Post by sweetredfl on Nov 2, 2007 18:00:54 GMT -5
EuroCCP names Citi's Diana Chan CEO; Merrill's Trevor Spanner COO
www.finextra.com/fullstory.asp?id=17671
Two more execs go at Citi - report
money.cnn.com/2007/11/01/news/companies/citigroup_execs/index.htm?section=money_latest
Credit Suisse Profit Falls After Debt Market Swings
www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=ayAz1zpzTdH4&refer=home
Fed pumps 41 billion today
www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8SKV2NG0&show_article=1
Fed's money dump is biggest since 9/11-Fed Pumps $41 Billion into U.S. Financial System news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071101/ap_on_bi_ge/fed_markets_10
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GOLD
www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2007/10/31/cngold131.xml
The gold price will soar to more than $1,000 per ounce over the next five years as dwindling supply of the precious metal combines with increased demand, Credit Suisse has forecast.
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Banking
BofA Media Banking Chief to Depart
biz.yahoo.com/ap/071101/bank_of_america_ketchum.html?.v=2
CitiGroup CEO may quit at urgent meeting; Rubin asked to take over
www.gata.org/
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SEC
www.nypost.com/seven/10312007/business/sec_eyes_goldman_sachs_good_fo.htm
SEC EYES GOLDMAN SACH'S GOOD FORTUNE
THE Securities & Exchange Commission is looking into whether Goldman Sachs cheated its way to enormous profits - even as the rest of the financial industry was suffering through a massive downturn.
The central issue, as best I can determine, is whether Goldman had any insight that other firms didn't have during the May and June period when subprime mortgage securities were deteriorating in value.
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MARKETS
NYSE Says 3Q Profit More Than Triples
biz.yahoo.com/ap/071102/earns_nyse_euronext.html?.v=3
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BROKERS
www.fisn.com/Disclosure/Merrill%20Lynch%20Bank%20Asian%20Equity%20MLD%203Yr%2010-31-07.pdf
Merrill Lynch Bank (USA) FACT SHEET SUPPLEMENT DATED OCTOBER [26], 2007
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NSS
www.tradingmarkets.com:80/.site/news/Stock%20News/773368/
the Company has retained the Law Firm of Applbaum & Zouvas of San Diego, California to seek a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction in the San Diego Superior Court on the Company's behalf against Park Financial Group, Inc., of Winter Park, Florida for alleged illegal naked shorting of the Company's stock.
The Application for the Restraining Order will be filed as an Ex Parte Application along with a Complaint against this market maker and various depositories. The Complaint and Application for the Restraining Order will allege that this market maker and various depositories have acted in conjunction for the purpose of creating a naked short.
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FANNIE MAE
Fannie Mae Implements New SEC Rule for Internet Posting of Proxy Materials; Provides Details on 2007 Annual Shareholders' Meeting
biz.yahoo.com/prnews/071102/nef028.html?.v=29
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FED
TABLE-U.S. M-2 money supply up $9.7 bln Oct 22 week
www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUKNAT00338620071101?rpc=44
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MINING
Fort a la Corne Joint Venture - Orion Centre Geological Estimate: 150-167 Million Tonnes of Kimberlite
biz.yahoo.com/cnw/071102/fort_a_la_corne_news.html?.v=1
Great Western Minerals Group Welcomes Audrey McMillan as New Chief Financial Officer
biz.yahoo.com/iw/071102/0323580.html
House votes to rewrite mining law
www.sanluisobispo.com/news/politics/story/181718.html
House Close to Dismantling 1872 Statute on Mining
www.nytimes.com/2007/11/01/washington/01mining.html?_r=1&ref=us&oref=slogin
Newmont mails offer for Miramar Mining
www.reuters.com/article/inPlayBriefing/idUSIN20071031190017NEM20071031
biz.yahoo.com/ap/071101/oil_prices.html?.v=15
Oil Rises to Record Above $96 a Barrel After Surprise Drop in US Supplies
Newmont seeks COO to bring operating strength to trouble spots
www.mineweb.net/mineweb/view/mineweb/en/page34?oid=39144&sn=Detail
www.diamonds.net/news/NewsItem.aspx?ArticleID=19493
The Diamond Trading Company's October sight was on the light side; both ALROSA and the Namibia Diamond Trading Company held sales this week. Remember that rough from Cote d'Ivoire are still banned for another year (to at least October 31, 2008.)
