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What happened to the ~$65 billion figure that was jumping around headlines?

Can we really cast all the blame on Bernanke? Historically speaking, rising equities signal an eventual improvement in the underlying economy. Unemployment has been falling, firms are seemingly less reluctant to invest, and if not for the pending sequester, the U.S. is well on its way to...

What programs do you guys use for pnf charting, or are they all done by hand?

"There are many books on short term trading (and several threads on ET) that will provide you with a valid edge and risk management rules. Anyone who can read, identify common patterns, and follow basic rules for entering a position should be able to trade successfully." Lol its definitely...

Spain has been screwing around with temporary contracts at an ever growing rate since its inception into the euro zone, and now its gone to bite Spain in the butt. Being pro cyclical, temp contracts inflate any growing economy, and crush any shrinking one. The case for temporary contracts is...

The United States taxes its citizens no matter where they live. It proves difficult for a U.S. citizen to escape to tax havens under these conditions, unlike any other country (e.g. Germany, Canada etc.)

With mid-term elections coming to an end, and the change from a democratic majority leader in the House to a Republican, there has been recent commotion about the huge disparity in income inequality between the US, and say Germany. The "Gini Inex" in the US has been steadily increasing since...

To gain a grasp of past historical "recessions," i found an article from Aswath Damadoran's website: http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/New_Home_Page/articles/riskprem.htm It does an excellent job of highlighting key aspects of the most recent recessions such as the increase of risk premiums...

I've been reading a lot of blogs containing the "QMC method" and was wandering if ET'ers can help me on understanding what exactly it is and where it is applied. Thx a lot

thx for commenting guys. I'm sure the congress will give them the bailout, whether it's the beset thing to do or not is still undecided?

In the midst of the media's intense coverage of the 3 automaker's hearing with the congress, senate, and house, lies a clear cut choice. For this example, i will only use GM. option one for GM: Declare bankruptcy and restructure it's company. In order to compete with european car makers...

In the midst of the media's intense coverage of the 3 automaker's hearing with the congress, senate, and house, lies a clear cut choice. For this example, i will only use GM. option one for GM: Declare bankruptcy and restructure it's company. In order to compete with european car makers...

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Does anybody know if CDS (credit default swap) indexes are otc (over the counter) or are traded

what can u assume or inference from the skew of a stock's past values. Or, what can u assume from a positive kurtosis of a stock's past values. In other words, what is the significance of skews or kurtosis?

Sometime this autumn..

I am a beginning investor, and I was wondering what formulas or strategies are used when calculating value of stocks, or when a stock is over priced, or just some formulas on how to analyze a company? Of course, using ratios such as the peg are utterly uselss and could be said as being the same...

That graph means nothing. All it is is a staggered line. Anyone could have made a graph like that. And it's not like your strategy has actually worked. THEORATICALLY it will work, as your graph shows, but in order for your strategy to work, you have to be able to forecast or GUESS how the market...

And so, in ur example: YOU found that the value of the stock was 41$, and let's say that it was selling for 40$. So you buy it, and so ur question was if it goes up to 41$, what makes it logical to buy. THe answer is that other people might have different calculations of what the value of the...

There is no correct way of finding the actual value of the company. THere are to many unknowns. THerefore, each persons evaluation in a company might be different than yours.