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Blackstone Successfully Plays Both Sides of the Market

Right! low $30's at IPO and up $1 at about $15-$16?

LOL! it has really done well for the partners who cashed in near market high on the backs of all shareholders who bought in the LBO stories.

Yahoo! CEO Carol Bartz's Continued Share Dumps Reflect Poorly on Leadership

Her yahoo auto-sells stink, just like the "make-up grant" deal. The little guys are getting killed by those executives who treated the company treasury as their piggy bank.

Buy and Hold Isn't Dead Yet

If you put down $1 million in 1999 to buy S&P stocks and hold, you are much much much worst off than putting the $mil into real estate outside of Detroit. How's that a good thing?

Putting Job Losses Into Perspective

More than 80% of the workers are gamefully employed and doing the spending for the 20% underemployed. No end of the world as advertised by several Nobel Econ winners during this past Winter.

Mortgage Modifications Could Mean a 396% Marginal Tax Rate

Yep,

We all want something for nothing. Those under the program ought to be thankful that they are not homeless or socked with taxable event on forgiven loan balance.

U.S. Indices: YTD Stats, Current Moving Averages (September 25 Close)

And look at the gains since Mar-9 lows:

sym 25-Sep <---> Peak(Oct-07) <---> Low(Mar-09) <---> YTD Change Pk=Vy IntraLows
dow 9665.19 <---> -31.76% <---> 49.39% <---> 10.13% -54.32% 6440
nas 2090.92 <---> -26.87% <---> 65.22% <---> 32.59% -55.74% 1266
spx 1044.39 <---> -33.27% <---> 56.63% <---> 15.66% -57.39% 667

Indicator Update for Sept. 28

Thank you for the bullish confirmation...the druggists are giving the market a big boost this morning. CSCO's upgrade helps Tech to a 2% gain as well.

CEOs in a Recession: At Least Someone's Getting Ahead

Echo's the other article on "Hurd's comp troubling":

seekingalpha.com/artic...

Investing in the Obesity Drug Basket

vvus has the winning hand so far.

Dell: Signs of Insider Trading

Insider trading, folks trade on leaked material info ... Countrywide, Meryle Lnych, AIG etc...all those violent swings had made a selected few tons of money. The crooks are cleaning small investors' clocks. Look at Option Repricing scams, nearly all the high tech companies did that. You can count those who are in jail with fingers on one hand.

EDS Results Mask HP's Underlying Weaknesses Again

To compare apples to apples, I like see HP's Top/bottom lines for continual operations with and without EDS numbers.

For Priceline and HPQ Investors, Insider Selling a Concern

If you looked back the past few quarters, there was no auto sells. Apparently, the auto sells come in only when hpq prices was hot. Also, the selling wasn't just 3 executives, go check out the entire YTD sells in yahoo or other financial sites.


On Aug 19 09:03 AM amanmyth wrote:

> But hang on a second.... Regarding HPQ, these are all automatic sell
> orders based upon a pre-set value of option exercise. This could
> either be a condition when granted, or simply a target set by the
> individuals. Of course, some may have set the target recently as
> many assumed the market would peak with the nice recovery we have
> seen. If you look at the dates of Shane Robinson, he would in breach
> of SEC rules unless this was pre-set exercise price as the HP quiet
> period started around July 10th. You are pointing to three of eight
> executives at HP, and this is really an assumptive posting.

Hewlett-Packard F3Q09 (Qtr End 7/31/09) Earnings Call Transcript

Stock didn't meltdown, $42.52 LOD and now sitting at $43.07 (10:36am). Not too bad after went up 20% YTD. Hurd has more fat to cut before he's done with EDS acquisition. Best time to do it when sales are down in this deep recession.

5 Dividend Stocks that Beat Money Market Accounts and CDs

Good list...how about telco like AT&T and VZ? Both are at 6% range.

S&P 500 Year to Date Returns by Sector

Ahem, AMAT guided higher this morning and up about 5% so far.