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		<title>(AXP) Initial Jobless Claims Drop Again</title>
		<link>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2009/09/24/axp-initial-jobless-claims-drop-again/16006</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 20:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vitalstocks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[More progress, albeit slow progress, is being made on the employment front. This week, initial claims for unemployment fell to 530,000, a drop of 21,000 (20,000 net of revisions) and the four-week moving average fell to 553,500, a decline of 11,000. Continuing claims also fell to 6.138 million, a decline of 123,000. The decline in continuing claims overstates the case a bit, however, since they run out after 26 weeks (regular state unemployment claims). Job losses were running hot and heavy back in March. For most people, they then become eligible for extended claims, largely funded by Federal stimulus program money. Total extended claims (the 2 major programs combined) were 3.577 million, an increase of 32,000 on the week. Thus the total number of people getting unemployment benefits fell by 91,000 on ]]></description>
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		<title>($JPM) Will the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Borrow From Banks?</title>
		<link>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2009/09/23/jpm-will-the-federal-deposit-insurance-corporation-borrow-from-banks/15894</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 19:13:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[About a year ago, during the height of the crisis, the government started bailing out the banks to help revive deteriorating credit and lending markets, but the situation is going to be reversed as the regulators are considering asking healthy banks to bail out the government soon, in order to replenish the declining fund of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) that insures regular deposit accounts when banks fail. The tally of failed federally insured banks has reached 94 so far this year, causing a rapid decline in the FDIC’s deposit insurance fund as it has been appointed receiver for these banks. Despite imposing a special assessment charge on banks a few months ago, the FDIC’s cash balance now stands at a third of its size at the start of ]]></description>
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		<title>(COF) Initial Unemployment Insurance Claims Drop Again</title>
		<link>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2009/09/17/cof-initial-unemployment-insurance-claims-drop-again/15468</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 18:32:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vitalstocks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Initial claims for unemployment insurance dropped to 545,000, a decline of 12,000 from an upwardly revised total of 557,000 last week, providing a net improvement of 5,000. The four-week moving average fell by 8,750 to 563,000 (7,000 decline net of revisions). As you can see in the chart below (from http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/) we are well off the highs set back in April, but after a rapid improvement in May and June, progress has seemed to come to a halt. We are most likely moving to the plateau stage that we experienced following the last two recessions. In both of those cases, initial claims stayed at an elevated level, but off their highs for well after a year past the official end of the recession. While it is nice to be over 100,000 lower than at the peak, ]]></description>
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		<title>SunTrust Banks To Repay TARP Loan</title>
		<link>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2009/09/17/suntrust-banks-to-repay-tarp-loan/15425</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:56:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Chief Executive Officer [CEO] of SunTrust Banks Inc. (STI) said on Tuesday that the bank will repay the fund it received for its participation in the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) as soon as it gets the regulator’s permission. The CEO also added that the credit condition of the bank is achieving stability. SunTrust has received $4.9 billion as part of the government&#8217;s $700 billion bailout program. The bank now sees the bailout money as expensive debt rather than equity as it pays an 8% dividend on the preferred shares it sold to the U.S. government. Government regulators will probably want to see the credit condition of the bank before permitting it to repay the bailout money as the stress test projected that SunTrust&#8217;s loan losses could reach $11.8 ]]></description>
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		<title>(JPM) Economy Out of the Woods?</title>
		<link>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2009/09/11/jpm-economy-out-of-the-woods/14959</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 22:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vitalstocks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After almost a year of initiating the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), a lot has improved with respect to the economic crisis. Though the economy is in far better shape now than a year ago, there are persistent problems which need to be addressed by the government before shifting the strategy to growth. We believe that the U.S. economy will regain the growth momentum once these issues are resolved. On Thursday, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said that the government won&#8217;t provide additional funds to stabilize the financial markets and the government’s economic team has removed a $750 billion line item from the federal budget projections, since it is unlikely to be necessary. The TARP panel members, however, are not happy as most of the taxpayer-provided money was ]]></description>
