Today's Economic Data Highlights: Goldman Anticipates Zero Private Payrolls, -125K Total

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Jobs and services on the docket
The Labor Department's August Employment Situtation report and ISM's non-manufacturing index have the potential to move stocks.
Read more »Indexes above resistance
A late-day push kept the indexes above their 50-day moving averages, which are now support.
Read more »The E-Mail That Should Have Saved Lehman Brothers
The Wall Street Journal reports that, contrary to what former Lehman executives would have you believe, the New York Fed did give the firm the opportunity to borrow from the central bank on emergency terms on September 14th - the day Lehman filed for bankruptcy - provided it had the collateral.
Read more »'The Too-Big-To-Fail Problem Must Be Solved'
Here's the statement by Ben S. Bernanke, Chairman Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, before the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, Washington, D.C., September 2, 2010
Read more »Lehman Was 'Insolvent, Not Just Illiquid'
Here's a round-up of some of the more interesting testimony / comments to come out of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission hearings this week on the failure of Lehman Brothers.
Read more »Triangle Capital: Dividend Outlook Short Term and Long Term
We’ve just reviewed Triangle Capital’s (TCAP) 10-Q filing for the period ended June 30, 2010, listened to the company’s first ever Conference Call on August 5th, and looked over the Earnings Report again. All of this with a view to providing readers with our outlook for TCAP’s dividend.
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JPMorgan Shuts Prop Trading Unit as Banks Maneuver Around the Volcker Rule
By Don Miller
JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE:JPM) became the first investment bank to take steps to comply with the so-called "Volcker Rule" by shutting down its proprietary trading unit. JPM, the second-biggest U.S. bank by assets, told about 20 traders who work on its commodities trading desk that the company will close the unit, Bloomberg News reported, citing an anonymous source.
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