www.akm.ru/eng/news/2007/november/02/ns2123970.htm
DC "ALROSA" increased the share in authorized IG "ALROSA" up to 100%
ALROSA is one of the largest diamond-mining companies in the world; about 25% of world extractions is on its share. The structure of the company includes: "ESO ALROSA", "Brilliants ALROSA", and also Aykhalsky, Mirninsky, Udachninsky and Nyurbinsky GOK
www.marketwire.com/mw/release.do?id=788014&k=cgp
Cornerstone Appoints Ian Slater as Director and Makes Changes to the Management and Boards of Cornerstone Ecuador SA and La Plata Minerales SA
www.fortressamerica.net/ Fortress International Group
Fortress International Group Inc. (FIGI), formerly Fortress America Acquisition Corporation, was formed and organized as a blank check company on Dec. 20, 2004. In June 2005 FIGI successfully completed an initial public offering and raised $48 million for the purpose of acquiring an operating business that performed services to the homeland security industry
FIGI will continue to operate as a holding company and will continue to pursue additional strategic acquisitions of companies that perform services to mission critical facilities throughout the World.
**Revamped mining law headed to U.S. Senate
helenair.com/articles/2007/11/02/montana/a011102_03.txt
OF INTEREST
www.marketwire.com/mw/release.do?id=788162
Open Solutions Canada Signs Agreement to Deliver EFT Canada & Secure Payment Systems Gift Card Program - In addition to traditional point-of-sale transaction processing, SPS
offers electronic check conversion, gift and loyalty card processing, a proprietary ATM debit payroll/international funds transfer card, as well as an array of ACH electronic debit services including file
transmissions and a sophisticated WEB-based database platform for merchants to privately perform their own recurring debit activities. For more information, please visit www.securepaymentsystems.com
www.law.com/jsp/ihc/PubArticleIHC.jsp?id=1193821429242
What's Behind the Drop in Corporate Fraud Indictments? Is there no more corporate crime -- or has Justice simply stopped looking for it?
The Internal Revenue Service has begun an inquiry into suspected tax abuses at hedge funds and private- equity firms after determining many firm partners don't file returns and may have improperly characterized transactions.
www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=ak2Y6HV1zHqM&refer=home
Overstock.com Congratulates Bloomberg Television for Its Emmy Nomination for 'Phantom Shares', a Special Report on Naked Short Selling
biz.yahoo.com/prnews/071102/laf069.html?.v=20
A Value Investor Looks at Stock Manipulation
www.Deepcapturethemovie.com
www.finextra.com/fullstory.asp?id=17671
Two more execs go at Citi - report
money.cnn.com/2007/11/01/news/companies/citigroup_execs/index.htm?section=money_latest
Credit Suisse Profit Falls After Debt Market Swings
www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=ayAz1zpzTdH4&refer=home
Fed pumps 41 billion today
www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8SKV2NG0&show_article=1
Fed's money dump is biggest since 9/11-Fed Pumps $41 Billion into U.S. Financial System news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071101/ap_on_bi_ge/fed_markets_10
_
GOLD
www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2007/10/31/cngold131.xml
The gold price will soar to more than $1,000 per ounce over the next five years as dwindling supply of the precious metal combines with increased demand, Credit Suisse has forecast.
_____
Banking
BofA Media Banking Chief to Depart
biz.yahoo.com/ap/071101/bank_of_america_ketchum.html?.v=2
CitiGroup CEO may quit at urgent meeting; Rubin asked to take over
www.gata.org/
__
SEC
www.nypost.com/seven/10312007/business/sec_eyes_goldman_sachs_good_fo.htm
SEC EYES GOLDMAN SACH'S GOOD FORTUNE
THE Securities & Exchange Commission is looking into whether Goldman Sachs cheated its way to enormous profits - even as the rest of the financial industry was suffering through a massive downturn.
The central issue, as best I can determine, is whether Goldman had any insight that other firms didn't have during the May and June period when subprime mortgage securities were deteriorating in value.
_______
MARKETS
NYSE Says 3Q Profit More Than Triples
biz.yahoo.com/ap/071102/earns_nyse_euronext.html?.v=3
________
BROKERS
www.fisn.com/Disclosure/Merrill%20Lynch%20Bank%20Asian%20Equity%20MLD%203Yr%2010-31-07.pdf
Merrill Lynch Bank (USA) FACT SHEET SUPPLEMENT DATED OCTOBER [26], 2007
_
NSS
www.tradingmarkets.com:80/.site/news/Stock%20News/773368/
the Company has retained the Law Firm of Applbaum & Zouvas of San Diego, California to seek a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction in the San Diego Superior Court on the Company's behalf against Park Financial Group, Inc., of Winter Park, Florida for alleged illegal naked shorting of the Company's stock.
