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Douglas A. McIntyre | Sep 15, 2008 at 10:30 AM EDT

AIG (AIG) Down 70%, Ready To Fold

AIG (AIG) plans to sell its auto insurance unit, annuity operations, and aircraft leasing division. It sounds a lot like…

Douglas A. McIntyre | Sep 15, 2008 at 8:05 AM EDT

Major Financials Crushing Their Own Stocks (MER, BAC, LEH, AIG, C, WM, MS, GS)

Covering financial stocks this morning looks a bit like an assassination happening live on television. Futures are being pulled sharply…

Douglas A. McIntyre | Sep 15, 2008 at 2:27 AM EDT

Media Digest 9/15/2008 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

According to Reuters, Lehman (LEH) will seek Chapter 11 protection. Reuters reports that Bank of America (BAC) will buy Merrill…

Douglas A. McIntyre | Sep 14, 2008 at 10:26 PM EDT

World’s Largest Banks Create A Fund To Save One Another

We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he to-day that sheds his blood with me…

Douglas A. McIntyre | Sep 14, 2008 at 3:11 PM EDT

Lehman (LEH) Chapter 11 Could Occur Today, Financial Stocks Could Open Off 20%

Several media reports say that large financial firms are trying to reduce their risk to deals that they have with…

Douglas A. McIntyre | Sep 13, 2008 at 6:20 AM EDT

Lehman (LEH) May Or May Not Be Sold, May Or May Not Get Government Help, May Or May Not Sell Assets, May Or May Not Remain Independent

Lehman (LEH) may or may not open for trading on Monday morning. A number of experts believe that the broker’s…

Douglas A. McIntyre | Sep 3, 2008 at 2:55 AM EDT

Media Diges 9/3/2008 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

According to Reuters, oil fell another $1 to $109. Reuters writes that Coca-Cola (KO) will pay $2.5 billion for Chinese…

Douglas A. McIntyre | Aug 28, 2008 at 1:46 PM EDT

Lehman (LEH) To Drop 6% Of Work Force, Not Enough

Lehman (LEH) will lay off about 6% of its work force according to The New York Times. That is about…

Douglas A. McIntyre | Aug 22, 2008 at 6:31 AM EDT

America’s Most Overpaid CEOs (MER)(CBS)(AXP)(MS)(NBR)

The AP announced its list of the top 10 paid CEOs for 2007. The figures were based on "AP’s compensation…

Douglas A. McIntyre | Aug 22, 2008 at 5:52 AM EDT

Analysts Play Game Of Cutting Investment Bank Ratings (MER)(C)(BAC)(MS)(GS)(LEH)

Citigroup (C) cut is earnings estimates for Goldman Sachs (GS), Morgan Stanley (MS), and Lehman (LEH). Today, Bank of America…

Douglas A. McIntyre | Aug 21, 2008 at 11:17 AM EDT

Morgan Stanley Launching ‘Frontier’ Emerging Market Fund (MS, FFD)

It looks like we are about to get a new frontier markets investment vehicle for investors to invest in "emerging-emerging…

Douglas A. McIntyre | Aug 21, 2008 at 4:25 AM EDT

Citigroup (C) Downgrades Everyone But Itself (LEH)(MS)(GS)

The rule on Wall St. is that securities analysts don’t rate their own firms. Now that brokerage research departments are…

Douglas A. McIntyre | Aug 20, 2008 at 8:50 AM EDT

Goldman Sachs (GS) Cuts All Bank Estimates But Its Own (JPM)(MER)(C)(MS)

It is not hard to blame Goldman Sachs (GS) for failing to cut its own earnings estimates for the next…

Douglas A. McIntyre | Aug 19, 2008 at 4:49 AM EDT

TDAmeritrade (AMTD), Oppenheimer (OPY), And Raymond James (RJF) Try To Dodge Auction-Rate Buy-Backs

Several of the modest-sized investment houses say they should not have to buy back auction-rate securities which they sold to…

Douglas A. McIntyre | Aug 18, 2008 at 4:37 AM EDT