Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT)

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  • commenter
    nova
    Oct 13 07:46 PM
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    Paulson Finally Doing the Right Thing [view article]
    Stone Fox Capital, "Banks will be able to lend without risking the unknown."

    Good. Let nationalize the entire financial system and have Soviet States of America. Shit did not worked there and it will not work here.     Reply
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    wm associate
    Oct 13 06:52 PM
    Wal-Mart: Moving Beyond Low Prices [view article]
    i have been with walmart for 8 years i have always been treated with respect.
    yes things are always changing and sometime people don't like change but that is life and it will always change. i love my job and i love my store.     Reply
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    madmilker
    Oct 13 12:14 PM
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    What are McDonald's and Wal-Mart Telling Us? [view article]
    McDonalds purchases beef from Australia and New Zealand and Wal*Mart with the star in the name puts 70% China items in the stores in America....jus now is the US dollar gonna stay strong when all them dollars get stuck in a foreign bank and the American people have to get the second largest employer (Uncle Sam) to sell we the people debt to get those dollars back.
    Made in America.........pricel...
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    People....think about tat dollar.........Washing... did.     Reply
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    john s.
    gordon
    Oct 13 12:07 PM
    Paulson Finally Doing the Right Thing [view article]
    curbs - the reason hoobert heever said that was that the bankers told him to say that. remember, a bank is an institution that will lend you some money if you can prove you don't need any.

    aster - if credit default slops were government-regulated as insurance (which they really are) problem would be minimal rather than maximal.
    > jack     Reply
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    Peppio
    Oct 13 09:04 AM
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    Comparing This Past Week to the '87 Crash [view article]
    GM is the "Mother of All Losers"
    Used to be No. ONE automaker in the world.
    Now near bankrupt. Who did it to GM ?
    The unions ? Greedy workers ? Bad management ?
    Or, all of above ?     Reply
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    libertarians
    obsister
    Oct 13 07:51 AM
    Was Friday's Rally Just a Hedge Fund Short Squeeze? [view article]
    this stuff won't stop until Treasury has a stake in even the solid banks and the traders have enough to clear out to dubai off of transaction fees from fear filled clients being told to dump all stock and keep the cash in mattresses.....
    sheesh, people think O wants to socialize. dudes, were are now socialized.....
    Go, Barr!!!!!     Reply
  • commenter
    zalo
    Oct 13 02:10 AM
    Paulson Finally Doing the Right Thing [view article]
    I agree with you that the best solution is just to cleanse the bad assets from the banks by giving put free money. But that is not politically viable by any standard. It has never been done in that way in any financial crisis. Pouring in capital is the second best solution, though it punishes investors that bought in the cheap as it dilutes them.
    Now, if i where to invest in recapitalizing a bank in the cheap, i will certainly wait to see if the government goes in, and this behaviour will certainly end up in that the government will be the only capitalist pouring in money. True, but from the government point of view, there is no other solution as at this moment there are no private investors out there willing to put in money.

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    Kinabalu
    Oct 13 02:04 AM
    Irate Icahn - Fast Money Recap (9/19/08) [view article]
    Crocodilian:

    You need to read more critically. The article you linked is Yahoo propaganda.     Reply
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    Stone Fox
    Capital
    Oct 13 01:31 AM
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    Paulson Finally Doing the Right Thing [view article]
    So punishing existing investors is a good thing? Thats anti-capitalism. All of the risk takers that caused this problem have already been punished. They all hold stocks down 50 to 90%. How will punishing somebody that bought MS last week at $15 help??? Nobody will want to invest if thats the thought process. Buying the toxic assets off the balance sheet is the best answer. Not really sure anybody has a goal of deleverging past existing levels and nobody still holds 25:1 ratios. Even MS will be much lower then that with the $9B deal.

