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Hudson City Bancorp reported disappointing first-quarter financial results Wednesday before the markets opened.
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The Federal Reserve Board has advised M&T Bank that it will not act on the application for its merger with Hudson City Bancorp before the current termination date.
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Source: ThinkstockSterne Agee is out with a key report discussing merger arbitrage spreads and trends in mergers and acquisitions in the banking sector. While the M&A trade has been on the back...
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Source: ThinkstockThe U.S. banking sector is looking better in 2013 than it did in 2012, 2011 and so on. Balance sheets, credit metrics and underlying asset values continue to recover. Still, the...
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Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) pushes for a ban on eight Samsung phones. (Reuters)Best Buy Co. Inc. (NYSE: BBY) will allow former chairman Richard Schulze to review its books with an eye toward a buyout...
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The three major U.S. stock indexes opened flat to higher this morning but picked up some buying steam after the first hour or so of trading. In Europe the president of Germany’s Bundesbank said...
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Source: Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty ImagesStocks are mixed Monday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average down 0.23%, the Nasdaq up 0.15% and the S&P 500 down 0.05%. Today’s market winners include...
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Plenty of action on the merger and acquisition front today, with founder Richard Schulze getting an okay from the board of Best Buy Co. Inc. (NYSE: BBY) to conduct his due diligence; Hertz Global...
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Although the month of October put up a big gain in the S&P 500 stocks, for the year-to-date S&P stocks have risen just 1.2%. The ten worst performers have all lost more than -49% of their share...
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These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Friday morning.Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) Reiterated Buy and raised target to $500 at...
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Most of the financial media stops at mid-year to reflect on how the market performed since January 1. The effort is often fruitless. The fact that a stock, or any market, did well over an...
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These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Thursday morning.Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE: ALU) Raised to Buy at UBS. Arch Coal Inc....
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These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Monday morning.Accenture plc (NYSE: ACN) Reiterated Buy and Raised target at Argus....
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Today’s “Daily Dividend Watch” is one with a bit more caution. Hudson City Bancorp (NASDAQ: HCBK) is one of those regional banks which we recently noted that already had a high dividend...
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