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2008 Archive

Everything published on DaveManuel.com in 2008, month by month.

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01December 19

Dec 30You Don't Need a Stock GuruEconomy and Politics
Dec 26Holiday Retail Sales Numbers Are Horribly, Unbelievably BadEconomy and Politics
Dec 20Three Stocks That I'll Be Buying in 2009Markets and Investing
Dec 19What Is A Fund of Hedge Funds?Markets and Investing
Dec 17The SEC Issues Statement re: Madoff Scandal - We Messed UpMarkets and Investing
Dec 16Are You A Bull Or A Bear for 2009?Economy and Politics
Dec 15Citadel Suspends Redemptions In Kensington and Wellington FundsMarkets and Investing
Dec 14The Biggest Swindler of All-Time? Bernard L. MadoffMarkets and Investing
Dec 12General Motors, Chrysler Staring Bankruptcy in the Face After Bailout Falls ApartEconomy and Politics
Dec 11Why Would Someone Buy a T-Bill With a Zero Percent Yield?Economy and Politics
Dec 9Bill Fleckenstein to Close Short-Only Hedge Fund, Open Long-Short FundMarkets and Investing
Dec 8Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain: I'd Like $10 Million Dollars, PleaseMarkets and Investing
Dec 8eBay, Apple, Shopzilla and CyberMonday.com Big Winners on "Cyber Monday"Companies and Technology
Dec 7John Paulson Continues to DominateMarkets and Investing
Dec 6Fortress Investment Group LLC Halts Redemptions From Its Drawbridge Global Macro FundMarkets and Investing
Dec 4Citadel Investment Group LLC Continues To Struggle in NovemberMarkets and Investing
Dec 3UBS AG Analyst David Bianco Makes "Bold" Prediction for S&P 500 Next YearMarkets and Investing
Dec 1The Recession Explained: What Is a Recession?Economy and Politics
Dec 1BVI Global Fund Ltd (of Tudor Investment Corp) Temporarily Suspends WithdrawalsMarkets and Investing

02November 25

Nov 30What is a TFSA (Tax Free Savings Account) and What Are the Benefits?Economy and Politics
Nov 29Carl Icahn Boosts Stake in Yahoo! to 5.5%Markets and Investing
Nov 28Satellite Asset Management LP Halts Client WithdrawalsMarkets and Investing
Nov 26What is Dollar Cost Averaging?Markets and Investing
Nov 26Barton Biggs - "We Are In For the Mother of All Bear Market Rallies"Markets and Investing
Nov 24Artemis Asset Management Ltd. Winding Down Their Artemis Absolute Return Hedge FundMarkets and Investing
Nov 21Citigroup Is Going To Have A Hard Time Finding a BuyerEconomy and Politics
Nov 20Eight Major Stock Market Indexes Are Down At Least 60% in 2008Economy and Politics
Nov 20What's Wrong with Berkshire Hathaway?Economy and Politics
Nov 19101 of All S&P 500 Stocks Now Trading for Less than $10 Per ShareEconomy and Politics
Nov 18Citadel's Kensington Global Strategies Fund, Wellington LLC Fund Have Their Counterparty Credit Ratings Cut by S&PMarkets and Investing
Nov 17Mark Cuban Is Sued by the SECMarkets and Investing
Nov 16Top Goldman Sachs Executives, Including CEO Lloyd Blankfein, Will Not Receive Bonuses This YearMarkets and Investing
Nov 14Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Jose and Atlanta Want To Be Bailed Out as WellEconomy and Politics
Nov 13$60 Billion Dollars in Hedge Fund Investor Redemptions in OctoberMarkets and Investing
Nov 12Best Buy: "Most Difficult Climate We've Ever Seen"Economy and Politics
Nov 10Citadel Continues to Deny, Deny, DenyMarkets and Investing
Nov 10Deutsche Bank Drops the Hammer on General Motors: "Shares are Worthless"Economy and Politics
Nov 9Icahn Enterprises GP Inc. Feeling the Pinch as WellMarkets and Investing
Nov 7Platinum Grove Asset Management LP, Another Myron Scholes Hedge Fund, Is Struggling As WellMarkets and Investing
Nov 6Jerry Yang to Microsoft: Buy Us. Please?Economy and Politics
Nov 4Blue Mountain Capital Management LLC Halts Redemptions in Its Blue Mountain Credit Alternatives FundMarkets and Investing
Nov 3Tight Credit, Low Consumer Confidence and High Gas Prices Conspiring to Destroy the US Auto IndustryEconomy and Politics
Nov 3HFRX Global Hedge Fund Index Down 19.6% YTDMarkets and Investing
Nov 2Where Is the Stock Market Headed in November?Markets and Investing

