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as the article states, 'Deep discounts on everything from sweaters to TVs drove shoppers out of hibernation . . . The sales receipts, however, came at the expense of profits, and merchants are facing a big challenge exciting financially strapped shoppers for the rest of the season that's...

Nov 26: Deutsche Bank Swap Lures County as Budgets Crumble http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aUYLG7W1nGpM&refer=exclusive 'The interest-rate swaps, which involve $42 million of fixed-rate debt, guarantees Dauphin County $816,000 the first year and then wagers taxpayers’...

Jeremy Grantham's only tv interview to date was on Consuelo Mack's 'Wealthtrack' last sunday night - PBS: http://www.wealthtrack.com/watch_and_listen.php (click on 'here') google: Jeremy Grantham to find his 2nd and 3rd quarter reports

tueday night's PBS 'NewsHour' economic segment was interesting 'Government Widens Support for Home Loans, Credit' read - not verbatim: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/business/july-dec08/fedrole_25.html watch: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/video/module.html?mod=0&pkg=25112008&seg=1...

the financial meltdown is probably the best example of experts/grand masters failing will Tiger recover from his knee surgery and play again chess along with writing poetry and reading French novels is something for one's late teens early twenties then best forgotten of all the...

during the runup to the Canadian election Oct14/08 just as in the States there was a change from 'the environment' to the economic crisis; Stephen Harper and Conservatives were re-elected and in a matter of weeks Finance Minister Jim Flaherty changed 180 degrees from 'Canada has no problems'...

Shandong and Hubei provinces have been told they must seek official consent if they want to lay off more than 40 people. In Shandong 700K people have lost their jobs this year and in coastal Guangdong province 67,000 businesses have closed, wages have been 'reduced' by up to 75% - China's...

Nov 21/08 FDIC acquired the 22nd failed bank 'PFF Bank & Trust' - 35 branches who had a large concentration of housing construction company loans who were hit hard by the deteriorating real estate market on the West Coast and were unable to obtain financing/repay loans - ripples, spiral...

Congress were blindsided by the financials - citi and said yes to the bailout because they didn't know any better and it's Paulson's problem anyway, but they've been given a second try thanks to the B3 and they'll run them thru hoops before they finally say 'ok here's the money'...

not sure beyond the obvious why the post, however 'pensions' are a significant financial group imo within the economy in the link's Canadian story there's some explanation of the pension types - Defined Benefit which i think is a universal classification, exists in the UK...

fri 12:45pm pst appears to be normal now tho i get a hang every now and again, have to 'end' and re-open via history

thanks for the replies i think some peoples' stock buying decisions are based on the dividend being paid, but even if the dividend gets cut by 50% it's still paying more than mm rates and they won't sell, but i did hear there was stock dumping when dividends were cut and wondered if it...

i can look at a company's chart and know whether the price is rising or declining and guesstimate price targets, but is there any way of knowing - in advance, if a company will cut or withhold the dividend payout ?

yes, me too this morning - thurs about 10:00am pst it was the slowest loads i've ever experienced, thought it might have been the time of day but now - fri 00:06pm pst page loads are just as slow - what gives ?

a fundamental you're not including is just how bad the economics are, although i haven't seen any projections of where and when the bottom will be - ie what will the high of unemployment be, how many companies, businesses, individuals will go out of business/declare bankruptcy, and, how long...

the $90+ drop looks like 3 waves, has hit $55 and has no need to go lower to be W A of a bull market ABC Correction - several years, but could pop to $50 we don't know how bad the recession/depression will become, there's still a chance prices could break $55, possibly falling to $34 in...

Kevin O'Leary http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_O'Leary_(entrepreneur) the co-host of BNN's 'SqueezePlay' phoning-in from LA was saying he's been trying to obtain a $150M loan for an 'established and profitable' company; i'm presuming that he's trying to get the loan in the States, tho he...

after the last $300/600 handout pornsites memberships rose 30% maybe Priapus are expecting another handout job

i watched some of Bill Ackman's (Pershing Square Capital Management) interview and he explained it as a company/bank would go abc rating agency to ask for their opinion on the product - aaa - 'what if we add these' - aaa - 'what if we add these' - no aaa then they'd go across the street to...

wouldn't you know it but it can be disabled via the program ! thanks to ' RejZoR ' on http://www.wilderssecurity.com " go into config menu, under General select Security and increase "Alert, if last update older" option from 3 to some higher, like 7 days." i turned it off completely...