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GE Full Earnings Primer (GE)

General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) is on deck for earnings Friday morning.  While the whole market has been hanging on…

Best Performing Sectors This Week: Cancer Stocks, Home Furnishing, Aircraft Leasing

Regions Claims Profitability, Slips A Mickey To Bears (RF)

Regions Financial Corp. (NYSE: RF) filed its annual meeting presentation this morning in an SEC filing, and in that filing,…

JPMorgan Chase Shows How It’s Done (JPM, FAS)

JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) rose about 7% yesterday ahead of this morning’s earnings announcement along with other major…

General Growth And Another Burden For Bank Stocks

General Growth (GGP), the big mall owner, filed for bankruptcy, as many experts thought it would. The company has $27…

Looking For The “Real” Investor

The head of The New York Stock Exchange is questioning the viability of the tremendous March market rally. He contends…

Fidelity National Financial Ups The Offering Ante (FNF)

Fidelity National Financial, Inc. (NYSE: FNF) has priced its secondary offering this morning, and the result is that it ended…

Disclosing Bank “Stress Test” Numbers: Good Way To Cause Panic

The government is close to having the results of its “stress tests” of large US banks. It has taken the…

If Citigroup Gets Back Over $5.00….

Citigroup, Inc. (NYSE: C) was believed by many to be on the verge of death just six short weeks ago. …

Goldman Sachs Prices Its Own Secondary (GS)

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS) has announced the pricing of its highly anticipated secondary offering of 40,650,407 shares…

A New Boss To Be Bossed By TARP Overseers

The Administration wants to put longtime Merrill Lynch executive Herb Allison in charge of the $700 billion TARP program. Allison…

Goldman Sachs (GS) And The Secret Of Bank Earnings

Two things, which happened within hours of one another, will probably determine the value of bank stocks for the next…

Goldman Sachs (GS) Hits The Cover Off The Ball

Maybe the recovery of the major banks and investment houses is not a mirage. Maybe it is the real deal.…

Were Wells Fargo (WFC) Earnings Worse Than They Seemed?

Critics have started to come out of the wall and say that Wells Fargo’s (WFC) earnings are not as good…

Genworth’s Worth? (GNW)

Genworth Financial Inc. (NYSE: GNW) is still up significantly from its post-crash lows.  Unfortunately, that is where the good news…