03October 32

Oct 31What Is the Definition of a Short Squeeze?Markets and Investing
Oct 30Message from Wall Street: We're Still Going To Pay Out Our Bonuses This YearMarkets and Investing
Oct 29The Mother of All Short Squeezes: VolkswagenMarkets and Investing
Oct 27Can the Citadel Investment Group Survive?Markets and Investing
Oct 26Emerging Markets in Trouble Due to Global Financial CrisisEconomy and Politics
Oct 24Major Stock Market Crash Coming on Friday?Economy and Politics
Oct 23Russian and Icelandic Stock Markets Continue to Take It on the ChinEconomy and Politics
Oct 22A Tale of Two Companies: McDonald's vs StarbucksEconomy and Politics
Oct 22Hedge Fund Industry Posts Worst Month Since At Least 2000Markets and Investing
Oct 21Millenium Global Investments Closes Their Emerging Credit FundMarkets and Investing
Oct 21What Have Been the Worst Global Housing Markets of 2008?Real Estate
Oct 20State And Federal Prosecutors Investigating Trading in Credit-Default SwapsEconomy and Politics
Oct 19Lehman Brothers Is the Focus of Three U.S. Grand Jury InvestigationsEconomy and Politics
Oct 19Christian Siva-Jothy Ignores Downturn in Hedge Fund Industry as His SemperMacro Fund Posts Large Gain in September Markets and Investing
Oct 18Warren Buffett Is Enthusiastically Bullish on US EquitiesMarkets and Investing
Oct 17Andrew Lahde Flips Wall Street The Bird, Rides Off Into Sunset Markets and Investing
Oct 15The Stock Market Crash of 1987 (Black Monday) RevisitedEconomy and Politics
Oct 15Wall Street 2: "Money Never Sleeps" Reportedly on the WayMarkets and Investing
Oct 14Some Notable Hedge Fund Heavyweights, Including Steven Cohen of SAC Capital Advisors, Liquidated Many of Their Positions in Recent DaysMarkets and Investing
Oct 13Historic Stock Market Volatility Leads to One of the Biggest One-Day Rallies in Wall Street History Markets and Investing
Oct 12Goldman Sachs Turns Bearish On Oil, Calls For Year-End Price of $70 A BarrelMarkets and Investing
Oct 12FOX Business Network (FBN) Going After Jim Cramer Hard During Market MeltdownMarkets and Investing
Oct 11How Have The Major North American Stock Market Indexes Performed Short-Term After Very Bad Years? Economy and Politics
Oct 11Will Morgan Stanley / MUFG (Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group) Deal Go Through as Planned? Markets and Investing
Oct 102008 Is On the Verge of Becoming the Worst Year Ever for the Nasdaq CompositeEconomy and Politics
Oct 9When Will the Stock Market Hit Bottom?Economy and Politics
Oct 8The Worst Years in the History of the Dow Jones Industrial Average Economy and Politics
Oct 7Aggressive Interest Rate Cut by Australia's Central Bank Likely Start of Coordinated Global Rate Cuts Economy and Politics
Oct 6Does the PPT (Plunge Protection Team) Actually Exist? Economy and Politics
Oct 6Neel Kashkari, 35 Year Old Advisor To Henry Paulson, To Oversee $700 Billion Dollar Bailout ProgramEconomy and Politics
Oct 4What Now for the Financial Markets? Economy and Politics
Oct 1United States National Debt Tops Ten Trillion Dollars for the First TimeEconomy and Politics

