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		<title>Autumn Deluge Destroys More Than $1 Billion Of Delta Crops</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:30:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Weeks of almost-continuous, torrential rains have destroyed over a billion dollars worth of what was originally expected to be a bumper fall crop in the U.S. Delta.
ARKANSAS: “It’s a serious problem right now. At this stage, yield/quality losses for Arkansas ‘ major row crops could easily exceed $650 million,” said Arkansas Farm Bureau President Randy [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=northcoastinvestmentresearch.wordpress.com&blog=3908873&post=673&subd=northcoastinvestmentresearch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fall Downpours Causing Major Damage To Unharvested US Grain Crop</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guide Rock farmer Jim Richardson says the quality of the 2009 corn crop in the Republican River Valley of Nebraska has now deteriorated to the point where the top 3 inches of unharvested ears are simply rotting off and falling to the ground.
“My neighbor say it’s the weirdest thing you’ve ever seen&#8230;they pull into the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=northcoastinvestmentresearch.wordpress.com&blog=3908873&post=670&subd=northcoastinvestmentresearch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. bailout program increased moral hazard: watchdog</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 05:30:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wed Oct 21, 2009 1:30am EDT
By David Lawder
WASHINGTON (Reuters) &#8211; The U.S. government&#8217;s $700 billion financial bailout program has increased moral hazard in the markets by infusing capital into banks that caused the financial crisis, a watchdog for the program said on Wednesday.
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		<title>Greenlight&#8217;s Einhorn holds gold, says U.S. policies poor</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:25:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mon Oct 19, 2009 2:25pm EDT
By Jennifer Ablan and Joseph A. Giannone
NEW YORK (Reuters) &#8211; Hedge-fund manager David Einhorn, who warned about Lehman Brothers&#8217; (LEH) precarious finances before it collapsed, said on Monday he&#8217;s betting on rising interest rates and holding gold as a hedge for what he described as unsound U.S. policies.
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		<title>Dow closes above 10,000 for 1st time in a year</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:08:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[DJ comeback: Stock market&#8217;s best-known barometer closes above 10,000 for 1st time in a year
By Sara Lepro and Tim Paradis, AP Business Writers
5:08 pm EDT, Wednesday October 14, 2009
NEW YORK (AP) &#8212; When the Dow Jones industrial average first passed 10,000, traders tossed commemorative caps and uncorked champagne. This time around, the feeling was more [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=northcoastinvestmentresearch.wordpress.com&blog=3908873&post=663&subd=northcoastinvestmentresearch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Freddie Mac: 30-yr mortgage average still falling</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) &#8212; Freddie Mac (FRE) said Thursday that the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage average declined further to 4.87% with an average 0.7 point for the week ending Oct. 8 from 4.94% last week. The last time the average was this low was May 21, when the average was 4.82%. The average was 5.94% a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=northcoastinvestmentresearch.wordpress.com&blog=3908873&post=661&subd=northcoastinvestmentresearch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Where&#8217;s the next boom? Maybe in `cleantech&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 01:33:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Energy breakthroughs could be the next big thing, but how many jobs can they generate?
By Jordan Robertson, AP Technology Writer
9:33 pm EDT, Tuesday October 6, 2009
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) &#8212; Our economy sure could use the Next Big Thing. Something on the scale of railroads, automobiles or the Internet &#8212; the kind of breakthrough that emerges [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=northcoastinvestmentresearch.wordpress.com&blog=3908873&post=659&subd=northcoastinvestmentresearch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. 30-year mortgage rate retests record lows</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:35:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thu Oct 1, 2009 10:35am EDT
NEW YORK, Oct 1 (Reuters) &#8211; The average rate on 30-year U.S. home loans fell in the past week to retest record lows, helping stimulate housing demand, Freddie Mac (FRE) said on Thursday.
The most widely used long-term borrowing cost dropped 0.10 of a percentage point in the week ended Oct. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=northcoastinvestmentresearch.wordpress.com&blog=3908873&post=657&subd=northcoastinvestmentresearch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 12:26:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thu Oct 1, 2009 8:26am EDT
By Jon Hurdle
PAVILLION, Wyoming (Reuters) &#8211; Louis Meeks, a burly 59-year-old alfalfa farmer, fills a metal trough with water from his well and watches an oily sheen form on the surface which gives off a faint odor of paint.
