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Thursday October 8, 2009

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Please be advised that Getty Realty Corp. (NYSE: GTY) will release its financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2009, after the market closes on Tuesday, November 3, 2009.

CIGNA (NYSE:CI) and ProHealth Physicians, Inc., have expanded their longstanding relationship by implementing an enhanced care coordination program that includes pay-for-performance provisions and many of the features of a patient-centered medical home program. This is the first program of its kind in Connecticut.

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MarkWest Liberty Midstream & Resources – a majority-owned joint venture of MarkWest Energy Partners L.P. (MWE) – yesterday announced the signing of definitive agreements with subsidiaries of Chesapeake Energy Corp. (CHK) and Statoil Hydro ASA (STO) to process gas at its proposed facility in Majorsville, West Virginia.   MarkWest Liberty is a partnership between natural gas pipeline operator MarkWest Energy Partners and energy infrastructure private equity fund NGP Midstream & Resources L.P. MarkWest has a 60% operated interest in the venture (remaining 40% owned by NGP) that has been formed to construct and operate natural gas midstream services to support producers in the emerging Marcellus Shale play in western Pennsylvania and West Virginia.   The new processing deals are in addition to a previously announced agreement with independent oil and gas company Range Resources Corp. (RRC) that was executed earlier this year. All three contracts include

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Do current fed funds futures prices signal a belief by market participants that the Fed may begin raising interest rates early next year? My latest research paper suggests not.

The expectations hypothesis of the term structure of interest rates posits that an investor could expect to receive the same return from buying a 6-month T-bill as from rolling over two 3-month T-bills. Although this is an appealing hypothesis, it has been consistently rejected by empirical researchers, including Campbell and Shiller (1991), Evans and Lewis (1994), Bekaert, Hodrick and Marshall (1997), and Cochrane and Piazzesi (2005) among many others. What that literature has shown is that when the 6-month yield is higher than the 3-month, on average you'd do better with it than with rolling over the 3-months. Typically the term structure slopes up, and typically you earn a higher return from longer

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Six Dow components are scheduled to report as large-cap stocks dominate the first big week of earnings season. The 6 companies are Bank of America (...

Highlights include AIG (AIG),  Citigroup (C), Bank of America (BAC) and Marshall & Ilsley Corp. (MI).I have been a long-time bear on the financials, especially the banks. However, at this point I think there are some serious values there that investors should seriously consider. No, not the common stocks -- they are likely to be severely diluted (if you dump a shot of Dewar's into Lake Michigan, can you call it scotch and water?).A good part of the banking system is, in all, probability insolvent. However, if one thing has been made clear over the past 6 months, it is that the government, regardless of party, is not going to let the big guys fail. Helping prevent that has a higher calling on the Treasury than anything else -- more than national defense, more than providing health care, more than paying ...

Borders Ousts CEO; Front Page Ads in New York Times; Steve Jobs Speaks, Apple Soars; U.K. Short Selling Ban Ending; Whitman’s Future; Oil Rises on MidEast Violence; Russia Cuts Gas Supplies to Europe

Borders Group, Inc. (BGP) ousted its Chief Executive George Jones and replaced him with outsider Ron Marshall, a Wildridge Capital Management executive whose primary experience is turning around ailing companies, Reuters reported. George had been Borders’ CEO for the past three years. The New York Times Co. (NYT) opened its front page to advertisers, a controversial move within journalism circles but also one that follows ...