04September 30

Sep 30The Stock Market Plunge on Monday Changed Many People's Minds About the BailoutEconomy and Politics
Sep 30John Paulson Forced to Reveal His Big Short Positions in UK BanksMarkets and Investing
Sep 29Five of the Biggest One-Day Drops in the History of the Nasdaq Economy and Politics
Sep 28The Church of England Attacks Short-Sellers and Debt TradersMarkets and Investing
Sep 26Washington Mutual's New CEO Alan H. Fishman Received Twenty Million Dollars For Just 17 Days of WorkEconomy and Politics
Sep 25FDIC Seizes Washington Mutual; JP Morgan Swoops In and Buy Assets On the CheapEconomy and Politics
Sep 24Why Is IBM On the Prohibited Short Sale List?Economy and Politics
Sep 24Home Equity Withdrawals Drop to $24 Billion From $700 Billion Dollars in 2005Economy and Politics
Sep 23Warren Buffett Scores Sweetheart Goldman Sachs DealEconomy and Politics
Sep 23Ragingbull.com Relaunches In Midst of Crippling Market MeltdownMarkets and Investing
Sep 22Proposed Federal Bailout Numbers: Nearly $2 Trillion Dollars and CountingEconomy and Politics
Sep 21The Biggest One Day Gains (and Losses) For the Dow Jones Industrial AverageEconomy and Politics
Sep 19British Ban on Short Selling Will Prove To Be Disastrous For Some Hedge FundsMarkets and Investing
Sep 18SEC To Temporarily Ban ALL Short-Selling?!?!Markets and Investing
Sep 18Warren Buffett Putting Berkshire Hathaway Money to Work In Face of Crumbling MarketEconomy and Politics
Sep 18Financial Sector Has Lost Well Over a Trillion Dollars In Market Capitalization Since October of 2007Economy and Politics
Sep 17SEC Might Require Hedge Funds to Disclose Short Positions?Markets and Investing
Sep 17The SEC Drops the Hammer on Naked Short SellingMarkets and Investing
Sep 16Government To Provide Secured Loan to AIG and Take an 80 Percent Stake in the CompanyEconomy and Politics
Sep 15The Stock Market Goes Into Complete Meltdown Mode on MondayEconomy and Politics
Sep 14Merrill Lynch Agrees to Buyout From Bank of America; The Financial Landscape Continues to Abruptly ChangeEconomy and Politics
Sep 14Lehman Brothers on the Verge of BankruptcyMarkets and Investing
Sep 13Soros Fund Management LLC Has Large Exposure to Lehman BrothersMarkets and Investing
Sep 10RK Capital Management LLP Down As Much as 30% in AugustMarkets and Investing
Sep 9Some United Kingdom Homeowners May Have to Wait Until 2016 For Their Home Values to Recover to 2007 LevelsReal Estate
Sep 8Mark "Goldfinger" McGoldrick to Run His Own Hedge FundMarkets and Investing
Sep 4How Pissed Off Are Yahoo Shareholders Right Now?Markets and Investing
Sep 3Hedge Fund Capital Inflows Have Slowed to a Trickle in 2008Markets and Investing
Sep 2Ospraie Management LP Is Shutting Its Ospriae FundMarkets and Investing
Sep 1Atticus Capital Has Lost Over Five Billion Dollars in 2008Markets and Investing

