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Tue, 08/25/2009 - 10:34 | Link to Comment Deficient Market
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Uh oh, power outage, someone forgot to instal HAL9000's backup power unit...

Tue, 08/25/2009 - 10:54 | Link to Comment mgarrett84
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Thats ok, the JCN10^9000 is ready to replace the HAL

Tue, 08/25/2009 - 10:38 | Link to Comment molecool
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Whatever it was - it got me excellent fills on my puts.

Tue, 08/25/2009 - 10:41 | Link to Comment Sqworl
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GS made it payment to SEC fine!!  Let the games continue!

Tue, 08/25/2009 - 15:06 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Tue, 08/25/2009 - 10:41 | Link to Comment max2205
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Da Players are out celebrating the godfathers reappointment and the prosect for tons more in taxpayer supplied bonuses in the future.  they be smoking the green shoots now that they have cured.

 

We are really non confirming new highs, I suspect a air lock elevator drop to scare some bulls out of their positions soon.

Tue, 08/25/2009 - 10:43 | Link to Comment lettuce
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smoking the green shoots to reach new highs...awesome.

Tue, 08/25/2009 - 10:44 | Link to Comment Cheeky Bastard
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http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/08/bank-holding-companies-ranked-by-commercial-real-estate-loans/

This is a good article to bookmark and follow the future +/- swings.

Tue, 08/25/2009 - 11:04 | Link to Comment chunkylover42
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Very nice table, Cheeky, thanks for forwarding.  The next logical question is: at what value are these loans being carried? 

That is why the BBT/Colonial thing makes me nervous.  37% writedowns shouldn't be happening at this point.  We all know the banks have crappy CRE on their balance sheet and are probably avoiding the losses.  But by how much?

Tue, 08/25/2009 - 11:07 | Link to Comment deadhead
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most sources that I read say CRE loans are carried at par. 

Tue, 08/25/2009 - 14:18 | Link to Comment chunkylover42
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That's all I've seen as well, which just blows my mind.  No way that's justifiable, even in mark-to-fantasy-land.

Tue, 08/25/2009 - 11:41 | Link to Comment AnonymousMonetarist
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IndyMac at 37 cents and even that pricepoint was suspect.

When structured vehicles blow you can get blutarskied ...0.0

So a slice of a nothin' is nothin' baby.

I'm dying for the FED audit if it happens .. cause have always believed that in fact for certain transactions, yes viriginia there is no collateral.

Tue, 08/25/2009 - 12:01 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Tue, 08/25/2009 - 16:32 | Link to Comment Haywood Jablowme
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Ironic seeing how Metlife's old guy is now the main man runnin' things at AIG...

Wed, 08/26/2009 - 00:52 | Link to Comment texpat
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Fuck Cheeky?!?! All the banks are wearing giant bombs shaped like commercial real estate!

Wait, wait, there's a bank not represented... guess which one... oh-oh

Tue, 08/25/2009 - 10:50 | Link to Comment MinnesotaNice
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Could coincide with story out at 10:16am on Bubblevision... Economy in Much Worse Shape Than Expected:  White House

http://www.cnbc.com/id/32551478
Tue, 08/25/2009 - 10:51 | Link to Comment Deficient Market
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This was on CNBS? Must have been some screwup, maybe this was supposed to go to GS's esteemed customers, but they mixed up the memos and sent them the daily tout (early of course) so they went BuyBuyBuy into the opening, while the rest of the market sold when the story hit CNBS? Now it all makes sense...

Tue, 08/25/2009 - 10:56 | Link to Comment MinnesotaNice
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Oh I think GS got it before everybody because it look like the slide started around 10:05am...

Tue, 08/25/2009 - 10:51 | Link to Comment Eduardo
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Well Abby tell ya how it is gonna be in this video. A staircase

At about 4:50: the market will go up in a staircase pattern.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?play=1&video=1206767531

They cannot only "predict" where the s&p 500, oil and everything else is going to be in a year but also how it is going to get there. Isn't that cool?

They get some soft taken away from them, they wake up the FBI and at the very next day the guy is under surveillance and soon after he is in jail. Good that the manipulative soft go back to the right hands. But if they give trading tips to their fav clients. Barely anything happens.

While in the same bizarro world their own economist cannot get himself to sound bulish

Tue, 08/25/2009 - 11:14 | Link to Comment Eduardo
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Forgot to include the video of Goldman's economist:

http://www.clipsyndicate.com/video/playlist/1778/1071006?title=bloomberg

 

Also let me add that the staircase rally seems to be the better one from a maipulative pointof view. Every time you get a plateau wait for the short side to load so when you force them to cover they help into creating the next step ...

Thank you Goverment Sachs, and Ben Bernanke you are so well trimmed so thank you too!.

