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Goldman Sachs: Wall Street's "Queen Bee" Gets Stung
EWI foresaw the turn in Goldman's fate from invincible to embattled

By Nico Isaac
10/21/2011 2:45:00 PM

Few mainstream commentators anticipated Goldman Sachs' recent decline. Yet it's hard to blame them, because they simply aren't equipped to anticipate trend changes. Most of the time they simply extrapolate the previous trend into the future. Goldman has been a Wall Street powerhouse for decades -- so why would that ever change?

Filed Under: bailouts, banks, Bear Stearns, credit crisis, Elliott wave, Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers

Category: U.S. Economy

Goldman Sachs Company Charged With Fraud: Who Could Have Guessed? Part II
The firm's history suggests its vulnerability in periods of negative social mood.

By Editorial Staff
4/20/2010 12:15:00 PM

In the November 2009 issue of Elliott Wave International's monthly Elliott Wave Financial Forecast, co-editors Steven Hochberg and Peter Kendall published a careful study of Goldman Sachs company history -- and made a sobering forecast for its future. In this special three-part series, we are releasing the entire Special Report to you. Here is Part II; please come back later this week for Part III.

Filed Under: Goldman Sachs, Robert Prechter, Morgan Stanley, Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns, AIG

Category: Stocks

Goldman Sachs Company Charged With Fraud: Who Could Have Guessed? Part I
The firm's history suggests its vulnerability in periods of negative social mood.

By Vadim Pokhlebkin
4/16/2010 3:00:00 PM

In November 2009, Elliott Wave International's monthly Elliott Wave Financial Forecast published a careful study of Goldman Sachs' history -- and made a grim forecast for the firm's future. In this special three-part series, we will release the entire Special Report to you. Here is Part I; come back next week for Parts II and III.

Filed Under: Goldman Sachs, Warren Buffett, U.S. Treasuries, Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, Wall Street

Category: Stocks

The Weakest Link
Let’s address a key point that most mainstream analysts seem to have missed.

By Jason Farkas
12/1/2009 2:30:00 PM

With all the talk about the end of the Great Recession, I continually ask myself the following questions: Am I just being a pessimist for believing in a deflationary depression? Am I a fool to fight those who make the rules: Congress, the Fed and the Treasury? So, let’s address a key point that most mainstream analysts seem to have missed...

Filed Under: Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns, U.S. Federal Reserve (the Fed)

Category: U.S. Economy

Will Gold Provide Shelter From The Storm?
The not-so safety of “safe haven” thinking

By Nico Isaac
9/23/2008 5:00:00 PM

As the stock market continues its violent 400-point swings back and forth, one question floods the minds of investors across the country: Where is a secure place to park my money, besides the floor boards? And, like a broken record, the conventional wisdom repeats, “Gold, gold, gold…”  Are they right?

Filed Under: gold futures, Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, AIG, safe haven

Category: Gold and Silver

European Stocks: Ahead Of The U.S., Or Behind It?
They say, "the world catches a cold when America sneezes." Is that true?

By Vadim Pokhlebkin
8/1/2008 3:00:00 PM

Many adopt the view that "the world catches a cold when America sneezes." We could, however, argue that the turbulence started in the UK and spread to the U.S.! See this chart for details.

Filed Under: Bear Stearns, DAX

Category: European Markets

Saint Albert the Great… and Merrill Lynch
How do you turn a risky asset into "gold"?

By Bill Fox, Senior Bonds Analyst
7/30/2008 1:15:00 PM

I have spoken in this column before that it is the insidious nature of deflation to undermine all asset classes and erode the capital base of an economy. As we unwind this credit cycle, cash is king, and commercial and investment banks are scrambling for capital – capital that has not been forthcoming while writedowns continue into Q4...

Filed Under: Bear Stearns, Merrill Lynch

Category: Interest Rates

Credit Crisis: Is The Worst Really Over?

By Nico Isaac
5/30/2008 3:45:00 PM

The bleak, nail-biting drama known as “The Tempest… In the U.S. Credit Market” has played out as one terrible scene after another: The once formidable Titans of Finance fell from an over-leveraged grace, triggering $300 billion in write downs, massive layoffs, losses, government bailouts, record-high foreclosures, and pretty much every economic setback around.

Filed Under: credit crisis, Citigroup, Bear Stearns

Category: U.S. Economy

Hedge Funds Headed for Same Fate as Day Traders – But Bigger

By Susan C. Walker
5/21/2008 11:00:00 AM

While a failure in the swaps market could crush many hedge funds that deal in them, Elliott Wave International's Bob Prechter sees an even more basic reason why they will ultimately come to a bad end – that's because they're not really hedgers, they are merely buyers

Filed Under: hedge funds, credit crisis, credit default swaps, Bear Stearns

Category: Classic Prechter

Credit Crisis: Nearing The End?

By Nico Isaac
5/19/2008 5:45:00 PM

The bleak, nail-biting drama known as “The Tempest… In the U.S. Credit Market” has played out as one terrible scene after another: The once formidable Titans of Finance fell from an over-leveraged grace, triggering $300 billion in write downs, massive layoffs, losses, government bailouts, record-high foreclosures, and pretty much every variety of economic setback...

Filed Under: foreclosures, bailouts, Bear Stearns, Citigroup

Category: U.S. Economy

Bear Stearns Explained: How Financial Values Can Disappear

By Editorial Staff
5/2/2008 4:15:00 PM

The big question that still remains about the demise of Bear Stearns is, how did its mortgage-backed securities lose their value so quickly? It's a question that Bob Prechter has pondered in a more general way for his best-selling business book, Conquer the Crash. In this excerpt, Bob carefully explains exactly how financial values can disappear.

Filed Under: Bear Stearns, subprime lending, Bear market, conquer the crash

Category: Classic Prechter

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