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CME Lowers Energy & Metals Margin Trading Requirements (CME, GLD, USO, SLV, JJC)

Posted: February 9, 2012 at 5:37 pm

CME Group Inc. (NYSE: CME) is going to make it cheaper for traders to trade energy and metals futures, something which could make it easier and cheaper for traders, speculators, ...
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Caesars, A Sham Of An IPO… Beware The Ides of March (CZR, APO, GS, WYNN, LVS)

Posted: February 8, 2012 at 11:41 am

Caesars Entertainment Corporation (NASDAQ: CZR) is beyond weird when it comes to initial public offerings.  This was one of our TOP 17 IPOS TO WATCH IN 2012.  We also make ...
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Fed Fund Futures Calling For December Rate Hike… In 2013

Posted: February 3, 2012 at 10:54 am

Fed Funds Futures are not widely used by Joe Public, and much of the public may not even understand or know what these are.  The layman explanation is that they ...
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Can New CFO & Split Structure Save The Bank of Ireland? (IRE)

Posted: February 1, 2012 at 11:52 am

The Bank of Ireland (NYSE: IRE) may have been a dead stock (or ADR) by most counts.  The recapitalization and dilution process here has been almost as uncanny as the bailouts ...
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Facebook IPO Rumors Growing Louder & Louder (GSVC, MSFT, MS, GS, DSI)

Posted: January 27, 2012 at 1:42 pm

Facebook is now rumored to be filing its IPO paperwork as soon as next week.  The 'rumor' is coming out of a report from the Wall Street Journal that Morgan ...
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Fed Now Keeping Near-Zero Rates Through Late-2014… QE4?

Posted: January 25, 2012 at 12:41 pm

This was definitely going to be a different sort of FOMC day with the way that the new communications are going to show more of the inner-thinking of the Federal ...
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Bank of America Earnings, Rising Tide Lifts All Ships (BAC, WFC, JPM, C, BRK-A)

Posted: January 19, 2012 at 7:48 am

Bank of America Corporation (NYSE: BAC) was already the best performing DJIA stock with gains of more than 20% since the end fo 2011.  Now it has even more legs ...
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Goldman Sachs Earnings… Escaping The Hangman Under Book Value (GS)

Posted: January 18, 2012 at 7:53 am

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS) is out with earnings this Wednesday. The investment banking giant, or the bank holding company with no real bank, managed to escape some ...
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Bank of New York Versus State Street Earnings… Two Different Tales (BK, STT)

Posted: January 18, 2012 at 7:39 am

Bank of New York Mellon (NYSE: BK) is in a different boat than State Street Corporation (NYSE: STT) after earnings this morning. Bank of New York missed on the top ...
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Many More Banks Report Earnings This Week (GS, STT, BK, USB, NTRS, AXP, BAC, MS, COF)

Posted: January 17, 2012 at 11:20 am

We have already seen the first wave of bank earnings, but the rest of the week is full of bank and financial earnings.  In fact, the real bank earnings season ...
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Citi & Wells Fargo… A Tale of Two Earnings (C, WFC)

Posted: January 17, 2012 at 9:06 am

Citigroup Inc. (NYSE: C) and Wells Fargo & Co. (NYSE: WFC) earnings are a bit different this morning. Today looks like a prime example of "the good bank versus the ...
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J.P. Morgan Sets Tone For Profit Taking In Banks (JPM, BAC, C, WFC)

Posted: January 13, 2012 at 7:26 am

J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) is a bit of a disappointment on the surface as revenues came in under plan.  Jamie Dimon and friends reported earnings of $3.7 ...
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J.P. Morgan Preview, Huge Bank Sector Book Value Discounts On Deck (JPM, WFC, BAC, C, STT, BK, MS, GS, AXP, COF, FAS)

Posted: January 12, 2012 at 10:30 am

J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) is about to report earnings Friday morning as the first bank and second DJIA component kicking off earnings season.  We wanted to make ...
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Carlyle Remains On Track for 2012 IPO (CG, BX, KKR, ACAS, OZM, FIG, PSP)

Posted: January 11, 2012 at 11:44 am

The Carlyle Group L.P. is still planning to be one of the top private equity initial public offerings of 2012.  We even named it as one of the Top 17 ...
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2012 Starts Out As Year of the Banks (JPM, BAC, FAS, WFC, CIT)

Posted: January 10, 2012 at 11:03 am

Has J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) managed to help further turn banks around in 2012?  The sector which had no friends in 2011 is now actually the top ...
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