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Greek Debt & Austerity Deal, Cheered With a Thud (NBG, GREK, FXE, ALU, DB, STD)

Posted: February 9, 2012 at 9:06 am

Reports are out that parties in Greece have finally agreed to a debt and austerity deal that will allow it to get its bailout funding and to remain part of ...
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What’s Important in the Financial World (2/9/2012) A Mortgage Deal With Banks, Yahoo! to Sell Alibaba?

Posted: February 9, 2012 at 6:38 am

As one set of government suits against America’s largest banks is settled, another is about to begin. Media reports say that federal regulators and state attorneys general have set a ...
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What’s Important in the Financial World (2/2/2012) AstraZeneca Layoffs, Sony Losses

Posted: February 2, 2012 at 6:47 am

Today is Facebook Day. It will be remembered that way as long as there are IPOs. The Facebook public offering has every aspect of what makes IPOs the focus of so ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (AMZN, ASH, BAC, C, CAT, DB, XOM, MWW, NEM, STX, SXC, WBSN, VRTX)

Posted: February 1, 2012 at 8:18 am

These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street brokerage and research firms this Wednesday morning. Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) Maintained Neutral but cut ...
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Media Digest (12/16/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: December 16, 2011 at 6:27 am

Zynga posts at the high end of its IPO range and will raise $1 billion. (Reuters) Congress reaches a tentative deal to keep the government open. (Reuters) Bill Gross’s PIMCO Total ...
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French Bank Downgrades Shows Lack of Support for EU Bailout

Posted: December 9, 2011 at 6:40 am

Moody’s downgraded its long-term rating of Societe Generale to A1. Its ratings of Credit Agricole and BNP Paribas dropped to Aa3. If Moody’s had confidence in a solution to the eurozone debt crisis, ...
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Euro Banks on the Rise for Merkel/Sarkozy (STD, BBVA, IRE, CS, UBS, DB, NBG, BCS, RBS)

Posted: December 5, 2011 at 7:45 am

Sarkozy and Merkel have gone from killers of the markets to saviors of the market, and oddly enough there is no full resolution yet to the Euro Zone debt crisis ...
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European ADRs Surging on Global Central Bank Action (ALU, MT, BHP, STD, IRE, CS, UBS, DB, FTE, PHG, ERIC, NOK, NBG, SI, TI)

Posted: November 30, 2011 at 9:03 am

The action out of China's virtual easing by lowering reserve requirements was already a boost to global markets, but the coordinated central bank efforts of the U.S., Canada, Europe, Switzerland, ...
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European ADRs Dragging Down U.S. Trading (ALU, MT, BHP, STD, IRE, CS, UBS, DB, FTE, PHG, ERIC, NOK, NBG, SI, TI)

Posted: November 15, 2011 at 7:44 am

The Eurozone growth rate of 0.2% in the third quarter may have met expectations but this is just one more example that growth is so low already that getting out ...
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European ADRs Follow Italy Much Lower, Wrecking U.S. Market Gains (E, LUX, TI, ALU, MT, BHP, STD, IRE, CS, UBS, DB, FTE, PHG, ERIC, NOK, NBG, SI, EWI)

Posted: November 9, 2011 at 7:32 am

Well, it used to be Greece taking us down daily, but now it is the much larger concern of Italy.  The markets were supposed to be cheering that Silvio Berlusconi was ...
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MF Global and Corzine’s Folly

Posted: November 2, 2011 at 6:32 am

MF Global Holdings (NYSE: MF) became the first U.S. casualty of the European sovereign debt crisis, filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Monday. Chairman and chief executive Jon Corzine has ...
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European ADRs Leading The Charge Higher (ALU, MT, BHP, STD, IRE, CS, UBS, DB, FTE, PHG, ERIC, NOK, NBG, SI, TI, EWI, EWQ, EWG)

Posted: October 27, 2011 at 8:01 am

Greece and the rest of the PIIGS were hurting us for so long that it seems hard to believe that the Europeans are setting a 50% haircut for the Greek sovereign ...
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Ben & Jerry’s “Occupy Wall Street”

Posted: October 26, 2011 at 8:28 pm

Unilever (NYSE: UL) subsidiary Ben & Jerry’s has announced solidarity with “Occupy Wall Street,” even donating ice cream to hungry protestors at the movement’s makeshift headquarters’ in New York City’s ...
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Media Digest (10/24/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYTime, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: October 24, 2011 at 6:20 am

Obama to announce aid for student and home loans. Home loan proposals will include refinancing for underwater mortgages. (Reuters) EU leaders press Italy for more austerity measures. (Reuters) China’s October ...
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Banks Ready to Kill Greek Bailout

Posted: October 17, 2011 at 6:24 am

Several large banks, with Deutsche Bank (NYSE: DB) in the lead, are prepared to kill a bailout of Greece. Well-known DB chief Josef Ackermann says new plans to have banks ...
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