Reuters:Â Â China and the US vowed close ties to bring the economy out of recession. Reuters:Â Â Microsoft (MSFT) and Yahoo! (YHOO) are close to a search deal. Reuters:Â Â The Senate may drop…
Reuters: Microsoft’s (MSFT) results and forecast were weak. Reuters:Â Â CIT (CIT) may sell its aviation finance business. Reuters:Â Â Fatigue at the Fed is leading to questions about its expanded role. Reuters:Â Â Twitter…
Capital One Financial Corp. (NYSE: COF) and American Express Company (NYSE: AXP) are historically about as similar of companies as they come. Yet at the same time, they are about as different…
This week will mark the first crest of earnings season as we have 11 of the 30 DJIA components reporting earnings this week alone. On Tuesday, we have earnings from Caterpillar Inc.…
These are some of the top pre-market analyst upgrades and positive initiations we have seen early this Thursday morning: American Express (AXP) Raised to Neutral from Underweight at JPMorgan. CarMax (KMX) Started…
Reuters:Â Â The head of a Congressional watchdog committee is pushing for a consumer protection agency. Reuters:Â Â China defended its export policies against a WTO complaint. Reuters:Â Â Citigroup (C) intends to raise the…
Deutsche Bank says that the commercial real estate market in America will not recover until 2017. Richard Parkus, Deutsche Bank head of Commercial Mortgage-backed Securities and Asset-Backed Securities Synthetics Research, told Reuters…
Reuters:Â Â Obama proposed sweeping reform for financial industry. Reuters:Â Â Â A number of large banks repaid TARP. (JPM)(GS)(BBT)(COP)(STT)(AXP)(USB) Reuters:Â Â Consumer prices show inflation is in check. Reuters:Â Â China could still be a big…
The short interest in most large banks fell very sharply for the period ending May 29, an indication that traders believe that TARP repayments and ongoing strong earnings mean the fate of American…
Reuters: The Supreme Court delays Chrysler deal. Reuters:  The cleared ten banks to repay TARP include JPMorgan (JPM), Goldmand Sachs (GS), American Express (AXP), Cpaital One(COF), State Street (STT), BBT (BBT), Morgan…
The Treasury is finally allowing some of the TARP recipient banks that posed the least systematic risk to begin repaying the Treasury’s preferred stock funds. This will get these institutions out from…
Reuters:Â Â Rio Tinto (RTP) has killed a deal with Chinalco for one with BHP (BHP). Reuters:Â Â US regulators insisted JP Morgan (JPM) and Amex (AXP) raise money to exit the TARP. Reuters:Â Â …
The waves of capital raising continues. American Express Company (NYSE: AXP), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM), Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS), and Bank of America Corporation (NYSE: BAC) are just the leading…
Reuters:Â Â Global consumer confidence is improving. Reuters:Â Â GM (GM) filed for Chapter 11 and expects a quick exit. Reuters:Â Â Most US retailers probably had sales drop in May. Reuters:Â Â China gave Geithner…
Robert Zoellick, the head of the World Bank, recently said that the current efforts to right the world’s economy are wholly inadequate. It is a position in which he has been joined…
