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Retail Investors Outperforming Professionals With Citigroup, Ford,
an... -08/21/09 at
11:14 AM CDTby Peter
York
In today's market, it's not the professionals
who are celebrating as much as the retail investors. Consider
three stocks that seem to show up in retail portfolios everywhere:
Citigroup Inc. (C), Ford Motor Company (F), and Sirius XM Radio Inc
(SIRI). Institutional ownership in these stocks are well
under 50% which suggests a significant retail...
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Citigroup When-Issued Share Discount Narrows
-07/27/09 at 11:09 AM
CDTby Peter York
The discount on when-issued shares of Citigroup
Inc. decreased today from 5% to around 1.5%. Citigroup buyers
planning to hold until Friday can buy discounted "when issued"
(formerly preferred exchange) shares on the open market rather than
the common shares. They will likely convert to common shares
by Friday. As of 12 p.m. eastern, vol...
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With Citigroup and Bank of America Leading The Way, The S&P 500
Is Ha... -02/23/09 at
6:45 PM CSTby Mahyar
Hashemi
Things are getting ugly in an unprecedented
way. Last month, The New York Times reported that the S&P
500 was having its worst decade yet as of the end of January 2009,
with a 5.1% ten year drop after accounting for inflation and
reinvested dividends. That beat the previous record of 1974
when the S&P 500 dropped 4.7% in a ten year per...
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The United States Oil Fund: A Way to Short The
Market? -02/19/09 at
6:34 PM CSTby Reggie
Abaca
With fewer people working in the United States,
fewer people have been driving. It had been assumed that this
would cause a new trend of falling consumption of oil, as was the
case in the early 1980's. But hold on there. Oil prices
shot up on Thursday after government data showed that oil
inventories unexpectedly fell and consumption may...
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