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MGIC Investment Corporation (NYSE: MTG) is one of the troubled mortgage insurers which we routinely worry about for both viability and relevance. This morning’s earnings report does nothing to...
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The ratings agencies may have been totally off the mark ahead of the mortgage crisis that helped to wreck our economy, but do not think for a second that they are not still a force that can move...
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The European Banking Authority has published the results of its 2011 stress test of 90 banks in 21 countries in the Euro-area. While the aim is “to assess the resilience of the banks involved in...
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At the end of 2010, US ETFs held assets of $1.005 trillion. By the end of 2015 that number will more than double to $2.091 trillion. That’s a compound annual growth rate of 15.8%, which is lower...
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China has loosened up its regulations and will now allow banks to distribute foreign mutual funds later this year. Winners are expected to be Citigroup, Inc. (NYSE: C) and HSBC Holdings plc (NYSE:...
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Capital One Financial Corporation (NYSE: COF) may have just wiggled its way into being one of the few top banks in America. The company is acquiring ING Direct USA from ING Groep NV (NYSE: ING). ...
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If you want to know what happens to the credit ratings of large banks in lands of the PIIGS when the underlying country ratings have been cut over and over, you should know that it isn’t pretty. ...
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The pace at which the market trades stocks, bonds, currencies, and futures seems to have once again become faster than anyone could have ever imagined. Forget a few hundred automated trades a...
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When you hear about shares of Facebook, Twitter, Groupon, LinkedIn, Zynga, Pandora, Yelp, and others selling on so-called “private company markets,” the frenzy of getting to invest into...
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Inflation hurts most investors and it really hurts most on fixed budgets. It can absolutely annihilate retirees and those who are just about to retire. Another consideration is that as investors...
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The U.S. is about to get another electronic exchange listed as a public stock. BATS Global Markets, Inc. wants to come public and has just filed for an initial public offering. The exchange will...
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Penson Worldwide, Inc. (NASDAQ: PNSN) had been trading as though the company was on the path of some of the brokerage firm and clearing implosions of 2008… Now the company has clarified the issue...
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We took a look through more of the earnings data from the Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A; BRK-B) annual meeting this morning and there was one key change in the stock holdings. We...
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Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: GS) managed to beat earnings expectations this Tuesday. The bank holding company without a bank reported earnings of $ 1.56 EPS and revenues fell 6.9% to $11.89...
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Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: GS) is due to report its first quarter earnings Tuesday morning. Thomson Reuters has estimates for “The Bank Holding Company” that has no bank at $0.82 EPS and...
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