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Bullish Borrowing Excess: NYSE Margin Hits Record High

Posted: May 24, 2013 at 11:50 am

The New York Stock Exchange is showing something that we would be more concerned about than optimistic. Margin debt at the NYSE grew for the ninth consecutive month and hit ...
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Goldman Sachs Calls For Higher Bond Yields… What It Really Means To Your Money

Posted: May 23, 2013 at 12:40 pm

It has been hard to ignore the rise in bond yields on the longer end of the Treasury curve in recent days. The market keeps looking for clues from Federal ...
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More Detail About National Bank of Greece’s Capital Raise

Posted: May 22, 2013 at 3:25 pm

Investors have had time to know and prepare for a capital raise of sorts from the National Bank of Greece SA (NYSE: NBG). That is almost upon us and this ...
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Fed’s FOMC Minutes Bring More Concern, or Confusion, Over Bond Buying and QE

Posted: May 22, 2013 at 2:17 pm

We have already seen Ben Bernanke testify to Congress today and the aim was to push back an immediate end to the bond buying and to even push back on ...
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Ben Bernanke Pushes Out End of Bond Tapering and End of Quantitative Easing

Posted: May 22, 2013 at 10:15 am

Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke is speaking today in testimony to Congress. While all heads were turned to watch Bernanke's hints and intonations, we do not expect to see any ...
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J.P. Morgan Also Confirms a Higher Dividend

Posted: May 21, 2013 at 12:50 pm

The news flow around J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) and Jamie Dimon has overshadowed the possibility that the largest bank by assets is increasing its dividend for the ...
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J.P. Morgan Shares Hit New Post-Recession High on Dimon Confirmation Vote

Posted: May 21, 2013 at 10:05 am

We would caution that this was expected, but it appears that Jamie Dimon will keep his dual corporate governance roles as chairman and as chief executive officer of J.P. Morgan ...
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Poll: Should Jamie Dimon Lose CEO or Chairman Role?

Posted: May 20, 2013 at 11:55 am

Tuesday will mark the do or die date for J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) shareholders and corporate governance issues. The effort to split the role of chairman and ...
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Petrobras Record Bond Sale in Shadow of Apple’s Record Capital Raise

Posted: May 13, 2013 at 6:17 pm

Petroleo Brasileiro S.A. (NYSE: PBR), or Petrobras for American investors, is on the verge of yet a second record corporate bond offering in the last few of weeks. The state-owned ...
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New Bank Stress Tests Coming, Generated Under Self-Direction

Posted: May 13, 2013 at 3:17 pm

Dodd-Frank, the Volcker Rule, and other bank regulations have been ongoing and increasing in the years after the great recession. Now we have a new communication from the Federal Reserve ...
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Ousting Jamie Dimon Could Cost JPM Shareholders 10%, or $20 Billion

Posted: May 13, 2013 at 1:30 pm

The heat remains on Jamie Dimon to split his role as chairman and as chief executive officer of J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM). Investors might want to tread ...
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The Worst Euro Risks Might Not Be Over

Posted: May 13, 2013 at 12:00 pm

If you have watched the U.S. stock market rally in 2013, you might think that all the austerity and budget woes in Europe have passed. It turns out that Europeans ...
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Softbank Using Alibaba IPO to Thwart Dish Network Offer for Sprint

Posted: May 13, 2013 at 8:10 am

The saying is that all’s fair in love and war. Well, this cannot be love, so it must be war. The Financial Times this morning is citing “two people familiar ...
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TARP Payback Scorecard

Posted: May 10, 2013 at 11:35 am

Following the financial crisis of 2008, the U.S. Treasury was authorized to commit up to $700 billion to a Troubled Asset Relief Program -- TARP -- in an effort to ...
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Bernanke Cannot Over-Regulate Big Banks Either

Posted: May 10, 2013 at 9:50 am

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is speaking this morning to bankers at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. His speech is called "Monitoring the Financial System," but it really involves ...
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