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Even a school child knows that when stocks move up over 20% in two weeks that the odds of a sell-off are extremely high. At some point even the most optimistic investors are going to take profits....
Today was a critical day for the banking sector.  The country’s top banking chiefs met with President Obama over the recent discrepancies in TARP fund ramifications, paying back the TARP,...
According to Reuters, Obama may be stretched to thin. Reuters reports that AIG (AIG) executives in Europe are resisting returning bonuses. Reuters reports that Obama will begin to tighten the screws...
Meredith Whitney is and was one of the most influential banking analysts on Wall Street. She was  negative on the banking and investment banking sector for roughly two years and has been credited as...
As you will see below, there are many new calls in the banking and brokerage sector this Tuesday morning: Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS), Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) Started as Outperform at Oppenheimer. ...
One of the things that Congress and the Administration knows but do not want to admit in public is that bailouts are messy affairs where most of what is planned does not work and one of the...
After days or pressure from Congress and the public, AIG (AIG) released data about which counterparties to it credit default swap portfolio got large chunks of money from the federal government...
These are the top analyst upgrades and positive calls we have seen from Wall Street this Wednesday morning: Big Lots (BIG) Raised to Overweight at JPMorgan. Capital One (COF) Raised to Buy at Stifel...
Influential bank analyst Meredith Whitney just gave a Maria Bartoromo an interview on CNBC after her op-ed piece in the WSJ called credit cards and credit lines the next wave of problems for...
Wall St. keeps coming up with new ways to waste money and upset Congress, the Administration, and the public. Part of the argument made by large financial firms for paying out big big bonuses is that...
According to Reuters, Congress is ready to pass the stimulus package. Reuters reports that Chinalco is putting $17.5 billion into Rio TInto (RTP). Reuters reports that Wall St. CEOs were attacked by...
There is not going to be much positive press today about the U.S. banking sectors.  The top CEOs of America’s  banks are going to testify before the House Financial Services Committee.  Despite...
Pendulums often swing too far in either direction.  It has been shown that complete deregulation or total self-regulation leads to "Big Business Gone Wild."  And now the pendulum in regulation over...
When Bank of America (BAC) bought Merrill Lynch, one huge retail brokerage team was married with a smaller one. Morgan Stanley (MS) will probably take over the Smith Barney unit of Citigroup (C). The...
According to Reuters, Bank of America (BAC) and Merrill Lynch did agree on a bonus package for employees before the merger. There had been questions about the approval. Reuters reports that January...