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Private Equity Takes a Hit in Q1 2012

Most private-equity and hedge funds typically take 20 percent of investment gains as carried interest, on top of 2 percent of assets as a management fee to cover expenses, one exception is HCM www.heffcap.com that is purely success based. Traditional asset-management firms, which offer products such as mutual funds and exchange-traded funds, get most of [...]

GSV Capital Corporation (NASDAQ: GSVC) and Facebook (NASDAQ:FB)

A way to play Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) on the Cheap if you must GSV Capital Corporation (NASDAQ: GSVC) got hammered Friday because the company has sold another secondary offering of common shares, so that it can go out and buy more portfolio investments. This business development company priced a follow-on stock offering of 6,000,000/shrs at a [...]

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US Market Sentiment Indicators

Bulls vs. Bears The Bulls are at 38.7% vs. 41.9% last. Last week the Bulls faded and moves to the 35% mark, the Key mark that turns this to a Bullish signal. This indicator is lining up with the Put/Call ratio. They have moved off of the 55 mark hit in February. For your reference: [...]

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Wall St PreMarket Gold, FX, Equities, Oil

Early indications suggested that stocks in economically sensitive sectors such as banks and those linked to natural resources would lead the decline. Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS) fell 2.3 percent to $14.61 in premarket trade. Aluminum producer Alcoa (NYSE:AA) fell 1.2 percent to $8.95. The general move out of risky assets, such as equities and commodities, was [...]

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Mark J. Lundeen Market Outlook

Markets on the Edge of Something Big Mark J. Lundeen In Early May, some potentially big things are happening that I want to bring to your attention. First, it appears that gold’s bear box is terminating. Remember, the step sum is a market sentiment indicator, and since February the price of gold has [...]

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Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) a Must Own Under $520

I am an Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) believer, with my price target at $800, but there is a big bump in the road as regulators reduce Apple’s weighting in Indexes in the near future and the ridiculous EuroCrisis continues to a devastating finally, the break up of the EU or a severe Euro devaluation. The Rebalance [...]

The Hot List SIRI, CSCO, MU

The 10 most active NAS traded stock, Sirius XM Radio (NASDAQ:SIRI) # 1 Sirius XM Radio Inc. fell 2.1 percent to $2.12 with 31,507,400 shares traded. Charming Shoppes Inc. was unchanged at $7.30 with 18,725,200 shares traded. Cisco Systems Inc. rose .3 percent to $19.18 with 17,731,400 shares traded. Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. fell 15.7 [...]

SIRIUS XM Radio Inc. (NASDAQ:SIRI) Wins Again

SIRIUS XM Radio Inc. (NASDAQ:SIRI) SIRIUS XM Radio Inc. won Round 1 in its fight for independence Friday. The FCC called the application defective and not warranted, dismisses Liberty Media Corporation’ (NASDAQ:LMCA) to take control John Malone’s Liberty Media owns about 40% of the company if it were to convert its notes into shares. SIRIUS [...]

Wall St Summary and PreMarket, AAPL, LNKD, FSLR

Red’s Bull Trader Alert: A rush to sell at the open sank stocks immediately, and gained momentum into early afternoon trade, and stocks drifted to session lows for the final few hours. Weakness was widespread, but Energy and Tech stocks were hit the hardest, both settled with losses in excess of 2%, and the financials [...]

Samsung Vs Apple: New Galaxy takes aim at iPhone

Samsung (KS:005930),(PK:SSNLF) unveils new Galaxy SmartPhone to tackle the Apple Inc (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPhone Samsung Electronics, the World’s largest mobile phone maker, said Friday that it unveiled its 3rd generation SmartPhone in the Galaxy series featuring the options of recognizing voice, face and motion. The Galaxy S3, running Google’s latest Android operating system Ice Cream Sandwich, [...]

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Private Equity Takes a Hit in Q1 2012

Most private-equity and hedge funds typically take 20 percent of investment gains as carried interest, on top of 2 percent of assets as a management fee to …