He points to small bubbles that appear in the water, and a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=northcoastinvestmentresearch.wordpress.com&blog=3908873&post=654&subd=northcoastinvestmentresearch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Steve Lohr
Monday, September 14, 2009
The New York Times
In the aftermath of the great meltdown of 2008, Wall Street&#8217;s quants have been cast as the financial engineers of profit-driven innovation run amok. They, after all, invented the exotic securities that proved so troublesome.
But the real failure, according to finance experts and economists, was in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=northcoastinvestmentresearch.wordpress.com&blog=3908873&post=651&subd=northcoastinvestmentresearch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 15:14:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wed Sep 2, 2009 11:14am EDT
By Steve Eder
NEW YORK (Reuters) &#8211; As shares of bailed-out banks bottomed out earlier this year, stock options were awarded to their top executives, setting them up for millions of dollars in profit as prices rebounded, according to a report released on Wednesday.
The top five executives at 10 financial institutions [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=northcoastinvestmentresearch.wordpress.com&blog=3908873&post=649&subd=northcoastinvestmentresearch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 21:36:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Investors still trading Fannie, Freddie, AIG shares, even though prices are likely to hit zero
Daniel Wagner, AP Business Writer
Thursday August 27, 2009, 5:36 pm EDT
WASHINGTON (AP) &#8212; Investors are still trading common shares of Fannie Mae (FNM), Freddie Mac (FRE) and American International Group Inc. (AIG) by the billions, even though analysts say their prices [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=northcoastinvestmentresearch.wordpress.com&blog=3908873&post=647&subd=northcoastinvestmentresearch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2009 16:18:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sat Aug 22, 2009 12:18pm EDT
CHICAGO (Reuters) &#8211; Exchange-traded funds or ETFs have become a top target in U.S. regulators&#8217; efforts to rein in excessive speculation in oil and other commodity markets, The Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday.
Commodity ETFs, which came into existence in 2003, offer one of the few avenues for small investors [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=northcoastinvestmentresearch.wordpress.com&blog=3908873&post=645&subd=northcoastinvestmentresearch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:20:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Release Date: August 12, 2009

For immediate release
Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in June suggests that economic activity is leveling out. Conditions in financial markets have improved further in recent weeks. Household spending has continued to show signs of stabilizing but remains constrained by ongoing job losses, sluggish income growth, lower housing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=northcoastinvestmentresearch.wordpress.com&blog=3908873&post=642&subd=northcoastinvestmentresearch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 22:02:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Sara Lepro and Tim Paradis, AP Business Writers
Monday August 3, 2009, 6:02 pm EDT
NEW YORK (AP) &#8212; The Standard &#38; Poor&#8217;s 500 index (SPX) is four digits again now that the stock market&#8217;s rally has blown into August.
The widely followed stock market measure broke above 1,000 on Monday for the first time in nine [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=northcoastinvestmentresearch.wordpress.com&blog=3908873&post=639&subd=northcoastinvestmentresearch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Few ETF/ETN Picks &#8211; One Year Later</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 10:25:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is an update on our ETF/ETN picks that are one year old today.
Not your normal 12 months by any stretch.
Staying disciplined and taking what the market gives leaves us well ahead of the market in even the worst of times.
Posted in agriculture, asset rotation, bear market, behavioral science, buy and hold, charts, commodities, contrarian, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=northcoastinvestmentresearch.wordpress.com&blog=3908873&post=635&subd=northcoastinvestmentresearch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Apple, Dell, HP laptop owners sue Nvidia over faulty graphics</title>
		<link>http://northcoastinvestmentresearch.wordpress.com/2009/07/27/apple-dell-hp-laptop-owners-sue-nvidia-over-faulty-graphics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:24:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Five plaintiffs join forces to demand class-action lawsuit
By Gregg Keizer
May 11, 2009 12:00 PM ET
Computerworld &#8211; Owners of Apple (AAPL), Dell (DELL) and Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) laptops have combined their lawsuits against Nvidia (NVDA) in an attempt to force the graphics chip maker to replace allegedly flawed processors, according to court documents.