05August 15

Aug 30Another Friday, Another Bank Failure; FDIC May Borrow Money from U.S. TreasuryEconomy and Politics
Aug 29Entreprise Value - What is It?Markets and Investing
Aug 28What is the High Water Mark as It Applies to Hedge Funds?Markets and Investing
Aug 27Nasdaq Delistings Way Up in 2008Economy and Politics
Aug 26Altor Equity Partners Closes Three Billion Dollar Altor Fund IIIMarkets and Investing
Aug 26Hedge Fund Fees: A PrimerMarkets and Investing
Aug 25Tudor Investment Tensor Fund Up Nineteen Percent YTDMarkets and Investing
Aug 24Ron Insana Closing Insana Capital Partners "Legends" Hedge FundMarkets and Investing
Aug 23Harbinger Capital Partners Funds Raises Stake in CablevisionMarkets and Investing
Aug 21Andor Capital Management LLC Shutting Its DoorsMarkets and Investing
Aug 13BP Capital Drops in JulyMarkets and Investing
Aug 814% of Americans Believe That the Country is Moving in the Right DirectionEconomy and Politics
Aug 7JPMorgan Chase & Co's Thomas Lee: Stocks Will Rise "Much Higher" by End of 2008Markets and Investing
Aug 6Many People Having Their Home Equity Lines of Credit (HELOCs) Suspended or Reduced In Wake of Housing DownturnReal Estate
Aug 3How The Internet Bubble Was Similar to the Housing BubbleReal Estate

06July 12

Jul 31Knowing the Difference Between a 10-K, 10-Q and an 8-KMarkets and Investing
Jul 31Bottom in the California Real Estate Market?Real Estate
Jul 30Don't Get Married to a StockMarkets and Investing
Jul 29A Bottom in the Housing Market? 10 Signs That Will Help You Identify a BottomReal Estate
Jul 23The Ten Worst (Projected) Real Estate Markets in the United StatesReal Estate
Jul 22What is the "Problem Bank List", and Is My Bank On It?Economy and Politics
Jul 22George Bush to Ken Wilson: Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson Needs Your HelpEconomy and Politics
Jul 20Banks to the SEC - We'd Like Some Protection From Short-Sellers TooEconomy and Politics
Jul 19Short-Selling is Not the ProblemEconomy and Politics
Jul 15SEC To (Temporarily) Halt Naked Short Selling on Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae and Seventeen BrokersEconomy and Politics
Jul 5What Exactly is a "Bear Market"?Markets and Investing
Jul 3The Logistics Behind an Email "Pump and Dump"Economy and Politics

07June 3

Jun 29Chinese Hedge Fund Manager Shells Out $2.1 Million for Lunch Date with Warren BuffettMarkets and Investing
Jun 26Google Cracking Down on Non-Compliant Adsense Sites?Companies and Technology
Jun 23Goldman Sachs Clearly Knows What It is DoingMarkets and Investing

08May 14

May 28What is a "PEG Ratio"?Markets and Investing
May 26What is a "Dutch Auction" IPO?Markets and Investing
May 25Warren Buffett: "US Already in a Recession"Economy and Politics
May 22Arjun Murti - The Man Behind the "Super Spike"Markets and Investing
May 22Champion Air Goes Out of Business Just In Time for the NBA FinalsMarkets and Investing
May 18Wallstreet.com Up For Sale - Final Sale Price May Shatter RecordsCompanies and Technology
May 15Pressure Building on Yahoo and Jerry YangCompanies and Technology
May 13Google Having Trouble Monetizing Bigger Internet PropertiesCompanies and Technology
May 11How Long Will It Take the Real Estate Market in the United States to Recover? Some Perspective from the Past 30 YearsReal Estate
May 11Did A Stock That You Own Get Halted? What Happens Now?Markets and Investing
May 8Vallejo (A City) Is Planning on Filing for BankruptcyEconomy and Politics
May 7National Association of Realtors: "Home Sales Should Start Improving by the Summer"Real Estate
May 6Goldman Sachs: Possibility of $150-$200 Per Barrel of Oil "Increasingly Likely" Over Next 6-24 MonthsMarkets and Investing
May 5Where To Now for Yahoo?Companies and Technology

09April 8

Apr 26The Seven Most Crooked CEOs of All TimeMarkets and Investing
Apr 24Horizon Asset Management Down More Than 20 Percent in Q1 2008Markets and Investing
Apr 22500 Foreclosures PER DAY in California During the First Three Months of 2008Real Estate
Apr 17Google Rises to the Heavens After Posting Strong Q1 2008 EarningsMarkets and Investing
Apr 11Five Signs That We May Be Near a Bottom in the US Housing MarketReal Estate
Apr 6My Prediction on the Microsoft / Yahoo DealCompanies and Technology
Apr 2So You Want to be a Contrarian Investor?Markets and Investing
Apr 1Pardus Capital Management LP Halts Investor RedemptionsMarkets and Investing

