Mean Street: John Mack’s Final Folly, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney
If there’s one thing that the recent history of Citi should have taught Wall Street, it’s that bigger is not necessarily better ... s 11,000 Smith Barney brokers and make Morgan Stanley the biggest, baddest retail broker on Wall ... . With a shrunken balance sheet and moribund markets, Morgan Stanley’s future looks awfully grim. If you’re CEO [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 19:28:00
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Determining Where You Will Invest
Determining Where You Will Invest How much should you invest depends on several factors. The most important one is you ... , and you may even take college level courses on the topic – which is what stock brokers do. With access ... investors have done as well. It’s common sense! Learning about the stock exchange and investments takes [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 17:23:40
DrumBeat: December 31, 2008
The Peak Oil Crisis: Civil Unrest Before grappling with 2009, it might be useful to remind ourselves that there is a dark side to what lies ahead. There was a little flurry in the news last week when it was discovered that the Army War College had released a report talking about preparing for civil unrest in the U.S [more...]
Date: 2008-12-31 13:58:02
EMPFX — Swiss Broker with Custom Platform
EMPFX is a newly listed Forex broker on my site. It’s operated by the Swiss company E-Money Power Ltd and offers its services on-line since 2007 ... on the open positions. For those who prefer to invest rather than to trade, the managed Forex ... leverage at 1:200. The trading is performed via their custom stand-alone trading platform [more...]
Date: 2008-12-22 03:40:38
EMPFX — Swiss Broker with Custom Platform
EMPFX is a newly listed Forex broker on my site. It’s operated by the Swiss company E-Money Power Ltd and offers its services on-line since 2007 ... on the open positions. For those who prefer to invest rather than to trade, the managed Forex ... leverage at 1:200. The trading is performed via their custom stand-alone trading platform [more...]
Date: 2008-12-21 10:52:36
Testing Simple Investment Ideas in 2009
2008 was certainly a bad year for almost all investors. 2009 may be bad also, or not ... ourselves a discount brokers fee of $10 per transaction. We will also start with the closing prices ... Book You'll Ever Read. The portfolio consists of a total stock market index fund, a total international [more...]
Date: 2009-01-02 16:52:56
Real estate-a great way to invest
A property is an asset which will always bring in good returns as the value of real estate keeps increasing with time ... . There are quite a number of real estate brokers who will find you the best properties according to your space ... in vestments will never disappoint you in terms of future profits. [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 13:34:09
Start Investing With Only $1,000
So you have a $1,000 set aside, and you’re ready to enter the world of investing. But before you jump head first into the world of stocks and bonds, there are a few things you need to consider. One of the biggest considerations for investors with a minimal amount of funds is not only what to invest in but also how to go about investing [more...]
Date: 2009-01-11 19:13:13
Making Profit in the Foreign Exchange Market
The currency fluctuate continuously due to reasons such as political, economical reasons, sometimes the changes could be extremely great, therefore, the Forex traders also can have the opportunity in among which makes a profit. For example, the Japanese Yen daily fluctuation is probably between 0.7% to 1.5%, Forex traders may make profit through [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 22:39:00
BofA, ML Bloodletting Continues Amid Uptown Spin
Man, if you have been following the Bank of America-Merrill Lynch saga since last fall, ... investment banks because of the potential for culture clashes. Really? That’s a helluva scoop Rick ... of compensation-heavy investment banking operations like Merrill. Rothacker even claimed that BofA’ [more...]
Date: 2009-01-09 10:13:01
Gaming Home Values and Their Consequences
The plummeting Case-Shiller Index, which showcases the free fall that has become the housing market got me thinking about the bubble inflation during the preceding years and the role that house valuation played in this implosion. It also got me thinking about the difference between Case-Shiller price drops and actual price deflation for those [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 11:07:32
Get Buy / Sell Call on BSE, NSE & NSE F&O Shares: 13 Jan 2009
1. Satyam has proved itself as Zhootha and Raju7 has become a Conman from being a gentleman. The real story and Raju motive behind the whole story is as assessed by me and a few pertinent questions which needs to be probed by SEBI. 2. Raju in a deliberate move kept inflating the profit to keep Satyam ahead in the race in so many years but his [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 18:21:56
Classic Retail Broker Stupidity
A retail broker I worked with many years ago sends an email asking about Freddie Mac (FRE): "It looks cheap, the government won't let them go bust, its a potential turnaround." Mind ... stock picker. As bad as the worst of the investing public. Loves Mad Money, worships Cramer [more...]