Tue, 08/25/2009 - 11:43 | Link to Comment AnonymousMonetarist
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They should only let in Abby at the Barron's Roundtable to serve drinks for Hickey, Faber and Zulauf.

Tue, 08/25/2009 - 14:09 | Link to Comment asdfg (not verified)
Tue, 08/25/2009 - 10:52 | Link to Comment They steal from...
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Pimp juice, pimp juice...

I am talking my pimp juice, yeah my pimp juice...

Tue, 08/25/2009 - 20:32 | Link to Comment Hephasteus
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Pimp juice is a derivation of Juice. Juice is using cruel acts to make people afraid of you so you can dominate them. Pimp juice is like slapping whores and such. The juice system is a ponzi scheme. You have to keep doing more cruel things to maintain it until you eventually reach a line you won't cross.

Tue, 08/25/2009 - 10:54 | Link to Comment Spartacus
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Redbook: US Retail Sales -0.7% First 3 Wks Aug Vs July

Why this news is not on Bloomberg?

Tue, 08/25/2009 - 11:08 | Link to Comment deadhead
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my view is that a number of outlets are discounting Redbook as WalMart is out.

Tue, 08/25/2009 - 10:55 | Link to Comment mdtrader
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Somebody knew and that's why futures were well bid from overnight lows around 1020, despite China being down ect. Once the number came out, it was time for those in the know to cash in.

Tue, 08/25/2009 - 10:56 | Link to Comment tradertim
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i just visit this site to see TD's pretty colored charts.

 

Tue, 08/25/2009 - 10:56 | Link to Comment chunkylover42
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You mean that's not normal??

Tue, 08/25/2009 - 11:04 | Link to Comment Deficient Market
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I believe this is now known in TA as the flying finger formation. It was last seen right after the FOMC minutes on the Dollar index. It is meant to send the market the following message - "screw you, we can take this market whichever way we want"

So the short answer is yes, this is normal.

Tue, 08/25/2009 - 11:06 | Link to Comment Eduardo
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LOL

Tue, 08/25/2009 - 11:00 | Link to Comment rapier
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Obama kind of threw them a curve with the late day reappointment. The boys are tired and now they have to rally one more day to substantiate Ben's acendency to Maestro status. Oh hell, what's one more day.  Besides, the boys and girls over at Crapvision are pissed to the point of calling out the Teabaggers with guns every time the S&P is down 1 point. Eternal rally is becoming an existential necessity.

Tue, 08/25/2009 - 11:08 | Link to Comment Anonymous
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Tue, 08/25/2009 - 11:27 | Link to Comment matthylland
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Thought today was going to be like yesterday....pump and dump, but I guess not quite...

Tue, 08/25/2009 - 11:33 | Link to Comment Deficient Market
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It was a pump and dump, except on a much shorter time frame. The time frame is now being determined by Moore's law, so it will exponentially keep getting shorter and shorter, until our mere human eyes will not be able to notice the pump and dump. That's when consumer confidence will skyrocket past 5000 as the market and economy will seem to run on pure magic!

Tue, 08/25/2009 - 11:28 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Tue, 08/25/2009 - 11:32 | Link to Comment Sancho Ponzi
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OT: Goldman’s Hatzius Says Fed Balance Sheet Could Hit $4 Trillion

“Rates need to stay low,” he said. The Fed “could become more aggressive in purchasing assets. They have not gotten a lot of bang for the buck on that policy so far.”

Translation: The Fed needs to buy $ 2 trillion more of toxic crap at ridiculous prices to help get GS and the other banksters out of this mess

Tue, 08/25/2009 - 11:40 | Link to Comment glenlloyd
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Your translation is correct, and I can tell you right now that's going to end badly.

Tue, 08/25/2009 - 11:46 | Link to Comment AnonymousMonetarist
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But he opined recession is over, oh if only I could be the ball in the Goldman rugby huddle.

 

Tue, 08/25/2009 - 12:03 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Tue, 08/25/2009 - 14:09 | Link to Comment asdfg (not verified)
Tue, 08/25/2009 - 12:15 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Tue, 08/25/2009 - 13:35 | Link to Comment Jeanbon
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Today has to be the day where the market kicks 

The FED's ass, 

The Bull's asses

and all those folks asses who now suddenly appear and

try to push up stocks as much as they can.

 

Today has to be the reversal day. It just has to be!

 

Tue, 08/25/2009 - 13:46 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Tue, 08/25/2009 - 18:44 | Link to Comment Digital Gunfire
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Want a good laugh ?

Go check out Michael moore's trailer of his new movie about Wallstreet

http://www.michaelmoore.com/

He has quite a few bags to fill...

 

 

Tue, 08/25/2009 - 20:35 | Link to Comment docsdoc
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This might be the only MM film I will enjoy seeing...

Do NOT follow this link or you will be banned from the site!