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by ilene - August 25th, 2009 8:17 am
Green Shoots or Greater Depression?
Courtesy of Bud Conrad/David Galland, Editors, The Casey Report
While we aren’t contrarian for the sake of being contrary, more often than not that is the position in which we find ourselves. Today, with the media falling all over itself to paint a rosy outlook for the economy while simultaneously voicing encouragement to the new administration in its remake of the nation in previously unimaginable ways, it’s hard not to question our conviction that the worst is yet to come.
Could the economy really recover this quickly from the traumatic trifecta of a record real estate bubble, leviathan levels of debt, and a global credit collapse? We don’t see it as remotely possible, but yet… but yet… there for everyone to see are countless happy headlines and breathless exhortations that the worst is behind us.
So, is it Green Shoots or Greater Depression?
Getting the answer right is critical, because from it flow serious consequences to each of us. And not just in our investment portfolios but in how we organize our lives.
Looking for an evidence trail leading to the correct conclusion, Casey Chief Economist Bud Conrad once again put in very long hours digging through the data. Here’s what he uncovered, about the claims of green shoots, and what may actually be in store for the economy moving forward.
- David Galland
Rather than accepting the many commentaries that our economy may be improving, let’s focus for a minute on the important forces that will play out over the decade ahead, and the minor improvements – from disastrous levels – that have given commentators such hope that the worst of our problems are behind us.
What Do the “Green Shoots” Really Look Like?
While some individual measures of economic activity appear slightly less dire than previously, it’s important to understand that most improvements are largely attributable to government intervention.
For example, at the onset of this crisis, commercial paper spreads rose to the point that this important source of corporate short-term funding had virtually shut down. Today, those spreads have returned to almost normal levels. But the bulk of this improvement is not due to a return of confidence in the economic system but rather to the Federal Reserve directly intervening in the market with several hundred billions of dollars.
And mortgage interest rates, which…
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by ilene - August 23rd, 2009 3:01 pm
Courtesy of John Mauldin at Thoughts from the Frontline
The Statistical Recovery, Part Three
Capacity Utilization Set to Rise
A Real Estate Green Shoot?
The Deleveraging Society
Some Thoughts on Secular Bear Markets
Weddings and Ten Years of Thoughts From the Frontline
This week we further explore why this recovery will be a Statistical Recovery, or one that, as someone said, is a recovery only a statistician could love. We look at capacity utilization, more on housing, some thoughts on debt and deflation, and some intriguing charts on volatility in the last secular bear-market cycle. This letter will print a little longer, but there are lots of charts. I have written this during the week, and I finish it here in Tulsa, where Amanda gets married tomorrow. (There is no deflation in weddings costs!)
Thanks to so many of you for your enthusiastic feedback about my latest Accredited Investor Newsletter, in which I undertook to examine the impact of last year’s dramatic increase in volatility on the performance of hedge funds and to ascertain those elements that led to success in the industry, such as select Global Macro and Managed Futures strategies, as well as the challenges. If you are an accredited investor (basically anywhere in the world, as I have partners in Europe, Canada, Africa, and Latin America) and haven’t yet read my analysis, I invite you to sign up here: www.accreditedinvestor.ws
For those of you who seek to take advantage of these themes and the developments I write about each week, let me again mention my good friend Jon Sundt at Altegris Investments, who is my US partner. Jon and his team have recently added some of the more successful names in the industry to their dedicated platform of alternative investments, including commodity pools, hedge funds, and managed futures accounts. Certain products that Altegris makes available on its platform access award-winning managers, and are designed to facilitate access for qualified and suitable readers at sometimes lower investment minimums than is normally required (though the net-worth requirements are still the same).
If you haven’t spoken with them in a while, it’s worth checking out their new lineup of world-class managers. Jon also tells me they just added yet more brilliant minds to their research team, making it,…
Tags: Capacity Utilization, deleveraging, GDP, green shoots, housing prices, John Mauldin, Real Estate, Recession, Recovery, secular bear market, Secular Bear Markets, Statistical Recovery Part III
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by ilene - August 14th, 2009 5:50 pm
Green Shoots or Scorched Earth?
By MIKE WHITNEY writing at Counterpunch
Is the economy really recovering or is it all just hype?
Here’s what we know. The Fed doesn’t drop rates to zero unless its facing a 5 alarm fire and needs to pull out all the stops. The idea is to flood the markets with liquidity in order to avoid a complete financial meltdown. It’s a last-ditch maneuver and the Fed does not take it lightly.