If granted class-action status, the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=northcoastinvestmentresearch.wordpress.com&blog=3908873&post=624&subd=northcoastinvestmentresearch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SEC makes emergency rule targeting &#8216;naked&#8217; short-selling permanent</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:03:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Marcy Gordon, AP Business Writer
Monday July 27, 2009, 8:03 pm EDT
WASHINGTON (AP) &#8212; Federal regulators on Monday made permanent an emergency rule put in at the height of last fall&#8217;s market turmoil that aims to reduce abusive short-selling.
The Securities and Exchange Commission announced that it took the action on the rule targeting so-called &#8220;naked&#8221; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=northcoastinvestmentresearch.wordpress.com&blog=3908873&post=631&subd=northcoastinvestmentresearch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Investors dump brokers to go it alone online</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 16:31:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fri Jul 24, 2009 12:31pm EDT
By Rachel Chang
NEW YORK, July 24 (Reuters) &#8211; The collapse of Lehman Brothers (LEH) last September marked the start of a downward spiral for big investment banks. For a smaller fraternity of Internet brokerages, it has set off a dramatic spurt of growth.
Since the start of the financial crisis, $32.2 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=northcoastinvestmentresearch.wordpress.com&blog=3908873&post=626&subd=northcoastinvestmentresearch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 04:44:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Denied federal bailout, CIT taps $3B private rescue; may be strategy for other troubled banks
By Daniel Wagner and Stevenson Jacobs, AP Business Writers
Tuesday July 21, 2009, 12:44 am EDT
WASHINGTON (AP) &#8212; With bondholders coming to the rescue of troubled commercial lender CIT Group Inc. (CIT), and not the government, a new reality is setting in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=northcoastinvestmentresearch.wordpress.com&blog=3908873&post=622&subd=northcoastinvestmentresearch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Stephanie Powers
Investopedia
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Millionaires have more in common with each other than just their bank accounts — for some millionaires, striking it rich took courage, salesmanship, vision and passion. Find out which traits are most common to the seven-figure bank account set, and what you can do to hone some of these skills [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=northcoastinvestmentresearch.wordpress.com&blog=3908873&post=620&subd=northcoastinvestmentresearch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 00:24:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The S&#38;P 500 celebrated its great technical accomplishment highlighted in our last note by doing exactly nothing.  Maintaining a tight 32 point range from top to bottom, the S&#38;P 500 netted just over 3 points from our previous note to the closing price last Friday, June 12.  This week has changed the tune, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=northcoastinvestmentresearch.wordpress.com&blog=3908873&post=609&subd=northcoastinvestmentresearch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Paul Sullivan
The New York Times
Monday, June 15, 2009
Tony Guernsey has been in the wealth management business for four decades. But clients have started asking him a question that at first caught him off guard: How do I know I own what you tell me I own?
This is the existential crisis rippling through wealth management [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=northcoastinvestmentresearch.wordpress.com&blog=3908873&post=616&subd=northcoastinvestmentresearch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 22:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tue Jun 9, 2009 6:09pm EDT
By Glenn Somerville
WASHINGTON (Reuters) &#8211; JPMorgan (JPM), Goldman Sachs (GS) and eight other top U.S. banks won clearance on Tuesday to repay $68 billion in taxpayer money given to them during the credit crisis, a step that may help them escape government curbs on executive pay.
Many banks had chafed at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=northcoastinvestmentresearch.wordpress.com&blog=3908873&post=606&subd=northcoastinvestmentresearch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Countrywide&#8217;s Mozilo charged with fraud</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 23:41:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thu Jun 4, 2009 7:41pm EDT
By Gina Keating and Rachelle Younglai
LOS ANGELES/WASHINGTON (Reuters) &#8211; Angelo Mozilo, who built the largest U.S. mortgage lender, was charged with securities fraud and insider trading on Thursday, making him the most prominent defendant so far in investigations into the U.S. subprime mortgage crisis and housing bust.
Mozilo, 70, co-founder of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=northcoastinvestmentresearch.wordpress.com&blog=3908873&post=603&subd=northcoastinvestmentresearch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. distressed debt best performer in 2009: report</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 17:19:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tuesday June 2, 2009, 1:19 pm EDT
NEW YORK (Reuters) &#8211; U.S. distressed debt, among the hardest hit asset classes last year, has become the best, with returns of 39.5 percent year to date as risk appetite improves, Bank of America Merrill Lynch said.
