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Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know Newsby SA Editor Rachael Granby- Bank trio becomes duo. Wells Fargo (WFC) will become the largest U.S. bank by branches with its bid for Wachovia (WB), after Citigroup (C) withdrew from compromise negotiations late yesterday on concerns about the quality of some of Wachovia's assets. Wells Fargo, with a bid valued at $11.4B, expects the purchase to be completed by the end of the year, and denies it will have to absorb assets shakier than originally thought.
- Government considers next steps. As the financial crisis continues to worsen, the U.S. government is considering two dramatic steps to turn around, or at least slow, the damage: guaranteeing billions of dollars in bank debt and temporarily insuring all U.S. bank deposits. The moves, which would mark the government's most extensive intervention to date, are in discussion stages only.
- Credit stays frozen. As frozen credit markets refuse to thaw, the cost of default protection on corporate bonds reaches new global records amid investor concerns the credit crisis will trigger corporate failures as companies struggle to finance their businesses. Interbank lending remains limited, and borrowing from the Fed's expanded discount window continued its trend of setting new highs every week, as the total daily average rose to $420.2B vs. $367.8B last week.
- Oil demand withers. The International Energy Agency warned Friday worldwide oil demand...
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Wednesday, October 15.Bullish Calls:Continental Resources (CLR) -- "This is a remarkable decline. All of the high quality ones are down so much, I can't go against it. This is where you pull the trigger.
3M (MMM) -- The moment this stock starts yielding 5%, I'm a buyer. Until then, keep your powder dry.Bearish Calls:Computer Sciences (CSC) -- This is a company that was going to be bought, but they passed up the chance. Now I don't want to buy it."Email continues...
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World Oil Supplies Declining Faster Than Expected - IEA
Why don't you start us off! Let's see....you invest your money so you can lose $10 for each $75 you put in. Drill, baby, drill!
How To Survive the Market Sinkhole
False Data Clobbers the Markets
On August 28th a report in a Corpus Christi, Texas newspaper included a picture with this caption: “Tank trucks wait in long line Wednesday to load fuel at Magellan terminal in Fargo North Dakota.” For those who don’t know, Magellan Midstream Partners LP operates a network of pipelines and distribution terminals including one in Fargo.
The report went on to say that industry officials are mystified by fuel shortages at terminals in the upper Midwest in recent days. However, they are likely to have enough supplies for Labor Day weekend.
Folks, we reported a week ago that there were shortages of diesel in, of all places, northwestern Saudi Arabia. Last spring we reported that there was no gasoline in Australia and the big companies advertised in a Sunday paper to apologize. We also reported on the shortage of gasoline at the biggest refinery on Edmonton Row in Alberta Canada – all evidence that this is NOT a new occurrence!
Are you beginning to get the picture? It’s developing right before our eyes. There is only one reason for shortages of gas to be happening in so many places, and that’s because THERE ISN’T ENOUGH crude supply.
If you haven't heard me before, please pay attention because peak oil is behind us. Let me say that again…PEAK OIL IS BEHIND US! We now consume more oil every day then we produce, and that is not likely to change! The crude oil inventories that are worldwide and located in 10,000 different places have been absorbed through the second quarter. From here to the end of the year, the rubber meets the road “big time”. I must say this once again. “Now is the time to be long in oil, natural gas, coal, gold, silver and agricultural products.”
This is Zapata George
False Data Clobbers the Markets
Ozzy....I understand your frustration ;) Also know that there are none so blind as those who will not see...
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The Inconvenient Truth of the Slowing U.S. Economy
Currently, the FDIC has 90+ banks in the U.S. on their “watch list” for risk of failure. How large this list really should be is anyone’s guess.
P.S. ...and IndyMac wasn't even on the list !!
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The Oil Bubble Will Meet the Same Fate as Tech, Housing
When a government or central bank creates additional money through fiat means, it creates inflation. The real definition of inflation is an increase in the supply of money beyond any increase in specie. By its very definition, it attributes the real cause of inflation to its root source which is expansion of the supply of money and credit through artificial means. Its real cause is an act of fraudulent intervention into the financial and economic system distorting values, investments, and in the process, the distribution pattern of wealth and income within the economy.
It's the printing presses!
An understanding of the real cause of inflation is crucial to an understanding of fixing it once it reappears. Most economists and analysts misdiagnose inflation. The standard definition of inflation today adopted by economists, analysts on Wall Street and the mainstream press is that inflation is an increase in prices. The modern definition of inflation as simply rising prices looks more at the symptoms of inflation and not the cause.
Oil Price: $100 Before $150 - But $200 Before $50
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I guess you ain't happy then?