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Vindication for Jefferies After Earnings (JEF)

Posted: December 20, 2011 at 8:20 am

Jefferies Group, Inc. (NYSE: JEF) should finally get some vindication showing that it is truly not the next MF Global like so many rumors and short seller attacks may were ...
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Jamie Dimon… Hopeful On Dividends & Buybacks In 2010 (JPM)

Posted: December 7, 2011 at 3:52 pm

Jamie Dimon of J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) is well-known for being outspoken.  At a Goldman Sachs financial conference today, Mr. Dimon spoke out with his usual wording ...
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After S&P Euro Warning… EFSF Today, Banks & Insurance Companies Tomorrow

Posted: December 6, 2011 at 9:52 am

The entire world now knows about the European Union warnings from S&P on Monday.  This morning came word that the 'AAA' long-term credit rating on the European Financial Stability Fund ...
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The Corzine Subpoena… Future of Segregated Funds Hangs in the Wind

Posted: December 2, 2011 at 10:39 am

Jon Corzine was supposed to be the poster boy for modern-day finance... From the King of Finance, to New Jersey's governor, and back to Wall Street.  Now Corzine is just the King of ...
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Bank of America’s $5.00 Stock Chart Challenge (BAC)

Posted: November 29, 2011 at 2:32 pm

Bank of America Corporation (NYSE: BAC) has not done well with a good market nor with a bad market.  The big gap-up Monday was sold off and now the lows ...
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Beyond Stress Tests: Banks Reach Ridiculous Discounts To Book Value (JPM, BAC, C, WFC, BBT, BK, COF, FITB, GS, MS, JEF, PNC, STI)

Posted: November 23, 2011 at 8:29 am

The new proposed stress tests are just one more thorn in the side for the banking sector, but analysts from Dick Bove to Meredith Whitney, as well as value and bargain ...
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New 2012 Bank Stress Tests Get Drachonian (BAC, C)

Posted: November 22, 2011 at 4:49 pm

A drop of 8% in GDP, 13% unemployment, and another period of interrupted access to the capital markets... Those are just some of the new Federal Reserve stress test scenarios which ...
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S&P Backs Away From U.S. Downgrade Over Supercommittee Failure

Posted: November 21, 2011 at 5:39 pm

Make this as good as official now that S&P has chimed in: NO RESOLUTION FROM SUPERCOMMITTEE!!!  You already knew that the Supercommittee was really just the "stuper-committee"... Impasse, again impasse.  The big ...
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Should Jefferies Be Able to Sue Over Malicious Attacks? (JEF)

Posted: November 21, 2011 at 2:45 pm

The attack on Jefferies Group, Inc. (NYSE: JEF) is unfortunately reminiscent of larger implosions of firms formerly named Lehman and Bear Stearns.  It almost does not seem to matter what Jefferies ...
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Fitch Turns European Woes Against U.S. Banks… Warning of a Warning (GS, MS, C, BAC, JPM)

Posted: November 16, 2011 at 4:20 pm

Fitch is warning that U.S. banks could be adversely affected unless the Eurozone debt crisis "is resolved in a timely and orderly manner."  The mention is a warning that the ...
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All 30 DJIA Dividend Trends into 2012, Stock by Stock (DIA, AA, AXP, T, BAC, BA, CAT, CVX, CSCO, KO, DD, XOM, GE, HD, HPQ, IBM, INTC, JNJ, JPM, KFT, MCD, MMM, MRK, MSFT, PFE, PG, TRV, UTX, VZ, WMT, DIS)

Posted: November 15, 2011 at 2:17 pm

The economic choppiness is coming to a head with the age of dividend hikes. The pressure is going to remain for companies to continue returning capital to shareholders while also ...
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E*TRADE Can’t Find M&A (ETFC, GS, SCHW, AMTD, MS)

Posted: November 10, 2011 at 4:35 pm

E*TRADE Financial Corporation (NASDAQ: ETFC) was one we had on the calendar because this was the day that it was due to meet with its Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) as ...
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29 Global Banks ‘Too Big To Fail’, But Not Too Big to Tell the Truth (BAC, BK, C, GS, JPM, STT, WFC, MS)

Posted: November 8, 2011 at 9:29 am

Last Friday at the meeting of the G20 in Cannes, the Financial Stability Board (FSB) revealed a list of 29 global systemically important financial institutions (known as the G-Sifis). These ...
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Wall St. Pay Tumbles After Weak Year

Posted: November 8, 2011 at 6:31 am

What the Occupy Wall Street crowd could not do, the financial sector of the economy has done. People who work at banks and investment banks will make less money this ...
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The Mob Turns on Jefferies, Despite Refuting News & Rumors (JEF)

Posted: November 3, 2011 at 1:32 pm

The markets have a "shoot first and ask questions later" mentality that is not really working too well for Jefferies Group, Inc. (NYSE: JEF) right now.  After the MF Global ...
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