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- GE's Immelt Turns Dem
- Jim Delaney submits: With its current CEO having pulled a lever for John McCain, its previous CEO, who hand-picked the current one, having a long history of riding the elephant on election day and the head of its government-relations office having worked for one Ronnie and two Georges,...
- External links 2009-11-19
- Advertisers and the Economy: Interpublic and Omnicom
- Jim Delaney submits: A few observations to begin with today. On the commute home yesterday I walked past a shop I walk past quite often but noticed, in the window, a small sign that read “Help Wanted”. It was a simple little sign, an 8 ½”...
- External links 2009-09-17
- The Chinese Tire Wars: Protectionism Will Get Us Nowhere
- Jim Delaney submits: Two things we now know didn’t work during the Great Depression, besides millions of willing and able bodied Americans were stimulus spending and the Smoot Hawley Tariff Act of 1930. The failure of the first was documented by the man charged with implementing it,...
- External links 2009-09-15
- Good Times for Both Bond Issuers and Investors
- Jim Delaney submits: It’s the first Friday before the first weekend after summer has officially come to an end here in the States, but as a quick follow up to a piece I did some weeks ago on the condition of the nation’s hog farmers and the agricultural lobby’seffort...
- External links 2009-09-11
- CDS/Equity Combo for American Electric Power
- Jim Delaney submits: If as expected by the survey numbers, the Institute for Supply Management Index of Manufacturing Activity to be released this morning hits the 50.5 mark, it will be the first time that level has been seen since January 2008 and also above the level (50.0)...
- External links 2009-09-01
- Evaluating REIT Risk: Simon Property and ProLogis
- Jim Delaney submits: Over the past two days we have seen numbers for residential house price indices, mortgage applications and new home sales. There are caveats that go along with these numbers, e.g. how many sales were foreclosures, how much of the bidding wars were investors paying...
- External links 2009-08-27
- A Pork for Pork Program?
- Jim Delaney submits: We hear the phrase “When pigs fly” when we’ve asked a question for which a simple, polite “no” is beyond the bounds of human compassion, or when someone is euphemistically trying to describe the very low probability of something occurring. Unfortunately, anyone using...
- External links 2009-08-19
- Rail Transport CDS Levels and the Dow Theory
- Jim Delaney submits: Charles Dow, co-founder of Dow Jones and Company, wrote a collection of 225 editorials in the Wall Street Journal between 1851-1902 that, after his death, were collected, organized and represented as the “Dow Theory”. It is, in essence, a combination of what is now...
- External links 2009-08-14
- Reading This Market: Patience Is a Virtue
- Jim Delaney submits: The market, it seems, has reached one of those points where, like a ball tossed up, it is suspended for a moment neither rising nor falling. Unlike a ball however, the market can gather itself and move higher again or like the ball, succumb...
- External links 2009-08-12
- Ford's Major Comeback
- Jim Delaney submits: With every economist and pundit analyzing every statistic down to the 'N'th degree, could the solution to this nation’s recovery be as simple as the fact that you can sleep in your car but you can’t drive your house? If James Dunn from...
- External links 2009-08-03
- Car Allowance Rebate System: Ford Bounces Back
- Jim Delaney submits: When the “Cash for Clunkers” concept was first announced in Europe back in April of this year, it was seen as a pretty smart way to incentivize a section of the consumer market whose goods definitely fall into the “durable” category and was heralded here...
- External links 2009-07-30
- Saving CIT: Good News for the Confidence of the Entire Financial System
- Jim Delaney submits: Decried by some as “too small to save” instead of the usual “too big to fail”, CIT went into the weekend with prospects that even the “green shootists” would have to call bleak. A $0.41 stock price and a CDS level of 6430bps are...
- External links 2009-07-21
- The Price of Milk
- Jim Delaney submits: As the G-20 looms ever nearer the sword rattling, chest pumping and feather fluffing is building towards the crescendo that inevitably leads to smiles and hand shakes, hugs and kisses both cheeks of course that will be captured by thousands of impromptu photo-ops during the...
- External links 2009-09-18
- Bulls Grow Their Ranks
- Jim Delaney submits: By August 31st 93% of the stocks in the S&P 500 were above their 50DMA. Two weeks ago the number of new highs vs. new lows on the NYSE was 343/4, a ratio I thought was in the outer reaches of the tail of...
- External links 2009-09-21
- Goldman's CDS / Equity Level Disconnect
- Jim Delaney submits: Ever since Matt Taibbi informed us that Goldman Sachs GS was actually “a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity,” the press has pressed the issue with numerous articles and a chronicling of their every move including and possibly most notably, their nominally...
- External links 2009-10-28
- Citi and Occidental Petroleum: Strange Bedfellows?
- Jim Delaney submits: Politics, it is said, makes for strange bedfellows. This has been proven over and over again as we have watched Uncle Sam take aim at straw dog after straw dog attempting to shoot the perpetrator of the debacle caused by his own greatest efforts to...
- External links 2009-10-22
- Investors Pile into Junk Bonds, While the Street Avoids Them
- Jim Delaney submits: For as many times as the pundits picked the bottom of the downward leg of what is yet to be determined as a “V”, “W”, “wwww” or “√“ in the stock market there have been those calling a top since the spring. These...
- External links 2009-10-20
- The Credit Thaw Continues, Gradually
- Jim Delaney submits: Even before starting her eponymously named firm, Meredith Whitney had won the role of Queen of the Damned in the drama that has played out on Broad Street not Broadway these past few years as a bank and finance analyst for Oppenheimer & Co. ...
- External links 2009-10-14
- Shrugging Off Last Week's Poor Jobs Numbers
- Jim Delaney submits: That the stock market has chewed up and spit out last week’s “horrific" employment numbers in less than a trading week has to rank as one of the top 10 comebacks of all time. At least up there with Flutie’s “Hail Mary” to beat...
- External links 2009-10-08
- Is Hyperinflation on the Way?
- Jim Delaney submits: On September 25th the Wall St. Journal published an opinion piece by Kevin M. Warsh, a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors since 2006, calling for a preemptive strike by the Fed at the roaring inflation he believes the country is at risk...
- External links 2009-10-06
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