Date: 2008-07-10 14:35:44
When to Double Down on a Losing Position
What should you do when a position you believe in moves against you 10% in a few days? This question is a simple one, yet it leads to drastic differences of opinion. Certain investors believe that if you were willing to buy the stock at a higher level, why not buy more now. Others [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 18:49:49
Exxon CEO doubts Obama's alternative energy goal
Tom Doggett, Reuters 8 Jan 09;WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson said on Thursday it would be difficult to meet President-elect ... ourselves."Despite calls for more alternative energy use, he said, "for the foreseeable future" the world ... to meet future energy demand.He said the company was sticking with its $125 billion capital [more...]
Date: 2009-01-10 00:03:00
Invest your money wisely
Me and my wife started saving from our monthly salary income. We had decided to start investing our money to make it grow. I visited several investment brokers but none of them made me decided to invest in their investment firms. I know there is more and my money must be invested properly and not just some investments [more...]
Date: 2009-01-10 00:07:00
Money Management for Forex Trading
by forexbroker Forex money management is one of the most key affairs you can read before you actually begin taking live trades ... , it is extremely advisable that you first practice a scheme on a demo account. Virtually all brokers offer ... handful of trades. Psychology is actually the most essential factor to money management in forex [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 00:37:43
Citigroup Pieces For Sale, Starting With Smith Barney
Citigroup is likely to be broken up. The New York Times highlights the story in Rubin Leaving Citigroup; Smith Barney for Sale ... and investment banking, and international consumer banking — than the bloated and unwieldy company ... Lynch’s thundering herd of brokers that Bank of America snapped up in September. Citigroup [more...]
Date: 2009-01-10 09:31:19
ForSaleByOwner.com v. Jay Thompson And Realtors Round 2
Back in June of this year, US News & World Report hosted an installment of the Housing Rumble with Luke Mullins of the Home Front column mediating a debate between Jay Thompson, a Phoenix real estate broker and Greg Healy, the vice [more...]
Date: 2008-11-26 18:54:03
Citigroup Pieces For Sale, Starting With Smith Barney
Citigroup is likely to be broken up. The New York Times highlights the story in Rubin Leaving Citigroup; Smith Barney for Sale ... and investment banking, and international consumer banking — than the bloated and unwieldy company ... s thundering herd of brokers that Bank of America snapped up in September. Citigroup and Morgan [more...]
Date: 2009-01-10 09:22:00
R-ADAG in talks to sell a stake in insurance distribution biz to UK co
Reliance ADAG is in talks to sell a minority stake in its insurance distribution business to the UK-based insurance broking firm THB for Rs 250-300 ... expertise from foreign partners who are specialists in the reinsurance business.” The other big ... is an independent UK-based insurance broker, established in 1968. It provides insurance broking, risk [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 05:23:50
The hedge fund after Christmas sale---30-60% off!!
It looks like the sellers of their positions actually understand the value of hedge funds "side pocket" ... to a letter sent to prospective buyers of the stake by one broker, Bahamas-based Hedgebay Trading Corp ... Credit Strategies Fund Ltd. - at a cool 40 percent discount, according to the Nov. 13 letter, which [more...]
Date: 2009-01-11 12:34:00
Real Estate: Invest while you Learn with a Real Estate Mentor
by Rob J. Nani Changes in the real estate market create new niches and investment strategies ... investing issues. As with any type of investment, the greater the risk, the greater the return; therefore ... you get started, you will find that there are a lot of people you need to know, including investors, brokers [more...]
Date: 2008-12-22 15:36:21
5 Surefire Ways To Improve Your Investment Performance
Investing in the stock market is a risky business if you don’t know what you’re doing. Even if you do, it’s possible to lose a lot of money — e.g ... Reinvestment The second mechanic relies on the wonder of compound interest. I instructed my broker [more...]