    The key is to get these assets off the BS so that counterparties won't fear further writedowns. Banks will be able to lend without risking the unknown. Giving a bank $5B that sill has exposure to $50B in loans that could be written down $25B doesn't really help. The issue is to make the downside known. Providing the investment holds to solidify banks that may wish to sell loans at the same time. Govt must buy at market values though. Screwing investors will just cause market instability.     Reply
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    Getridofthem
    now
    Oct 13 01:07 AM
    Paulson Finally Doing the Right Thing [view article]
    Is anyone concerned about the state of municipal finance? I worry that this is the next significant show to drop. I am hearing more and more from my colleagues and friends that municipalities are in deep trouble. I would like more insight and information about the fiscal health of munis. Banks have a lot of money - liability and asset side - that depends on munis. Reply
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    constructe
    Oct 13 12:10 AM
    Was Friday's Rally Just a Hedge Fund Short Squeeze? [view article]
    I like your assumption. Only program trading can have such a high correlation. I assume it was covering of SPoos bets in fear something weird may happeb over the weekend. And it did, the SEC issued orders that banks can declare any value they want to to illiquid paper. That means you get 100% no transparency again. When the market is looking for trust, they shovel us black boxes that you can't open until Christmas 2039. Hopefully, by that time we will be out of the muck they made. Reply
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    Extremebrick
    nmortar
    Oct 12 11:58 PM
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    Was Friday's Rally Just a Hedge Fund Short Squeeze? [view article]
    I watched the market and as many tickers on as many as I could and came to several conclusions. There was massive selling and liquidation going on as the session began, likely a combination of margin call induced selling, hedge fund redemptions (the biggest contributor to the selloff) and some retails capitulating. About 2:00 to 2:30 p.m. the selling pressure seemed to have run it's course and the buying that came into the market seemed to be from two sources, investors and insti's with dry powder buying the exhausted dip and, IMO, most importantly, SHORTS COVERING TO LOCK IN GAINS. It was no "short squeeze" but rather shorts seeing that a pivot point low shelf had been attained, was confirmed by reduced sell side volume and they moved to BUY TO COVER, BTC. Simple profiteering. Calm execution of closing out a good "short" run with momentum on their side, of which was waining. Money was being made, while others lost, or were forced to book their losses.
    Things were too orderly and calm in the afternoon. Trading was orderly once the late afternoon buying came in, the tide turned as selling volume abated and it was time to close out short positions. The gains seemed to gain momentum as no doubt cash on the sidelines bottom fished the miseries left behind by those exiting.
    This only poses several new key questions. IF, I am correct, then the "safety net upward bias" short covering provides MAY NOW BE SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCED, offering little to no downside protection which begs the next question: That "low shelf" that had been attained and seemed to be washed out, asks do we now set the markets up for another downleg as earnings are revised downward as recessionary factors come into play globally ?
    Central banks are throwing virtually everything they have to halt this slide into the morasse. Will it be enough to reboot they credit pumps and generate a continuing business climate, or will this be looked upon as just another rally to make a quick buck or one of the last opportunities to exit?
    Traders love the volatility if that is their business, but John and Jane Doe have little time to watch markets and streamers or continue reading the negative monthly statements that have become the norm as they watch their life's savings vehicles depreciate at an unsustainable rate. hgc     Reply
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    MarketLost
    Oct 12 11:52 PM
    Was Friday's Rally Just a Hedge Fund Short Squeeze? [view article]
    Gina said "smells like a double shot of PPT working with instant monopoly money "

    Hmm, two replies here, and both mention the PPT. Do you believe in aliens, too?     Reply
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    DavidB
    Oct 12 10:53 PM
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    Was Friday's Rally Just a Hedge Fund Short Squeeze? [view article]
    The action looks like someone was trying clean up skeletons to me. Maybe we'll find out next week when those skeletons finally fall out of the closet with an institution still chained to them for all to see but something big was moving around possibly in a death rattle(elephants don't move fast in the jungle without shaking the trees and in trading, volume is the trees and institutions are the elephants). Either that or the government working group was trying to spark a rally and prevent margin calls next week.

    We also have earnings beginning next week and big money may well have wanted to get positioned for it     Reply
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    zooey
    Oct 12 09:24 PM
    Paulson Finally Doing the Right Thing [view article]
    Isn't final demand the determining issue of recovery, all else equal ? The banks are just utilities and we do need them to function reliably but they are not the final objective which consumption. We need money in the hands of consumers, you decide how you want it there. I hate stimulus hand-outs. I like tax holidays, and government backed loans to homeowners in trouble. I know, the dollar goes to Hell, but not if we can stabilize the economy and the consumer. Those the magic buttons that will cause the elevator to rise again. The first bounce gets tested, so no long term investing yet. But, one find day.... Reply
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