Archive for April, 2009

• Market Recap: Punks Jump Up…
  Joshua M Brown, April 30th, 2009 at 2:48 pm, Comments: 0

  The Reformed Broker, AKA Kool G Wrap, here with today's Market Recap... The Chrysler bankruptcy had virtually zero impact at the open and the Dow [...]

• Who's Who of Financial Bloggers
  Joshua M Brown, April 30th, 2009 at 6:01 am, Comments: 0

  Who's Who in the World of Financial Bloggers?  Well, if finance blogdom was a high school, here are the extra-curricular activities your favorite bloggers would [...]

• Ken Lewis: Should I Stay or Should I Go?
  Joshua M Brown, April 29th, 2009 at 7:13 pm, Comments: 0

  With Ken Lewis just voted out as Chairman by Bank of America shareholders, how long will he stick around as CEO? With apologies to the [...]

• Market Recap: Explosive Rally…Yawn
  Joshua M Brown, April 29th, 2009 at 2:50 pm, Comments: 0

  The Reformed Broker, AKA Pedro Cerrano, here with today's Market Recap... Either the bulls brought their "A" Game or the bears forgot to set their [...]

• This Just In: Over 100 Applicants for PPIP
  Joshua M Brown, April 29th, 2009 at 12:40 pm, Comments: 0

  Treasury Announces Receipt of Applications to Become Fund Managers under Public Private Investment Program Washington, DC -- The Treasury Department today announced the receipt of [...]

• Welcome To El Centro, CA – The Unemployment Capital of America
  Joshua M Brown, April 29th, 2009 at 10:18 am, Comments: 0

  The Wall Street Journal dug into the just-released stats from the Labor Department, including March unemployment figures for 310 metropolitan areas.  From WSJ: El Centro, [...]

• What Has Been Working So Far in '09
  Joshua M Brown, April 29th, 2009 at 8:45 am, Comments: 0

  My colleague JC just sent me the below graph, a helpful reminder of which sectors have been over- and under-performing so far this year... So [...]

• Morning Headlines: Swine Flu and Stress Tests
  Joshua M Brown, April 29th, 2009 at 7:01 am, Comments: 0

  I guess there are two big stories competing for everyone's attention this morning, neither of them positive... First up, it seems that the first confirmed [...]

• Market Recap: Survivability
  Joshua M Brown, April 28th, 2009 at 1:47 pm, Comments: 0

  The Reformed Broker, AKA Prince Adam, here with today's Market Recap... Once again, the DJIA shrugged off an overnight triple-digit sell-off in the futures...this must be [...]

• Bronx Zoo Layoffs
  Joshua M Brown, April 28th, 2009 at 7:35 am, Comments: 0

  This is like the punchline of a bad joke... The economy in New York is so bad... "How bad is it?" It's so bad, The [...]