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AEP Formalizes Plant Closures, Power Grid Trouble Ahead? (AEP)

Posted: March 22, 2012 at 1:13 pm

American Electric Power Company (NYSE: AEP) is making its closure plans official.  The power generator and utility has made its notifications to the PJM Interconnection and Southwest Power Pool to retire ...
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Headlines Bad For Diamond Foods, But…. Light at the End of the Tunnel? (DMND)

Posted: March 22, 2012 at 11:53 am

Diamond Foods, Inc. (NASDAQ: DMND) is adding insult to injury this morning.  The company was never known for its great dividend, but the company is suspending its dividend in an ...
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Junior Gold Miner Rubicon Gets Permits (RBY, GG, GDXJ)

Posted: March 21, 2012 at 1:16 pm

Rubicon Minerals Corp. (AMEX: RBY) said today that it has received approval from the Ontario, Canada, environmental ministry for its proposed amendments to water, sewage, and air permits at the ...
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Fed Calls For Break-Up Of Too Big To Fail Banks

Posted: March 21, 2012 at 11:02 am

The Dallas Federal Reserve is calling for what would effectively be a break-up of the big banks in an effort to end the Too Big To Fail banking risks.  An ...
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Punishing Chinese Solar Makers, With Candy (TSL, STP, LDK, JASO, FSLR, STP)

Posted: March 20, 2012 at 1:54 pm

Solar shares are in a bit of flux after reports that the U.S. Commerce Department has ruled that Chinese solar panel makers have received illegal subsidies from China's government.  U.S. ...
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BofA: When Rumors Hurt More Than Denial Adds (BAC)

Posted: March 20, 2012 at 9:49 am

Bank of America Corporation (NYSE: BAC) was the victim of a nasty rumor on Monday that sent shares south.  The stock is still at a substantial discount to book value ...
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Fracking Did Not Pollute Pennsylvania Water

Posted: March 19, 2012 at 7:19 am

The US Environmental Protection Agency has been testing homeowners’ wells around Dimock, Pennsylvania, trying to determine if the water has been polluted the hydraulic fracturing (fracking) process used to extract ...
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Was MetLife Improperly Hosed? (MET)

Posted: March 14, 2012 at 9:52 am

If you were preparing for the bank stress tests all week (and last week), chances are high that MetLife, Inc. (NYSE: MET) was not on your list of companies which ...
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Why I am Disappointed in J.P.Morgan’s Dividend Hike & Buyback Plan (JPM, BAC, WFC)

Posted: March 14, 2012 at 7:43 am

J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) was truly a shoe-in as far as whether or not the bank was going to pass the latest stress tests or not.  CEO ...
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Looking for Big Dividends & Buybacks After Stress Tests (JPM, WFC, C, BAC, BK, STT, GS, MS)

Posted: March 12, 2012 at 12:34 pm

The next wave of stress tests on the U.S banks is due to come out by the end of this week.  The Federal Reserve is expected to show that bank ...
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Beyond Greece: More Questions Than Answers Over Future of CDS Markets

Posted: March 8, 2012 at 3:04 pm

Whether or not the Greek debt deal is finally (finally, finally) reached, the next big question outside if Greece will default again is what exactly the implications are for the ...
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After Bank Stress Tests: Dividend & Buyback Predictions… A Double? (JPM, WFC, BK, STT, BAC, C, GS, MS)

Posted: March 8, 2012 at 12:35 pm

The next wave of stress tests on the U.S banks is due in the coming week.  While many of the banks have reportedly been asking regulators to be less transparent, there ...
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Will Taxpayers Get Burned By First Solar? (FSLR, TAN, PBW)

Posted: February 29, 2012 at 10:39 am

First Solar, Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) is getting crushed with an 9% loss in its stock this morning.  The move is on the heels of earnings and a much lowered expectation ...
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Economy Killer: $6 Trillion In Fake Treasury Bonds? Gold Next?

Posted: February 17, 2012 at 10:10 am

If you want to know about bizarre versions counterfeit, this one takes the cake.  A report out of Switzerland note that Italian anti-Mafia prosecutors ordered a seizure in Switzerland of... get this.. ...
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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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