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    Biggest Florida Bank Given 20 Days To Find Buyer or Risk Shut down

    The biggest financial institution in Florida, $14 billion BankUnited of Coral Gables, was told by its regulator, the Office of Thrift Supervision, to find a buyer who would raise its depleted capital to acceptable levels or risk a government takeover. In an ominously sounding "prompt corrective...
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    Credit Cards Slash Risk by Reducing Limits

    Millions of Americans are getting unwelcome mail from their credit card companies: credit limits are slashed, sometimes by more than half. These notices are even going to people who’ve never missed a payment, still have good-paying jobs and keep their card balances well below the limit...
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    Volcker Says Fed’s Authority Probably to Be Reviewed

    April 18 (Bloomberg) -- Former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker said Congress will probably review the authority granted to the Fed following emergency credit programs doubling the central bank’s balance sheet to $2.19 trillion. “I don’t think the political system will tolerate the...
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    S&P 500 May Jump 70% on Valuation, Economy Rebound, Fisher Says

    http://www.indexindicators.com/_charts/sp500-vs-put-call-ratio-equity-20d-sma-params-3y-x-x.png Next leg down in preparation, IMO.
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    S&P 500 May Jump 70% on Valuation, Economy Rebound, Fisher Says

    Oil is easy to predict. See Goldman´s research and do trade the opposite ! :D
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    GS broke out

    http://www.monkeybusinessblog.com/goldman_superheroes/ :D :p :)
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    Short DAX at 7740

    FDAX is meanwhile so crowded with ALGOS that it needs time and volume to work through prices...correlation with ES in the afternoon breathtaking. Money making machine....
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    GE & Citigroup, Which Misses Earnings?

    Buy strangles and enjoy the volatility breakout...
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    U.K. Government Free to Lend RBS, Lloyds Stock to Short-Sellers

    U.K. Financial Investments Ltd., which oversees the government’s shareholdings in banks, is allowed to lend out the stock to short-sellers, who were only months ago attacked by politicians for destabilizing the banks. UKFI, which owns 70 percent of Royal Bank of Scotland Plc and has a 43...
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    Short DAX at 7740

    I am just buying some more puts ATM. It seems German mutual fund managers do not care much about other OPM. :p
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    Gloom and doom at the Bank of Japan

    BOJ's Shirakawa says conditions to deteriorate Central bank governor warns Tokyo gathering that economy is worsening HONG KONG (MarketWatch) -- Bank of Japan Gov. Masaaki Shirakawa said Friday the Japanese economy is worsening and the downturn has yet to run its course, according to...
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    Short DAX at 7740

    US-Pleite trifft Commerzbank Die größte Immobilienpleite der US-Geschichte belastet die Commerzbank-Tochter Eurohypo. Die Immobilienbank zählt nach amerikanischen Gerichtsunterlagen zu den großen Einzelgläubigern des Betreibers von Einkaufszentren General Growth Properties (GGP)...
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    TARP isn’t large enough to recapitalize the banking system

    The Obama administration’s plan to fix the U.S. banking system is destined to fail because the programs have been designed to help Wall Street rather than create a viable financial system, Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz said. “All the ingredients they have so far are weak...
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    Short DAX at 7740

    Superfund from Austria hit the wrong button...:D Maybe Germany decoupling from US ?
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    Bac

    Sure, that´s why Merrill Executives are leaving in masses. Which client base do you think do they take with them ? Mama and papa Joe ? :cool:
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    J.P. Morgan CEO sees positive signs in Calif. real estate

    A day after rival credit card firm Capital One said its chargeoffs topped 9%, outpacing the unemployment rate, J.P. Morgan Chase said Thursday that chargeoffs at it core Chase card operations would likely hit 9% to 9.5% soon. Chief Financial Officer Mike Cavanaugh said on a conference call...
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    J.P. Morgan CEO sees positive signs in Calif. real estate

    Dimon says J.P. Morgan won't take part in PPIP program "We have no intent on using PPIP at all. We don't need it," Dimon said on a conference call with investors and analysts on Thursday. Dimon said if the bank wants to buy troubled assets it will buy them, but it won't borrow from the...
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    J.P. Morgan CEO sees positive signs in Calif. real estate

    LOL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I just spit my coffee reading this BS ! :D J.P. Morgan has not heard from US on stress test results:CFO LOL !!!! :D
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    Short DAX at 7740

    Latest headline from Germany : In der Industrie brechen massiv Jobs weg Aufträge gehen zurück, Produktion und Umsatz brechen ein, das heißt: Stellenabbau. Vor allem für die Industriebeschäftigten spitzt sich die Lage zu. Der Deutsche Industrie- und Handelskammertag rechnet für 2009...
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    Short DAX at 7740

    My crystal ball tells me that my straddles work fine, that my FDAX position is not that fine and that I will sell into the "good news" flow.
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