The Application for the Restraining Order will be filed as an Ex Parte Application along with a Complaint against this market maker and various depositories. The Complaint and Application for the Restraining Order will allege that this market maker and various depositories have acted in conjunction for the purpose of creating a naked short.
______
FANNIE MAE
Fannie Mae Implements New SEC Rule for Internet Posting of Proxy Materials; Provides Details on 2007 Annual Shareholders' Meeting
biz.yahoo.com/prnews/071102/nef028.html?.v=29
_
FED
TABLE-U.S. M-2 money supply up $9.7 bln Oct 22 week
www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUKNAT00338620071101?rpc=44
_
MINING
Fort a la Corne Joint Venture - Orion Centre Geological Estimate: 150-167 Million Tonnes of Kimberlite
biz.yahoo.com/cnw/071102/fort_a_la_corne_news.html?.v=1
Great Western Minerals Group Welcomes Audrey McMillan as New Chief Financial Officer
biz.yahoo.com/iw/071102/0323580.html
House votes to rewrite mining law
www.sanluisobispo.com/news/politics/story/181718.html
House Close to Dismantling 1872 Statute on Mining
www.nytimes.com/2007/11/01/washington/01mining.html?_r=1&ref=us&oref=slogin
Newmont mails offer for Miramar Mining
www.reuters.com/article/inPlayBriefing/idUSIN20071031190017NEM20071031
biz.yahoo.com/ap/071101/oil_prices.html?.v=15
Oil Rises to Record Above $96 a Barrel After Surprise Drop in US Supplies
Newmont seeks COO to bring operating strength to trouble spots
www.mineweb.net/mineweb/view/mineweb/en/page34?oid=39144&sn=Detail
www.diamonds.net/news/NewsItem.aspx?ArticleID=19493
The Diamond Trading Company's October sight was on the light side; both ALROSA and the Namibia Diamond Trading Company held sales this week. Remember that rough from Cote d'Ivoire are still banned for another year (to at least October 31, 2008.)
www.akm.ru/eng/news/2007/november/02/ns2123970.htm
DC "ALROSA" increased the share in authorized IG "ALROSA" up to 100%
ALROSA is one of the largest diamond-mining companies in the world; about 25% of world extractions is on its share. The structure of the company includes: "ESO ALROSA", "Brilliants ALROSA", and also Aykhalsky, Mirninsky, Udachninsky and Nyurbinsky GOK
www.marketwire.com/mw/release.do?id=788014&k=cgp
Cornerstone Appoints Ian Slater as Director and Makes Changes to the Management and Boards of Cornerstone Ecuador SA and La Plata Minerales SA
www.fortressamerica.net/ Fortress International Group
Fortress International Group Inc. (FIGI), formerly Fortress America Acquisition Corporation, was formed and organized as a blank check company on Dec. 20, 2004. In June 2005 FIGI successfully completed an initial public offering and raised $48 million for the purpose of acquiring an operating business that performed services to the homeland security industry
FIGI will continue to operate as a holding company and will continue to pursue additional strategic acquisitions of companies that perform services to mission critical facilities throughout the World.
**Revamped mining law headed to U.S. Senate
helenair.com/articles/2007/11/02/montana/a011102_03.txt
OF INTEREST
www.marketwire.com/mw/release.do?id=788162
Open Solutions Canada Signs Agreement to Deliver EFT Canada & Secure Payment Systems Gift Card Program - In addition to traditional point-of-sale transaction processing, SPS
offers electronic check conversion, gift and loyalty card processing, a proprietary ATM debit payroll/international funds transfer card, as well as an array of ACH electronic debit services including file
transmissions and a sophisticated WEB-based database platform for merchants to privately perform their own recurring debit activities. For more information, please visit www.securepaymentsystems.com
www.law.com/jsp/ihc/PubArticleIHC.jsp?id=1193821429242
What's Behind the Drop in Corporate Fraud Indictments? Is there no more corporate crime -- or has Justice simply stopped looking for it?
The Internal Revenue Service has begun an inquiry into suspected tax abuses at hedge funds and private- equity firms after determining many firm partners don't file returns and may have improperly characterized transactions.
www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=ak2Y6HV1zHqM&refer=home
Overstock.com Congratulates Bloomberg Television for Its Emmy Nomination for 'Phantom Shares', a Special Report on Naked Short Selling
biz.yahoo.com/prnews/071102/laf069.html?.v=20
A Value Investor Looks at Stock Manipulation
www.Deepcapturethemovie.com