By Joe Chase of IndexBeating.com
Ten banks have been approved to repay their TARP money. Do investors think these companies are ready to pay the money back? (more…)
By Joe Chase of IndexBeating.com
Ten banks have been approved to repay their TARP money. Do investors think these companies are ready to pay the money back? (more…)
Categories: Business · Investing
Tagged: bail out, bail out package, geithner, hank paulson, henry paulson, paulson, TARP, tim geithner, timothy geithner, treasury, troubled asset relief program, US Government
By Joe Chase of IndexBeating.com
Now that GM has officially filed for Chapter 11, the old poll asking what will happen to GM has partially been answered. I want to know what everyone thinks they should do (more…)
Categories: Bail Out · Business · Economics · Investing
Tagged: auto executives, auto industry, auto manufacturers, bail out, fritz henderson, General Motors, GM, ron gettlefinger, UAW, united auto workers
By Joe Chase of IndexBeating.com
Wes Davis and I will now be making (hopefully) daily posts about the biggest influences on the markets that day (the biggest impact on the markets, not on the actual economy). Starting with yesterday, a day the Dow was down 327.49: (more…)
Categories: Business · Economics · Investing
Tagged: aig, bail out, berkshire hathaway, DJIA, Dow, Dow Jones, economy, hsbc, Investing, stock market, warren buffett
By Joe Chase of IndexBeating.com
The behemoth auto manufacturers GM, Ford, and Chrysler, are back in Washington asking for more money. They will keep doing this until taxpayers get so fed up that congress stops giving them money. They took billions (more…)
Categories: Business · Economics · Investing
Tagged: auto industry, auto manufacturers, bail out, bail out package, chrysler, ford, GM, stimulus, Stimulus Package, UAW
By Joe Chase of IndexBeating.com
It has been three months since the Treasury started buying equity stakes in US banks as a part of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, which we have come to call the (more…)
Categories: Business · Economics · Investing
Tagged: BAC, bail out, bail out package, bank of america, C, citigroup, EESA, EESA of 2008, emergency economic stabilization act, emergency economic stabilization act of 2008, paulson, TARP, treasury, wells fargo, WFC
By Joe Chase of IndexBeating.com
The Treasury has made public several agreements it has made under the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP). I posted links to pdf versions of all the agreements on the right side of the page towards the bottom. It (more…)
Categories: Business
Tagged: bail out, bail out package, TARP, troubled asset relief program
By Joe Chase of IndexBeating.com
Chrysler and Fiat just announced that they are partnering up in a non-cash transaction that will give Fiat a 35% stake in the American auto maker, and give Chrysler access to technology and (more…)
Categories: Business · Economics · Investing
Tagged: auto manufacturers, bail out, bail out package, bankruptcy, Big 3, chrysler, detroit, Fiat, ford, GM
By Joe Chase of IndexBeating.com
NASDAQ has begun tracking the performance of companies who take funding from programs such as the TARP. The index, known as the Government Relief Index (QGRI), came out (more…)
Categories: Business · Economics · Investing
Tagged: bail out, bail out package, government funding, Government relief index, Investing, NASDAQ, QGRI, s&p 500, TARP