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I've been using the Wilson Pro Staff Original 95 sq-in headsize (Pete Sampras used the 85 sqin), for the last 15 years. It's a good racquet if you have the strength to swing it. Because of its mass, it makes your serve feel "heavier".

Re: US Financial Failures Getting Bigger. Temasick's "Long-Term" Investment in Troubl As usual, the news tells you half the truth. The deal is a stock for stock exchange, 1 share of Merrill for 0.859 of BoA. Based on BoA's closing price on Friday of about $33, the deal was valued at $29 a...

Except that they did not make $1 billion. That figure was a paper gain based on the closing price of BOA on Friday. They are sitting on a paper loss today.

Updated: 15th September 2008, 1941 hrs Temasek to be unscathed by Merrill's sale Sources say Temasek Holdings had little say in Merrill Lynch's surprise decision to be sold to Bank of America, despite being Merrill's biggest single investor. But they add that Temasek may emerge from the...

What is their price average now? Where is the source?

Didn't Ho Ching pay $48 a share? So it's a loss of $18 a share??

The old fart and his fund managers have as much investment acumen as Ho Jinx. I can name you at least three companies that have much better prospects than Citi, and in much better financial health : Visa, Mastercard, and Wells Fargo. You could have bought Wells Fargo in mid-July when oil was...

I did an analysis of a Ho Jinx purchase and one of Warren Buffett's long time holdings in another thread. Let me copy it here : Let us compare one financial stock owned by Buffett (WFC) and another purchased by Temasek (MerrillLynch, MER). Some background info on Wells Fargo &Co (NYSE...

I used the Wells Fargo example because that was a financial stock too. If you want to compare apples with apples, here you go http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2008/08/26/why-now-is-a-good-time-to-be-greedy.aspx Within 12 months of his purchase, his investment returned 123%. It's...

Let us compare one financial stock owned by Buffett (WFC) and another purchased by Temasek (MerrillLynch, MER). Some background info on Wells Fargo &Co (NYSE: WFC) : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wells_Fargo Wells Fargo & Co. (NYSE: WFC) is a diversified financial services company in the...

http://www.cnbc.com/id/26337303 "... QUICK: So you think the sovereign wealth funds are getting the raw end of the deal when they buy into some of the financials? BUFFETT: I think that they are buying what is being sold to them, and in securities you should not buy what's being sold to...