The sharp rally in technology stocks over the past two weeks has pushed short sellers out of the market. The short interest in Microsoft (MFST) fell 29% in the period ending May…
Reuters: Bears control the dollar because of concerns about the deficit and heal of the US economy. Reuters: Crunch time looms for the GM (GM) and Chrysler restructurings. Reuters: The US is…
Reuters: The Treasury is keeping banks guessing about when they can repay TARP funds. Reuters: Bank of America (BAC) has raised more than $13 billion in share sales. Reuters: Hewlett-Packard’s (HPQ) financial…
It is no secret that the banks that can pay the money back want out from under the Troubled Asset Relief Plan, or the TARP. It is also no secret that the…
It is no secret that several large banks want to pay back the TARP money that they took from the government in some cases against their will. Goldman Sachs (GS), Morgan Stanley…
Finally, the stress tests are out for the US banking and financial institutions. Of the banks, 10 of 19 banks need a combined $74 billion of equity.The good news is that a…
Twelve of the Fortune 500 CEOs are women. Just twelve. Over the next year, that number is likely to go up considerably because of a confluence of economic and financial factors that…
The twenty-five subprime lenders that originated $1 trillion in high interest loans between 2005 and 2007 got their funding from Wall St. banks that are now the beneficiaries of TARP money. According…
To call the triple-leverage financial ETF of the Direxion Financial Bull 3X Shares (NYSE: FAS) volatile would be the understatement of the year. It has become the day trading instrument of choice…
JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE:JPM) has created a new exchange traded note based on “the portfolio of midstream energy underlying the Alerian MLP Index.” The new structured investment is called the JPMorgan…
J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) has issued a negative bank research call for the major money center and super-regional banks this morning. Bank of America Corporation (NYSE: BAC), Citigroup, Inc.…
Stock research firm FBR has had trouble with its analysis about the banking industry before. It recently wrote that the US banking system needs at minimum $1 trillion in new tangible common…
Short sellers are not longer willing to gamble on a collapse in the share prices of America’s largest financial firms. Perhaps they think that the issue of nationalization has largely disappeared, the…
It seems that when Congress is not in session that there is at least some peace, some tranquility, and some notion of what the rules of the great financial game for tomorrow…
Douglas A. McIntyre The demands for the head of Citigroup (C) CEO Vikram Pandit have not ended and may rise to a crescendo again if the bank receives poor “stress test” ratings from the federal…