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Cataloging Sears Holdings Corporation Stock
Manipulation -02/22/10
at 12:24 PM CSTby Judd
Bagley
Most of the examinations of stock manipulation
published here on deepcapture.com take place after the fact, the
damage being done. However, we’ve became aware of instances
of apparently illegal, manipulative trading in several
companies’ stocks, happening right now, which we have the
ability to monitor and report on in nearly real time.
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Sears Holdings Corporation Short Selling Stock Delivery Failure
Analy... -02/17/10 at
2:05 PM CSTby Judd
Bagley
I’ve got everything ready to go for my
next article, save one thing: the most current stock delivery
failures data, corresponding to the second half of January, which
the SEC was supposed to have made available yesterday. I’m
particularly eager to get that batch, because it has the capacity
to confirm or rule-out my ability to predict the futu...
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Fed Exit Strategy? Preparing For Inflation: SPDR Gold Trust et al.
Pa... -02/16/10 at 3:44
PM CSTby Brian Benton
In late July of last year, I provided an
analysis of the tools the Federal Reserve was proposing it might
use to facilitate an exit from the substantial amount of bank
reserve creation (and resultant balance sheet expansion) since
September 2008 (Fed Exit Strategy?). Also discussed were some of
the problems I felt the Fed would encounter when attempting
t...
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TheStreet.com's Barry Ritholtz and a Tale of Two
Media -02/11/10 at 1:43
PM CSTby Judd Bagley
This is a transcript of the Deep Capture podcast
episode published on February 10, 2010. You may: Download the
episode in mp3 format. Subscribe to the podcast’s RSS feed.
Download in iTunes. listen to the episode right here in this handy
audio player: Barry Ritholtz and a tale of two media.
[12:35m]: Hide Player | Play in Popup It...
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Kilroy Realty Corp Misses Guidance Estimate
-01/26/10 at 1:11 PM
CSTby Peter York
During their mid trading day conference call,
Kilroy Realy Corporation (NYSE:KRC) reported FFO guidance of
$2.10-$2.30. An average of 11 analysts had expected FFO of
$2.23. Shares slipped slightly as a result of the miss.
After the markets had closed yesterday, Kilroy reported FFO
earnings of .39 which was a penny less than analysts had
expect...
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John Paulson's "Greatest Trade Ever" - Something of a
Scam -01/20/10 at 10:34
PM CSTby Mark Mitchell
By now, everybody knows that the market for
collateralized debt obligations was riddled with fraud in the
lead-up to the financial crisis. What is less known is the fact
that hedge fund managers helped create and inflate the market for
these toxic securities specifically so that they could bet against
them and profit from the inevitable collapse. An examp...
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The Coming Oil Conflict In Iran -01/19/10 at 12:12 PM CSTby Reggie Abaca
Newsmakers and even the oil markets (USO, X,
USL) have learned to get used to tensions between the West and
Iran. Last week, an Iranian physics professor linked to the
country’s nuclear program was assassinated. Iran blamed
Israel and the United States for the remote control bombing of the
man’s car. Iran, for once, was proba...
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New Evidence Raises Questions About Kingsford Capital - Links To
TheS... -01/07/10 at
5:20 PM CSTby Mark
Mitchell
A blog published by the University of North
Carolina School of Journalism reported recently that Steve Cohen of
hedge fund SAC Capital managed to kill a story by Reuters reporter
Matt Goldstein. It seems that Goldstein was going to shed some
light on allegations that Cohen engaged in insider trading. Cohen
didn’t like that, and got in touch with Gol...
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GameStop Technical Analysis Shows a Possible Significant Trend
Reversal -01/05/10 at
11:10 PM CSTby Martin
Sambu
Check out this mid-term view of Gamestop
(NYSE:GME). As you can see below, the stock has moved above
its rising trendline which began in November 2008. This is bullish
because it initially broke below the trendline but instead of
continuing to decline, it very recently reversed course and moved
up. Here is a closer look at last 3 month...
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Goldman Sachs Reiterates Buy Rating on GameStop
Corp. -12/28/09 at 1:32
PM CSTby Perry Rod
After removing Gamestop Corp (NYSE:GME) from
their conviction buy list in November, sell side Goldman Sachs (GS)
analyst Robert Higginbotham today is pushing investors to buy
GameStop shares, with a price target of $29. He cites two
specific catalysts including GameStop's holiday sales report coming
on January 7th and their full earnings report in M...
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Hopes and Dreams Continue at Take Two Interactive
Software -12/28/09 at
10:11 AM CSTby Perry
Rod
He said in 1993 it was always his dream to run
his own media company. Strauss Zelnick left a nice job at Fox
and took a big risk to work on a start-up video game company,
Crystal Dynamics. That risk turned out to be a failure for
him at the time but provided him with a resume entry that would
prove to be invaluable. When Carl Icahn bought int...
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Ghosts of Fairfax Financial: Now, Hedge Funds Scurry to Sever Ties
wi... -12/23/09 at
12:44 PM CSTby Judd
Bagley
Investigative financial reporter Teri Buhl is
reporting that hedge funds are scrambling to put as much distance
as possible between themselves and the increasingly radioactive SAC
Capital, which is rumored to be the next target of the FBI’s
crackdown on insider trading. According to Buhl, this includes
purging email exchanges with SAC. Funds like Bl...
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