10March 30

Mar 30Be Wary Of Companies Who Launch Anti Short-Selling CampaignsMarkets and Investing
Mar 27John Meriwether Back in the News, For All of the Wrong ReasonsMarkets and Investing
Mar 25Steps That You Can Take To Avoid a Foreclosure on Your HomeReal Estate
Mar 23$10 Per Share for Bear Stearns?Economy and Politics
Mar 23Brevan Howard Asset Management's Flagship Fund Up 17% in 2008Markets and Investing
Mar 23What is a "Margin Call"?Markets and Investing
Mar 22The Phoenix and Miami Condo Markets - Can They Recover, and if so, When?Real Estate
Mar 22What is a "Bear Raid"?Markets and Investing
Mar 21The Greater Fool TheoryMarkets and Investing
Mar 21Wall Street Job Market Falling ApartEconomy and Politics
Mar 19Endeavor Capital Loses 27% In One DayMarkets and Investing
Mar 18V (Visa) IPO Prices; Set To Open For Trading on WednesdayMarkets and Investing
Mar 18Bear Stearns Lawsuits: A Trickle Will Soon Become a FloodEconomy and Politics
Mar 16JP Morgan Buys Bear Stearns for $2 Per ShareEconomy and Politics
Mar 16Barton Biggs of Traxis Partners LLC Predicts 1,000 Point Uptick in the DowMarkets and Investing
Mar 15United States No Longer the Biggest Economy in the WorldEconomy and Politics
Mar 14Why Doesn't Berkshire Hathaway Split Its Stock?Markets and Investing
Mar 14What is a Reverse Stock Split? And Why Is It Usually a Bad Thing For the Stock?Markets and Investing
Mar 12Can I Make a Living Through Online Trading?Markets and Investing
Mar 10Paulson and Co. Continues Their Red-Hot RunMarkets and Investing
Mar 8Why is it So Hard for Me to Get Shares of an IPO?Markets and Investing
Mar 6Carlyle Capital Corporation Gets Pounded After Failing to Meet Margin CallsMarkets and Investing
Mar 5JP Morgan Tops List of Biggest US Hedge Fund Managers in 2007Markets and Investing
Mar 5Thornburg Mortgage (TMA) To Go Under?Economy and Politics
Mar 5Focus Capital is the Latest Hedge Fund CasualtyMarkets and Investing
Mar 4Is Thornburg Mortgage In Danger of Falling into Bankruptcy?Economy and Politics
Mar 3Blue River Asset Management Avoids Collapse By Raising $100 Million in New CapitalMarkets and Investing
Mar 2Phil Goldstein of Bulldog Investors Fund Challenging SEC on Hedge Fund Advertising LawsMarkets and Investing
Mar 1Spy Wars? Elliott Management Corp Sues Cedar Hill Capital Partners LLC, Alleging "Corporate Espionage"Markets and Investing
Mar 1One Man's Pain is Another Man's Gain; Pimco Looking to Swoop in and Buy Mortgage and Municipal DebtEconomy and Politics

