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ThinkstockWith banks having been the best DJIA sector in 2012, the outlook versus the valuation has started to play a…
Jon OggCurrencyShares Japanese Yen Trust (NYSEMKT: FXY) and ProShares UltraShort Yen (NYSEMKT: YCS) have a lot to win or lose based upon the…
ThinkstockWe recently wrote that shorting the Treasury bond market may very well be the next biggest short-sale trade since the subprime…
ThinkstockWhere was the board of J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) when risk management might have stopped the “London…
Wikimedia CommonsFor all the problems that the “London Whale” incident cost J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) and the…
ThinkstockJ.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) CEO Jamie Dimon’s problems with a trade in the bank’s London office that…
ThinkstockXoom Corporation has decided to be one of the first filings for an initial public offering in 2013. The company…
Jon OggIf the spread of junk bonds keeps contracting as investors clamor for yield in an environment where yields are…
ThinkstockCharles Plosser, President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, told an audience in New Jersey this morning that while…
ThinkstockIn mid-December, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission approved a proposal by J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) to…
ThinkstockWells Fargo & Co. (NYSE: WFC) reported fourth-quarter 2012 and full-year results this morning. The bank reported quarterly diluted earnings…
ThinkstockIn an exclusive report from Reuters this morning, “people familiar with the situation” say that the Office of the Comptroller…
ThinkstockAmerican Express Co. (NYSE: AXP) is not usually the first of the financial DJIA stocks to report its earnings in…
ThinkstockWells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC) is set to report earnings early on Friday morning. We voted this bank as…
ThinkstockToday’s 30-Year Treasury Bond auction, the long bond auction, managed to look better than yesterday’s 10-year Treasury Note auction. Yesterday’s…
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