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		<title><![CDATA[The Mess on Wall Street: $4 Trillion Down the Drain]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Erick Schonfeld submits:  October 7, 2007 by Erick Schonfeld]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 07:32:15 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Discover Financial: A Creditable Investment - Barron's]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Discover Financial DFS has long lagged behind American Express AXP, MasterCard MA and Visa V in the credit card market. Its focus on slow and selective growth has netted it just 7% in Q1 of the $666B in combined outstandings of Bank of America BAC, JPMorgan Chase JPM and Citigroup...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 04:41:19 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Year to Date Performance of Dow 30 Members]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hickey and Walters Bespoke submit:   Below we highlight the year to date performance of the 30 DJIA members with four months remaining in 2008.  As shown, Wal-Mart WMT tops the list with a gain of 27.5% year to date.  WMT is trailed by IBM (14%), McDonald's (8.2%), Johnson&Johnson...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 11:02:46 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Big Ben's Jackson Hole, Wyoming Pep Rally]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brian A. Davis submits: I can remember back to high school. The big homecoming football game was always greeted with a pep rally. The band played, cheerleaders cheered, and the football team got pumped for the big game. This helped create a euphoric environment for a team that had a...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Aug 2008 05:50:20 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Dow Price Targets from Last November]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hickey and Walters Bespoke submit:   Barry Ritholtz over at the Big Picture recently highlighted Bloomberg's Chart of the Day showing that analyst profit forecasts are currently worse than ever.  With that in mind, we pulled up a post we did back in November highlighting the average analyst price...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Aug 2008 05:27:58 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Banks Scramble to Refinance Their Long-Term Debt]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Shedlock submits:  The Financial Times is reporting US banks scramble to refinance maturing debt:  Battered US financial groups will have to refinance billions of dollars in maturing debt over the coming months, a move likely to push banks&#8217; funding costs higher and curb their profitability, say bankers...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 05:37:17 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Financials To Resume Meltdown Momentarily]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jason Schwarz submits: On the 16th of July, Lone Peak Asset Management initiated a buy recommendation on the S&P 500 when it was at 1,214. Since then, the index has risen 7% to 1,305 and we have exited the trade. The mantra of this bear market is 'buy the dips...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 04:34:08 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Dow 30 Trading Ranges]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Below we highlight the 30 Dow members with respect to their various trading ranges.  After the recent volatility in the markets (S&P 500 +2.9% on Tuesday, -1.8% yesterday) some of these stocks are on the move.  BAC had traded at its theoretical high of $34 and has declined over the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 02:19:33 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[$120 Oil's Struggle with the Dow Industrials]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Steven Hansen submits: Is this round two of the price of oil on the Dow Industrials?  Will the effects on the Dow of the 1973 Oil Crisis repeat itself?  There are several similarities and differences.  One similarity, which got me thinking, was that the percentage increase in oil prices was...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 05:47:55 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[How Much Credit Is Too Much? Where AmEx Went Wrong]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Frank Rong submits: The Wall Street Journal and other media outlets have talked about the demise of the credit card industry for decades now. Yet credit card businesses are truly one of the best businesses I have ever seen. I can't find a single person in the news media positive...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 03:21:18 -0700</pubDate>
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