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...kitchen tables, people are anxiously asking, What's next? Historically, the markets rally as one calendar year turns into the next, but could there really be reason to hope for a year-end rally at a time when the only precedents that seem to apply are the worst bear markets on record? "Mid-December to the end of January is known as the only free lunch on Wall Street," says Sam Stovall, chief investment strategist at Standard & Poor's Equity Research. "This year could be different...
...hand - at least in the short term. But the mutual-fund industry - for which fleeing investors don't have to give a 45-day notice, as they do for most hedge funds - may be a different story. According to an analysis by TrimTabs Investment Research, in the last bear market, at the time of the bursting tech bubble, 4.3% of dollars in U.S. stock funds were withdrawn. So far in this cycle, which is inarguably more severe, only 3.5% of such assets have fled. "To me, this says there's more mutual-fund selling to go," says TrimTabs president...
...wants to continue its winning streak through its upcoming matches. “Against Williams, we found out what we need to work on for the next upcoming matches,” DiSesa said. HARVARD 9, BROWN 0 On Friday, the Crimson opened its regular season against the Bears and swiftly defeated them 9-0, as all nine Harvard players won 3-0. In the most impressive match of the game, No. 1 West beat sophomore Benjamin Clayman 9-2, 9-0, 9-0. No. 2 DiSesa and No. 3 sophomore Eliot Buchanan also annihilated their opponents. DiSesa beat Brown...
...Most analysts believe Citigroup can survive its current market woes, though probably not without some changes. In a report out on Friday, Deutsche Bank analyst Mike Mayo, who has been a long-time bear on Citi, says the company has adequate capital to survive. When you factor in the $25 billion Citi got from the Treasury's Troubled Asset Relief Program, Mayo estimates the bank has as much as $100 billion in cash cushion...
...avoid the fate of Lehman or Bear, the firm's board may feel like it needs to do something to boost it's stock price. One option would be to boot chief executive Vikram Pandit. Some on Wall Street believe Pandit has not been quick enough to react to the problems of the firm and could still be in denial. On Friday, Pandit told top executives that he doesn't believe Citi needs to sell off parts of its business to raise capital. Investors don't seem to agree. The stock fell on the news...