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More downgrades are hitting Europe today by the credit ratings agencies. Today’s downgrades are not in the PIIGS as we have become so accustomed to. Instead of bashing Portugal, Ireland, Italy,...
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Source: Jon OggBy now you have heard all of the fears of the inflation spectre. After printing money, buying up hundreds and hundreds of billions of billions worth of securities, and bailing out...
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As of late last week we had many potentially imminent buyouts that could have hit the market. When we were just finishing the report draft on Friday is when the Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc....
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The low-rate environment is going to continue taking a toll on bank earnings. Credit Suisse has a report this Thursday showing some ongoing caution in the regional banking sector. The firm is...
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J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) is weak this morning on word that the bank’s trading losses will be much wider than originally reported. The market knew that the loss would be at least $2...
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The European Central Bank looks to be getting closer and closer to finally admitting that it cannot stick its head in the sand and make silly comments about worrying over inflation and looking for...
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In a rare move, Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE: GS) has made some changes to its Conviction Buy List on competing banks. The reason this is so rare is because when analysts of banks and brokerage forms...
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NASDAQ OMX (NASDAQ: NDAQ) has now announced that it intends to launch a new London-based trading venue called the NLX, which will offer derivatives on both short-term interest rates and long-term...
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If you have watched the flow of news out of Asia and Europe over the last month, you might have had a reason to think that the world was going to hell in a handbasket. One week of a market...
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TrimTabs and BarclayHedge report each month about hedge fund inflows and outflows, and if you have been watching the tape you shouldn’t be surprised that the trend is toward ‘outflows’ of...
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Fitch Ratings has had many reports today, but perhaps the largest call is a downgrade of Spain to “BBB” that has added some pressure to the Euro. Today’s downgrade took Spain’s Long-term...
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Fitch has already warned today that if the United States dos not get a credible fiscal plan after the elections that it would likely downgrade the United States’ sovereign credit rating. Now...
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SNL Financial has released its list of largest banks by assets and deposits. The list is as you might expect with the large money center banks being ranked, but where some of the surprises come...
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Moody’s has telegraphed a banking sector review for quite some time, and it has actually been ongoing and the ‘bad news’ should be out very soon. We skipped many of the smaller incidents, but...
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The NASDAQ OMX Group (NASDAQ: NDAQ) is going to try to make good on its botched IPO of Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ: FB). This is not really good to the public, at least not directly, but it is an olive...
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