The Fed initiated its zero interest rate policy, ZIRP, eight months ago (December 16 2008) and hasn’t raised rates since. In the meantime, Fed chair Ben Bernanke has pumped huge amounts of money into the financial system using thoroughly-untested and unconventional means. No one knows whether Bernanke can roll up his multi-trillion dollar lending facilities or not (and avoid Zimbabwe-like hyperinflation) because no one has ever created similar programs. It’s all "make-it-up-as-you-go" policymaking. What we do know, however, is that the Fed intends to keep rates at rock-bottom for the foreseeable future, which means that the lights are all still blinking red.
Here’s an excerpt from the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) on Wednesday:
"The Committee will maintain the target range for the federal funds rate at 0 to 1/4 percent and continues to anticipate that economic conditions are likely to warrant exceptionally low levels of the federal funds rate for an extended period. As previously announced, to provide support to mortgage lending and housing markets and to improve overall conditions in private credit markets, the Federal Reserve will purchase a total of up to $1.25 trillion of agency mortgage-backed securities and up to $200 billion of agency debt by the end of the year. In addition, the Federal Reserve is in the process of buying $300 billion of Treasury securities. To promote a smooth transition in markets as these purchases of Treasury securities are completed, the Committee has decided to gradually slow the pace of these transactions and anticipates that the full amount will be purchased by the end of October. The Committee will continue to evaluate the timing and overall amounts of its purchases of securities in light of the evolving economic outlook and conditions in financial markets. The Federal Reserve is monitoring the size and composition of its balance sheet and will make adjustments to its credit and liquidity
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Tags: Counterpunch, Economy, green shoots, Mike Whitney, Recovery
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by ilene - July 31st, 2009 6:53 pm
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Refining, the weakest link in the recovery Stephen Schork via FT Alphaville
Demand, not only for gasoline, but for other major products markets as well, is going the wrong way, i.e. from the top left to the bottom right on the charts. Thus, Big Oil is straining under the weight of poor margins.
It is now hard to reconcile these earnings reports, demand was lousy in the second quarter (and it not any better today). Yet, this market was being fed a fantastic lie back then… the less bad is good mantra.
Thus, whereas spot crude oil on the NYMEX finished the first quarter just below $50 a barrel (49.66) it finished the second quarter just below $70 (69.89). Crude oil rallied 40 percent as profits at the world’s largest oil companies were tumbling.
Why?
Because this market wanted to ignore the obvious and lull itself to sleep with silly pseudo-intellectual catchphrases… green shoots, crocuses, mustard seeds and this season’s rookie of the year… the second derivative.
Thus, while we were led to believe that demand for oil was rising in the second quarter, hence the justification for that 40 percent surge on the NYMEX, we now have the balance sheets from Exxon, Shell et al. that prove it was a lie.
Look at the screenshot of headlines we pasted on the top of today’s report. Profits for Big Oil are down as demand is at generational lows.
However, look at the very first headline, the NYMEX was higher yesterday because “… corporate earnings boost confidence…”
Huh?
According to this one article, demand for oil and therefore profits for oil companies are down, but the NYMEX rallied yesterday because Motorola (mobile phone maker) had a smaller than projected loss and Calphalon (cookware) and Paper Mate (writing instruments) had better than expected profits
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You really cannot make this up……
Das ist so absurd das man sich unweigerlich fragt ob wir schon wieder den 1. April haben…. 
Tags: "Less Bad Is Good Mantra", anti spin, green shoots, Stephen Schork, wall street finest
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by ilene - July 31st, 2009 5:04 pm
at The Market Ticker
The pumpers in the media will burn in Hell for dragging you (the sheeple) back into this market.
Here’s the truth on GDP, in pictures:
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I updated the previous Ticker [below] but this is important enough to put up as a separate post. I will maintain this quarterly as new releases come out; this is a new "staple" for The Market Ticker, where unlike the sell-side that is always trying to get you to buy I am concerned with the truth about our economy and deal in the facts, not hype.
This is off Table 3B in the BEA’s release and is actual year-over-year change in constant (chained) dollars. Feel free to check my work – in fact, you should check my work, just like you should check everyone else’s you hear, especially if you hear a politician or media pundit opine about how "things are getting better."
Baloney. Not only is the GDP still falling it is still falling at an increasing year-over-year rate.
The second derivative will not go positive until the slope of that line turns upward and we will not see an actual y/o/y increase until (of course) the line goes over zero. So long as the line slopes downward the decline in GDP – the economy as a whole – is accelerating.
One other thing: Notice how 2007-Q3 was when the turn in GDP happened? When did the market top? October 2007, SPX 1576, right?
Think about it folks. You’re being lied to. Again.