Date: 2008-09-12 13:00:30
Bank of America: What to Expect When You’re Expecting Merrill Lynch
For Bank of America, being a hero won’t come cheap. Bank of America officially married Merrill Lynch on New Year’s Day, culminating an engagement that began Sept. 15 when Merrill Lynch President Greg Fleming persuaded BofA to save his investment bank from a fate worse than Lehman Brothers Holdings [more...]
Date: 2009-01-02 09:07:00
Bank of America: What to Expect When You’re Expecting Merrill Lynch
For Bank of America, being a hero won’t come cheap. Bank of America officially married Merrill Lynch on New Year’s Day, culminating an engagement that began Sept. 15 when Merrill Lynch President Greg Fleming persuaded BofA to save his investment bank from a fate worse than Lehman Brothers Holdings [more...]
Date: 2009-01-02 09:07:00
Greener Pastures Part 2: bringing home the green
Here we are, back again to share a love of learning. And now it’s time to discuss the topic on everyone’s mind in this economy: jobs! ... also adds “ i f the U.S. ever moves to a mandatory trading system, expect this field to boom.” [more...]
Date: 2009-01-13 02:40:20
The Guillotine Falls In Many Different Ways
The San Francisco Chronicle reports from California. “The number of scheduled foreclosure sales and defaults in core areas of Northern and Southern California exceeded a half million during 2008, up 132 percent from the previous year, according to Default Research [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 17:47:43
Funds of funds have to work harder
Funds of funds have to work harderBy John Gapper“For Monica and Walter Noel, their hilltop retreat on Mustique is all about the mix – of family, friends, great times and a sexy global design style,” declared Town & Country in 2005 about the founder of the hedge fund group, Fairfield Greenwich, [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 19:13:00
Forex Trading- Money Management Rule 1
by forexbroker Forex money management is one of the most key affairs you can read before you actually begin taking live trades ... handful of trades. Psychology is actually the most essential factor to money management in forex ... a virtual account whereupon you make trades in real-time, but with imaginary money, so nothing [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 00:48:05
New Year’s Resolution #1: Invest Wisely in 2009
Like so many people, I learned a lot of investing lessons the hard way in 2008 ... indexes like the S&P 500 at minimal cost to the investor. If you believe the stock market ... t sound too scary, you might want to open a trading account with a discount broker like Scottrade [more...]
Date: 2009-01-04 01:50:09
Paul Krugman and Illegal Immigration: Even a Nobel Laureate Can Be Wrong
Friends and Patriots,Here is an article that chastises Paul Krugman for his stand on Illegal Immigration. He like so many misguided by multiculturalism and apologetic academia types miss the point every time about the effect of Illegal Immigration on the citizens of this country [more...]
Date: 2009-01-10 16:31:00
It's Not The Cheese That Costs so Much
I admit that I can still be astonished. When I watched '60 Minutes' last night I saw a big surprise report that I was right all along about oil ... the commodities futures market. At the New York Mercantile Exchange, it's traded alongside cotton [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 19:28:09
School of Hard Knocks: Edward Jones Still Sells Investments Door-to-Door
School of Hard Knocks: Edward Jones Still Sells Investments Door-to-Door Turnover Is High, but the Company Is Hiring; ... 2001 Chevy pickup before he walks up to a house.In the midst of the worst stock market since ... 998 brokers this year. It plans to add another 5,000 by 2012, according to Jim Weddle, the firm’ [more...]
Date: 2009-01-11 16:38:00
“We can put light where there’s darkness, and hope where there’s despondency in this country. And part of it is working together as a nation to encourage folks to own their own home.” — President Bush, Oct. 15, 2002 THE BLUEPRINTS In June 2002, [more...]
