In SeekingAlpha ETFs - Posted 1 day ago

The surprise: no price support at pre-auction bond prices. (No inside bid exceeded 10%, and the inside market midpoint was 9.75%.) The relief: despi...

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In SeekingAlpha ETFs - Posted 5 days ago

Bank of America (BAC) The pain continues to trickle down the pipeline for Bank of America whose shares have slipped a further 7.2% to $22.03 today...

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In SeekingAlpha ETFs - Posted 5 days ago

Recap of Jim Cramer's comments on Stop Trading! Tuesday October 7. Solar No Good - Merrill Lynch (MER), First Solar (FSLR), NYSE Euronext (NYX)...

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In SeekingAlpha ETFs - Posted 6 days ago

Sebastian Mallaby says deregulation is not the cause of the financial crisis. Jamie Galbraith would disagree (more direct disagreement here and here...

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In SeekingAlpha ETFs - Posted 6 days ago

The Wall Street Journal Bank of America in Settlement Worth Over $8 Billion (online) and Bank of America Settles Countrywide Suit (print) ...

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In SeekingAlpha ETFs - Posted 1 week ago

The figure in the title of this piece is the amount of money committed by the Federal Reserve Bank since December 17, 2007 until September 23, 2008 in...

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In SeekingAlpha ETFs - Posted 1 week ago

Fear and Greed are regularly embraced and exploited by professional traders. At no time has this been more evident than in early September 2008. ...

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In SeekingAlpha ETFs - Posted 2 weeks ago

During the presidential debates last Friday, Senator John McCain [R-AZ] said that we are at the end of the beginning of the economic recession that ...

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In SeekingAlpha ETFs - Posted 2 weeks ago

Lawmakers set to draft bailout bill. Congress inched toward approving the Treasury's $700B plan to rescue the U.S. financial system. President Bush ...

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In Big Picture - Posted 2 weeks ago

With Congress recognizing the public's dismay over this massive taxpayer giveaway, we are starting to see some serious questions about the folks who d...

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