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Closing Price on September 20, 2024
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Short sellers jumped out of major financial shares but piled into the stocks for major industrial firms based on data as of June 15. Shorts clearly think the restructuring of the bank industry has...
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Reuters: Obama proposed sweeping reform for financial industry. Reuters: A number of large banks repaid TARP. (JPM)(GS)(BBT)(COP)(STT)(AXP)(USB) Reuters: Consumer prices show inflation...
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Standard & Poor’s may still have at least some relevance in its debt ratings. This morning we saw a wave of downgrades at banks by the debt ratings agency on systematic-risk and...
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The short interest in most large banks fell very sharply for the period ending May 29, an indication that traders believe that TARP repayments and ongoing strong earnings mean the fate of American...
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Reuters: The Supreme Court delays Chrysler deal. Reuters: The cleared ten banks to repay TARP include JPMorgan (JPM), Goldmand Sachs (GS), American Express (AXP), Cpaital One(COF), State Street...
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The Treasury is finally allowing some of the TARP recipient banks that posed the least systematic risk to begin repaying the Treasury’s preferred stock funds. This will get these institutions out...
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It is no secret that the banks that can pay the money back want out from under the Troubled Asset Relief Plan, or the TARP. It is also no secret that the Treasury, the Federal Reserve, and the...
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Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A)(BRK-B) holdings for the first quarter of 2009 are now out for the cut off date here of March 31, 2009. There are some changes from the end...
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The triple leverage ETF’s, the Direxion Financial Bull 3X Shares (NYSE: FAS) and Direxion Financial Bear 3X Shares (NYSE: FAZ), are perhaps the most volatile of all financial-stock ETF’s. This...
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Finally, the stress tests are out for the US banking and financial institutions. Of the banks, 10 of 19 banks need a combined $74 billion of equity.The good news is that a few companies were given...
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J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) has issued a negative bank research call for the major money center and super-regional banks this morning. Bank of America Corporation (NYSE: BAC),...
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Short sellers are not longer willing to gamble on a collapse in the share prices of America’s largest financial firms. Perhaps they think that the issue of nationalization has largely disappeared,...
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Short sellers were figuring that after the bank rally late last month, banks shares were likely to give back some gains. That was working until Wells Fargo (WFC) reported that it would have a good...
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Citigroup Inc. (NYSE: C) has disclosed those four new independent board members that it is nominating for election at the April 21 shareholders’ meeting. There were reports last week that these...
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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...
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