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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 burner of...
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ThinkstockWhile the talking heads in the financial media argue back and forth about economic strategy on interest rates, there are two inescapable facts. First, interest rates had been at all-time...
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Siebertnet.comMuriel Siebert, founder of Siebert Financial Corp. (NASDAQ: SIEB), passed away over the weekend. Many new investors may not know her nor may they know just how important and influential...
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ThinkstockThe Federal Reserve issued some updates to its balance sheet and payments data on Friday, and the long and short of the matter is that you are going to see why the Fed needs to start its...
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ThinkstockThe big banks have gone to considerable lengths to mend the weaknesses that they were in before, during and after the recession. The public perception of the big banks is not very highly...
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thinkstockIt may be that the negative images of banks and the federal government continue to persist in the minds of Americans because of the credit crisis. Or, perhaps people believe that the...
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thinkstockDo you remember the Flash Crash? NASDAQ OMX Group (NASDAQ: NDAQ) is proving yet again why there still needs to be some human control and interaction over the vast numbers of shares trading...
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Wells Fargo & Co. (NYSE: WFC) may be Warren Buffett’s favorite bank hands down and it may be the safest of the money center and banking giants now. It turns out that if you work for that bank...
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Wikimedia CommonsBeing an executive at J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) can be no easy job at the moment. This is one of only a few large institutions that could have survived without a...
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Jon OggIt is no secret now that interest rates have risen. Long-term Treasury yields and even intermediate Treasury yields are now perhaps even starting to normalize even with Ben Bernanke and the...
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ThinkstockHighlighted in a Fortune magazine article in 1966, an obscure investment vehicle called the hedge fund was outperforming every existing mutual fund by double-digit figures. By 1968, there...
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Wikimedia CommonsJ.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM), which already faces a handful of federal investigations for a variety of alleged bad behavior, now faces a U.S. Securities and Exchange...
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Brian Katt / Wikimedia Commons / GNU Free Documentation LicenseThere is a major development happening at Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC). Bloomberg news has reported that Bank of America now is...
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ThinkstockYou probably remember the debacle around the BATS initial public offering (IPO). This is supposed to be the third largest equities exchange, but its IPO cancellation came with a very...
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ThinkstockThe days of Federal National Mortgage Association (FNMA) and Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (FMCC) could soon be history. President Obama is now on board with an orderly winding...
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