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"Is Morgan Stanley the next Lehman? Shares down 35% today alone" And so what? 1999 Up 525% in Debut. Shares of Foundry Networks Inc, (FDRY) three-year-old designer of devices to manage Internet traffic, rise more than sixfold ... Was FDRY the next Cisco? The stock market is crazy:D

NYT 1999: Fannie Mae Eases Credit To Aid Mortgage Lending The New York Times | 1999 | By STEVEN A. HOLMES In a move that could help increase home ownership rates among minorities and low-income consumers, the Fannie Mae Corporation is easing the credit requirements on loans that it will...

"Look, it’s perfectly possible to explain the situtation clearly and concisely: * starting in 1977, we’ve increasingly forced banks to make more risky mortgages by government fiat[1] * in order to reduce the risk, mortgage backed securities were invented * in order to pass risk from...

NYT 1999: Fannie Mae Eases Credit To Aid Mortgage Lending The New York Times | 1999 | By STEVEN A. HOLMES In a move that could help increase home ownership rates among minorities and low-income consumers, the Fannie Mae Corporation is easing the credit requirements on loans that it will...

Friday, October 10, 2008 9:33 AM Alan Greenspan said the U.S. housing market will begin to recover in the first half of 2009, according to an article he wrote for Emerging Markets magazine published Friday. Greenspan wrote that the recent slowing in the rate of decline in U.S. home...

``At this point, investors are just focusing on getting through the day,'' said Alan Gayle, the Richmond, Virginia-based senior strategist at Ridgeworth Investments, which oversees about $70 billion. ``The markets are being driven by emotion and rumor.''...

Morgan Stanley not another Lehman Fri Oct 10, 2008 7:45pm EDT NEW YORK (Reuters) - For U.S. authorities watching from the sidelines as Morgan Stanley struggles with doubts about its survival, letting the investment bank fail is not really an option. While near panic about the No. 2...

Morgan Stanley MS target price $19 October 10, 2008 Morgan Stanley, itself, continues to try and reassure jittery markets. The company said late Thursday in a regulatory filing that it has enough cash to cover all financing for the remainder of the year and will increasingly use its new...

Food and fuel will fall, says optimistic Brown Joe Murphy and Nicholas Cecil, Evening Standard 9 October 2008, 9:47am Gordon Brown today forecast falling oil, food and electricity prices as he painted an optimistic view of the economy heading for recovery. The Prime Minister said...

NYSE's Niederauer Starting to `See Some Capitulation' http://www.bloomberg.com/avp/avp.htm?N=av&T=NYSE's%20Niederauer%20Starting%20to%20%60See%20Some%20Capitulation'&clipSRC=mms://media2.bloomberg.com/cache/vXZ9RSNyEgY0.asf

Oct. 9 (Bloomberg) `Completely Overshot' ``There are problems out there, I know that, but stocks have completely overshot on the downside,'' Kevin Rendino, who manages $10 billion at BlackRock Inc., told Bloomberg Television in an interview taped before stocks began their retreat...

Oct. 9 (Bloomberg) Hiromichi Shirakawa, chief Japan economist at Credit Suisse Group in Tokyo said, ``The U.S. and Europe should start thinking about a zero-rate policy.'' http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a5X3.UfvG6.4&refer=home

ECB's Trichet Can't Rule Out Further Interest Rate Cuts http://www.bloomberg.com/avp/avp.htm?N=av&T=ECB's%20Trichet%20Can't%20Rule%20Out%20Further%20Interest%20Rate%20Cuts&clipSRC=mms://media2.bloomberg.com/cache/vwPp1czacpMI.asf

Some Hedge funds need to sell: that's why the stock markets were collapsing, and some investment banks supported by Paulson :D and Bernanke want to buy stocks at very cheap prices. Don't be fooled IBM preannounces 3Q results; beats estimates IBM maintained its forecast of at least $8.75...

Wed Oct 8, 2008 1:04pm EDT KANSAS CITY, Mo., Oct 8 (Reuters) - Monsanto Co (MON.N: Quote, ), a global leader in sales of agricultural seeds and technology, said on Wednesday it saw credit continuing to flow to U.S. farmers as a new planting season for key crops approaches. Despite tight...

Citi Upgrades Syngenta (SYT) to Buy October 8, 2008 8:45 AM EDT Citi upgrades Syngenta (NYSE: SYT) from Hold to Buy. Citi analyst says, "Syngenta’s valuation now looks compelling. The company is committed to delivering over 35% EPS this year and high teens in 2009 (1H08 growth was...

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Analyst: Philip Morris Int'l to post 'solid' gain October 7, 2008 2:44 PM ET NEW YORK (AP) - A Barclays Capital analyst said Tuesday he expected Philip Morris International, seller of Marlboro cigarettes overseas, to post better-than-expected third-quarter results. "While we have seen some...

PHILIP MORRIS INTERNATIONAL INC. NYSE: PM Target Price $68.00, Argus Recommendations Buy • PM: Initiating coverage with BUY rating • PM, which was recently spun off from Altria, is focused on rapidly growing international markets, where regulation and litigation are laxer and...

U.S. Recession to Be `Significantly Deeper,' Goldman Sachs Says By Lester Pimentel Oct. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Goldman Sachs Group Inc. said the U.S. economy will enter a recession ``significantly deeper'' than previously forecast, prompting the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates by at least...