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Karl’s earlier article:
GDP came out this morning and there’s only one word for it: Ugly.
Real gross domestic product — the output of goods and services produced by labor and property located in the United States — decreased at an annual rate of 1.0 percent in the second quarter of 2009, (that is, from the first quarter to the second), according to the "advance" estimate released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. In the first quarter, real GDP decreased 6.4 percent.
1% isn’t so bad – but look at the revision – to negative 6.4%. So much for "final" on the previous release eh?
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by ilene - July 20th, 2009 11:18 am
Courtesy of Karl Denninger at The Market Ticker
The "30%er" club continues to gain members on earnings reports this morning.
Eaton, down 32%
Halliburton, down 22%
Johnson Controls down 29.3%
Weathorford down 10.5% (heh, an outperformer!)
All revenue numbers y/o/y.
Folks, where is the good news in here? Yes, earnings were beats by a few pennies, but again, this is all happening on the basis of massive labor cost contraction, which in turn feeds back into the economy in the coming quarters in the form of weaker demand!
Johnson Controls is a lesson in what I have repeatedly said: a 30% decline in revenues can wipe the floor with your earnings numbers. In this case their earnings were down 63% from previous year numbers; again, this happens due to business fixed costs that you can’t shed quickly (if at all.)
Never mind Eaton, which had its profit fall 92% (!) on a 32% revenue fall. In fact they were lucky to eek out a profit at all ($31 million); last year this was $337 million in the second quarter.
Of course the market crooners will point to these as "beats" and suggest you buy, with some of these firms getting a nice pop premarket.
Uh huh. I want to buy a company that is seeing its net operating margin destroyed on the back of 30% year-over-year revenue declines?
The evidence continues to mount that unreasonable and unsustainable credit expansion was in fact responsible for an about 20-30% of revenues in America (you can extrapolate that to GDP) and that the economy is indeed on track to contract toward that metric on balance, despite attempts to keep it from happening.
The belief that this disruption will be transient or is "over" is, in my opinion, nothing other than pure fancy.
Invest accordingly.
Tags: beats, contraction, credit expansion, earnings, green shoots, revenue
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by ilene - July 15th, 2009 11:13 am
In this second article by Karl, he examines Intel’s quarterly results and is not as excited as the market. Why? Layoffs. Intel excels at cost management – good for Intel, but not a sign of healthy economic recovery. – Ilene
Courtesy of Karl Denninger at The Market Ticker
And too euphoric:
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Intel Corp’s quarterly results and outlook blew past Wall Street forecasts on better-than-expected consumer demand for PCs, especially in Asia, setting an auspicious tone for the technology sector.
Uh, well….
Sure, if you just read the PR on the earnings.
Someone filed that story before the conference call, or simply ignored it.
The strong growth came in Asia, specifically China, which blew out a huge stimulus program. Ok.
But it was specifically stated on the conference call that US consumer sales were weak, and repeating what DELL said earlier, so are enterprise sales.
The quote that was chosen is rather humorous:
Smith told Reuters that computer markets were strengthening and there were "pockets of relative strength" in consumer PC markets, as well as in the Asia Pacific and in China.
Pockets of relative strength.
Yes, there are. Netbooks in particular are relatively strong – a new, very-low-cost alternative to laptops. $300, 400, 500 machines – not the $1,000+ machines previously sold, and they’re replacing the demand that used to be filled by those $1,000 machines! That’s not so good.
Neither is this:
Executives warned that the corporate market remained weak, and Intel does not expect much change in the second half.
Heh wait a second – I thought this was a bullish report for capital spending and the chip sector? No? IBM’s primary market is to enterprise customers, not consumers.
The bigger problem for Intel is its P/E – now well over 20, its just too high – unless we get a very strong economic recovery.
If you’re in the Dennis Kneale camp on that, have at it. I’m going to pay close attention to the reaction in the real market tomorrow when the stock opens for trading by the pros – not the aftermarket daytrader games of the evening, with most of that volume happening before the…
Tags: cost management, DELL, Economy, green shoots, Intel, Layoffs, quarterly results, Recovery
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by ilene - July 8th, 2009 3:24 pm
Courtesy of TraderMark at Fund My Mutual Fund
No slowdown in dollar stores as Americans on Main Street are wrecked by the Great Recession. Family Dollar (FDO) just reported a very nice set of numbers – obviously the Street was under the impression the recession is over judging from the stock the past 2 months. Actually broke down below the 200 day moving average as of the last week.