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		<title>(AXP) Standard &amp; Poor&#8217;s Expects to See Higher Credit Card Losses</title>
		<link>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2009/09/09/axp-standard-poors-expects-to-see-higher-credit-card-losses/14784</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 02:23:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vitalstocks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Sept. 8, Standard &#38; Poor&#8217;s (S&#38;P) announced that U.S. credit card losses declined in July 2009. However, at the same time it anticipates that the forecasted bad loans would soon resume their upward trend as unemployment continues to escalate. The ratings agency&#8217;s credit card quality index, which measures credit card loans that banks expect would default, fell to 9.8% in July from a record high of 10.4% in June, aided by cautious spending by consumers. Furthermore, loan losses also decreased as consumers used more tax refunds to pay down debts. However, the S&#38;P warns that credit card losses will escalate again as the economy continues to shed thousands of jobs every month with unemployment rate at a 26-year high of 9.7% in August, 2009. S&#38;P expects credit card loss ]]></description>
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		<title>(AXP) Consumer Credit Contracted by a Much Larger Than Expected $21.5 Billion in July</title>
		<link>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2009/09/09/axp-consumer-credit-contracted-by-a-much-larger-than-expected-21-5-billion-in-july/14721</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 21:37:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vitalstocks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Considering the Consequences of Consumer Credit Contracting Yesterday the Federal Reserve announced that consumer credit contracted by a much larger than expected $21.5 billion in July, and that the contraction in June was larger than previously thought. Consumer credit is broken down into two major types: revolving (mostly credit cards) and non-revolving (personal loans, auto loans etc). Real estate-backed debt (aka mortgages) are not included in this report. The decline in total credit was at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 10.4%, with revolving credit down at an 8.0% rate and non-revolving at an 11.7% rate. Given the success of the &#8220;Cash for Clunkers&#8221; program, the decline in non-revolving credit is pretty shocking. It marks a very distinct acceleration to the downside. In the second quarter, non-revolving credit was contracting ]]></description>
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		<title>(BAC) Ruthless Defaults on Credit Cards</title>
		<link>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2009/09/09/bac-ruthless-defaults-on-credit-cards/14725</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 21:20:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vitalstocks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Banks are trying to recoup some of their massive losses on bad loans by increasing their rates on credit cards and collecting huge overdraft fees on people who use debit cards and pull too much out.  There is an interesting article in today’s New York Times on debit card overdrafts. However, what got my attention was the YouTube video below by a woman protesting the increase in credit card rates by Bank of America (BAC). Essentially she is telling the bank that she is going to ruthlessly default, unless they return her card rate to its previous level (not stated, from the new rate of over 30%). The YouTube clip can be seen here. While I found much of her rhetoric over the top, she is making a very good ]]></description>
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		<title>(WMT) Still More on Unemployment</title>
		<link>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2009/09/04/wmt-still-more-on-unemployment/14480</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 22:23:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vitalstocks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So how should we look at today’s jobs report &#8212; as good news since the number of jobs we are losing is slowing significantly, or as bad news since the unemployment rate is jumping? Personally I think that the number of jobs is the more significant of the two, since the data is more reliable and because it is the number of jobs that actually drives the economy. The unemployment rate is a lagging indicator of the economy while the number of jobs lost or created is closer to being a coincident indicator. The graph below shows both the unemployment rate as well as the year-over-year percentage change in employment. Based on the unemployment rate, things were actually worse in the 1982 recession, but in terms of employment growth, this downturn ]]></description>
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		<title>($BAC) More on Unemployment &#8211; number of long term unemployed continued to soar</title>
		<link>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2009/08/09/bac-more-on-unemployment-number-of-long-term-unemployed-continued-to-soar/12198</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2009 19:38:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The picture on the duration of unemployment showed a few hopeful signs in the July report, after a long series of unrelentingly dismal reports. We actually had a very significant drop in the number of mid duration unemployed this month, while the number of long term unemployed continued to soar. There was a minor increase in the number of short term unemployed. The first graph (green) shows the history of unemployment by the duration of being out of work. This tracks people through the unemployment process since the people who are unemployed for under five weeks this month will either find new jobs or move into the 5- to 14-week group next week, and then in a few months move into the 15- to 26-week group, and then finally move ]]></description>
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