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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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Media Digest (1/18/2012) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT

Posted: January 18, 2012 at 6:48 am

Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) founder and former CEO Jerry Yang leaves the company’s board. (Reuters) The World Bank sharply cuts global growth forecasts. (Reuters) Greece and private creditors race to settle ...
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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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Major Earnings Previews For The Week Ahead (C, WFC, EBAY, GS, XLNX, AXP, BAC, GOOG, INTC, IBM, ISRG, MSFT, UNH, GE, SLB)

Posted: January 16, 2012 at 10:27 am

This shortened week is the first week full of many major companies reporting earnings season.  We will have a clear direction for the financial leaders and many of the technology ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (1/13/2012) Kodak Funds, Bank Of America Plans

Posted: January 13, 2012 at 8:48 am

Updated throughout the day Kodak (NYSE:EK) has approached Citigroup (NYSE: C) for money to tide it through Chapter 11 (Bloomberg) Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) was given a mandate by ...
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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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The 10 Most Hated Companies in America

Posted: January 13, 2012 at 6:46 am

Customers, employees, shareholders and taxpayers hate large corporations for many reasons. 24/7 Wall St. reviewed a lengthy list of corporations for which there is substantial research data to choose the ...
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In Layoff Wave, a New Threat of Economic Retreat

Posted: January 13, 2012 at 6:43 am

The public and the press usually measure unemployment one month at a time as data from ADP and the federal government are issued. The jobs market can also be tracked ...
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What’s Important in the Financial World (1/13/2012) iPhone Riots, Goldman Oil Price Forecast

Posted: January 13, 2012 at 6:40 am

Layoffs have surged recently. There is no telling why they happened all at about the same time. Drug giant Novartis (NYSE: NVS) said it will cut nearly 2,000 jobs. Food ...
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Media Digest (1/13/2012) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: January 13, 2012 at 6:39 am

TPG may invest $1 billion in troubled Olympus. (Reuters) President Obama to ask for a $1.2 trillion increase in the national debt ceiling. (Reuters) China’s foreign currency reserves drop to ...
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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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What’s Important in the Financial World (1/12/2012) China Car Sales, Foreclosures Fall

Posted: January 12, 2012 at 6:27 am

Foreclosures fell for the first time in four years, according to research firm Realtytrac. The firm said “Foreclosure filings were reported on 205,024 U.S. properties in December, a decrease of 9 ...
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The 2012 Trade: Dump Utilities, Buy Banks… So Far (XLU, XLF, BAC, JPM, AEP, DUK)

Posted: January 11, 2012 at 9:22 am

The trade in 2011 was to go out and turn utility stocks into the new investment for retirees seeking income.  They couldn't exactly get any big yield in certificates of ...
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Media Digest (1/11/2012) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: January 11, 2012 at 6:51 am

Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) to launch its first tablet PC late this year. (Reuters) NYSE Euronext (NYSE: NYX) and Deutsche Boerse will try to save their merger with a case for EC ...
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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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