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Tuesday, February 14th, 2012

Posts Tagged ‘ Balance Sheets ’

A Phantom Increase in Income

Jun 13th, 2008 | By Richard Daughty | Category: Stock Market Investing

If you are like me, you are suddenly realizing that your income did not go up by 0.2%, or any percent, because if it did, it seems like you would have remembered it. And anyway, if my income DID go up, then where in the hell is all of this money?



Dow Surges 300 Points

Apr 1st, 2008 | By Contrarian Profits | Category: Financial News, Stock Market Investing

Investors are rushing back into stocks, reports AP, causing the Dow Jones industrials to surge more than 300 points on the first day of the second fiscal quarter.

Financial stocks were among the big winners after Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. and Switzerland’s UBS AG issued new stock to help bolster their balance sheets. With that upbeat news and a fresh quarter ahead of them, investors appear quite willing to make some bets that the worst of the damage from the nation’s credit struggles has been felt. Moreover, the moves buttressed the view that financial services companies are taking aggressive action to improve their capital bases and stave off the potential of a collapse similar to Bear Stearns Cos. Analysts believe there…