This week, we’ll have an earnings onslaught from major US financial institutions for Q1 2008 quarterly results. What investors need to grasp from these financial giants is not whether or not the…
Below are the top analyst calls we are focusing on this Wednesday morning: AFLAC (NYSE: AFL) cut to Neutral from Buy at UBS. Crocs (NASDAQ: CROX) cut to Neutral from Overweight at…
There is a new ETF launching today, and this one is a foreign government bond inflation-protected ETF. State Street Global Advisors, the investment management arm of State Street Corporation (NYSE: STT) announced…
Douglas A. McIntyre These are not the only research calls this morning affecting stock, particularly as the world is focused on the fleecing that has occurred at Bear Stearns this morning. But these are other…
State Street Corporation (NYSE: STT) has announced this morning that its State Street Global Advisors "SSgA" has filed an SEC application for exemptive relief for a series of actively managed, target-date exchange…
Douglas A. McIntyre No one knows for certain how much money is in the big sovereign funds controlled by governments from Beijing to Kuwait. Most estimates are $2 trillion to $3 trillion. With oil money…
Below is a snapshot of the key pre-market news that we are focusing on for early pre-market trading this Tuesday: Apple (AAPL) has its Macworld today. CECO Environmental (CECE) announced 14 new…
State Street Corporation (NYSE:STT) has announced that it will record a net after-tax charge in the fourth quarter of 2007 of $279 million, or $0.71 per share. The charge is to establish…
Douglas A. McIntyre Wednesday is much more than Halloween and it is more than the FOMC announcement date. We have an event that has been perhaps more influential to many key stocks than the upcoming…
According to Reuters, most mutual fund companies side with management on proxy issues. The Wall Street Journal writes that Ebay (EBAY) is taking a $1.4 billion charge for Skype. The Wall Street…
According to Reuters, State Street (STT) faces $22 billion exposure to asset-backed commercial paper conduits, the off-balance sheet vehicles that have caused problems for rivals in recent weeks. Reuters writes that social…
Short selling in banks is always an interesting area to watch, particularly in the midst of a credit lending debacle that has led to a lower credit ranking and higher loan loss…
(ADTN) Adtran $0.28 EPS versus $0.28 estimate.(AIZ) Assurant CEO and CFO received SEC WELLS NOTICE.(ASD) American Standard noted as a positive ahead of split-up by Cramer on MAD MONEY.(CVO) Cenveo is acquiring…
Stock Tickers: JPM, BAC, USB, NCC, STT, C, WFC, BK, STI The large banking stocks saw a fairly large increase in short interest from May to June in 2007. That is after…
Stock Tickers: JPM, STI, USB, NCC, STT, BAC, C, WFC, BK The short interest for MAY 2007 is out., and there is notreally any trend in the large money-center and super-regional banks…