For the month of May, distressed debt was second only to emerging market [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=northcoastinvestmentresearch.wordpress.com&blog=3908873&post=600&subd=northcoastinvestmentresearch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The S&amp;P 500 closes above the 200 day moving average</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 00:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The NASDAQ leads the market higher; leaves the 200 day behind
The S&#38;P 500 accomplished something today, trading above the 200 day simple moving average for the first time in over a year. It was last call in May of 2008 at the 200 day for the SPX before dropping over 50% to the lows of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=northcoastinvestmentresearch.wordpress.com&blog=3908873&post=593&subd=northcoastinvestmentresearch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>GM and C removed from the Dow Jones Industrial Average</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 21:31:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[GM replaced in the S&#38;P 500 by DeVry Inc.
Following the bankruptcy filing, Dow Jones Indexes said GM will be removed from the Dow Jones industrial average and will be replaced by Cisco Systems Inc (CSCO). Embattled financial company Citigroup Inc (C) will also be deleted from the Dow average and Travelers Cos Inc (TRV) will [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=northcoastinvestmentresearch.wordpress.com&blog=3908873&post=591&subd=northcoastinvestmentresearch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 05:09:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Results show 10 big banks need $75 billion in new capital; hope rises for economy&#8217;s recovery
Daniel Wagner and Jeannine Aversa, AP Business Writers
Friday May 8, 2009, 1:09 am EDT
WASHINGTON (AP) &#8212; Government exams of the biggest U.S. banks have helped lift a cloud of uncertainty that has hung over the economy.
The so-called stress tests &#8212; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=northcoastinvestmentresearch.wordpress.com&blog=3908873&post=588&subd=northcoastinvestmentresearch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 00:01:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tue May 5, 2009 8:01pm EDT
By Kevin Krolicki
DETROIT (Reuters) &#8211; General Motors Corp (GM) on Tuesday detailed plans to all but wipe out the holdings of remaining shareholders by issuing up to 60 billion new shares in a bid to pay off debt to the U.S. government, bondholders and the United Auto Workers union.
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 00:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another update finds the market shaking off initial profit taking to challenge the highs for the year.  Monday&#8217;s big push finally left the late January, early February highs behind for the S&#38;P 500 (SPX) after about two weeks of backing and filling to make room for the exit of early profit takers.  Volume [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=northcoastinvestmentresearch.wordpress.com&blog=3908873&post=578&subd=northcoastinvestmentresearch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 09:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Brett Arends
Monday, May 4, 2009
WSJ.com
Bonds for the long run, anyone?
In the latest issue of the Journal of Indexes, investment manager Rob Arnott, chairman of Research Affiliates (read article here) says that long-term bonds have beaten stocks for decades.
&#8220;Starting any time we choose from 1979 through 2008,&#8221; Mr Arnott writes, &#8220;the investor in 20-year Treasuries [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=northcoastinvestmentresearch.wordpress.com&blog=3908873&post=574&subd=northcoastinvestmentresearch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 04:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Laura Rowley
Thursday, April 30, 2009, 12:00AM
If you want to be happy, pay attention.
That&#8217;s the conclusion of the new book &#8216;Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life&#8217; by behavioral science writer Winifred Gallagher. Interviewing neuroscientists, psychologists, philosophers, and others, Gallagher argues that your happiness depends in large part on where and how you choose to place [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=northcoastinvestmentresearch.wordpress.com&blog=3908873&post=572&subd=northcoastinvestmentresearch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 22:08:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An update on the SPX chart today to show the market finding resistance near previous highs.  We are adding a new indicator to the top of the chart, the MACD.  The negative divergence in the MACD histogram reinforces the strength of this resistance as the market advance begins to stall.  Finally, we [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=northcoastinvestmentresearch.wordpress.com&blog=3908873&post=564&subd=northcoastinvestmentresearch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 03:44:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have a lot to show, so we&#8217;ll keep each one short and sweet.
