Doomsday Scenario: Monday afternoon's dose of sunshine!


Good afternoon . . . not really. We have a fresh round of awful news from the markets, of course. Tyler Durden over at Zero Hedge brings us tidings of the travails of Louisiana Pacific (NYS: LPX) The maker of paper and would products whiffed on earnings, is trying to raise $350 million in cash via a bond offering. And that giant sucking sound? That's insurance cripple AIG (NYS: AIG) sucking another $30 billion out of taxpayer pocketbooks. (Naturally, AIG is on the Piqqem Sentiment list for Lowest Rated Stocks!).

You read about it earlier today but then the company announced a stunning $62 billion loss and THEN the AIG CEO had to come out and say he could pay everything back to the TARP. Which can only mean one thing -- he can't or else he wouldn't open his mouth. Meanwhile, watch AIG shares on the yo-yo trade tomorrow -- someone could make a killing trading AIG options if any more bad news comes out. Microsoft to temps with no health insurance -- you get a 10% paycut! Yikes. More dark tidings coming shortly.

Alex Salkever is the Director of Research at Piqqem.com, an online stock research company that uses Wisdom of Crowds methodology to track sentiment towards stocks.

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