratings that...
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Taxpayers are more on guard about what the federal government spends than they have been in years, or perhaps longer, as threats of a high deficit and national debt highlight concerns about a drop in...
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If you are like the rest of who are upset about some ‘minor market issues’ like Bernie Madoff, Raj, Octopussy, and the dozens of other extreme violations of securities laws, then you are probably...
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Electric energy provider Dynegy (NYSE: DYN) has been through a great deal recently. It threatened to file Chapter 11. The firm said it might not be able to refinance a credit facility. The...
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RockTenn (NYSE: RKT) will buy Smirft-Stone (NYSE: SSCN) for $3.5 billion. (Reuters) Assets in the Treasury’s toxic asset fund rose 27% in value last year to $6.3 billion. (Reuters) China will pass...
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Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: GS) is being viewed differently because of its Facebook investment that gave the social networking monster a valuation of about $50 billion. In order to not throw...
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Speculation is running rampant on insider trading. This is over who is going to get caught up in the dragnet of insider trading charges rather than on which companies are soon to be acquired. The...
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Bank of America Corporation (NYSE: BAC) filed its quarterly report with the SEC today as its 10-Q. Generally speaking these filings are often nebulous and contain many factoids that are often taken...
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Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Inc. (NASDAQ: GMCR) may have just seen a change on how investors are going to treat its growth story ahead. The company’s latest SEC filing disclosed accounting...
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Investors, worried about market volatility, no longer view the purchase and sales of stocks as an even playing field, and are acting accordingly. Events like the “flash crash” have made them...
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Updated throughout the day. A buyout of Burger King (NYSE: BKC) is likely to be at $24 (WSJ) China search engine firm Baidu (NASDAQ: BIDU) will focus more on mobile markets (Reuters) The SEC is...
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