First, an update on the SPX battle with the 50 day.  The bear trap looks to be pretty solid with assistance from the Feds.  How much backing and filling needs done is still up for debate.  We have added [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=northcoastinvestmentresearch.wordpress.com&blog=3908873&post=552&subd=northcoastinvestmentresearch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 00:49:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The SPX only stayed above the 50 day simple moving average this time for 5 days.  At the turn of the year, it at least managed 7.  The 2002 lows are crucial support to test the will of new buyers.  If they fail to hold, the 741 level will serve as the canary to warn [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=northcoastinvestmentresearch.wordpress.com&blog=3908873&post=547&subd=northcoastinvestmentresearch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2009 22:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By JASON ZWEIG
wsj.com
A power struggle in Washington will shape how investors get the advice they need.
On one side are stockbrokers and other securities salespeople who work for Wall Street firms, banks and insurance companies. On the other are financial planners or investment advisers who often work for themselves or smaller firms.
Brokers are largely regulated by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=northcoastinvestmentresearch.wordpress.com&blog=3908873&post=550&subd=northcoastinvestmentresearch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 00:04:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Commerce Department said sales of newly built U.S. homes rose 4.7 percent to a 337,000 annual pace, the fastest increase since last April, from 322,000 in January.
Despite the increase, February sales were the second lowest ever after the drop in January to the slowest pace in records going back to 1963, the department said. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=northcoastinvestmentresearch.wordpress.com&blog=3908873&post=544&subd=northcoastinvestmentresearch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:37:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“It’s déjà vu all over again.”
– Yogi Berra
In mid-December, after the Fed lowered rates to 0 to .25%, we noted:
Aggressive action by the Federal Reserve today pushed most markets above their respective simple 50 day moving averages for the first time since September.  We have highlighted the 50 day as resistance level number one in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=northcoastinvestmentresearch.wordpress.com&blog=3908873&post=538&subd=northcoastinvestmentresearch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 20:04:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mon Mar 23, 2009 4:04pm EDT
WASHINGTON, March 23 (Reuters) &#8211; U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on Tuesday unveiled his long-awaited plan to cleanse toxic assets from bank balance sheets.
Here are some questions and answers about the plan.
Q: What is the problem the Treasury is trying to solve?
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 00:13:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of ‘crackpot’ than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost.”
– Thomas Watson
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 00:45:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A shovel is not enough longs, we may have hit rock.  The question is, did we hit rock bottom?
The 50 day moving average is in play once again.  Can we remove this huge stone in time for Easter?  The resurrection of the market depends on it.

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		<title>Phases of fear and elation in the VIX</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 23:22:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here we show a nice relationship between the VIX and the SPX.  While this is a commonly referenced pairing, many still challenge the value of using the VIX as a market indicator.  There are numerous ways too use the VIX and almost everyone has their own tweaks.  This chart shows a very clear inverse relationship [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=northcoastinvestmentresearch.wordpress.com&blog=3908873&post=525&subd=northcoastinvestmentresearch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 20:09:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason</dc:creator>
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Release Date: March 18, 2009
For immediate release
Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in January indicates that the economy continues to contract.  Job losses, declining equity and housing wealth, and tight credit conditions have weighed on consumer sentiment and spending.  Weaker sales prospects and difficulties in obtaining credit have led businesses to cut [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=northcoastinvestmentresearch.wordpress.com&blog=3908873&post=521&subd=northcoastinvestmentresearch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 22:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Jim O&#8217;Shaughnessy
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
&#8220;The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word &#8216;crisis.&#8217; One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger &#8211; but recognize the opportunity.&#8221; -John F. Kennedy 
I recently had dinner with a client who told me that stocks had [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=northcoastinvestmentresearch.wordpress.com&blog=3908873&post=515&subd=northcoastinvestmentresearch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 22:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The World&#8217;s Billionaires
03.11.09, 06:00 PM EDT
Luisa Kroll, Matthew Miller and Tatiana Serafin
Forbes.com
It&#8217;s been a tough year for the richest people in the world. Last year there were 1,125 billionaires. This year there are just 793 people rich enough to make our list.
The world has become a wealth wasteland. Like the rest of us, the richest [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=northcoastinvestmentresearch.wordpress.com&blog=3908873&post=511&subd=northcoastinvestmentresearch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mon Mar 9, 2009 6:24pm EDT
By David Alexander
WASHINGTON (Reuters) &#8211; President Barack Obama lifted restrictions on federal funding of human embryonic stem cell research on Monday, angering abortion opponents but cheering those who believe the study could produce treatments for many diseases.
