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It Pays To Have Friends (On The Board)
Larry MacDonald submits: Two recent studies find boards of directors may meet statutory definitions for independence by having the requisite number of members with no financial or familial ties to the chief executive, yet de facto lack independence thanks to the absence of criteria covering the appointment of...
Tags: Seeking Alpha, US Market
External links 2008-08-15
Top Foreign Dividend Stocks Traded in New York
David Hunkar submits: Following our earlier analysis of Top Canadian Dividend Stocks,Top Banks of the World and Top 10 European Utilities in this post lets review the top dividend paying foreign stocksADRs trading in the New York Stock Exchange NYSE. The total market cap. of all stocks listed...
Tags: Seeking Alpha, US Market, AXA Group, Barclays Plc., Deutsche Bank AG, Deutsche Telekom AG, France Telecom, National Grid Plc., UBS AG, Vodafone Group Plc.
External links 2008-08-31
Bond Markets: Volatile and Weak
Brett Steenbarger submits: click charts to enlarge A recent article pointed out that bond ETFs are trading at significant discounts to their net asset values in many cases, making them like closed-end funds. While increased volatility in the stock market has gotten most the press, the volatility in fixed...
Tags: Volatility, Bond, Seeking Alpha, Brett Steenbarger, Investment, Finance, US Market
External links 2008-10-14
Why Short Sellers Are the Heroes of Wall Street
Investment U submits: I'm expecting a lot of nasty e-mails on this column, but the truth needs to be told. Short-term traders, especially short sellers, are often blamed erroneously for manipulating stock prices, forcing them down far below their real value, and for creating crashes and general chaos on...
Tags: Short-seller, Seeking Alpha, E-mail, Investment, Financial Accounting, Online Communications, Finance, Investment U, US Market
External links 2008-10-15
Using ETFs to Beat the Market with Lower Risk
Walid Nasserdeen submits: Many  "Tricks of the Trade' are not applicable or even relevant to the normal day to day trader or public investor, but here is an old play with a new spin that anyone can use and appreciate. You will hear most channels of information say...
Tags: ETF, Market, Investor, Seeking Alpha, Walid Nasserdeen, Financial Accounting, Financial Services, Finance, US Market
External links 2008-10-15
Funding For Commercial Real Estate Down
Seeking Alpha's Housing Tracker is a collection of housing-related excerpts from various sources, grouped by topic. Feel free to post any interesting links on the subject in the comments section below.Overview                                         California developers obtain funding for multi-million dollar projects.NY infrastructure projects...
Tags: Commercial Real Estate, Debt, Seeking Alpha, Real Estate, Financial Services, Business Operations, SA Editor Judy Weil, General Motors Corp., US Market
External links 2008-10-15
Another Day, Another Crash
Hickey and Walters Bespoke submit: Out of nowhere, we had another stock market crash today, as the S&P 500 fell 9.06% for its biggest decline of the current bear market.  As shown in the table below, the index had its 8th worst decline ever today going back to...
Tags: Bear Market, Seeking Alpha, Investment, Financial Accounting, Finance, Bespoke Investment Group, US Market
External links 2008-10-15
Acceleration Matters: The Ups and Downs of the S&P
Eddy Elfenbein submits: Here’s a look at some historical data of the S&P 500 since 1950. The day after a down day, the S&P 500 has dropped at annualized rate of 12%. The day after that, it’s risen at an annualized rate of 11.3%. by Eddy Elfenbein
Tags: United Parcel Service Of America Inc., S&P 500, S&P, Seeking Alpha, Eddy Elfenbein, Financial Accounting, Finance, US Market
External links 2008-10-15
Too Early To Buy Homebuilders ETF
Larry MacDonald submits: House prices in the U.S. are tumbling. Jobs are disappearing. Retail sales are plunging. But mortgage rates keep going up. The rate on Jumbo mortgages just hit a new 52-week high of 7.84%, a percentage higher than a year ago and two percentage points higher...
Tags: Percentage, Seeking Alpha, Larry MacDonald, Mortgages, Sales Strategy, Recruitment & Selection, Sales Force Management, Finance, Capital Structures, Sales, Human Resources, Workforce Management, US Market, ETF
External links 2008-10-16
Healthcare and Biotech Stocks Only Positives in Predominantly Negative Market
FP Trading Desk submits: The recently completed third quarter will mark the fifth consecutive quarter of negative earnings growth for the S&P 500 index, says U.S. Sector strategist Brian Belski, with consensus expectations for year-over-year quarterly growth now at –7.4%. But even that projection is overly optimistic, he says,...
Tags: Improvement, Health Care, Seeking Alpha, FP Trading Desk, Biotechnology, Financial Accounting, Vertical Industries, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, US Market, Biotech, Healthcare
External links 2008-10-16
Are We Targeting the Wrong Monetary Aggregates?
