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* OCTOBER 13, 2009 Regulators Target 'Naked' Access Concerns Over Risk Management of Anonymous, High-Speed Trades BY SCOTT PATTERSON Federal securities regulators are examining whether an arrangement that lets high-speed traders rapidly buy and sell large chunks of stock anonymously...

It should be spooktacular if revenues disappoint. So far, those companies such as Alcoa meeting/beating are doing so on cost cutting and extraordinary items, for the most part, while the financial MSM has rarely mentioned those companies that missed, and their are many. Companies can't...

Ahhh. Thanks.

MS is banned? What happened?

Will the GOP base accept or rebel if Lesbian Liz Cheney ever runs for GOP office?

“In Goldman Sachs, We Trust”

More green shoots! http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=acb3OC2NYABQ Venture-Capital Fundraising Drops to Lowest Since ‘03 (Update2) Share | Email | Print | A A A By Tim Mullaney Oct. 12 (Bloomberg) -- Venture-capital fundraising dropped to its lowest point in six...

It's not safe to ask questions about the untouchables (i.e. Goldman Sachs).

I've seen credible studies pegging real UE at 22.7%, and that DOES NOT include tracking and reporting those INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORS in the U.S. as jobless - the U6 broader measure topped out at 13.5% in 1985, and yet, we'll be going much higher than 17% this go 'round...

And yet everyone knocking CNN worships at the altar of Faux News, which never questioned any of the litany of insane (and unconstitutional) Bush policies or practices during Dumbya's 8 years of reign... ...bunch of imbecilic, myopic and brain dead Rupert Murdoch teet suckers we got in this...

Blackstone is about to unload some leveraged and overpriced assets onto a greater fool (if they can). I guess they're "back in the business" of selling tops... They sure as hell sold real property at the absolute top...perfect timing on that for their shareholders buying into their IPO.

Dip buyers will be no where to be found during the next downturn. The market is going to crash and burn as people who were long will realize their lottery winnings and bank the cash and take off. Government meddling = market disequilibrium = giant bubbles that ultimately crash and burn badly.

As the article states, time to "reap some green shoots" before they die. This is f**king laughable. http://blogs.reuters.com/reuters-dealzone/2009/10/12/wheres-the-bull-blackstones-ipo-plans/ DealZone Behind the deals and deal-makers 09:06 October 12th, 2009 Where’s the bull...

1) 2) Oct. 9 (Bloomberg) -- White House economic adviser Lawrence Summers rejected the notion that the U.S. faces an extended period of below-average growth and high unemployment in the wake of the worst recession since the 1930s. “I would be very reluctant to accept the idea that the...

The profit growth forecast for S&P 500 companies by analysts for 2010 is 11 times faster than the expansion in U.S. gross domestic product projected by economists surveyed this month, the highest ratio on record, data compiled by Bloomberg going back 60 years show. The average ratio is 6.1...

http://sports.espn.go.com/golf/news/story?id=4545614 Updated: October 9, 2009, 12:25 PM ET Golfer loses arm in gator attack Comment Email Print Share Associated Press BEAUFORT, S.C. --Officials say an alligator bit off part of a golfer's arm as he leaned over to pick up his ball at a...

They should just have the government buy shit for everyone so that the retailers can stay alive and factories in China and Mexico can stay open. Oh, and the new stimulus package about to be approved (though it won't be called that; I wonder why?) is going to cure all that ills us - and if it...

With the economy so robust and so strong, and green shoots sprouting everywhere, you'd think people would be buying a lot of gasoline. Maybe something in the propaganda campaign doesn't jive. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aZfIACtKTlSk Sunoco, Valero Shut Refineries...

It's as bad (or worse, in reality) as if we've just experienced the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil, or the giant popping of the 3rd largest bubble (.com) took place... http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601068&sid=aYZfOLKO2Zpk U.S. Job Openings Fall to Lowest Level in at Least...

Debt Trips Up Hinckley, Venerable Maine Yacht Maker http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/10/business/10hinckley.html?hpw By GERALDINE FABRIKANT Published: October 9, 2009 SOUTHWEST HARBOR, Me. — David Rockefeller Sr. ordered a new boat last year, a $3 million 55-foot powerboat. “We...