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		<title>Holiday Stock Picks for the Unemployed Banker</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 23:19:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week&#8217;s news that the unemployment rate is soaring wasn&#8217;t met with surprise; but what is news is how many educated and employable people are jumping on the jobless bandwagon.  As the Economix blog smartly reports, the number of college graduates with jobs fell 282,000 last month - but just 2,000 of them have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Opportunity in the Dry Bulk Shipping Stocks</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 07:29:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to Gary, who contributed this comment on a post about the Baltic Dry Index a week ago -
&#8220;What great time to buy shipping stocks - before you know it demand will be back because pent-up demand will force products to ship. Stocks like Genco (GNK) and others will expode again.&#8221;
 
View the full GNK chart [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Find Bargains In The Stock Market’s Basement with P/E and Dividend Yield</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:51:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems like the wrong time to be buying stocks right now, considering that every day the market hits a new bottom.  On Thursday, markets closed at their lowest point in nearly six years, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average finishing the day at 7,552.29.  And its not just stocks that are hurting; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dry Bulk Shippers and the BDI Canâ€™t Stay Afloat in the Recession</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 03:22:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the lesser-known fundamentals underpinning the global economy is theÂ Baltic Dry Index, a benchmark that measures dry-bulk shipping rates. Â Dry bulk goods include the most commonly used raw materials, likeÂ grains, coal, and metals. Â When global economies are booming, demand for these inputs (and the ships to transport them) fuels high day rates for companies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Looking for the End of the Financial Crisis? Watch the TED Spread</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 03:44:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, things looked bleak for equity investors.  As the Dow Jones and S&#38;P 500 slid to historic lows, and the TED spread soared to a historic high (more on that below), it looked to many like the thing to do was pull out of stocks entirely, and enter safer assets like gold, T-bills, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>5 Reasons Stocks Will Keep Falling</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 04:56:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell below 8600 today - bleeding another 7% to continue the incredible losses that have take place all week.   It seems like the much anticipated bailout has not had the effect that many anticipated - rather than assuading investor concerns that the worst of the financial crisis was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>23 Votes Short?  Time to Invest in the Almighty Apple</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 01:50:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know what you&#8217;re thinking - why invest in Apple when its stock price fell 18% today?  But think literally about apples, which you&#8217;ll find in any outdoor fruit stand on the streets of New York.  Today, our sadly ineffective government failed to pass its so-called &#8220;bailout&#8221; plan.  The meaning is clear [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can Android Find a Place in the Crowded Smart Phones Market?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 02:16:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Tuesday, Deutsche Telekom AG unveiled the first smart phone that will use Google&#8217;s new Android operating system.  The device is called the G1, sold by Deutsche Telekom&#8217;s subsidiary T-Mobile, and it looks a lot like the iPhone and other competing smart phones (well, except for the Google logo on the back).  But its the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The New Kings of Finance? Your Neighborhood Banker</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 23:24:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the WSJ reported today, the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the sale of Merrill Lynch to Bank of America is just the latest chapter in a stunning redesign of the financial world.  Stand-alone investment banks are dying rapid deaths, with three down in 2008 already (who can forget the spectacular demise of Bear Stearns?).  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>REITs and the Survival of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 01:53:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The government takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will have far-reaching economic effects.  For example, hedge funds that bet against the two companies have already seen windfall profits as the stock prices of both companies plummeted over the weekend, while the financial institutions that invested in the nearly $5 trillion in mortgages and mortgage-backed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can TRW Automotive Escape the Michigan Auto Maker Mess?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:26:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The problems plaguing the Big Three American auto makers in 2008 have been well-documented.  The push for flashy SUVs that guzzle gas but impress at the suburban strip mall caused Ford, GM, and Daimler to shift production towards these bigger cars, but these divisions have become huge drains on profits in recent quarters.  Consumers have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Election 2008 Will Do To The Economy, And Your Tax Bill</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 07:20:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The economic visions of the presidential candidates in 2008 are dramatically different, and the contrast is most striking when they discuss taxation.  Barack Obama will steal from the pages of English folklore and take from the rich to give to the poor; well, actually, to the middle class, who will benefit from major tax [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner Get off the Ground &#8211; or will Airbus Ride the A380 to New Heights?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 21:44:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the battle for supremacy in the aircraft business, there are only two real players - Boeing Company (NYSE:BA) and Airbus (EPA:EAD).  These two companies compete for market share in commercial and military planes, with demand far exceeding each company&#8217;s manufacturing ability, and both have a long order backlog.  Some of Boeing&#8217;s customers, for example, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tween Brands Gets Slammed as the Struggling Retailer Pins its Hopes on Justice</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 22:10:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[These days, times are tough in the middle market of the retail business.  Luxury companies like Louis Vitton are doing just fine, as the rich keep spending regardless of the economic climate.  And discount retailers like Wal-Mart are benefiting big-time from tight budgets in the lower and middle classes as consumers look to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Gamers Are Bringing Chip Maker AMD Back to Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 06:31:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been years since AMD has been a leader in any market.  First, it challenged Intel in the battle for semiconductor supremacy - and lost, badly, watching helplessly as Intel&#8217;s superior technology reached 75% dominance of the microprocessor market by 2007.  As Intel surged, AMD swooned, and made a fateful decision to diversify [...]]]></description>
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