Date: 2008-12-21 16:01:46
Short Selling Harms Company Stockholders (Illustrated)
The Wall Street consensus is that the practice of short selling is an accepted market strategy ... shares of stock. I own five of the shares and you own five. Your shares are borrowed by a broker ... fives shares and is expected to buy them at some point in the future. (And yet, the market regulators [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 04:20:00
Century 21 Ditches TV for Online
In a move I suspect may be followed by many of the other big real estate brands in 2009, last week at Real Estate Connect in New York, ... . Photo by prgibbs. Ad: Are you frustrated by a website that does not work? BREAK FREE! Trade [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 20:27:12
Review: Put Your Money Where Your Heart Is by Natalie Pace
To be candid, when I was offered a review copy of Natalie Pace’s new book: Put Your Money Where Your Heart Is, I considered turning it down. It sounded like advice for people only interested in investing in stocks and bonds and this topic really isn’t that interesting to me [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 13:11:16
Six Lessons for Investors
Six Lessons for Investors Be diversified and don't assume past performance will continue. JOHN C ... accounted for about 65% of my personal portfolio in early 2000. Because returns on my bond funds since then have totaled 50% and returns on my stock funds were negative 25%, bonds are now about 75 [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 18:23:00
"Morgan Stanley Smith Barney" - Citigroup May Book $10 Billion Gain From Morgan Stanley Deal
Citigroup Inc. may book a gain of as much as $10 billion by forming a brokerage venture with Morgan Stanley, ... of rescue funds last year from the U.S. government. “You’re selling out the future to get through ... Stanley Smith Barney, would have about 22,000 brokers, exceeding the network created by Bank [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 02:39:00
Wall Street Guru Ball
By Andrew Liszewski Well so far 2009 looks, feels and tastes a lot like 2008 did ... increase financial well-being” then this twist on the classic 8-Ball could help. Why rely on stock brokers [more...]
Date: 2009-01-01 13:44:34
Online Investmenting
Firstrade is a leading discount online brokerage serving investors for over 23 years ... and more on their online trading platform.To successfully trade stocks online you need movement in the stock ... . So this has to be one of best times to buy stocks online in a long time. Online trading is the easiest way [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 16:40:00
New York Times Blames Housing and Financial Crisis on Bush
UPDATE AT END OF POST: White House issues statement concerning "Irresponsible Reporting by New York Times." It's official: the housing and financial crisis gripping the nation is President George W. Bush's fault. So said the New York Times Sunday in a 4900-word, front page hit piece entitled " [more...]
Date: 2008-12-21 19:37:01
Choosing a Forex Broker
Before trading Forex you need to set up an account with a Forex Broker. So what exactly is a broker? ... . Find out if the broker is regulatedWhen selecting a prospective Forex broker, find out with which ... traders. If you are trading in United States, make sure your Forex brokerage firm is registered [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 14:33:00
What Goes Around
by Stephen Fleischman What happens when one mighty militarized nation smashes a small, defenseless country? ... in 1933, we had an economic collapse after a stock market crash that led to “the Great Depression” [more...]
Date: 2009-01-11 13:01:35
Will there be a worldwide re-think on globalisation?
The current financial and economic crisis sweeping across the world is merely in its early stages. The worst is yet to come ... BASF.Shortly before trading ended at noon on New Year’s Eve, the brokers on Wall Street paused [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 19:08:26
The evil puppet master, Dick Cheney, made yet another appearance on Sunday morning talk shows to talk with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer about the Bush ... , would lend $9 for every $1 an investor had deposited. When the market fell, brokers called [more...]
Date: 2009-01-11 19:16:09
Forex Market Overview
The forex market exists wherever one currency is traded for another ... . It includes trading between large banks, central banks, multinational corporations, governments, and other financial institutions.The forex market is a cash inter-bank established in 1971 when floating [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 01:01:00
Withdrawing And Depositing Money Into Your Online Investing Accounts
By Nathan Navachi While most online investment and trading services give you all the information you need to be successful with your efforts, few of them give you detailed information about moving money into and out of your account ... tells you. When it comes to your online trading and investment accounts, what is the most important [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 19:19:43
Reliance Capital To Dilute Stake In Its Broking Arm To UK's THB
Reliance ADAG is in talks to sell a minority stake in its insurance brokerage business to the UK-based insurance broking firm THB ... firms-- Howden and Tyser to sell a stake in Standard Composite Insurance Brokers (SCIB), THB ... in The Economic Times. SCIB is a subsidiary of Reliance Money, the stock brokerage and financial products [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 07:02:35
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