Financials That Shake Off the Subprime Slime

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Once more into the breach. With fears that the growing subprime catastrophe is about to upset other companies in the financial industry (if not the entire U.S. stock market and economy), insiders at several of the firms supposedly on the front line of any contagion are fighting the perception that their stocks are just so many dead men walking.

In the wake of the severe market selloff at the end of February, there was notable purchasing by executives and directors at:

• American Home Mortgage(AHM Quote)
• CBRE Realty Finance(CBF Quote)
• Inland Real Estate(IRC Quote)
• IndyMac(NDE Quote)
• American Capital Strategies(ACAS Quote)
• JER Investors Trust(JRT Quote)
• Bear Stearns(BSC Quote)

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