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

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)

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)

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)

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)

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

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

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)

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

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

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)

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)

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

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)

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)

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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