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Analyst Foresees “New World Order” in Oil Supplies
Written By: Jeanne Roberts
2008-05-26 19:32:53
Last week, a rumor that the highly regarded, Paris-based International Energy Agency (IEA) was planning to lower its long-term forecast for worldwide oil supplies spiked oil prices over $135 per barrel, an historic high.

Are Hedge Funds Contributing to World Hunger?
Written By: Jeanne Roberts
2008-04-15 11:50:04
In March 2008, The New York Times reported an inexplicable and disturbing variation between actual prices and commodity pricing in some commonly traded crops like corn, soybeans and wheat.

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Bank Default Insurance Seems Meaningless
Written By: David Neubert
2008-04-01 12:32:36
Check out this list from Bespoke Investor of the cost of bank default insurance. The highest costs go to Lehman and Merrill and other American Banks while the lowest prices are European.

I think this is the result of the implied government guarantee that most investors believe is far stronger in Europe.

However, now that the global financial system is so strongly intertwined I don't think the world financial system could handle a default resulting in the liquidation of any bank on the list.

So does that mean all these banks' default insurance should be trading at government rates?

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Bear Stearns' Easter Basket
Written By: Deborah Evans
2008-03-25 12:01:00
It seems that the parties involved in JPMorgan’s (JPM - $46.44) takeover of Bear Stearns (BSC - $10.87) like to work on the deal on holidays, Sundays, and when the Moon is Void-of-Course.*

Following are the bear facts about the “amended” deal between JPM and BSC. If The Wall Street Journal timeline is accurate, Bear’s Board of Directors couldn’t possibly have fully read the deal before agreeing to it, since CNBC announced it was approved just after the market opened this morning.

Photo:Mellie, Creative Commons, Flickr

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Comverse Technology - Takeover on the Horizon? "The Greatest Stock Story Never Told"
Written By: Thomas Chenoweth
2007-11-29 05:07:58

Photo:lyonzy, Creative Commons, Flickr
In my early days as a stockbroker, I worked for a small investment banking firm that participated in underwriting small speculative growth companies that mainly traded as pink sheet stocks. Nine out of ten companies in this arena never make it, but I was fortunate enough to embrace one that turned out to be my greatest lesson in what can happen to a long-term stock buy.

I also learned what can happen if I don't stay with my beliefs and bail on a stock too early, resulting in years of kicking myself and muttering of what I should have, could have, would have done.

The company I am referring to is my first stock pick from 1989, Comverse Technology (CMVT -OTC).

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