11February 18

Feb 29Peloton Partners LLP Asset Seizures A Sign of Things to Come for Hedge Funds?Markets and Investing
Feb 28Peloton Partners LLP To Shut Down ABS Fund; Halts Redemptions for Multi-Strategy Fund Markets and Investing
Feb 27Calculating EPS (Earnings Per Share) and P/E Ratios (Price to Earnings) and Why They are ImportantMarkets and Investing
Feb 26Are We Nearing a Bottom in the US Housing Market?Real Estate
Feb 25Visa Files for IPO; Will Be Largest US Initial Public Offering EverMarkets and Investing
Feb 24New Version of Yahoo Buzz to Compete with Digg?Companies and Technology
Feb 20What Exactly is a "Poison Pill" and How Does it Apply to the Stock Market?Markets and Investing
Feb 16Warren Buffett Increasing His Exposure to US and International Equities?Markets and Investing
Feb 10Why Do Companies Announce Stock Splits or Reverse Stock Splits?Markets and Investing
Feb 8Insider Buying Signaling a Major Bottom in the Market?Markets and Investing
Feb 6What is a Stock's "Float" And Why is it Important?Markets and Investing
Feb 5What is an IPO (Initial Public Offering) and How Do I Buy Into One?Markets and Investing
Feb 5A Microsoft / Yahoo Merger Would Only Mean Good Things for the Search Engine Industry Over TimeMarkets and Investing
Feb 4Stock Dividends - How Exactly Do They Work? Ex-Dividend Dates, Dividend Yields and More ExplainedMarkets and Investing
Feb 3Will There Be a Bidding War For Yahoo Now?Markets and Investing
Feb 2Will a Three Percent Fed Funds Rate Help to Revive the Housing Market in the United States?Real Estate
Feb 1What is a "Whisper Number" And Why is it Important?Markets and Investing
Feb 1The Impact of Microsoft's Bid for YahooMarkets and Investing

12January 28

Jan 31Can Google Possibly Maintain Its Earnings Growth And Continue To Post Better Than Expected Earnings Reports Every Quarter?Markets and Investing
Jan 31Buying Small-Cap Growth Stocks: Your Six Point ChecklistMarkets and Investing
Jan 29More Stock Market Terms Explained: Limit Orders, Market Orders and Stop Losses Markets and Investing
Jan 29Buying Penny Stocks: The "Dos" and "Don'ts" of Penny Stock Speculation Markets and Investing
Jan 28Panicking During A Market Meltdown Probably Means That Your Portfolio Diversification Strategy is Out of WhackEconomy and Politics
Jan 26Problems? What Problems? Wall Street's Five Biggest Firms Dish Out $39 Billion in Bonuses in 2007Economy and Politics
Jan 25Options Beginners Lesson: Strike Prices, Time Decay and Premiums Markets and Investing
Jan 242007 Worst Year for US Housing Market Since Great DepressionReal Estate
Jan 24Societe Generale "Victim" of Major FraudMarkets and Investing
Jan 23Front-End Load, Back-End Load, "Level Load" And No-Load - Breaking Down Mutual Fund FeesMarkets and Investing
Jan 23Averaging Down or "Doubling Down" Can Be Financial Suicide If You Don't Have a Plan in PlaceMarkets and Investing
Jan 22Sensex Crash | The Sensex is CrashingEconomy and Politics
Jan 21Lower Valuations + Weak American Dollar + Desperation = Foreign Buying Bonanza of American CompaniesEconomy and Politics
Jan 18What Is a "Recession"?Economy and Politics
Jan 16Highbridge Capital Management LLC Turned in a Mixed Year in 2007Markets and Investing
Jan 16Alan Greenspan Working as an Advisor for Paulson & Co? That's Just WrongMarkets and Investing
Jan 15Paulson Credit Opportunities Fund - How the Fund Had Such an Explosive Year in 2007Markets and Investing
Jan 14High Negative Investor Sentiment Usually Signals That the Time to Buy Stocks Is NearMarkets and Investing
Jan 13Ten of the Top Performing Hedge Funds of 2007Markets and Investing
Jan 11Using Arbitrage To Make Money in the Stock Market is Not As Easy as It SoundsMarkets and Investing
Jan 10Is the Credit Card Industry Next to Feel the Pinch?Economy and Politics
Jan 9Daytrading (Daytrader) Stock Chatrooms - How To Find the Best Rooms and Avoid the WorstMarkets and Investing
Jan 8More Gloomy News for the US Housing MarketReal Estate
Jan 8There is Only One Way to Stop Google: A Government Mandated Break-UpCompanies and Technology
Jan 6Where is the Real Estate Market Going in the United States?Real Estate
Jan 6The Worst Trade of My LifeEconomy and Politics
Jan 4How To Successfully Stay Up All Night (aka "Pulling An All-Nighter")Economy and Politics
Jan 3The Effects of a Falling US Dollar on the Economy of the United StatesEconomy and Politics

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