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Monday October 12, 2009

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Levi & Korsinsky is investigating the Board of Directors of I-Flow Corp.  (NasdaqGM: IFLO) for possible breaches of fiduciary duty and other violations of state law in connection with their attempt to sell the Company to Kimberly-Clark Corp. Under the terms of the agreement, I-Flow shareholders will receive $12.65 in cash for each share of I-Flow common stock they own for a total transaction value of approximately $276 million.

Premiere Global Services, Inc. (NYSE: PGI), a global provider

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BOK Financial Corporation's (BOKF) second-quarter earnings of $0.77 were significantly above our expectation as well as the Street's. Results reflect increase in interest revenue and fees and commissions revenue both sequentially and year-over-year. Provisions for credit losses were down around 21% on a year-over-year basis to $47.1 million. Net income for the quarter came in at $52.1 million or 77 cents per diluted share, compared to net income of $55.0 million or 81 cents per diluted share for the first quarter of 2009 and a net loss of $1.2 million or 2 cents per diluted share in the year-ago quarter. Mortgage banking revenue remained at relatively high levels due to increased loan volume driven by government initiatives to lower national mortgage interest rates. The company has achieved an increase in interest margin both on a sequential and year-over-year basis. This was primarily driven by lower ...

Investors face some important decisions.  For those approaching retirement it is a crucial time. There is plenty of advice.  The television commercials, blogs, and email messages include a variety of appeals: Those telling you to buy an annuity to lock in your income, marketing to the fear of market losses, and perhaps playing down the death by a thousand cuts from inflation. Those telling you that you can do better than your financial advisor.  Go on your own!  You have a "feel" for the market. Those advising gold.  Everything is about to go wrong, so you need to have hard assets. Those offering speculative gains.  Here are some stock ideas that are "home-run" ideas, where you can triple your money in a couple of months.  Often these are penny stocks. Any of these strategies could be right --- as a part of an overall plan.  For those ...

h1 style="text-align: center;"bTop 3 Trendsbr //b/h1h2 style="text-align: center;"bTop 3 Prime Brokerage Trends/b/h2br /a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.mauronewmedia.com/images/ued/main-business-objectives.jpg"img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 228px; height: 162px;" src="http://www.mauronewmedia.com/images/ued/main-business-objectives.jpg" alt="" border="0" //aOver the last two years the mainstream media’s and general public’s interest in prime brokerage has rapidly grown. This is due to a number of factors including the struggle and failure many investment banks offering prime brokerage services including a alt="Lehman Prime Broker" href="http://primebrokerageguide.com/2008/05/lehman-prime-broker.html" title="Lehman Prime Broker"Lehman Brothers/a, mergers within the industry and widespread failures and redemption notices of hedge funds themselves.br /br /The top three trends affecting the prime brokerage industry right now are multi-prime brokerage relationships, limiting capital introduction services, and prime brokers acting as business partners to hedge fund managers.br /br /Multi-prime brokerage relationships used to be used by $5B+ a href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/03/hedge-funds.html"hedge funds/a whose large institutional clients demanded the practice as a risk ...

Setup a Hedge FundSetup a Hedge Fund | Tips from SykesBelow is an article being added to our Hedge Fund Startup Tools page. This piece is from Tim Sykes, a colorful wall street personality with a large online following and experience in running a small hedge fund and then writing a book on the experience, which I have reviewed here. I do not agree with everything noted below but I believe it is valuable as it is rare to read articles by those who have managed a hedge fund about the struggles of running a small hedge fund.______________________I brought an outline of my strategy and performance to a friend of a family friend, who supposedly had access to many hedge fund and ...

Rehypothication RisksRehypothication Risks, Rights & CostsHere is a short article about the Rehypothication by prime brokerage firms, the definition of it, the risks of prime brokers using the strategy, the rights of hedge funds who loose access to their assets and what happens to the cost of prime brokerage services when hedge funds request for their assets not to be rehypothicated.Here is a short excerpt from the article:The dangers for hedge funds of having their assets rehypothecated became painfully clear last week: $22bn of the $40bn held by Lehman’s European prime brokerage had been rehypothecated. Hedge funds trying to reclaim the rehypothecated assets have found themselves in the queue of general creditors, likely to get back only a proportion of their money.Even those hedge funds which had ...

Money Morning/The Money Map Report Where to start?  Market volatility is sure to continue for the indefinite future as investors, economists, analysts and politicos debate the merits of the federal government’s ongoing move – and try to make heads or tails out of the new financial landscape. Mega-financials that offer everything (deposits, lending, brokerage services, deal underwriting, wealth management, mergers & acquisitions deals) appear to be the wave of the future (is beleaguered Citigroup Inc. (C) suddenly ahead of its time?). Comparisons to past crises are emerging: The Great Depression, the savings & loan crisis, the junk bond collapse, Japan’s stock-and-real-estate implosion, and even Tulip Mania). Many investors have thrown in the towel (capitulation) and unloaded any and all financials (not to mention autos, airlines, and even technology stocks…anyone catch the 25,000 jobs lost at Hewlett-Packard Co. (HPQ) or ...