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Goldman Sachs (GS) has now paid back the TARP funds which removes the firm from what it must consider the government’s…
Reuters:  Airlines are cutting back on first class seating. Reuters:  Xstrata wants merger talks with mining rival Anglo American. Reuters:  Employers…
E*TRADE Financial Corp. (NASDAQ: ETFC) has been the worst of the online brokerage stock. With some of the crazy mortgage…
Reuters:  Investors are putting money into emerging markets except Eastern Europe. Reuters:  Stanford will go to court for a $8 billion…
Bank of America’s (BAC) addiction to giving its senior employees huge bonuses has not ended. These used to be based…
Reuters:  Obama proposed sweeping reform for financial industry. Reuters:   A number of large banks repaid TARP. (JPM)(GS)(BBT)(COP)(STT)(AXP)(USB) Reuters:  Consumer prices…
Reuters:  The US outlined new financial market reforms. Reuters:  Obama lobbied MDs on his new healthcare package. Reuters:  Russia hosted…
Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BofA-Merrill), the new name for the brokerage arm of Bank of America Corporation (NYSE: BAC), …
Market in Asia were mixed. The Nikkei dropped 10% to 9,961. The Hang Seng dropped .4% to 18,718. The Shanghai…
The short interest in most large banks fell very sharply for the period ending May 29, an indication that traders believe…
Wall St. firms and the large money center banks with investment and M&A arms have continued to insist that their…
The House Oversight Committee has subpoenaed the Fed to get information relating to the Bank of America (BAC) buyout of…
Reuters: The Supreme Court delays Chrysler deal. Reuters:  The cleared ten banks to repay TARP include JPMorgan (JPM), Goldmand Sachs…
The first week of May, crude moved around just over $50. Today it traded just above $69, a 38% increase…
The Treasury is finally allowing some of the TARP recipient banks that posed the least systematic risk to begin repaying…
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