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		<description><![CDATA[Thursday March 5, 6:37 pm ET
By J.W. Elphinstone, AP Real Estate Writer
Delinquencies, foreclosures climb to almost 12 percent of US home loans in 4th quarter
NEW YORK (AP) &#8212; Foreclosures are spreading by epidemic proportions, expanding beyond a handful of problem states and now affecting almost 1 in every 8 American homeowners.
It&#8217;s an economic role-reversal: The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=northcoastinvestmentresearch.wordpress.com&blog=3908873&post=498&subd=northcoastinvestmentresearch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 13:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Peter Brimelow, MarketWatch
Last update: 1:03 a.m. EST Feb. 23, 2009
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) &#8212; Everyone knows the crash of 2008 was caused by financial deregulation except Thomas E. Woods, who blames financial regulation, in the shape of the Federal Reserve.
Wood&#8217;s new book, &#8220;Meltdown: A Free Market Look At Why the Stock Market Collapsed, the Economy [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=northcoastinvestmentresearch.wordpress.com&blog=3908873&post=496&subd=northcoastinvestmentresearch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 05:50:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to some of our proprietary research, March is an outlier month.
Without going into too much detail, we have found that the month of March historically behaves in an unexpected, atypical manner.  This has compromised otherwise solid systems to the point that we simply do not trade some systems only during the month of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=northcoastinvestmentresearch.wordpress.com&blog=3908873&post=492&subd=northcoastinvestmentresearch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 15:15:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By ROBERT J. SHILLER
Published: January 17, 2009
In evaluating the causes of the financial crisis, don’t forget the countless fundamental mistakes made by millions of people who were caught up in the excitement of the real estate bubble, taking on debt they could ill afford.
Many errors in personal finance can be prevented. But first, people need [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=northcoastinvestmentresearch.wordpress.com&blog=3908873&post=488&subd=northcoastinvestmentresearch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 05:01:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amid the financial crisis, tax advantages are but one benefit of exchange-traded funds. Their transparency, liquidity, and lower fees also appeal to investors
By David Bogoslaw
BusinessWeek.com
Imagine having invested in the DWS Commodity Securities A Fund (SKNRX) in 2008. The mutual fund had an annual return of -45.9% and also distributed nearly two-thirds of its net asset [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=northcoastinvestmentresearch.wordpress.com&blog=3908873&post=490&subd=northcoastinvestmentresearch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 20:19:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obama is relying even more heavily on mortgage finance agencies Fannie and Freddie to help troubled borrowers and keep the housing market afloat.
By Tami Luhby, CNNMoney.com senior writer
Last Updated: February 24, 2009: 3:19 PM ET
NEW YORK(CNNMoney.com) &#8212; Fannie Mae (FNM) and Freddie Mac (FRE) won&#8217;t be leaving the federal government&#8217;s nest anytime soon.
President Obama is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=northcoastinvestmentresearch.wordpress.com&blog=3908873&post=486&subd=northcoastinvestmentresearch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 15:55:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Friday February 20, 10:55 am ET
By Max Rottersman
HANOVER, NH (ETFguide.com) &#8211; The highest mutual fund advisory fee, of all time, was collected from the Fidelity Magellan Fund (FMAGX).  In 2001 it took in $792 million.  Magellan has earned the top three, all-time records, grossing $1.8 billion between 2000 and 2002.  Much of that is profit, from future retirees who [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=northcoastinvestmentresearch.wordpress.com&blog=3908873&post=478&subd=northcoastinvestmentresearch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 19:38:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Program would seek to bring mortgage payments down to 31% of income
By Ronald D. Orol, MarketWatch
Last update: 2:38 p.m. EST Feb. 18, 2009
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) &#8212; The White House unveiled a plan Wednesday to help 9 million &#8220;at risk&#8221; homeowners modify their mortgages, committing $75 billion of taxpayer money to back the initiative.