John Slater submits: From 2003 through summer of 2007, a significant portion of the credit boom was funded through what Nouriel Roubini has described as the Shadow Banking System. By Prof. Roubini’s definition, the Shadow Banking System comprised approximately $10.5 Trillion in 2007, including $2.2 Trillion of commercial paper conduits, $2.5...
Tags: Conduit, Commercial Paper, Seeking Alpha, John Slater, Roubini, Financial Services, US Market, Financial
External links 2008-10-16
Thursday Outlook: Wipeout?
David Fry ETF Digest submits: Big Wednesday, Bonzai Pipeline Oahu No rest for the wicked, eh? Just when I was thinking some sideways action would be in order, economic reality wipes out tame expectations. Stock investor wipe-outs are continuing. If you want to...
Tags: Microsoft Outlook, Interest Rate, Seeking Alpha, Financial Planning, Financial Services, Finance, David Fry, US Market
External links 2008-10-16
Bailout Likely To Expand Beyond Mortgages
NuWire Investor submits: While most of the press surrounding the bailout plan thus far has been specifically focused on mortgages, the government was given the ability to buy up debt other than mortgages. Now the struggling finance wings of the major car manufacturers are trying to get in on...
Tags: Automobile Company, Expand Beyond, Seeking Alpha, NuWire Investor, Mortgages, Government, Vertical Industries, Manufacturing, Finance, Capital Structures, Enterprise Software, Software, American Express Co., Discover Financial Services, US Market, Financial, Transport
External links 2008-10-16
Ping Pong Action
Hickey and Walters Bespoke submit: We recently ran our decile analysis on stock performance since Monday's close based on stock performance on Monday.  To do this, we broke the Russell 1,000 into 10 groups of 100 stocks based on how each stock performed on Monday when the market...
Tags: Stock, Seeking Alpha, Investment, Finance, Bespoke Investment Group, US Market
External links 2008-10-16
Does Core Crude PPI Mean Bad News for Profits?
FP Trading Desk submits: While the Producer Price Index PPI, which measures inflation pressures before they reach U.S. consumers, fell 0.4% as expected in September, it was the core crude PPI [CCPPI] that got the attention of Wall Street. And it has some calling for bad news for profits....
Tags: Profit, News, Seeking Alpha, FP Trading Desk, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Finance, US Market
External links 2008-10-16
Trying to Profit from Current Market? Establishing Time Frames Is Key
Jason Kelly submits: Yesterday's technical look at ProShares Ultra Financials UYG didn't help much, as it showed a slightly bullish bias going into a day that saw the market sell off again to the tune of -9% for the S&P 500.It's important to distinguish your time frames when trying...
Tags: Market, Stop, Time Frame, Seeking Alpha, Jason Kelly, Financial Services, Financial Accounting, Finance, US Market, Financial
External links 2008-10-16
Examining the Credit Agencies: The More They Compete, the Higher Their Ratings
Research Recap submits: A new working paper* from Harvard supports the claim that increased competition among credit ratings agencies has resulted in more generous and less informative ratings. The paper examines the impact of the growth of Fitch Ratings as a competitor to the incumbent “duopoly” of...
Tags: Bond, Agency, Seeking Alpha, Advertising & Promotion, Investment, Marketing, Finance, Research Recap, Moody's Corp., US Market
External links 2008-10-16
Bear Market: Hunting For Value
Chad Brand submits: During the last bear market in 2000-2002, there were dozens of situations where individual stock valuations looked down right silly. This bear market will be no different, and long term value-oriented investors can take advantage of the fact that in times like these, numerous bargains can...
Tags: Stock, Bear Market, Investor, Seeking Alpha, Chad Brand, Investment, Financial Accounting, Finance, Halliburton Co., KBR Inc., US Market
External links 2008-10-16
Back to Where We Were 25 Hours Ago
Hickey and Walters Bespoke submit: With a 9% intraday positive reversal off the lows, one would think there would be a little more excitement in the market.  However, when that reversal only takes us to where we were an hour before yesterday's close, it's understandable why investors aren't...
Tags: Reversal, Seeking Alpha, Financial Accounting, Finance, Bespoke Investment Group, US Market
External links 2008-10-16
Bad Mortgages Are Only the Beginning
NuWire Investor submits: Yesterday I talked a bit about how, through the bailout bill, the government was given the authority to invest the $700 billion in things outside of mortgage debt, the requirement being that the investment be critical to supporting the U.S. economy. This has led to auto...
Tags: Debt, Seeking Alpha, NuWire Investor, Mortgages, Government, Vertical Industries, Finance, Capital Structures, Enterprise Software, Software, American Express Co., J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., US Market, Financial
External links 2008-10-17
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