links for 2007-11-21
Posted on November 21st, 2007 in Links
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I found the book, published exactly a century after the original event, to have some rather interesting parallels to today…
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Through the third quarter, Goldman’s $16.9 billion compensation pool — the money it sets aside to pay its employees — was significantly bigger than the entire $11.4 billion market capitalization of Bear Stearns.
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Swiss Reinsurance Co., the world’s biggest reinsurer, lost 1.2 billion Swiss francs ($1.07 billion) on derivatives in October after the U.S. subprime mortgage crash roiled debt markets.
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If ever you wanted to hop on the bear-driven, recession bandwagon, this certainly appears the time to do it. Having said all that, take note of T2108, the percentage of NYSE-traded stocks that are above the 40-day moving average.(tags: stocks technicalanalysis)
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Fueling the nation’s industrial machinery takes a lot of imported raw materials. Now you can profit from buying into the suppliers that China needs to avoid getting squeezed.
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There were two stories this weekend that solidified what I already knew: 1. The Fed is between a rock and a hard place… and 2. Overseas investors are being viewed as a possible savior to buy up depressed U.S.-dollar assets.
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With the exception of a few holdouts there is finally recognition by most economic observers and market participants that if the economy isn’t currently in a recession, it is likely entering one shortly.
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MacFUSE implements a mechanism that makes it possible to implement a fully functional file system in a user-space program on Mac OS X (10.4 and above). It aims to be API-compliant with the FUSE (File-system in USErspace) mechanism that originated on Linux
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