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    Short DAX at 7740

    Peak to trough, we expect European earnings to fall 55% this cycle. On our forecasts, earnings start to recover in 2010, but only modestly, as global growth remains below trend. ... On our forecasts, the cumulative fall for market earnings is 55% in 2008-09 combined. This is significantly...
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    Short DAX at 7740

    240 min SMA 4133.00. Short FDAX.
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    Lawmaker eyes recoupment of mark-to-market losses

    WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- A key lawmaker on Tuesday told bankers he backs a number of efforts sought by the financial industry, including an approach that would allow institutions to recoup losses from controversial accounting rules and legislation that would give the Federal Deposit Insurance...
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    Porsche earns $7.3 billion due to VW options

    Analysts at Deutsche Bank said they struggle to find out how Porsche will pay the interest on its 9 billion euro debt load when the group generates little cash. "The rise in net debt is far more important to us, then once again higher non-cash earnings," they said...
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    Porsche earns $7.3 billion due to VW options

    VW has hopefully learned its lesson with regards to wrong bets in the currency markets. 15 , 16 years ago they lost, as I remember, 600 Million DM. A lot of headlines in newspapers...
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    Hedge Funds Mull Leaving London

    At the start of this week, and in the run-up to the G20 summit in London, Stuart Roden of Lansdowne Partners, Michael Hintze of CQS and Stanley Fink of ISAM vowed to fight against the threat of too much intervention. Crispin Odey of Odey Asset Management said: "We don't have to be in London."...
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    U.S. Bailouts So Far Total $2.98 Trillion, Official Says

    WASHINGTON -- A special inspector general overseeing government efforts to bail out portions of the private sector said Tuesday the U.S. so far has committed nearly $2.98 trillion toward stabilizing financial companies and rescuing domestic auto makers. The figure reflects spending on the...
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    Porsche earns $7.3 billion due to VW options

    The world's best trading desk during the latter half of 2008 belonged to Porsche Automobil Holding, as the automaker made a 5.55 billion euro ($7.3 billion) profit over six months in large part by catching out those who bet against Volkswagen...
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    Rosenberg: "If China dumps treasuries, US households will buy"

    Call it "cult of alternatives" in relation to equities...
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    Short DAX at 7740

    Morgan Stanley Chief Executive Officer John Mack told employees at Morgan Stanley and Citigroup Inc.’s Smith Barney unit that 2009 will be a “difficult year” and that profitability is nowhere near to the bank’s targets. This year, “even though flows of business are good, is nowhere...
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    Rosenberg: "If China dumps treasuries, US households will buy"

    Read this : http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2009/03/31/54240/the-bank-of-englands-gilty-secret-betting-on-inflation/ :D
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    The Bank of England’s gilty secret: betting on inflation?

    The Bank of England has a rather smart set of pension fund managers. Take the below snippets, from the BoE employees pension fund report, 2008. Major changes during the Scheme year 2007-08 was a year of major structural change for the Fund: … - at the request of the Bank, and after...
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    Mark-to-Market Lobby Buoys Bank Profits 20% as FASB May Say Yes

    March 30 (Bloomberg) -- Four days after U.S. lawmakers berated Financial Accounting Standards Board Chairman Robert Herz and threatened to take rulemaking out of his hands, FASB proposed an overhaul of fair-value accounting that may improve profits at banks such as Citigroup Inc. by more than 20...
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    Japan to inspect 30 banks over loan complaints

    SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Japan's Financial Services Agency plans to examine about 30 financial institutions, including nine major banks, to see if they have improperly denied credit or reduced existing loans to businesses, according to a published report. The special inspections, to be...
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    Short DAX at 7740

    “We cannot see large upside for the S&P 500 above the 825- 850 level,” Morgan Stanley U.S. equity strategist Jason Todd wrote in a report yesterday. “In the rush to buy a cyclical recovery, it seems earnings or valuation no longer matters. We would be comfortable with this view if the...
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    Warren Buffet is holding the Black Swan Bag

    What do you think would Goldman advise Buffet to do is if he is running into calamities with his positions ? Maybe hedging a la AIG ? :D
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    State Bank of India -- Has Cash, Will Lend

    MUMBAI -- State-owned State Bank of India is lending like the global credit crisis never happened as it looks for places to park billions of dollars in new deposits. Consumers have shifted tens of billions of dollars to India's state-run banks amid the bailouts of the world's most...
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    Soros Says Chance of Depression As 'Quite High' & Says U.K. May Need IMF Rescue

    I still can´t understand why GBP/USD is still hanging around 1,4200. When will itv finally reach parity ? :confused: :D :cool:
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    GM Wagoner steps down

    Wagoner played poker and lost. Like the executives in Germany he thought "GM is too big to fail". He didn´t have a comprehensive concept for GM´s survival. His hopes have been destroyed today.
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    Spreading some good news: Germany's 'Scrap' Bonus Fuels Car Sales

    Makloda, I think Toyota should be a "strong buy" right now...:D
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