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Interchange Fee Changes: What You Really Need to Know Now (MA, V, BAC, C, COF, TCB)

Posted: December 16, 2010 at 5:13 pm

You most likely saw the carnage that came to MasterCard Incorporated (NYSE: MA) and Visa, Inc. (NYSE: V) today.  The markets were braced for more changes coming to the interchange ...
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Greater Interchange Fee Wrath from D.C. (MA, V)

Posted: December 16, 2010 at 2:49 pm

Credit card clearing and processing giants Mastercard Incorporated (NYSE: MA) and Visa, Inc. (NYSE: V) are getting hammered on strong volume today.  The culprit is probably easy to guess... interchange ...
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Short Sellers’ Mass Exit In High-Priced Leaders (AMZN, AAPL, BIDU, BRK-B, FFIV, GS, GOOG, IBM, ISRG, MA, NFLX, POT, PCLN, CRM, VMW, WYNN)

Posted: December 10, 2010 at 10:23 am

The short sellers ran for cover in the actively traded high priced market leaders at the end of November.  With only a few exceptions of our "high-priced leaders," almost all ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (12/9/2010)

Posted: December 9, 2010 at 8:00 am

Updated throughout the day. MasterCard (NYSE: MA) will buy Travelex (Reuters) Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) will sharply cut management pay (WSJ) Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) did not complete a buy-out of ...
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Media Digest (12/9/2010) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: December 9, 2010 at 4:06 am

Seventeen billionaires including Facebook co-founders Mark Zuckerberg and Dustin Moskovitz have agreed to pledge most of their money to charity. (www.thegivingpledge.org) (Reuters) WikiLeaks supporters shut down the MasterCard (NYSE: MA) and Visa ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors 12.8.2010 Mastercard Attack, BP Spill

Posted: December 8, 2010 at 8:29 am

Updated throughout the day. Hackers have attacked the MasterCard (NYSE: MA) website in retaliation for the credit card companies withdrawal of the ability to use its plastic for contributions to ...
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Very Mixed Short Interest in High-Priced Leaders (AMZN, AAPL, BRK-B, BIDU, GS, GOOG, IBM, ISRG, MA, NFLX, POT, PCLN, CRM, VMW, WYNN)

Posted: November 26, 2010 at 11:17 am

Short sellers have started to come back into some select names again.  While we often look for patterns, it is some of of these high-priced stocks that often offer the ...
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Visa Gives Shareholders A Pay Raise (V, MA)

Posted: October 20, 2010 at 4:45 pm

Visa Inc. (NYSE: V) just joined the ranks of companies hiking their annualized dividend  payments.  This is the second annual hike in a row.  The increase was bumped up by ...
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AmEx Now Getting To Be Worth A Look (AXP, MA, V)

Posted: October 5, 2010 at 2:39 pm

Credit metrics are still continuing to show modest improvements across the land, yet recent government action via a Department of Justice antitrust suit has put the hit on shares of ...
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Media Digest 10/4/2010 Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: October 4, 2010 at 4:05 am

Reuters:   The American Sociology Review said a group of mortgages aimed at racially segregated neighborhoods helped cause the mortgage crisis. Reuters:   Sanofi-Aventis made an $18.5 billion offer for Genzyme (NASDAQ: ...
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The Death Of Credit Cards

Posted: September 9, 2010 at 4:51 am

Government statistics have shown that for several months American have cut back on the use of credit. The news would seem to be bad for credit card companies, but there ...
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The Continually Shrinking Consumer Credit (V, MA, DFS, AXP)

Posted: September 8, 2010 at 4:22 pm

Americans are still shrinking their credit according to the latest data from the Federal Reserve.  July marked a sixth consecutive drop and the seasonally adjusted rate of credit contraction came ...
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VALUE INVESTING: Ultimate Stock Pickers’ Buys & Sells (XOM, MSFT, AIG, GS, BRK.B, MA, GE, CMCSA, UNH, OXY, JNJ, PFE)

Posted: September 7, 2010 at 12:57 pm

The Morningstar Ultimate Stock-Pickers Team is featured in an article by Greggory Warren today has many top buys and sells that should be of interest to value investors.  This stock ...
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Credit Card Debt Hits Eight-Year Low

Posted: August 25, 2010 at 5:18 am

Credit research company TransUnion said that credit card debt hit an eight-year low in the second quarter of 2010. It is likely to go lower. The average combined debt of ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (8/2/2010)

Posted: August 2, 2010 at 9:11 am

Updated throughout the day. AT&T (NYSE: T), Verizon Wireless, T-Mobile, and Barclays will compete with Visa (NYSE: V) and MasterCard (NYSE: MA) in the online payment business. (WSJ) David Wehner ...
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