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National Bank of Greece SA (NYSE: NBG) is doing something odd.  It is trying to make an acquisition.  It was not that long ago that there were serious worries about NBG’s future.  Now, NBG has...
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...
The woes of Europe continue, again… Get used to it.  The markets are soft this morning on news that Moody’s is warning Spain of a downgrade to its Aa1 rating due to funding vulnerability, coming...
Tracking European banks, particularly those in the lands of the PIIGS, often requires looking at individual national sovereign debt issues on top of banking-related news.  That is the case in Spain...
The banks in the lands of the PIIGS are seeing some bids yet again today.  That makes three in a row of big moves in Ireland, and now we have Greece and Spain today.  Some of the aid is coming from...
Amarin Corporation plc (NASDAQ: AMRN) is indicated up 50% at $5.35, well above the $3.85 52-week high, after its AMR101 met pivotal phase 3 study endpoints with highly statistically significant...
Want to see just how much the saving of Ireland added to the key ADRs today? Look no further than Allied Irish Banks plc (NYSE: AIB), The Bank of Ireland (NYSE: IRE), and The New Ireland Fund, Inc....
The list of Unusual Suspects for the week ahead is a rather different list.  Some are due with earnings, some have FDA events, and others just have shareholder specific events coming down the...
The markets may be headed lower on Friday morning after a sell-off in China, but the stocks of some of Europe’s troubled banks in the lands of the PIIGS are bucking the trend.  Allied Irish Banks...
Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Monday morning.  We are tracking news and moves in shares of Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE: ALU), Avanir Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:...
Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Friday morning.  We are tracking news and moves in shares of National Bank of Greece S.A. (NYSE: NBG), Starbucks Corporation...
Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Wednesday morning.  We are tracking news and moves in shares of Apollo Group Inc. (NASDAQ: APOL), Ambac Financial Group, Inc....
This Friday was influenced by unemployment data and there are many stocks on the move.  Some are earnings, some are not.  We are tracking pre-market trading and volume spikes in shares of Adobe...