Word: stocked
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...more advanced cineaste can even try to take stock of all the notable omissions. I was personally disappointed to see not one mention of Star Trek. Khaaaan...
...question with lots of facets. What will consumer spending look like? What will government deficits look like? What will my hair look like? But some of the most crucial unknowns have to do with corporate profits. Profits are, after all, what stock prices are supposed to be based on. Stocks have skyrocketed since early March, providing the earliest and strongest signal that the recession might ebb soon. One could even argue that rising stock prices brought optimism that has since begun to show up in real economic data, although if you think too hard about such feedback loops it will...
...case, the future path of corporate profits should eventually determine whether the stock market will keep rising, whether companies will start hiring again, whether this recovery will feel like much of a recovery or not. And while Wall Street's analysts are all making (for the most part increasingly optimistic) estimates of what those profits will be, they really have no idea. That's because the mostly rising corporate profits of the past 35 years have been in large part the product of a long, long rise in indebtedness, especially consumer indebtedness...
...they keep increasing their savings rate and reducing their debt loads, that's bad news for corporate profits, not just bank profits. Anybody who makes things that in recent years were bought on credit, from houses to washing machines to cars, is likely to be affected. So are stock prices. "Higher borrowing produces both higher profits and higher asset prices," writes London-based money manager George Cooper in his 2008 book The Origin of Financial Crises, "while falling levels of borrowing cuts both profit and asset prices...
...move seems to have worked. Fifth Third says the cash payments were enough to persuade holders of more than $550 million in preferred stock to convert their shares to common. Add that amount to the more than $600 million Fifth Third had left from its stock offering, and bingo: Stress test passed - over $1.1 billion in new common equity. The problem is the money Fifth Third paid to preferred shareholders to convert to common equity will also end up depleting Tier 1 capital - a measure of total bank resources, not just common equity - by $365 million...