Analysis Topic: Companies Analysis
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Thursday, April 29, 2010
The Smallcap Stocks Bubble is Ripe to Burst / Companies / Financial Crash
By: Graham_Summers
I’ve been pounding the table that stocks have entered “bubble-mode” for months now. All the generalized signs are there, including:
- Investor sentiment creeping back to 2007 levels
- The eight week average insider “sell to buy” ratio at late July 2007 levels
- Stocks overextended, overvalued, and overbought
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
AIG Insurer Flirting with Bankruptcy Seeks Bailout Cash / Companies / Financial Crash
By: Mike_Shedlock
American International Group (AIG) is on the verge of bankruptcy. It needs to raise $75 billion dollars quickly. That is a tough task in any market and a Herculean task in this one. Fitch compounded AIG's woes on Monday with a downgrade of AIG to "A" .
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Sunday, September 14, 2008
Fourth Largest Investment Bank Bankrupt as Barclays Pulls Out From Lehman's Bet / Companies / Financial Crash
By: Mike_Shedlock
High Stakes Poker Update: Barclays Refuses To Go "All In" - Following is an update on the High Stakes Poker Game involving Lehman (LEH), Merrill Lynch (MER), J.P. Morgan Chase (JPM), Goldman Sachs (GS), Citigroup (C), Bank of America (BAC), Barclays, and others. Read full article... Read full article...
Monday, November 26, 2007
Countrywide Financial - The Next Big Bankruptcy To Hit the Financial Markets / Companies / Financial Crash
By: Money_and_Markets
Martin Weiss writes: As we warned you here in August ... and as I explained on CNBC a few days later ... America's kingpin of mortgages is on a collision course with bankruptcy.
Its name: Countrywide Financial
If it goes under, the impact on U.S. financial markets will be immediate; the damage to the U.S. economy, long-lasting.
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Thursday, November 22, 2007
The South Sea Bubble and the Northern Rock Bank Bust / Companies / Financial Crash
By: Adrian_Ash
"...Out went the silver sixpences, counted slowly as the angry savers queued up...only to come in again through the back door, fooling the crowd and stalling the crisis..."
DEALING WITH A BANKING CRISIS used to be such a simple affair for the Bank of England – not least when the crisis rolled up at its own front door!
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Tuesday, November 06, 2007
Goldman Sachs in Bearish Digestion / Companies / Financial Crash
By: Mike_Paulenoff
By popular demand, another look at the Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) chart-- to provide insights into the plight of the financial sector and its Financial Select Sector SPDR (AMEX: XLF). Let's notice that GS remains under its Aug-Oct support line, which was violated yesterday at 225.00 and which still presents serious resistance to any rally effort.Read full article... Read full article...
Saturday, September 15, 2007
Northern Rock Bank Run, Broker Recommendations and House Price Crash / Companies / Financial Crash
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Whilst the run on the Northern Rock Bank continues during weekend openings, the same brokers and the mainstream financial press that were recommending buy and hold on the stock throughout the year are still dishing out advice on what savers and investors should now do, again with a bullish tinge. With every other paragraph containing words such as bid target, despite the fact that there's an ongoing run on the bank and liquidity has dried up in the market place so exactly where the financing will come from is anyone's guess. Additionally it will take many years for the public to gain confidence in the brand name 'Northern Rock', after watching endless news reports of savers lining up at high street branches throughout the UK to withdraw their funds in sheer panic. Read full article... Read full article...
Friday, September 14, 2007
Northern Rock - Britain 's Bank Run Coming to Main Street Soon? / Companies / Financial Crash
By: Adrian_Ash
"...The queues outside British bank Northern Bank have nothing to do with subprime US home loans. But they have everything to do with today's US banking model..."
ON WEDNESDAY THIS WEEK the UK mortgage bank Northern Rock ran a banner advertisement across the bottom of The Daily Telegraph 's front page. It promised 6.30% interest on cash deposits, more than 250 basis points above the average rate-of-return offered on time deposits by UK banks in August.
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Friday, September 14, 2007
Gold Spikes for British Investors as Run On Northern Rock Bank / Companies / Financial Crash
By: Adrian_Ash
SPOT GOLD PRICES slipped against the US Dollar early Friday, bouncing off Thursday's low at $704.50 but testing the week's highs for British investors as long queues formed outside branches of Northern Rock, the UK 's fifth largest mortgage lender.
Despite having just 0.24% of its assets exposed to the subprime US housing market, Northern Rock's stock plunged by one quarter at the London Stock Exchange in early trade after it said the Bank of England is stepping in to support it with a short-term loan as "lender of last resort."
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Friday, September 14, 2007
Northern Rock 30% Share Price Crash / Companies / Financial Crash
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Northern Rocks Share price crashed by 30% today as the mortgage bank sought emergency funds from the Bank of England due to the credit freeze in the interbank money market which Northern Rock heavily relies upon. Panic gripped savers forming long lines outside Northern Rock Branches throughout the UK to withdraw funds. Investors dumping the stock on the market open where even unsubstantiated rumors of takeovers and white knights failed to halt the crash in the banks share price. Read full article... Read full article...