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Media Digest (10/27/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: October 27, 2011 at 6:18 am

Eurozone officials decide on a second bailout of Greece and a larger EFSF. (Reuters) Private financial firms have positive reactions to the Obama plan to aid more homeowners with underwater ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (T, BK, CELL, FDO, FRX, HWAY, JASO, LVLT, LOW, NFLX, RGLD, VECO)

Posted: October 25, 2011 at 8:26 am

These are some of this Monday's top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this morning. AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) Cut to Market Perform at Bernstein. ...
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24/7 Wall St. Top Analyst Calls of the Week (BK, BEAM, CTIC, CSCO, DMD, FSLR, GE, GS, RAX, S, VPRT, AAPL)

Posted: October 15, 2011 at 8:54 am

Each morning 24/7 Wall St. compiles a summary of the analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall St. research firms that are having an impact on stocks. At the ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (ALTR, BK, BRCM, CTIC, CLWR, COP, DG, GFI, HTS, KR, NTES, NVAX, RAX)

Posted: October 13, 2011 at 8:26 am

These are some of this Thursday's top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen having an impact from Wall Street research calls. Altera Corporation (NASDAQ: ALTR) Cut to Neutral at Baird. Bank ...
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Earnings Hat Trick: Ignore Bank Book Values (JPM, BAC, C, WFC, GS, MS, BBT, BK, COF, FITB, PNC, STI)

Posted: October 12, 2011 at 12:09 pm

You hear it all the time... "This bank is so cheap against book value that it cannot go lower."  Book value, and even tangible book value, has become a pre-recession ...
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Media Digest (10/12/2010) Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: October 12, 2011 at 6:21 am

Alcoa (NYSE: AA) earnings bring markets lower. (Reuters) Senate defeats the Obama jobs bill. (Reuters) Sony (NYSE: SNE) says a third party tried to sign into 93,000 PlayStation accounts. (Reuters) ...
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Media Digest (10/5/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: October 5, 2011 at 6:21 am

Moody’s (NYSE: MCO) cuts Italy’s debt rating. (Reuters) Bernanke says the U.S. economy is close to the flat line. (Reuters) New Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone 4S does not impress investors. ...
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Northern Trust Joining Trust Bank Layoffs? (NTRS, BK, STT)

Posted: September 14, 2011 at 9:46 am

Northern Trust Corporation (NASDAQ: NTRS) is supposed to be one of the premier trust bank operations that caters to the wealthy and to pension funds.  The current economy and low ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (9/1/2011) Bank of NYMellon CEO Fired

Posted: September 1, 2011 at 8:50 am

Updated throughout the day. Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) has agree with New York State officials to end robo-signing practices (WSJ) Bank of NY Mellon (NYSE: BK) CEO Robert Kelly was ...
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Media Digest (9/1/2011) Reuters, WSJ, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: September 1, 2011 at 6:29 am

IMF head Lagarde shows independence from Europe in many of her decisions. (Reuters) The Justice Department sues to block AT&T (NYSE: T) buyout of T-Mobile. (Reuters) Sony’s (NYSE: SNE) tablet ...
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Buffett & Berkshire Hathaway Stock Holdings, A to L (BRK-B, BRK-A, AXP, BK, KO, CDCO, COP, COST, DG, XOM, GCI, GE, GSK, JNJ, KFT, LZ)

Posted: August 15, 2011 at 4:25 pm

Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-B, BRK-A) and Warren Buffett have just released the latest holdings of U.S.-listed equities as of June 30, 2011. These public stock holdings have been broken ...
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BofA Sheds More Credit Card Business… Changing the Credit Sector (BAC, TD, COF, WFC, RF, C, BK, AXP, V, MA)

Posted: August 15, 2011 at 9:40 am

Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC) is selling more assets as it raises capital in an effort to stem the drop in the company's share price related to its purchase ...
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Media Digest (8/12/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: August 12, 2011 at 6:12 am

Retail data becomes the focus of Wall St. (Reuters) China locates another 22 fake Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) stores. (Reuters) The Nikkei drops below the important 9,000 mark. (Reuters) Brent drops ...
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How To Explain Negative Interest Rates (BK, STT)

Posted: August 4, 2011 at 5:14 pm

The floor for interest rates is ZERO.  Right?  Apparently not when extreme conditions arise.  Those extreme conditions came today as investors moved solidly into the safety of very short-dated ...
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Major Growth Trends Continue… Doubling ETF Assets By 2015 (BK, BX, STT, SIL, GDXJ, VOO, AMLP, ELD, REMX)

Posted: July 15, 2011 at 10:23 am

At the end of 2010, US ETFs held assets of $1.005 trillion. By the end of 2015 that number will more than double to $2.091 trillion. That's a compound annual ...
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