Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) reacted to today’s Fitch ‘warning’ about Eurozone contagion spreading to U.S. banks the worst of all of the “too big to fail” financial institutions today. What is odd…
Jon C. Ogg Fitch is warning that U.S. banks could be adversely affected unless the Eurozone debt crisis “is resolved in a timely and orderly manner.” The mention is a warning that the credit outlook…
Italy to vote on sharp budget cuts as the U.S. calls for sharper ones. (Reuters) The State Department will look for a new route for the Keystone pipeline to satisfy opponents. (Reuters)…
E*TRADE Financial Corporation (NASDAQ: ETFC) was one we had on the calendar because this was the day that it was due to meet with its Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) as its financial…
Financial concerns about Italy have raised the issue of a breakup of the eurozone. (Reuters) China’s October imports rise but exports are weak. (Reuters) A deal to name a new prime minister…
Last Friday at the meeting of the G20 in Cannes, the Financial Stability Board (FSB) revealed a list of 29 global systemically important financial institutions (known as the G-Sifis). These institutions are…
The Obama administration announces a new plan to help underwater mortgage holders. (Reuters) Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) warns that more subscribers will cancel and shares fall 24%. (Reuters) Nearly 35% of News Corp.…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Friday morning. BHP Billiton (NYSE: BHP) Cut to Hold at Societe Generale; Cut…
Stocks opened down this morning following the earnings report Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) after markets closed yesterday. Moody’s downgrade of Spain’s sovereign debt also weighed on the opening. The Consumer Price Index for…
MSNBC: US housing starts jumped in September http://on.msnbc.com/pxVyNE NYT: Olympus Backtracks on Payments http://nyti.ms/pAPNmD CNNMoney: Apple 2.0: Apple’s big miss: The analysts weigh in http://bit.ly/r7OZMN $AAPL FT: Olympus contradicts chairman over fees…
China’s GDP growth decelerates to 9.1%. (Reuters) Concern about China growth and the EU disaster push global stocks lower. (Reuters) Federal Reserve officials argue about the future rate of inflation. (Reuters) IBM…
Philips Electronics may be unable to shed its TV operation and will fire 4,500. (Reuters) Kinder Morgan (NYSE: KMI) to buy El Paso (NYSE: EP) for $21 billion and will save $250…
You hear it all the time… “This bank is so cheap against book value that it cannot go lower.” Book value, and even tangible book value, has become a pre-recession metric that…
ChartWhatever faith investors regained in the stock market between the huge sell-off that caused lows in the spring of 2009 and the recovery that peaked this last July is gone. Is it…
E*TRADE Financial Corporation (NASDAQ: ETFC) has been discussed by many market pundits as a takeover target since the recovery out of the recession. The online brokerage giant has been doing almost everything…
