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MER: Bull or Bear?
A Fiasco in Financials
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-25.63%
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(closed on 09/26/08)
<> Regional Bank Short Index: Stats & Benchmarks <>  Top 5 Companies by Largest 1-Year Stock Price Decline
<> After a brief, one-day rally in the financial sector following the Fannie Mae (FNM) and Freddie Mac (FRE) bailout on Sunday, companies such as Lehman Brothers (LEH) and Washington Mutual (WM) have lost over 47% and 57% of their market value, respectively, compared to a 5% loss in the Financial Sector SPDR (XLF) over the last five trading days. In contrast, the UltraShort Financials ProShares ETF (SKF) is up 6% in this ti...
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MER - and why there is no bottom in sight
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+16.64%
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40 days
(closed on 10/07/08)
When considering if financial stocks have hit bottom first consider this research piece by Bridgewater , the worlds 2nd largest hedge fund. It doesn't bode well for MER, the financial industry, the US Dollar, or the US economy in general. This is no time to be taking speculative positions in securities that neither you or I have the ability to analyze completely enough to make a sophisticated investment decision. In markets like these you are far better off protecting your capital than trying to catch falling knives.
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U.S. study estimated losses of fin...
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Merrill Gets Positive Feedback from Analysts Following Recent Deals
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-54.71%
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459 days
7/29 - "Oppenheimer's Meredith Whitney notes this would reduce MER's CDOs exposure by $11.1 billion. While MER has significantly diluted existing shareholders, they applaud this purging of assets as an attempt to cut its losses and focus on stabilizing its platform and righting the franchise towards growth. While MER's stock still sells at a premium to book value and is expensive in firm's opinion, they believe the stock is getting closer to fairly valued levels as now the hardest work is behind the company."
"Deutsche Bank notes the move increases shares outstanding by est. 38% and reduce...
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Bullish on MER ...
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+0.00%
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7 minutes
(closed on 08/03/08)
Awesome company and great CEO.... Company that got caught up with too much greed but it is a good strong financial play. Buy Merril Lynch for the long term will yield investors with plenty of profits. The company is selling off bad assets all beit at a fifth of their value and raising capital. Merrill Lynch with most of its value lost this year is agreat buy and should in the near future start reversing the downtrend and be a hit financial stock once again and emerging from this credit crunch as a raging bull......
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Serious Money: Tempting fate with 10 financials
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-55.40%
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155 days
(closed on 01/02/09)
Filed under: Major movement, Market matters, Citigroup Inc. (C), Merrill Lynch (MER), Wachovia Corp (WB), Washington Mutual (WM), Serious Money, Lehman Br Holdings (LEH), Stocks to Buy, Newcastle Investment (NCT), MBIA Inc (MBI), Gramercy Capital (GKK), E*TRADE (ETFC), East West Bancorp (EWBC) <> After the market closed last night, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average rebounding from Monday's notable drop and ending the trading day at 11,397.56, up 266.48 (+2.39%), I posted Serious Money: 10 finance stocks as the market bounces. This is the follow-up post listing the full pool of speculative s...
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Serious Money: 10 finance stocks as the market bounces
MER
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-0.57%
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19 hours
(closed on 07/30/08)
Filed under: Major movement, Rants and raves, Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A), Market matters, Citigroup Inc. (C), Money and Finance Today, Merrill Lynch (MER), Serious Money, DJIA, Lehman Br Holdings (LEH), Stocks to Buy, MBIA Inc (MBI)  Today the Dow Jones Industrial Average bounced back from yesterday's poor showing. It ended the trading day at 11,397.56, that's plus 266.48 (+2.39%) returning more than it had lost only 24 hours ago.
<><><>There are plenty of prognosticators explaining why this happened and so I am not going to join the crowd this afternoon with my own version. Leave it to say we are i...
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Serious Money: 10 finance markets to consider as the market bounces
MER
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+7.89%
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24 hours
(closed on 07/29/08)
Filed under: Major movement, Rants and raves, Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A), Market matters, Citigroup Inc. (C), Money and Finance Today, Merrill Lynch (MER), Serious Money, DJIA, Lehman Br Holdings (LEH), Stocks to Buy, MBIA Inc (MBI) Today the Dow Jones Industrial Average bounced back from yesterday's poor showing. It ended the trading day at 11,397.56, that's plus 266.48 (+2.39%) returning more than it had lost only 24 hours ago. <><><>There are plenty of prognosticators explaining why this happened and so I am not going to join the crowd this afternoon with my own version. Leave it to say we are i...
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SELL BABY SELL...Why would anybody would want to own a broker like Merrill Lynch
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+4.73%
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43 days
(closed on 09/10/08)
<> <> <o:p> <st2:personname w:st="on"> <st1:givenname w:st="on"> John </st1:givenname> <st1:sn w:st="on"> Thain </st1:sn> </st2:personname> <> is one of the poster children of why you can't believe a word out of any <u1:stockticker u2:st="on"> <st2:stockticker w:st="on"> CEO </st2:stockticker> 's mouths on Wall Street these days. A <st2:stockticker w:st="on"> CEO </st2:stockticker> of a financial services company who say's that the worst is behind us as far as losses due to the CDO market on their own books, only to learn that he has no clue what his losses are lying to the<><><><><><>...
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Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc.
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-62.78%
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487 days
loss 2Q.....3.95 per share
depreciation....6 billion from high quality CDO
possibilty to obtain capital from sale (part of concern) of BlackRock Inc., (1-2 billion)
possibility to save next 1 billion ....reducing of dividend
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Cramer on BloggingStocks: Beware the financial dirty dozen
MER
+62.57%
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491 days
Filed under: Ford Motor (F), General Motors (GM), Market matters, Citigroup Inc. (C), Bank of America (BAC), CIT Group (CIT), Merrill Lynch (MER), Federal Natl Mtge (FNM), Amer Intl Group (AIG), Wachovia Corp (WB), Washington Mutual (WM), Lehman Br Holdings (LEH), Stocks to Sell, Cramer on BloggingStocks, MBIA Inc (MBI) TheStreet.com's Jim Cramer says he has no confidence in these hated names, and neither should you.
The financials are flying -- there are finally bid...
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Cramer on BloggingStocks: JP Morgan made a huge mistake
MER
+11.33%
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7 days
(closed on 06/27/08)
Filed under: Industry, Market matters, JPMorgan Chase (JPM), Bank of America (BAC), Merrill Lynch (MER), Countrywide Financial (CFC), Goldman Sachs Group (GS), Wachovia Corp (WB), Washington Mutual (WM), Lehman Br Holdings (LEH), Stocks to Sell, Cramer on BloggingStocks  TheStreet.com's Jim Cramer says the acquired Bear Stearns portfolio is worth even less than he thought.
How bad was that Bear Stearns portfolio? I am beginning to believe that JPMorgan's (NYSE: JPM) (Cramer's Take) buy of Bear is looking like a big mistake. It can only be justified by what might have been an even bigger p...
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- Lehman is going bankrupt and Merrill's going to be sold. Do people still think that you should be dipping your toes in financials?
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The Rush to Gold. Coming or gone?
- We are in the midst of a credit melt down. If you don't believe it just turn on a tv , pick up a paper, or get your head out of the sand. Face it, the...
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