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E*TRADE’s Secondary Drop Is Actually Good For Holders (ETFC, SCHW, AMTD, MS, GS)

Posted: February 24, 2011 at 12:35 pm

E*TRADE Financial Corporation (NASDAQ: ETFC) is getting hit hard today on news that Ken Griffin's Citadel Investment Group has sold shares in the stock in a registered offering.  Don't be ...
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Morgan Stanley Earnings Stand Apart From Goldman Sachs (MS, GS, AMTD, SCHW, WFC)

Posted: January 20, 2011 at 10:35 am

Profits at Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) rose 88% in the fourth quarter compared with the same period a year ago. Competitor Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: GS) reported yesterday that ...
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Online Brokerage Firm Earnings: Return of Retail Investors (AMTD, SCHW, ETFC)

Posted: January 18, 2011 at 10:12 am

The S&P 500 Index rose about 17% in 2010, a good year by any measure. That rise apparently indicates that investors' appetite for risk is growing. But is that actually ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (AB, AMAT, ARMH, T, ERJ, HAS, IACI, INTC, KLAC, MAT, MRK, NVLS, POT, SWY, AMTD, VSEA)

Posted: January 14, 2011 at 8:17 am

These are some of this Friday's top analyst calls with upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research firms. AllianceBernstein Holding L.P. (NYSE: AB) Cut to Neutral and $26 ...
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The Good, The Bad, And The Irrelevant: No GM Shares For The Masses

Posted: November 12, 2010 at 10:34 am

Irrelevant CNBC has reported that GM will not allocate any shares in its IPO for customers of Charles Schwab (NASDAQ: SCHW), TDAmeritrade (NASDAQ: AMTD), and E*Trade (NASDAQ: EFTC). That means ...
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The Case For an E*Trade Buyout Ahead (ETFC, AMTD, SCHW)

Posted: October 27, 2010 at 11:23 am

It has been a week since E*TRADE Financial Corporation (NASDAQ: ETFC) reported earnings.  We have also seen earnings this week from TD AMERITRADE Holding Corporation (NASDAQ: AMTD), and The Charles ...
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Individual Investor Leaves The Market? He Is Just Asleep

Posted: October 4, 2010 at 5:18 am

Almost every piece of data on major market volume shows that the number of shares traded on an average day continues to drop. There are a great number of guesses ...
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Major Analyst Upgrades/Downgrades (9/24/2010) (AMTD)(CSX)

Posted: September 24, 2010 at 8:04 am

Piper Jaffray upgrades shares of Kenexato Overweight and raised the its target to $29 from $13. BNP Paribas was downgraded to "equal weight" from "overweight" by Morgan Stanley on valuation ...
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Active Trader Alert Stocks (AAPL, ARNA, EXPE, LEN, ID, OPEN, AMTD)

Posted: September 20, 2010 at 8:27 am

There are many stocks on the move this Monday morning for active traders.  Stocks we are tracking are Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL), Arena Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ: ARNA), Expedia Inc. (NASDAQ: ...
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Endless Dollars For Share Buyback Plans (GPS, HPQ, MRVL, INTU, JWN, RSH, RL, DTV, DISCA, AMTD, IT)

Posted: September 1, 2010 at 9:05 am

Buybacks may not be considered the best return of capital by many investors and market pundits, but they are M&A-alternatives for management of companies.  The amount of share buybacks announced ...
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Can Ameritrade Buyback Enough Stock? (AMTD)

Posted: August 9, 2010 at 3:22 pm

TD AMERITRADE Holding Corporation (NASDAQ: AMTD) is seeing a gain today after it announced a buyback plan of up to 30 million shares of common stock.  When you consider its ...
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Gabelli’s New Focus Five Picks (HSNI, MJN, AMTD, TIVO, WFT, CVC, KOF, STZ, MA, ESI)

Posted: May 3, 2010 at 12:01 pm

GAMCO Investors, Inc. (NYSE: GBL) is the parent of Gabelli & Company and is run by the very well known investment manager Mario Gabelli.  This morning came the release of ...
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America’s Most Successful Second Place Companies

Posted: April 13, 2010 at 3:28 am

“Never look over your shoulder. Something might be gaining on you.”--Satchel Page Jack Welsh once said that GE would sell any division of the conglomerate that was not No.1 or ...
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Electronic Trading Price Wars (AMTD, SCHW, ETFC, IBKC)

Posted: February 2, 2010 at 1:26 pm

Shares of electronic trading firms are under a bit of pressure today over fears of more price wars in the highly competitive electronic trading arena.  The pressure comesx after Fidelity ...
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Media Digest 1/20/2010 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: January 20, 2010 at 3:42 am

Reuters:   Obama said he will not let companies who owe the US taxes to bid for government work. Reuters:   Republican Scott Brown won the Senate race in Massachusetts putting the ...
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