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There are two financial issues in America that have been developing simultaneously: many borrowers have been locked out from the ability to access capital, and investors can no longer rely on bonds...
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E*TRADE Financial Corporation (NASDAQ: ETFC) has been discussed by many market pundits as a takeover target since the recovery out of the recession. The online brokerage giant has been doing almost...
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Tim Geithner is probably tired of having to come to the rescue of financial firms, which are all some part of the Occupy Wall Street protests. Yet that is what he did today. Treasury Secretary...
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Rates are at an extreme low. Too bad there are so many borrowers who cannot qualify or are too underwater in their existing mortgage to take advantage of this. Freddie Mac is now showing that...
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At times it seems that highly paid CEOs live in another universe that is barely related to the world the rest of us inhabit. And the CEOs of the largest US banks are among those at the outer reaches...
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Are the Wall Street bankers, traders, and brokers really starting to do the right thing when it comes to controlled greed and compensation? If you ask the poor Wall Street protesters, probably...
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It is more tiring each day to consider how much Europe has the world by the throat. Everyone in the U.S. is looking for a flash point, or a flushing sound, or something that signals the beginning...
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Today’s ratings agency actions include a new rating on off-balance sheet arrangement by AMR Corp. (NYSE: AMR), parent of troubled American Airlines, and other actions involving General Motors Co....
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The old saying goes, “When the U.S. sneezes, the rest of the world catches a cold.” But what about when Europe gets the flu and when China and India drink the tap water from Latin America? ...
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The CBOE Volatility Index, or ‘The Fear Index,’ is reaching levels not seen since the height of the August selling panic. That peaked around 47 in August and we just briefly went back over the...
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Most investors either do not know of the National Stock Exchange or they forgot about the Cincinnati Stock Exchange. This was became the first all-electronic exchange in the U.S., back in 1980. ...
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If you can count on the Europeans to invent one thing, it is the invention of taxation. The latest effort by the European Commission is one that is just baffling if you have been watching the...
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Imperial Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: IFT) is a company that many have never heard of, but the company is in the news in a manner it probably never wanted to be. On Tuesday evening it announced that it...
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The Securities and Exchange Commission has announced that the national securities exchanges and FINRA are filing proposals in a move to revise the current stock market circuit breakers in an effort...
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National Bank of Greece SA (NYSE: NBG) is trading lower this morning with Europe after news that Moody’s has downgraded 8 Greek banks to ‘Caa2’ from ‘B3’ in a fresh outlook in Greece. ...
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