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Extended Stay America has become the latest casualty of the economic crisis. The operator of low to mid priced hotels filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection as consumers cut back on travel leisure spending.
According to the bankruptcy filing, Extended Stay America has $7 billion in assets with $7.6 billion in debt. The company owns 680 [...]

Bank of America CEO was quick to respond to the growing rumors that his bank may be taken over by the government. In a CNBC interview today Mr. Lewis said:
“I have talked with government officials, members of Congress, and regulators, and no one has ever thought nationalization of the industry was likely to happen. When [...]

Citigroup (C) and Bank of America (BAC) won’t live to see May. The government will take them over within the next 60 days. The announcement may come as soon as tomorrow evening.
If there’s one thing our readers know, it’s that ChartingStocks.net has made some bold calls in the past which seemed controversial and highly unlikely [...]

Cramer recommends holding Bear Stearns at $65. We warned about it at $158 in our February 2007 Post.
Gotta love CNBC.

As of 01/02/2008 the the year price target on the S&P 500 set by the Chief Investment Strategists at the major investment banks are as follows:
Strategist Year End Price Target
Citigroup                                   1675
HSBC                                          1700
Credit Suisse                              1650
Bank of America                         1625
UBS                                             1700
Morgan Stanley                           1525
Bear Stearns                                1700
Goldman Sachs                           1675
JP Morgan                                    1590
Lehman Brothers                         1630
Wachovia                                     1590
Merrill Lynch                                1525
Average 1632
Average [...]

Timothy F. Geithner
Obama Cabinet Position: Treasury Secretary
Political Party: Democrat
Career: Ford Foundation, Kissinger and Associates (Major Lobbying Firm), IMF, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Under Secretary of Treasury under Larry Summers and Robert Rubin.
Member: Bilderberg Group, Council on Foreign Relations, Trilateral Commission
Notable Events: In 2007, he brokered the sale of Bear Stearns to JP Morgan [...]

That’s right $4.28 trillion dollars. That’s $4,284,500,000,000. The total cost has now exceeded the total cost of World War 2, in inflation adjusted terms. Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac have cost the American taxpayer $350 Billion, AIG $110 Billion+, Bear Stearns $30 Billion and $25 Billion to the Auto Makers.
The US has shelled out $700 [...]

February 26, 2007
There’s an old saying on Wall Street–”Where the broker-dealers go, so goes the market.”
After a day of heavy selling pressure, the AMEX broker-dealer index broke below the 50 day moving average. This is not a good sign for the health of the market.
Below we see the index breaking down after todays trading.

The following [...]