JPM killed LEH
It is highly likely [or a certainty on my planet] that J.P. Morgan was INSOLVENT and was “BAILED OUT” last Monday, September 15, to the tune of 138 billion dollars. This would explain why the Fed and Treasury dictated that Lehman fail – to disguise or otherwise obfuscate the recapitalization of or illicit transfer of 138 billion to A MUCH SICKER, TEETERING ENTITY, J.P. Morgan Chase.
Germany bailing out home lender
The government and the Bundesbank have said that Hypo Real Estate, the nation’s second-biggest property lender, is too big to fail.
Citi continues its efforts to rape WB shareholders
“Any such agreement between Wachovia and Wells Fargo is illegal,” Vikram Pandit, 51, Citigroup’s chief executive officer, said in an e-mail Friday.
Solar is for hopeful idiots
Without incentives, we don’t have a market, period,” said Paula Mints, a principal analyst at Navigant Consulting (Palo Alto, Calif.), speaking at a solar event sponsored by the IEEE here.
PC demand is non-existant
“We may see zero to five percent growth this quarter which would be very unseasonable.”
Semi cap ex in panic mode
A decline of 20 percent in worldwide fab equipment spending was expected for 2008, but the sector was originally projected to rebound and grow over 20 percent in 2009, according to a report from SEMI (San Jose) in August.
Icahn on the bailout
In my view, the primary factor that got us into this mess is the egregious mismanagement and short-sightedness of boards and CEOs of these institutions, who took inordinate and leveraged risks with stockholders money, not simply external factors like the housing market slump.
Nvidia sucks
Nvidia is having a hard time selling its cards at the moment, due to them being fairly average in the performance department, overpriced, and rotten.
Russia is collapsing
So what’s killing the Russians? All the usual suspects — HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, alcoholism, cancer, cardiovascular and circulatory diseases, suicides, smoking, traffic accidents — but they occur in alarmingly large numbers, and Moscow has neither the resources nor the will to stem the tide.
Can oil producing nations survive downturn?
“The question is whether we are going to have a rolling back of globalization and therefore emerging markets will not be able to continue growing in the same way,” he said. “I think the globalization process will continue but a lot slower.”
European car makers look for 55 billion EU handout
“We’ve seen that the U.S. industry is now getting $25 billion worth of support in terms of financing,” Marchionne said yesterday in an interview at the Paris Motor Show. “It would be absolutely necessary that the European Commission do exactly the same thing. It was $25 billion for the U.S., in our case it’s 40 billion euros because we have twice the capacity.”
Steve Jobs has a secret factory
The factory, as Jobs described it, had everything: robots, lasers, tolerances within one 10,000th of an inch, defect rates of less that 17 parts per million — one tenth the rest of the industry’s — and the speed to turn out 60 machines a day.
D-Day approaches for derivitives
“There is a lot at stake,” said an executive at one big dealer. “This is a crisis time, and if these auctions do not go well, or if the amounts investors and dealers have to pay is seen as not being fair, it could have further negative repercussions on the CDS market.”
Regarding this weeks CDS auctions: “The Fly” will be watching, while eating absurd amounts of popcorn, like this guy:
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