Despite Wall Street’s protestations (and Dennis Kneale’s), Americans remain stuck in the Walmart section of retail, not Target [Dec 26 2007: Target Shoppers Turning into Walmart Shoppers] Remember, since I’ve started this blog not 2 years ago the % of Americans on food stamps has jumped from 1 in 11, to 1 in 9. [Jun 8, 2009: 1 in 9 Americans on Food Stamps] This appears to be helping Family Dollar which unlike most "dollar stores" has food items as well.
The gross margin expansion is mighty impressive – especially for a retailer; the same store sales growth in this retail environment is simply a damning indictment of how bad off more and more Americans are becoming. I continue to conclude "The Street" does not get what is going on out there in everyday America.
Via CBSMarketwatch
- Discount retailer Family Dollar Stores Inc. said Wednesday that its fiscal third-quarter profit rose a better-than-expected 36%, aided by budget-conscious consumers seeking bargains on food and other consumables and improved home goods and apparel discretionary sales.
- Net income rose to $87.7 million, or 62 cents a share, from $64.7 million, or 46 cents, a year earlier. Analysts, on average, estimated the company would earn 59 cents a share, according to FactSet.
- Sales in the quarter ended May 30 rose 8.3% to $1.84 billion, the 6,600-store chain said. Comparable-store sales climbed 6.2%, helped by increased customer traffic and the higher amount customers spent per transaction.
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by ilene - July 3rd, 2009 7:23 pm
Here’s Karl Denninger’s mid-year review of his new year predictions, and thoughts on 2009 part 2.
Mid-Year 2009 Checkup
Courtesy of Karl at The Market Ticker
It doesn’t seem possible that six months have passed under the bridge of time in 2009 yet, does it? Yet they have.
Let’s take a look at the scorecard first from my 2009 Prediction Ticker, remembering of course that I have six months left!
- The economy will not recover in 2009. No sign of it yet, "green shooters" be damned. I predicted that U3 would reach 8% by the end of the year, it has exceeded that wildly, and is now 9.5%. U-6 also has exceeded my predicted value already.
- Deflation, not inflation, will become evident well beyond housing. Already has. CPI and PPI have come in with negative prints as has capital goods pricing.
- Housing prices will continue to decline. Yep.
- The Fed’s attempt to "pump liquidity" will be shown to be an abject failure. I’ll leave this one on the table for now; I believe the evidence is in, but I’m in the minority. Score this one as a "no result" as of yet.
- GDP will post a 12-month negative number. 12 months aren’t up yet, but we’re working on it!
- The Stock Market has not bottomed. Remember, this was made with the market around the 900 level. Major check; we declined to 666. My secondary prediction was a 50% trading range and a 5xx low; we missed that by 67 points, but I still have six months left. I’m sticking with this one.
- Precious metals will not be a safe haven. Oh Jim Sinclair! Where’s my $1,600+ gold price? (Or for some, their $5,000+ gold price?) Missing, that’s where. I know, I know, its all manipulation (instead of debt deflation.) Check.
- The Dollar will not collapse. Hasn’t yet.
- The pound or euro will be where the FX dislocation originates if it occurs. I predicted Par for both being a possibility, not happening yet. We’ll see what the next six months bring.
- The US Consumer will go from a negative savings rate to a seriously-positive one. I’m predicting 4% but it could go as high as 10%. Major double-check! We’re up close to 7% now. That’s a home run in any book.
- Commercial Real Estate will effectively collapse. The REITs
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Tags: Commercial Real Estate, Economy, green shoots, Job losses, predictions, unemployment rates
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by ilene - June 29th, 2009 4:26 pm
Courtesy of The Pragmatic Capitalist
As I continue to focus on the real crux of this crisis (consumers) I bring you this excellent bit of research from David Rosenberg who so clearly understands the long-term ramifications of the weak consumer and the inflationary and economic impacts it will have.
A survey conducted by YouGov for the Economist magazine found that 5% of respondents had taken a furlough this year and 15% had accepted a pay cut (see The Recession and Pay: The Quiet Americans on page 33 of this week’s edition).
As wages deflate, workers are looking for ways to supplement their shrinking income base, for example, by moonlighting. Indeed, a poll undertaken by CareerBuilder.com and cited in the USA Today found that one in every ten Americans took on an extra job over the last year; another one in five said they intend to do so in the coming year. These numbers are double for the 45 to 54 year olds who now see early retirement, once around the corner, as an elusive concept.
Most pundits who crow about green shoots and about an inventory restocking in the third quarter giving way towards some sustainable economic expansion live in the old paradigm. They don’t realize, for whatever reason, that the deflationary aftershocks that follow a post-bubble credit collapse typically last for 5 to 10 years. Businesses understand better than the typical Wall Street or Bay Street economist and strategist that everything from order books, to output, to staffing have to now be restructured to adequately reflect a permanently lower level of leverage in the economy.
