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Americans have started using their credit cards again — and in a big way. Credit card debt jumped 154% in the third quarter of 2011 compared with the same period a year ago, according to the latest...
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Very few people consider the financial ramifications of Memorial Day Weekend as one of the top financial events of the year when it comes to the travel and hospitality industries. This is the...
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Banks were already having a good day, but a new ruling has come out from the Federal Reserve on interchange fees. Maybe the proper description would be “less bad” of news.  Banks were...
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These are some of the top pre-market analyst upgrades and positive initiations we have seen early this Thursday morning: American Express (AXP) Raised to Neutral from Underweight at JPMorgan. CarMax...
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The Treasury is finally allowing some of the TARP recipient banks that posed the least systematic risk to begin repaying the Treasury’s preferred stock funds. This will get these institutions out...
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On CNBC’s MAD MONEY tonight, Jim Cramer did his SELL BLOCK where he makes calls for selling winners or losers. Tonight he focused on legendary portfolio manager Bill Miller of Legg Mason...
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There were many more upgrades than downgrades seen early this Monday morning. These are top upgrades and positive research calls from Wall Street analysts we have seen so far: Capital One Financial...
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These are this Thursday’s top 10 analyst calls for upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research: Anadarko Petroleum (NYSE: APC) Raised to Overweight at Barclays Capital....
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Regions Bank (NYSE: RF) had a very rough day as more and more pressure came out about banks in general and in banks that still have some past issues they are fighting through. There is a real...
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When the market is strong, companies tend to raise capital. Or insiders decide to cash in some chips. We now have a whole slew of companies conducting secondary offerings now: BreitBurn Energy...
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ING Groep NV (NYSE: ING) is all over the news this morning after reports that its online U.S. bank assets may fetch as much as $9 billion. Bloomberg has reported that General Electric Co. (NYSE:...
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We have already seen the first wave of bank earnings, but the rest of the week is full of bank and financial earnings. In fact, the real bank earnings season is all taking place on Wednesday and...
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MasterCard Inc. (NYSE: MA) absolutely crushed estimates this morning, reporting third-quarter EPS of of $5.63 on revenue of $1.82 billion. Consensus estimates were aiming for EPS of $4.81 on $1.7...
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We have already seen waves and waves of earnings reports this week, yet we have many more Dow Jones Industrial Average companies reporting earnings and several other key companies that investors and...
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The short interest in bank stocks looks to be one where investors and speculators are easing up on their attacks of the quality banks if you review the short interest changes from August 15...
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