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So much for any great help from the ECB, France, Germany, and any other entity being able to help the Euro stay together. Rumors have been out that nations have been instructed to make contingency...
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It is never a good thing to see a run on the banks. That is what the fears were recently indicating in Greece. The problem is that Spain is a much larger problem due to excessive lending and the...
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The three major US stock indexes opened somewhat higher this morning as investors paid little attention to last night’s downgrade of Spain’s banks (more coverage here). With little economic data...
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Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls this Friday. Angie’s List, Inc. (NASDAQ: ANGI) Started as Outperform at Raymond...
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The European Central Bank is said to be freezing assets or considering freezing assets or halting monetary policy operations to some banks in Greece as the Greeks consider an exit of the Euro and as...
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The Europeans need to make a decision soon. It is time to deal with Greece, then the markets can decide how they will deal with the Greek banking system. The baby-sitting and reality TV watching...
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nationsonline.orgThe U.S. stock markets have by and large been decoupled from the woes of Europe most of this year, as well as the slowing of growth in the key markets of China, India, and in many...
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Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls this Wednesday. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) Raised to Outperform at Scotia; Maintained...
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European banks are taking it right on the chin, or maybe the chin and the nose. The reports of a bad Spanish debt auction managed to push up borrowing costs again and it only makes one wonder what...
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The Bank of Ireland (NYSE: IRE) is getting hit hard this morning. Today’s move is not due to new developments in the lands of the PIIGS, is not on a new development of creditor demands, and it is...
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The Bank of Ireland (NYSE: IRE) may have been a dead stock (or ADR) by most counts. The recapitalization and dilution process here has been almost as uncanny as the bailouts that were given to...
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Fitch has joined in on the European sovereign credit rating downgrades. First it was S&P, but we might argue that this should have mostly been factored in already. Is it a secret that the...
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Sarkozy and Merkel have gone from killers of the markets to saviors of the market, and oddly enough there is no full resolution yet to the Euro Zone debt crisis other than he hope that the two will...
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