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Trepidation defined the markets again yesterday, driving down all the major indexes into negative territory. A Merrill Lynch downgrade of Countrywide Financial Corp . ( CFC ) led to speculation of possible bankruptcy for one of the nations biggest...

Equities, which were in negative territory for most of Friday’s session, moved higher in late trading after news of the Fed’s third liquidity injection of the day. Although the fundamental impact of increased liquidity will likely be minimal, the...

Stock prices lost the bulk of their gains for the session until the final half hour of trading Wednesday. Mid afternoon rumors that Goldman Sachs would be releasing negative news after the close drove the major indexes down almost into the negative...

The fifteen position long/short equity portfolio (shown at bottom of post) ended the week down -1.07% . The equally-weighted ten long positions contributed -2.67% for the week, but the five equally-weighted short positions returned 6.88% . Since it’s.