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Hershey (HSY): Kisses sweeten the recession

While the rest of the world has been growing more bitter by the day, The Hershey Company (HSY) has been gaining back a little of its sweetness. Unlike the rest of the market, HSY may have already seen its bottom and be one the way back up. Should you buy? by Stephanie Grimmett Baltimore — [...]

Lehman Brothers (LEH) may destroy itself

“Of the five big investment banks that were in operation at the outset of this year, The Bear Stearns Cos. has already failed and been taken over, and Lehman Brothers is trying to avoid a similar fate.” — Martin Hutchinson by Martin Hutchinson Baltimore — (TFN): When Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. (NYSE:LEH) announced a third-quarter loss [...]

Playing Bluffmaster with the U.S. banks

"I can see Morgan Stanley on one side… Citigroup, and Lehman are there too. And they are all bluffing about what they’re holding, and everyone playing knows it." — Charles Delvalle by Charles Delvalle Baltimore — (TFN):  Every time I think about the world financial system, I [...]

European Central Bank (ECB) could topple Spain’s financial sector

"There’s a bombshell being delivered here - the European Central Bank is about to stop bailing out eurozone commercial banks. And that could mean another big lender going ‘bust’." — David Stevenson Blogger’s note: Just like in the U.S. and UK, the European Union’s state bank has been extending easy credit to prevent "temporary" illiquidity in [...]

Is the FDIC Predicting Another Bear Stearns Or Something Worse?

“In all my years of reading the Journal and other financial newspapers, I’ve NEVER seen the FDIC advertise their work. So doesn’t it seem a little suspicious that the FDIC took out a full-page ad in the midst of the country’s worst financial crisis since 1990?” — Eric Roseman by Eric Roseman Baltimore — (TFN): Something smells [...]

Lehman Brothers (LEH): The next bank in need of a bailout?

“Most of Wall Street’s moneymaking machines have shut down. Mortgage-securitization activity has gone kaput, while IPO and M&A activities are sputtering. Even worse, Billions of dollars of future writedowns and losses are still buried inside Wall Street’s balance sheets.” — Dan Amoss by Dan Amoss Baltimore – (TFN): Since [...]

Gold Prices: Hedging your bets

“That key marker of investor anxiety, the gold price, fell 15 percent from its top of mid-March to the end of April. The preceding surge had taken gold bullion up from $650 per ounce in August to above $1,030 the day after Bear Stearns was sold to J.P. Morgan.” [...]

U.S. Banks: Washington Mutual is not a good sign!

“Call me paranoid, but when the bullets are flying and the bodies are falling, I’m inclined to worry that I might be next. As for the big banks (investment and otherwise), Bear Stearns is not in anyway shape or form the last man to hit the ground.” — Adam [...]

Undervalued Stocks: Buying as the Street Runs Red

“Blood-in-the-streets investing may sound cold, heartless, and a cheap way to make a buck, but we’re investors. We’re looking for the political turmoil… financial hardships… assassinations… bloody uprisings… the events that seed wealth.” — Ian Cooper of Pure Energy Trader by Ian Cooper Baltimore — (TFN): The following was taken from the 60-Second Buzz [...]

Buying as the Street Runs Red: 60-Second Buzz Video

Baltimore — (TFN): Unfairly beaten, the latest "blood in the streets" buying opportunity is MF Global.  SC Trading Pit bought shortly after the stock’s $11 demise, only to bank a 60% gain two days later, as the company battled liquidity concerns. Here’s why it’s still a buy. Click here to watch the [...]

This Week’s Financial News: Paulson has an idea, Bear Stearns ain’t a cheap floozy and mind the overspray

"At least the U.S. economy has started to look more like a soap opera and less like a Greek tragedy this week. Maybe we can get out of the current market situation without having to watch every player die a bloody, violent death, afterall… or maybe not. Either way, I’d bring a an umbrella to [...]

Dollar Bear: Bail-me-out Bennie

“The current mess did not result from a failure of the free market, but from too much government interference. The real estate bubble, and the shaky securitized products it spawned, resulted from the Fed artificially setting interest rates too low.” — Peter Schiff by Peter Schiff, Dollar Bear Baltimore – (TFN): Now [...]

This Week’s Financial News: Bear Stearns crumbles, mortgages now back the dollar and Visa comes to the rescue

"You can just imagine the scene enacted last weekend: Ben Bernanke on his knees begging pal Jamie Dimon, JP Morgan’s CEO, to rescue Bear Stearns from imploding in a panic and creating a blackhole large enough to suck the rest of the U.S.’s banking industry in with it. Jamie agreed to help out his [...]

MasterCard and Visa: The Next Big Banking Crisis

Baltimore — (TFN): As U.S. financial institutions are still hoping that the end of the subprime mortgage crisis — and billion-dollar losses — is just around the corner, a new, severe crisis is shaping up for MasterCard and Visa, two companies that so far have profited nicely from the credit crunch. Find out just how these [...]

U.S. Market Crisis: How to prevent a UK contagion

“Right now the big concern is whether a potential new financial crisis in Great Britain - spawned by the ‘St. Patrick’s Day Massacre’ - will make the jump across the ocean and infect the U.S. financial markets.” — Keith Fitz-Gerald by Keith Fitz-Gerald Baltimore – (TFN):  With the recent market collapse, [...]

Bank Stocks: Is it time to buy financial sector stocks again?

Baltimore — (TFN): It’s been a rough week for Bear Sterns. Forced to sell all of its shares to JPMorgan Chase for a lowly $2 a share, Bear Sterns investors have seen better days. However, Bear Stern’s two rivals Lehman Brothers and Goldman Sachs — while still in a profit slump — posted better-than-expected quarterly [...]

Dollar Bear: Bernanke in Wonderland

"By allowing the accumulation of even more taxpayer guaranteed debt, the moves will merely delay and exacerbate the housing problems and will increase the size of losses when these two government sponsored enterprises ultimately fail." — Peter Schiff by Peter Schiff   Baltimore — (TFN): How do you know when you’re through the looking glass? A fairly good indication [...]

Dollar Bear: The road to hyper-inflation

"Backing paper money with mortgages is nothing new. The French tried it in the late 18th Century, and it lead to hyperinflation." — Peter Schiff by Peter Schiff Baltimore — (TFN): This week, as the financial sector began to give way under the unbearable weight of bad mortgage debt, the Federal Reserve stepped in to save the [...]

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