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		<title>Yahoo and Icahn make a deal, but can Microsoft too?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yahoo and Carl Icahn are now on good standing after Yahoo gave Icahn three new seats on a board now 11 members strong.  This will give Icahn and two others from his slate the ability to sit in on the discussions of the Yahoo board and even try to push policy.  Yahoo is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.investingblog.org/archives/298/yahoo-and-icahn-make-a-deal-but-can-microsoft-too/</link>
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		<title>Bottompicking with Apple</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Apple stock was never on my radar until the PEG ratios caught up with the price of the stock.  Now that Apple stock is seeing good fundamentals line up with the technical there is plenty of reason for an investment.  With a PEG ratio of 1.34 its playable, that&#8217;s not a bad ratio [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.investingblog.org/archives/297/bottompicking-with-apple/</link>
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		<title>Why the Freddie Fannie mess can’t be bailed out</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Freddie and Fannie Mae are huge.  Together they hold $5 Trillion of US mortgages which equals roughly 50% of the US mortgage market.  If these bankers prove to be insolvent, the United States will have a crisis on its hands in the form of 1970-80s style stagflation.  To bail out these two [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.investingblog.org/archives/296/why-the-freddie-fannie-mess-can%e2%80%99t-be-bailed-out/</link>
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		<title>Getting positioned in offshore oil</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This stock has long been one of my favorites but now that it&#8217;s back to a moderate price there is plenty of reason to love it.  Rowan Companies (RDC) leases offshore drilling platforms to oil companies who use them to bring up from the depths of the sea.  With oil prices at a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.investingblog.org/archives/295/getting-positioned-in-offshore-oil/</link>
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		<title>Loading up on Sony again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I went long Sony options at $42.50 and was pleasantly surprised with the results after a move to $52 per share.  Now that Sony stock has cooled off, a buying opportunity is showing itself yet again.  Sony is still moderately priced at $42 per share and there is plenty of reason to love [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.investingblog.org/archives/294/loading-up-on-sony-again/</link>
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		<title>One word is the difference in FDIC backing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In this scary credit scenario it&#8217;s important to know whether your investments are FDIC insured or you will feel the full brunt of a banking collapse.  Stocks, bonds and mutual funds are left uncovered by the FDIC as are annuities and insurance but there is one more investment that may surprise you.  The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.investingblog.org/archives/293/one-word-is-the-difference-in-fdic-backing/</link>
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		<title>SEC questioning the practice of naked shorting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The SEC is finally giving some input on the practice of naked short selling but only in the realm of some desperate financial companies.  The rest of the market is still available to short to the death as often happens with small cap stocks.
Naked shorting is selling shares before it is known that any [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.investingblog.org/archives/292/sec-questioning-the-practice-of-naked-shorting/</link>
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		<title>IndyMac shut down</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The bailout news is growing out of what anyone could have expected.  IndyMac was no small bank, its assets number $32 Billion.  This isn’t a regional savings and loans blowup, IndyMac was very large and established as a major mortgage banking institution in the United States.  Most of the depositors were under [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.investingblog.org/archives/291/indymac-shut-down/</link>
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		<title>Is oil finished?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since the beginning of June I’ve believed that oil prices would soon correct to the $110 area.  The prior two weeks have told me that no high is high enough and that the price of oil will rage on through the fundamentals in Iran to the falling dollar.  But as it was reported [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.investingblog.org/archives/290/is-oil-finished/</link>
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		<title>Commodities prices fall, still no stock market boost</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Commodities prices tumbled today which is generally received as a very good economic indicator especially when the word recession gets thrown around.  Corn prices touched $8 a bushel briefly but are back down to modestly to $7.46 after falling the daily limit.  Fears of a rainy summer and minimal crop have disappeared, now [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.investingblog.org/archives/289/commodities-prices-fall-still-no-stock-market-boost/</link>
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		<title>The S&#38;P looks good</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The markets as a whole have lost plenty of value as of late but it appears as though at least one index is set for a rally.  The S&#38;P 500 is off by 13% since the beginning of the year but some technical analysis looks make it seem like we’re ready for a rally.
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		<link>http://www.investingblog.org/archives/288/the-sp-looks-good/</link>
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		<title>2008 inflation 2009 deflation?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The talk of inflation has never been this high.  Bernanke and company are trying very hard to keep the markets up while keeping inflation lower than the key 3%, doing so is problematic.  Trying to infuse billions of dollars without making prices rise universally is against the laws of economics.  So far, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.investingblog.org/archives/287/2008-inflation-2009-deflation/</link>
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		<title>Banks insolvent</title>
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It&#8217;s hard to imagine the scale of the losses that the credit market and the overall market in general have seen over the past year.  Certainly this credit crisis is larger than most of us have seen even in the duration of our lifetimes.  Looking back at the past year we’ve seen plenty [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.investingblog.org/archives/286/banks-insolvent/</link>
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		<title>Ethanol profit margins zeroed, some negative</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Even with generous government subsidies and a growing market for ethanol and alcohol fuels, the profit margins for ethanol producers are their smallest ever.  The possibility of profit has been wiped away by corn and natural gas prices.  Natural gas is very important in the process and is where the majority of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.investingblog.org/archives/285/ethanol-profit-margins-zeroed-some-negative/</link>
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		<title>Financial sectors diluting inflows</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Stocks inflows are generally what keeps the market afloat.  High inflows mark times of good markets, outflows the opposite.  While stocks don’t inherently rise and drop with money flow, mutual funds and hedge funds generally have to liquidate assets to afford withdrawals.
The financial sector is doing an interesting run around to bring in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.investingblog.org/archives/284/financial-sectors-diluting-inflows/</link>
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