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Getting Ready For Large Blackrock Share Supply (BLK, BCS)

Posted: May 22, 2012 at 12:12 pm

Blackrock, Inc. (NYSE: BLK) is about to get a huge amount of shares dumped onto the stock market.  Barclays (NYSE: BCS) is set to unload a stake of about 19.6% ...
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Wells Fargo Becomes Safest Bank In America, Book Values De Damned (JPM, WFC, BAC, C)

Posted: May 21, 2012 at 3:23 pm

Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC) has replaced J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) as the safest bank in America.  This did not happen overnight and it is not ...
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ECB ‘Actions’ & Threat Of Run On The Banks (NBG, GREK, CCH, IRE, STD, BBVA)

Posted: May 16, 2012 at 11:43 am

The European Central Bank is said to be freezing assets or considering freezing assets or halting monetary policy operations to some banks in Greece as the Greeks consider an exit ...
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GE Finally Starts Getting GE Capital Dividends Again, Plus $4.5 Billion Special Dividend

Posted: May 16, 2012 at 9:25 am

General Electric Company (NYSE: GE) is now going to be much further to being back on track in its GE Capital unit.  After having promised a return to dividend after ...
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A Call For Jamie Dimon To Resign

Posted: May 11, 2012 at 11:17 am

J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) has done some severe damage to its image as the best risk manager of the large banks, and this damage may easily carry ...
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Dallas Fed President Repeats Call for Smaller Banks (JPM)

Posted: May 11, 2012 at 11:03 am

At a speech to a group of Texas bankers, Dallas Federal Reserve President Richard Fisher was asked to comment on the news of the $2 billion trading loss reported by ...
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Treasury To Sell More AIG Shares

Posted: May 7, 2012 at 6:17 am

The US government will cut its stake in AIG (NYSE: AIG), again. It plans to take its total piece of the company down to 63%. The cost of the bailout ...
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Can Big U.S. Banks Escape Europe’s Malaise?… Meredith Whitney Chimes In (DB, STD, NBG, BAC, JPM, C, WFC)

Posted: May 3, 2012 at 2:31 pm

The financial sector was the best performing index out of the S&P 500 during the first quarter.  That was when investors were decoupling from the woes of Europe.  With European ...
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Carlyle Aims For Value In Private Equity IPO Pricing (CG, BX, APO, KKR)

Posted: May 3, 2012 at 11:33 am

Carlyle Group (NASDAQ: CG) is originally being viewed as a mixed debut for an initial public offering.  The market remains a bit cautious when it comes to investing into private ...
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Visa & Mastercard Get DOJ Curveball (V, MA)

Posted: May 3, 2012 at 9:48 am

Visa, Inc. (NYSE: V) and Mastercard Incorporated (NYSE: MA) should both be trading higher this morning if you were only looking at the earnings reports from Wednesday.  Both credit card ...
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NASDAQ Joins NYSE & CME In Paying Dividends, Finally (NDAQ, NYX, CME, CBOE, ICE)

Posted: April 25, 2012 at 6:55 am

The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: NDAQ) is finally going to start paying out a cash dividend to its shareholders.  The company announced its plans to initiate a quarterly cash ...
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Travelers Stumbles, But Still Beats Estimates (TRV)

Posted: April 19, 2012 at 7:51 am

The Travelers Companies Inc. (NYSE: TRV) reported first quarter earnings this morning that were lower than for the same period a year ago, but well above consensus estimates. The company ...
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BofA Earnings Masked in Items, Huge Discount to Book Value (BAC, C, FAS)

Posted: April 19, 2012 at 7:36 am

Bank of America Corporation (NYSE: BAC) has reported its earnings and the headline numbers may look like a disappointment at $0.03 EPS from its $653 million in earnings.  Revenue was ...
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Genworth IPO Delay, Reaction Too Harsh? (GNW)

Posted: April 18, 2012 at 10:58 am

Genworth Financial, Inc. (NYSE: GNW) was supposed to be sailing toward an initial public offering of up to 40% of its Australian mortgage insurance business.  A new delay in the ...
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What Happens to Warren Buffett’s Top 10 Performing Stocks of 2012? (BRK-B, BRK-A, USG, IR, MCO, AXP, WFC, V, BK, VRSK, INTC, MA, AAPL, JNJ, BAC)

Posted: April 18, 2012 at 6:46 am

Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) (NYSE: BRK-B) will be in the news quite a bit now that the world's most famous investor, chairman Warren Buffett, has been diagnosed with prostate ...
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