If someone told you that Charles Schwab Corp. (NASDAQ:SCHW) was back in positive territory on the day the market fell 300 points in the DJIA AND on a day that many of…
Yesterday evening’s FED FILINGS shows some interesting increases in holdings in Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:BRK-A). He boosted holdings in his financial stocks, and it is helping the stocks today. Keep in…
Chuck Prince is likely to be on the hot seat again, but, his troubles may be worse than in the past. According to The FT the bank "lost more than $500m in…
According to several media reports, the SEC is looking at the books of Wall St.’s five largest brokers. The target is undisclosed problems with mortgage securities and loans for private equity transactions…
According to Reuters, Bear Stearns (BSC) has several potential buyers including JP Morgan (JPM) and Bank of America (BAC) Reuters writes that a court overturned a patent infringement award won by Alcatel-Lucent…
Short selling in banks is always an interesting area to watch, particularly in the midst of a credit lending debacle that has led to a lower credit ranking and higher loan loss…
Below are key short interest statistics for July. The figures are as of July 13 compared to June 15, 2007 Largest Short Positions Company …
(AMTD) TD Ameritrade trading up 1% after beating and raising target.(AVCI) Avici Systems trading up 29% on higher revenue guidance after earnings.(BAC) $1.28 EPS vs $1.20 estimate.(CAL) Continental $2.10 vs 1.84 estimate.(CTXS)…
Stock Tickers: KO, INTC, UTX, FCX, HON, JCI, CAT, SLB, MER, C, JPM, WFC, BAC On tonight’s MAD MONEY on CNBC, Jim Cramer wanted to talk about all the earnings coming out…
THURSDAYAdvanced Micro Devices (NYSDAQ:AMD)Ameritrade (NASDAQ:AMTD)Bank of America (NYSE:BAC)Bank of New York (NYSE:BK)Cemex (NYSE:CX/ADR)Continental Airlines (NYSE:CAL)Cypress Semi (NYSE:CY)Dow Jones (NYSE:DJ)Fifth Third Bancorp (NASDAQ:FITB)First Data (NYSE:FDC)Gilead Sciences (NASDAQ:GILD)Google (NASDAQ:GOOG)Harley-Davidson (NYSE:HOG)Honeywelll (NYSE:HON)Illinois Tool Works (NYSE:ITW)International…
Stock Tickers: JPM, BAC, USB, NCC, STT, C, WFC, BK, STI The large banking stocks saw a fairly large increase in short interest from May to June in 2007. That is after…
ACLI cut to Hold at Deutsche Bank.ACOR raised to Buy at B of A.AGO cut to Underweight at JPMorgan.ANAD started as Buy at Oppenheimer.ANET cut to Neutral at Baird.ATHR started as Buy…
Stock Tickers: JPM, STI, USB, NCC, STT, BAC, C, WFC, BK The short interest for MAY 2007 is out., and there is notreally any trend in the large money-center and super-regional banks…