Indeed, by our estimates, there is up to another $5 trillion of household debt that has to be eliminated in coming years and that process is going to require that consumers go on a semi-permanent spending diet. Companies see this, which is why they are not just downsizing their payroll, but have also cut the workweek to a record low of 33.1 hours. Fewer people are working and those that are still working have seen their hours dramatically cut this cycle.
Companies are finding other ways to save on the aggregate labour cost bill as well, which may be a factor reinforcing the uptrend in the personal savings rate (see more below). For example, a rapidly growing number of employers are now suspending
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February 11th, 2012 8:20 pm
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February 11th, 2012 8:05 pm
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Submitted by Tyler Durden.
We have posted various extracts from this piece from Credit Suisse previously. We will post from it again, because, to loosely paraphrase Lewis Black, it bears reposting... especially in the context of the latest and greatest Greek "bailout" (of Europe's bankers), which incidentally, will achieve nothing and merely bring the country one step closer to a military coup and/or civil war.
The flaw
The market is essentially proceeding on the assumption, as we see it, that banks’ capital requirements can be met organically, through earnings and deleveraging. We ...
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February 11th, 2012 6:46 pm
It's Well Past Time for Plan Z
Courtesy of The Automatic Earth
Mario Draghi captured the utter ineptitude of him and every other Eurocrat out there when he said the following at today’s press conference in response to a question about a Greek exit: “To have a Plan B means defeat already. I am confident that all the pieces of this will fall in the proper places.”
Most 5-year old children in pre-school have already been told not to believe that they can always win and that “winning isn’t everything”, but Draghi & Co. still refuse to consider the possibility of failure even as it is staring them in the face. What’s really disturbing is that the stakes here are obviously much, much higher than they are o...
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February 11th, 2012 5:35 pm
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It's interesting to watch some of the terms bandied about in headline news. For example, the LA Times headline reads S&P says student loan debt could be next financial bubble.
Next? Could Be?
What with the word "next"? Also what's with the words "could be"? Without a doubt student loans are in a bubble and have been for many years. The source of the problem, as it always is with financial bubbles, is cheap money, loans to nearly anyone, and in the case of student loans, no way to discharge the debt, even in bankruptcy.
From the article:
"Student-loan debt has ballooned and m...
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February 11th, 2012 12:00 am
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February 10th, 2012 6:20 pm
Courtesy of Benzinga.
The following are the M&A deals, rumors and chatter circulating on Wall Street for Friday February 10, 2012:
Actuant Acquires Jeyco Pty
The Deal:
Actuant (NYSE: ATU) announced Friday that it has acquired Jeyco Pty Ltd (“Jeyco”). Headquartered near Perth, Australia, Jeyco designs and provides specialized mooring, rigging and towing systems and services to the offshore oil & gas industry in Australia and other international markets. Additionally, its highly engineered products are used in a variety of applications for other markets including cyclone mooring and marine, defense and mining tow systems. Jeyco generates annual revenues of approximately $20 million.
Actuant shares closed at $27.33 Friday, a loss of 0.18% on average volume.
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February 10th, 2012 4:11 pm
Courtesy of John Nyaradi.
Greece was “saved” for less than 24 hours but now major ETFs around the world skid into the weekend on Greek fears
After wangling for a week or more, Greek took their new deal to the European Ministers meeting, only to have it promptly rejected and so as we go into the weekend, major global markets and ETFs have again hit the skids on Greece.
After two years of wangling, the European zone is demanding yet more and deeper cuts for Greece to qualify for the next round of bailout loans that will keep the country from going bankrupt on March 20th.
Major European and United States ETF responded negatively to the new developments:
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February 10th, 2012 1:40 pm
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February 5th, 2012 5:19 am
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January 30th, 2012 7:22 am
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AA Money
No trade this week as we wait for AA to settle. Phil remarked last week that AA seemed overvalued. In the meantime, it looks like we might have to roll our Feb 9 calls. Good thing we sold only 5 of them against our position.
Last week P&L - 310.00
We lost ground last week, but we still have 11 months to sell premium!
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Very good week for FAS Money as we benefited from the large amount of premium sold the previous week. We covered most of the shorts in advance of the Fed speech, but sold another set of options on Wednesday after the speech - 2 FAS calls that expired worthless on Friday, 2 FAS put that we are still holding and 2 FAZ put that we bought back for a profit on Friday. A late stick comparable to last week's almost gave us problems at the end of the day though!
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January 18th, 2012 1:09 am
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