Market Commentary Archive
Same Story At WaMu
Today after the close Washington Mutual (WM) announced a $3.3 billion 2nd quarter loss driven by a $6 billion provision for loan losses (WM Earnings Release).
WaMu has a quarter trillion dollar ($250 billion) loan portfolio, ...
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The Banks Are Getting Killed
As we all know, the housing market is driving everything in this bust. And the financials, as the source of all the financing for the housing market, have borne the brunt of the pain and ...
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Financials Less Interesting After Big Pop
I've been getting a lot of e-mails and compliments since my post from Tuesday afternoon "Today Is The Bottom In The Financials" proved to be right on. So I thought it would be useful to ...
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eBay Is A Steal At These Prices
The number that I and everyone else will be focusing on is the GMV number, which was disappointing with only 8% growth.
- John Aiken (subscription required), Analyst, Majestic Research
eBay (EBAY) reported 2nd quarter earnings after the ...
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Intel 2Q Solid As Usual
July 15, 2008 · Category: Stocks, Market Commentary
Intel had another strong quarter with revenue at the high end of expectations and earnings up substantially year over year. As we enter the second half, demand remains strong for our microprocessor and chipset products ...
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Today Is The Bottom In The Financials
One thing that's essential is enormous volume. With gigantic volume you can read the markets true opinion - we will need outsize volumes to be able to say 'Okay, the bottoming or topping has occurred'. ...
Posted by Greg Feirman · 2 Comments »
IndyMac Depositors Line Up To Get Their Money
In a modern financial system, nothing is more frightening than a run on the bank.
- Tom Petruno, "When faith is frayed", July 12, 2008, LA Times
As most of you know by now, the Federal Government ...
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Why I Bought Financials Today
If you're going to be a trader, and you don't have to be and trading is not the core of what I do, at some point you have to pull the trigger. We always want ...
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Too Big To Fail
The access to credit via the Treasury and Fed means the implicit guarantee on the GSEs' debt is now explicit.
- Ian Shepherdson (subscription required), Chief US Economist, High Frequency Economics
Capitalism without failure is like religion without ...
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The Current Leaders Will Be Taken Out Back And Shot Before It’s Over
July 8, 2008 · Category: Stocks, Market Commentary
Sooner or later in a bear market, even the glory stocks start to come apart.
As a bull market ages and becomes a bear market, stock groups turn down one by one, until even the strongest ...
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