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Investing
The 100 Hardest Working Brands In The World
There are a number of ways to rank brand values. One of the most important is the level at which a brand contributes to the market value of a public company. 24/7…
COF Coverage Page 17
9:10am ET
Investing
Top Day Trader Alerts (FOLD, BRCD, COF, FITB, SCLN, TRID, WFC)
These are this morning’s top day trader alerts and active trader alert stocks for Monday. We have more details on volume and price analysis on each stock covered at VSInvestor.com: Amicus Therapeutics…
7:23am ET
Banking, finance, and taxes
Top Analyst Upgrades (COF, CMCSA, CMA, CNXT, CVG, DEPO, DTSI, QSFT, SY, WFC, WEN)
There were many more upgrades than downgrades seen early this Monday morning. These are top upgrades and positive research calls from Wall Street analysts we have seen so far: Capital One Financial…
8:18am ET
Investing
Top Analyst Upgrades (COF, EBAY, GS, JBLU, LTM, MA, SNDK, UPS, WYNN)
There are still many upgrades coming considering the light and shortened week. These are this Wednesday’s top early bird analyst upgrades and positive research calls that we have seen: Capital One (COF)…
9:25am ET
Banking, finance, and taxes
Paulson Adds Citi to B of A, Goldman, and JPMorgan Holdings (C, BAC, COF, GS, JPM)
Paulson & Co. Inc. has become a very influential firm that can now move a market after John Paulson made billions from properly betting against the fate of the US financial and…
7:58am ET
Investing
Top Analyst Upgrades (AMD, AXP, ACI, ASH, STD, BRCD, COF, DFS, HIBB, MSCC, RCL, ZMH)
There were quite a few analyst upgrades and positive research calls this Monday morning. These are the calls we have seen from Wall Street firms early this morning with about two hours…
5:11pm ET
Banking, finance, and taxes
Paulson, Esteemed Bank Short Seller, Now Long Financials (BAC, COF, GS, JPM, FITB, FHN, MI, PBCT, SKF, RF, STT, STI)
John Paulson has been well known as a hedge fund manager because of the profits he made from short selling many of the key financial stocks. Yet his new filing shows a…
4:14am ET
Investing
Short Seller Rush Out Of Financial Stocks, Tech, And Retail
Short sellers moved out of financial shares in great numbers. As of August 11, the short interest in Citigroup (C) fell 71% to 343 million shares. Share sold short in GE (GE)…
3:41pm ET
Banking, finance, and taxes
Am-Ex and Capital One Both Beat and Both Disappoint (AXP, COF)
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…
7:18am ET
Investing
Top Analyst Upgrades (AXP, KMX, CNQ, COF, CERN, CVD, ENOC, QLGC, QCOM, DIS)
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…
6:42am ET
Banking, finance, and taxes
When High Charge-Offs Start Looking Good (COF)
Capital One Financial Corp. (NYSE: COF) has some more dismal data regarding the monthly credit card defaults and delinquencies. The defaults rose again in June, bolstered by weak economic data and higher…
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Banking, finance, and taxes
S&P Looking For More Bank Losses (WFC, CMA, USB, BBT, RF, COF, FITB, HBAN, SNV, WTNY, FAS)
Standard & Poor’s may still have at least some relevance in its debt ratings. This morning we saw a wave of downgrades at banks by the debt ratings agency on systematic-risk and…
7:43am ET
Media
Sprint (S) Still Near Top Of MSN “Worst Customer Service” List
Palm (PALM) may not have had much of a choice in terms of which cellular company was going to market its new Pre. AT&T (T) and Verizon Wireless (VZ)(VOD) were probably not…
3:02am ET
Investing
Media Digest 6/10/2009 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg
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…
7:55am ET
Banking, finance, and taxes
Getting Out From Under the TARP (AXP, BK, BBT, COF, GS, JPM, STT, USB)
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…