First Republic and Silicon Valley Banks are NOT Microsoft!

Posted on March 24, 2023 by Dr. Marcinko

By Staff Reporters

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Wall Street’s $30 billion infusion into First Republic Bank didn’t manage to calm investors’ jitters about how banks are holding up. The regional bank’s stock tanked again Friday, dragging most of the market down with it. Moody’s Investors Service downgraded its credit rating on First Republic Bank to junk, citing a “deterioration in the bank’s financial profile.” First Republic’s debt rating was cut to B2 from Baa1, Moody’s said. Fitch Ratings and S&P Global Ratings downgraded First Republic Bank’s debt earlier this week.

The downgrade reflects “the deterioration in the bank’s financial profile and the significant challenges First Republic Bank faces over the medium term in light of its increased reliance on short-term and higher cost wholesale funding due to deposit outflows,” Moody’s analysts said in a release.

And, SVB’s parent company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy yesterday, buying it time to pay off creditors and making it easier to sell off its assets (but the bank itself, currently in the hands of the FDIC, isn’t part of the filing). Meanwhile, President Biden called on Congress to make it easier to punish bank executives if their mismanagement causes a bank to collapse, including allowing regulators to claw back their pay.

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But Big Tech stocks got a boost from investors looking to park their cash in non-bank companies, pushing Microsoft to its best weeks in almost eight years.

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3 FINANCIAL SLANG “T” Terms

Posted on March 24, 2023 by Dr. Marcinko

DEFINITIONS Physician-Investors Need to Know

By. Dr. David E. Marcinko MBA CMP®

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Trading AheadUnethical and illegal trading by specialists or market makers.
A specialist may buy a stock for themselves from Dr. John Q. Public even though a better price is available from another seller. The specialist can view bid and ask prices and then manually mis-match them, or see ahead to a less favorable price. It happens in this editor’s experience, by observing how long it takes for a stop order to execute after the stop price was reached.
This practice is a form of shimming.
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Trading ImbalanceA situation where a large block of stock is put up for sale, but not enough buyers are available for purchase, and a market maker is unable to buy the imbalance. Lightly traded and tightly held stocks are considered temporarily illiquid during such imbalances.
On occasion, a trading halt is put into place until enough buyers are available to purchase the deficit. On rare occasion, a handful of buyers can buy the stock at a huge discount if the stock was not halted during the imbalance.
On the New York Stock Exchange, large stocks usually have a “delayed open” for such imbalances, as a trading specialist will fill the order by lining up buyers for the block, and then open trading for the stock for the day.
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Triple Witching HourThe final hour of trading on a Friday when stock index futures, stock index options, and stock options all expire. This happens on the third Friday in March, June, September, and December. See Quadruple Witching Hour.
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ORGAN TRANSPLANTS: Overhauling the System

Posted on March 24, 2023 by Dr. Marcinko

By Staff Reporters

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The Biden administration just unveiled a plan to revamp the problem-ridden system for organ procurement and transplants.

Health Insurance: https://www.amazon.com/Dictionary-Health-Insurance-Managed-Care/dp/0826149944/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1275315485&sr=1-4

One nonprofit, United Network for Organ Sharing, has had a monopoly on running the system for nearly four decades, but the government’s proposal includes potentially bringing more organizations in, as well as upping funding and modernizing the computer systems involved.

Health Technology: https://www.amazon.com/Dictionary-Health-Information-Technology-Security/dp/0826149952/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1254413315&sr=1-5

NOTE: There are ~104,000 people currently waiting for an organ transplant, and 17 people die per day while waiting.

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Harvesting: https://medicalexecutivepost.com/2017/09/05/on-organ-harvesting/

Dialysis: https://medicalexecutivepost.com/2021/09/22/podcasts-more-dialysis-center-investigative-reporting/

Body Brokers: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/new-cbs-reports-documentary-body-brokers-explores-realities-of-donating-bodies-to-science/vi-AA18WVZ8?ocid=U521DHP&pc=U521&cvid=11f7cdab99224f1aa9290a2a3dbed05b&ei=33

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