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		<description><![CDATA[Wednesday February 18, 2:00 am ET
NEW YORK &#38; LONDON&#8211;(BUSINESS WIRE)&#8211;Sustained investor interest in gold over the course of 2008 against a backdrop of the worst year on record for global stock markets and many other asset classes, helped push dollar demand for the safe haven asset to $102bn, a 29% increase on year earlier levels. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=northcoastinvestmentresearch.wordpress.com&blog=3908873&post=468&subd=northcoastinvestmentresearch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 20:39:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ceremony setting highlights investment in &#8216;green&#8217; technology
By Robert Schroeder, MarketWatch
3:39 p.m. EST Feb. 17, 2009
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) &#8212; President Barack Obama signed the sprawling $787 billion economic stimulus package into law on Tuesday, saying it will help the struggling U.S. economy but warning that the recovery process will be challenging.
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 05:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Mick Weinstein
Posted on Friday, February 13, 2009, 12:00AM
Independent investigator Harry Markopolos knew something fishy was going on with Bernie Madoff years before the fund manager confessed to his massive Ponzi scheme. But Markopolos couldn&#8217;t get the SEC or &#8216;The Wall Street Journal&#8217; to properly investigate the matter, so his information failed to reach the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=northcoastinvestmentresearch.wordpress.com&blog=3908873&post=466&subd=northcoastinvestmentresearch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 23:36:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Congressional sources say lawmakers have resolved key differences over school construction spending that had threatened to derail an earlier compromise.
WASHINGTON (CNN) &#8212; Democratic leadership sources say they have worked out a way around the disagreement between the Senate and House over education funding in the economic stimulus bill.
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 23:58:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tuesday February 10, 6:58 pm ET
Key elements in Obama administration&#8217;s overhaul of $700 billion financial rescue program
Here are the major elements in the Obama administration&#8217;s overhaul of the $700 billion financial rescue program:
&#8211;Capital injections to bolster banks will continue. This was the core of former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson&#8217;s approach; it accounted for $250 billion [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=northcoastinvestmentresearch.wordpress.com&blog=3908873&post=462&subd=northcoastinvestmentresearch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[What shines more than gold in a paper currency print-off?
How about double gold?
A new ETF from Proshares is designed to return twice (200%) the daily performance, before fees and expenses, of gold bullion as measured by the U.S. Dollar fixing price for delivery in London. This ETF is structured as a partnership and it uses [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=northcoastinvestmentresearch.wordpress.com&blog=3908873&post=453&subd=northcoastinvestmentresearch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 21:28:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to low interest rates, resetting ARMs are no longer posing the dire threat to homeowners that many thought they would.
By Les Christie, CNNMoney.com staff writer
Last Updated: February 6, 2009: 4:28 PM ET
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) &#8212; A wave of resetting adjustable rate mortgages had been poised to add to the flood of foreclosures as their [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=northcoastinvestmentresearch.wordpress.com&blog=3908873&post=459&subd=northcoastinvestmentresearch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Kondratieff Cycle</title>
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Graphic compliments of The Long Wave Analyst.
Professor Nickolai Kondratieff (pronounced &#8220;Kon-DRA-tee-eff&#8221;)
Shortly after the Russian Revolution of 1917, he helped develop the first Soviet Five-Year Plan, for which he  analyzed factors that would stimulate Soviet economic growth.   In 1926, Kondratieff published his findings in a report entitled, &#8220;Long Waves in Economic Life&#8221;.  Based upon [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=northcoastinvestmentresearch.wordpress.com&blog=3908873&post=416&subd=northcoastinvestmentresearch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Huge stimulus bill passes House</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON (AP) &#8212; In a swift victory for President Barack Obama, the Democratic-controlled House approved a historically huge $819 billion stimulus bill Wednesday night with spending increases and tax cuts at the heart of the young administration&#8217;s plan to revive a badly ailing economy.
The vote was 244-188, with Republicans unanimous in opposition despite Obama&#8217;s frequent [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=northcoastinvestmentresearch.wordpress.com&blog=3908873&post=445&subd=northcoastinvestmentresearch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 19:43:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Robert Schmidt and Alison Vekshin
Jan. 28 (Bloomberg) &#8212; The Obama administration is moving closer to setting up a so-called bad bank in its effort to break the back of the credit crisis and may use the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. to manage it, two people familiar with the matter said.
