March 9th, 2010
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COMMENTARY for Friday

Banking ‘Talent’ Has Nowhere to Go

by Rick Ackerman on October 23, 2009 1:47 am GMT · 13 comments

With draconian pay cuts looming in the banking industry, the last thing we’ll have to worry about is mass defections of talent. In fact, the financial sector is deflating these days as fast as the Heene’s balloon, causing the number of job openings for “financial products” specialists to shrink by the hour. How times have changed! Just a few short years ago, Ken Lewis, Bank of America’s recently deposed CEO, might have taken his whole team of traders and MBAs and started a new bank. These days, though, they’re a glut on the market. About the only place the leverageurs are getting sympathy is on the op-ed page of » Read the full article


TODAY'S ACTION for Sunday

Goldman-Watch

by Rick Ackerman on October 25, 2009 9:44 pm GMT · 0 comments

Set an alert at 185.51 on your Goldman charts, since that’s  what it would take — a nearly $5 push above Friday’s close — to turn our favorite bellwether bullish once again on the hourly chart. Meanwhile, the suspicion grows that the bullish psychology that has impelled the bank stocks higher may have changed.  For now, at least, the burden of proof is on the bulls.