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The Fed is buying. Should you?

October 15, 2008 · Filed Under US Stocks and Markets · Comments 
The markets remain highly volatile. JPMorgan (NYSE:JPM) and others announced surprise third-quarter earnings, yet the future is bleak. The more data we get the more I believe you should buy gold and short oil. By Andrew Snyder Baltimore – (TFN): America is a changed beast. What once was a country willing to go to war over [...]

Ignore the bank bailout and profit from the financial sector

October 1, 2008 · Filed Under Investment Strategies · Comments 
Put your money into the financial sector? No, Andrew Gordon, of Investor’s Daily Edge, isn’t kidding. While WaMu (NYSE:WM), Fortress (NYSE:FIG), Lehman (OTC:LEHMQ) and all their friends have been falling to their knees, another side of the financial industry is thriving, with or without the bank bailout. by Andrew Gordon Baltimore — (TFN):  The [...]

First Quarter Results: Turn around or false signal

April 22, 2008 · Filed Under US Stocks and Markets · Comments 
“Most investors realized that earnings season would be dismal; so when the results came in (pretty much) as expected, many investors seemed to find that the news (especially among financials) was not worse and went on a buying spree.” — William Patalon Blogger’s note: Financials like JP Morgan (JPM: NYSE) and Citigroup [...]

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

March 29, 2008 · Filed Under News that Matters · Comments 
"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

March 28, 2008 · Filed Under US Stocks and Markets · Comments 
“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 that [...]

Foreign Investment: Tata and Ford set the date for Jag/Land Rover sale

March 24, 2008 · Filed Under International Investing · Comments 
"The sticky trap for the sale seems to have been the unions involved. And the deal they’ve gotten out of two companies looks like a pretty sweet one." — Stephanie Grimmett by Stephanie Grimmett Baltimore — (TFN): The date is set. And these two (er, three?) crazy kids are finally gonna tie the knot… as soon as [...]

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

March 22, 2008 · Filed Under News that Matters · Comments 
"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 [...]