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Are Bank Guarantees Coming For Europe? (NBG, IRE, STD, BBVA, DB, BCS, UBS)

Posted: May 21, 2012 at 2:30 pm

It is never a good thing to see a run on the banks.  That is what the fears were recently indicating in Greece.  The problem is that Spain is a ...
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Can Big U.S. Banks Escape Europe’s Malaise?… Meredith Whitney Chimes In (DB, STD, NBG, BAC, JPM, C, WFC)

Posted: May 3, 2012 at 2:31 pm

The financial sector was the best performing index out of the S&P 500 during the first quarter.  That was when investors were decoupling from the woes of Europe.  With European ...
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The Return of the Euro-Bank Fears (NBG, STD, BBVA, IRE, DB, UBS, CS, BCS, RBS)

Posted: May 2, 2012 at 11:45 am

The U.S. stock markets have by and large been decoupled from the woes of Europe most of this year, as well as the slowing of growth in the key markets ...
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Euro Bank Bashing Comes Back With Force (BCS, DB, STD, BBVA, IRE, NBG)

Posted: April 4, 2012 at 2:38 pm

European banks are taking it right on the chin, or maybe the chin and the nose.  The reports of a bad Spanish debt auction managed to push up borrowing costs ...
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Solar Company BrightSource Preps IPO (GS, C, DB, GOOG)

Posted: March 22, 2012 at 8:56 am

Solar thermal generation provider BrightSource Energy Inc. has filed an amended Form S-1 with the US Securities and Exchange Commission for an IPO of 6.9 million shares at a price ...
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Media Digest (3/22/2012) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: March 22, 2012 at 6:37 am

Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) tries to end a legal case concerning fraud in its CDO sales. (Reuters) China’s factory activity slows, as evidenced by the HSBC flash PMI of 48.1, a low reading. ...
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Moody’s Bank Downgrade Warnings Look Very Staged (CS, MS, UBS, BCS, DB, GS, HBC, BAC, NMR, FAS)

Posted: February 16, 2012 at 9:14 am

If you think ratings agencies do not quite matter any longer, today may be a reminder that they can still create at least some nervousness even if they are just ...
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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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