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 19:30:16 +0000</pubDate>
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Release Date: January 28, 2009
For immediate release
The Federal Open Market Committee decided today to keep its target range for the federal funds rate at 0 to 1/4 percent. The Committee continues to anticipate that economic conditions are likely to warrant exceptionally low levels of the federal funds rate for some time.
Information received since the Committee met [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=northcoastinvestmentresearch.wordpress.com&blog=3908873&post=442&subd=northcoastinvestmentresearch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fri Jan 23, 2009 2:32pm EST
By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor
WASHINGTON (Reuters) &#8211; The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has cleared the way for the first trial to see if human embryonic stem cells can treat people safely, a company involved in the controversial research on Friday.
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		<description><![CDATA[Wed Jan 21, 2009 10:43pm EST
NEW YORK (Reuters) &#8211; Merrill Lynch (MER) paid billions of dollars of bonuses to its employees, three days before completing its life-saving sale to Bank of America Corp (BAC), the Financial Times reported on its website on Wednesday.
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		<description><![CDATA[by Jonathan Weisman
Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Democrats Want to Freeze Levy at Current Levels Instead of Letting It Expire Next Year
President-elect Barack Obama and congressional leaders plan to move soon to block the estate tax from disappearing in 2010, suggesting the levy might outlive the &#8220;Death Tax Repeal&#8221; movement that has tried mightily to kill it.
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		<description><![CDATA[Tue Jan 6, 2009 6:13pm EST
By Jeremy Pelofsky and David Lawder
WASHINGTON (Reuters) &#8211; Politicians want American consumers to resume spending to pull the economy out of its tailspin, and the U.S. government is leading by example with a potential $1 trillion deficit in 2009 &#8212; even before a massive stimulus plan.
The Congressional Budget Office is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=northcoastinvestmentresearch.wordpress.com&blog=3908873&post=413&subd=northcoastinvestmentresearch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Stocks: A Range-Bound Recovery in 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2008 17:35:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[S&#38;P&#8217;s chief investment strategist says a bear-market bottom may already be in place—and tells why 2009 could be a better year for stocks
By Sam Stovall From Standard &#38; Poor&#8217;s Equity Research Investing
Excerpted from a report published by Standard &#38; Poor&#8217;s Equity Research Services on Dec. 22
Investors will remember 2008 as a year of change. Not [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=northcoastinvestmentresearch.wordpress.com&blog=3908873&post=410&subd=northcoastinvestmentresearch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:02:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Aggressive action by the Federal Reserve today pushed most markets above their respective simple 50 day moving averages for the first time since September.  We have highlighted the 50 day as resistance level number one in prior notes and have shown it to be critical resistance along with the 200 day and 80 week.  This [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=northcoastinvestmentresearch.wordpress.com&blog=3908873&post=403&subd=northcoastinvestmentresearch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 21:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Release Date: December 16, 2008
For immediate release
The Federal Open Market Committee decided today to establish a target range for the federal funds rate of 0 to 1/4 percent.
Since the Committee&#8217;s last meeting, labor market conditions have deteriorated, and the available data indicate that consumer spending, business investment, and industrial production have declined.  Financial markets remain [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=northcoastinvestmentresearch.wordpress.com&blog=3908873&post=400&subd=northcoastinvestmentresearch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2008 20:29:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fri Dec 5, 2008 3:29pm EST
By John Parry and Jennifer Ablan
NEW YORK (Reuters) &#8211; U.S. government debt, long considered the safest investment in the world, looks like it too has been hit by &#8220;bubble&#8221; fever.
Prices of U.S. Treasury bonds appear dangerously overstretched after a soaring rally, another sign of how financial markets have been turned [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=northcoastinvestmentresearch.wordpress.com&blog=3908873&post=398&subd=northcoastinvestmentresearch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 15:57:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thursday December 4, 2008, 10:57 am EST
NEW YORK (Reuters) &#8211; Hedge-fund manager Doug Kass, who successfully shorted U.S. equities this year including shares of Fannie Mae (FNM) and Freddie Mac (FRE), is now buying U.S. stocks on the belief that they have hit bottom.
&#8220;What are deemed to be risky, that is equities, are becoming safer [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=northcoastinvestmentresearch.wordpress.com&blog=3908873&post=395&subd=northcoastinvestmentresearch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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