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We are seeing a very mixed picture among the analyst calls this morning over banks and financial stocks. We are seeing some very positive “BUY” calls and we are also seeing some new “SELL”...
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BlackRock Inc. (NYSE: BLK) hits a yearly high of $220.17 on analyst upgrade from Deutsche Securities. Most other asset managers saw declines today. Greenhill & Co. (NYSE: GHL) hit a yearly high...
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You know the market is still strong when secondary floodgates open up and are so well received that so many deals are seeing increased offerings. Some of the deals we have seen this morning alone...
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Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services is making a house-cleaning exercise which could have a broad impact on the ratings of thousands of already-troubled securities. S&P is changing its...
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Dick Bove of Rochdale Securities does not care about John Mack leaving Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS). In fact. you might think he’s even glad to see some new blood managing the company. Bove called...
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The analyst who upgraded E*TRADE Financial Corporation (NASDAQ: ETFC) at Citigroup is probably not feeling as confident as compared to about an hour ago. Citi raised its rating to BUY from Hold...
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It turns out that all the rumors of the resignation or retirement of top dog John Mack turned out to be accurate. Better late than never… Morgan Stanley’s (NYSE: MS) Board of Directors ...
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Meredith Whitney has come out with some key takes this morning that may be raining on the bull’s parade. For starters, Whitney was just named as the #39on the list of Fortune’s 50 Most Powerful...
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There is a very silly notion being brought to you by the Aspen Institute Business & Society Program’s Corporate Values Strategy Group and what is admittedly a rather impressive list of names...
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GAIN Capital Holdings, Inc., and online provider of retail foreign exchange trading and related services with the FOREX.COM portal, has just filed to come public via an initial public offering. The...
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It is usually a wonder when you see bank and brokerage firms analyst upgrades or downgrades on competitors in the bank and brokerage sector… Are they really downgrading themselves? That is the...
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Instinet is often thought of as one of the oldest electronic communications networks, or ECN’s, which traders have used for years for equities trading; but now it is effectively an agency broker. ...
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The movement against, or at least a move to better quantify, leveraged ETFs is still going. In fact, it is becoming more clear. While this is not against any single leveraged ETF (or inverse...
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This morning came a key analyst downgrade, in the brokerage firm sector itself. The analyst team at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: GS) downgraded shares of rival Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS). The...
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E*TRADE Financial Corporation (NASDAQ: ETFC) posted some fairly poor earnings considering the improvements seen elsewhere. The good news is that these earnings are actually better or less-bad than...
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