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BATS Exchange has been an almost stealth success in the world of trading stocks. In about four years it now claims to have about 10% of the US equity trading market share and about 8% of the FTSE...
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Financial stocks were already looking mixed at best early this morning with the largest offering in capital markets history pricing last night for a trade today. But Meredith Whitney, of her own...
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Charles Schwab Corp.(NASDAQ: SCHW) is acting as a drag on the online brokerage firms today. Schwab warned that its fourth quarter results would come in weak due to lower trading volumes and due to...
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It seems that the long quest of the Chicago Board Options Exchange is going to end up in an IPO. The demutualization process has been an ongoing one and a filing from the company today confirmed...
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SunTrust Banks, Inc. (NYSE: STI) is getting hit this morning, although perhaps not as harshly as the call might sound. Meredith Whitney put on her banker Scrooge hat and issued a SELL rating on the...
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TD AMERITRADE Holding Corporation (NASDAQ: AMTD) has just filed an automatic shelf registration statement with the SEC today, which many rumor mongers may jump on and point to the notion that this...
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Verisk Analytics, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSK) is seeing some very cautious or at least unexciting analyst initiations now that its quiet period has ended. This post-IPO has at least held its value, which...
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Much of today’s weakness in the equity markets is not just due to a stronger dollar or an equity market that still may be ahead of itself. A strategist call from Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE: GS)...
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Autodesk Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK) rallied over 5% to a yearly high of $27.26 after the company’s shares were upgraded to “buy” by Kaufman Brothers LP, who set their 12 month price target at $30....
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Calling for more and more gains after what we have seen in the troubled financial sector is a tough call on the surface. Yet, that is what Rochdale’s Dick Bove is calling for, again. He gave a...
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Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: GS), Citigroup, Inc. (NYSE: C), and The Charles Schwab Corporation (NASDAQ: SCHW) have all reported earnings. All came in above or in-line with estimates and there...
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This week is the week we have 6 DJIA components reporting earnings as the first real week of earnings season, but the big financial stocks reporting will set the tone for how the rest of the...
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Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: GS) is on deck for earnings this week. Its earnings news may have just been derailed by a key influential analyst call. Meredith Whitney, now with Meredith Whitney...
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If you can’t take the heat, get out of the kitchen. That is what Citigroup, Inc. (NYSE: C) has done over its Phibro commodities trading unit. Occidental Petroleum Corporation (NYSE: OXY) has...
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There have been many ways which companies exit bankruptcy court. Historically, many companies have used tax loss carryforward strategies as well. But selling a claim against assets for recovery...
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