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Citigroup, Inc. (NYSE: C) is about to get a huge stock makeover.  This is its last week as a stock in the single-dollar digits.  At least that is what the world hopes.  Its 1 for 10 reverse stock...
When you see the ratings agencies downgrading a sovereign nation to the last rung of investment grade and with the outlook still cautious to negative, you generally would consider that it would be a...
Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Thursday morning.  We are tracking news and moves in shares of Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC), Identive Group...
It was just yesterday that we warned about mergers in the banks “Irish Style.”  The fear is that Allied Irish Banks plc (NYSE: AIB) and Bank of Ireland (NYSE: IRE) would be gobbled up by the...
If you have watched Allied Irish Banks plc (NYSE: AIB) or Bank of Ireland (NYSE: IRE) recently, you will have figured out that the banks are not just in trouble.  These banks could literally be...
Kiss me, I’m Irish!  That is what you’ll be hearing a lot of after work if you go out for the St. Patrick’s Day festivities after work (or during work) today.  We wanted to take a look to see...
We are tracking several key moving stocks this morning that have news or events driving shares.  None of these are Japan-focused stocks as the coverage there seems to revolve entirely around the...
Something happened in recent weeks which was easy to miss out on and easy to have forgotten about, but which Irish bank investors need to consider.  Other geopolitical news has taken over.  Wilbur...
Allied Irish Banks plc (NYSE: AIB) and The Bank of Ireland (NYSE: IRE) are both suffering today.  News is out that Ireland’s Finance Minister has postponed making more capital injections into...
Allied Irish Banks, p.l.c. (NYSE: AIB) has been in trouble from top to bottom from the financial crisis.  Things have become dire enough that now the bank has listing issues.  The bank noted today...
Analyst calls are sometimes great and sometimes not.  Each week we review the major analyst calls for those standout research calls that were above the grain or are outside of the pack.  Some calls...
Standard & Poor’s is at it again, with late debt rating cuts.  This is actually in the Irish banking sector rather than in the sovereign ratings.  As this is too little too late, we are only...
Yesterday was Portugal helping out, today is Spain… Debt sales that is.  A debt sale in Spain is so far being hailed as a minor success and this comes on the heels of a similar successful debt...
Moody’s is at it again with yet another debt rating downgrade in the lands of the PIIGS.  Today came a debt rating cut to four Irish banks and an Irish insurer, and the cut also included some of...
Moody’s has been on a warpath this week downgrading the PIIGS.  The calls are late.  Very late.  These should have been about as telegraphed as a replay of a World War II outcome.  Moody’s...