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Bracing For The Euro Without Greece… Other PIIGS Too (EWG, EWQ, FXE, EWI, IRE, IRL, NBG, GREK, EWP, STD, BBVA, VGK, FEZ)

Posted: May 23, 2012 at 12:20 pm

So much for any great help from the ECB, France, Germany, and any other entity being able to help the Euro stay together.  Rumors have been out that nations have ...
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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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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell — May 18, 2012

Posted: May 18, 2012 at 4:05 pm

The three major US stock indexes opened somewhat higher this morning as investors paid little attention to last night’s downgrade of Spain’s banks (more coverage here). With little economic data ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (ANGI, RATE, IRE, DNDN, LVS, LNKD, MU, MS, PSX, CRM, SNDK, S, TUP, YELP)

Posted: May 18, 2012 at 8:37 am

These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls this Friday. Angie's List, Inc. (NASDAQ: ANGI) Started as Outperform at Raymond James. ...
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ECB ‘Actions’ & Threat Of Run On The Banks (NBG, GREK, CCH, IRE, STD, BBVA)

Posted: May 16, 2012 at 11:43 am

The European Central Bank is said to be freezing assets or considering freezing assets or halting monetary policy operations to some banks in Greece as the Greeks consider an exit ...
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Can Greek Banks Survive A Euro Exit? Which PIIGS Are Next?

Posted: May 15, 2012 at 4:01 pm

The Europeans need to make a decision soon.  It is time to deal with Greece, then the markets can decide how they will deal with the Greek banking system.  The ...
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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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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (AAPL, IRE, BWLD, CYMI, DPZ, ETH, FITB, ISRG, JCP, LEG, MCD, RF, SYMC, TWC, UTX, WMT)

Posted: April 25, 2012 at 8:17 am

These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls this Wednesday. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) Raised to Outperform at Scotia; Maintained Buy ...
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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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Analyst Kicks The Irish While They Are Down (IRE)

Posted: March 22, 2012 at 11:18 am

The Bank of Ireland (NYSE: IRE) is getting hit hard this morning.  Today's move is not due to new developments in the lands of the PIIGS, is not on a ...
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Can New CFO & Split Structure Save The Bank of Ireland? (IRE)

Posted: February 1, 2012 at 11:52 am

The Bank of Ireland (NYSE: IRE) may have been a dead stock (or ADR) by most counts.  The recapitalization and dilution process here has been almost as uncanny as the bailouts ...
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Fitch Joins E.U. Downgrade Waves (EWK, IRE, EIRL, IRL, EWI, TI, EWP, STD)

Posted: January 27, 2012 at 1:30 pm

Fitch has joined in on the European sovereign credit rating downgrades.  First it was S&P, but we might argue that this should have mostly been factored in already.  Is it ...
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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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