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Our Game Plan for Financial Stocks

Buy financials for the near term. This is an election year. That means we’re likely to see two things happen before November 2010…  We’re likely...

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Will Teck Resources (NYSE:TCK), Seabridge Gold (AMEX:SA), NovaGold (AMEX:NG) Be Beneficiaries of China’s Targeting Precious Metals and Gold?

Flush with capital, China has been eyeing mining properties and companies around the world for some time to invest in preparation for meeting their needs long into...

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Central Banks Swap Tons of Gold for Cash

Central Banks Swap Tons of Gold for Cash

Filed under: Industry , Market Matters , Commodities In a footnote in a 216-page report released last week, the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) disclosed...

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Room to Negotiate on Derivatives, Democrats Say

Room to Negotiate on Derivatives, Democrats Say

Filed under: Politics , Federal Reserve Chris Dodd, chairman of the Senate banking committee, and Blanche Lincoln, chairman of the agriculture committee, told the...

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The Bailout of Big American Banks Has Cost Trillions More Than We’ve Been Told

Granted, the $700 billion dollar TARP bailout was a massive bait-and-switch. The government said it was doing it to soak up toxic assets, and then switched to saying...

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RIDICULOUS: Basically Every Major Bank Went The Entire Quarter Without A Single Losing Trading Day

RIDICULOUS: Basically Every Major Bank Went The Entire Quarter Without A Single Losing Trading Day

Business Insider Wednesday, May 12, 2010 Well, this is good news for Goldman Sachs (GS). They weren’t the only major bank to go all of Q1 without a single...

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The Epidemic Spreading to Millions

People are going to walk away from their homes. Some have little alternative. Government plans aren’t helpful. Banks aren’t doing much to prevent foreclosure....

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The Epidemic Spreading to Millions

People are going to walk away from their homes. Some have little alternative. Government plans aren’t helpful. Banks aren’t doing much to prevent foreclosure....

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TierOne Banks Transaction With Great Western Bank Denied

TierOne Corporation , the holding company for TierOne Bank , announced that the Company and the Bank received notification today from the Office of Thrift Supervision...

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Alex Jones: Global bank conspiracy

The IMF has proposed levying two global taxes on the worlds banks to make sure the banks dont get us into trouble again. If that sounds dubious thats because it...

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Galbraith: Economists Should Move into Background, and “Criminologists to the Forefront”

Washington’s Blog | Banks knew that the taxpayers would bail them out when things went bust. Original post: Galbraith: Economists Should Move into Background,...

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India to Allow Non-State Banks Tax-Free Bond Access Times Says

India is set to allow companies,non-state banks and financial institutions to raise money byselling tax-free infrastructure bonds, the Economic Timesreported, citing...

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