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Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: GS) and Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) have so far not lived up to the notion of being “bank holding companies.”  These companies have not just been poor acquirers of...
Bank of America Corporation (NYSE: BAC) is getting a rather strong bid in early trading this morning.  Goldman Sachs raised its rating on the largest bank by deposits to the “Conviction Buy...
John Browne of Euro Pacific Capital made perhaps one of the ballsiest market calls or one of the craziest market calls yet in the entire bear market or in most peoples’ careers if they are...
Research analysts often make timely calls, and sometimes they make rash calls.  If Dick Bove of Rochdale is accurate, then both the Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: GS) and Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS)...
E*TRADE Financial Corporation (NASDAQ: ETFC) has just filed with the SEC to sell up to $150 million worth of common stock.  J.P.Morgan was listed as the distribution agent, and shares may either be...
E*TRADE FINANCIAL Corporation (NASDAQ: ETFC) has just reported a net loss of $233 million, or -$0.41 EPS, on revenue of $497 million.   E*TRADE has fewer analysts than before, but Thomson Reuters...
Nuveen Investments has completed the initial public offering of four new state-specific closed-end funds for municipal bind investors. The funds will begin trading on the NYSE Amex today and the...
Short sellers are not longer willing to gamble on a collapse in the share prices of America’s largest financial firms. Perhaps they think that the issue of nationalization has largely disappeared,...
Jefferies Group Inc. (NYSE: JEF) has started to be viewed as one of Wall Street’s beneficiaries of all the financial turmoil.  It isn’t that the company is immune to the woes of the market. Our...
JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) rose about 7% yesterday ahead of this morning’s earnings announcement along with other major financial stocks, and now we know why.  Jamie Dimon and friends at...
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS) has announced the pricing of its highly anticipated secondary offering of 40,650,407 shares of its common stock.  The pricing went off at $123.00 per share...
It looks like Treasury Secretary Geithner wants to completely socialize Wall St. and set up a level of regulation that will cover anything in the financial industry which has a pulse. According to...
We noticed how short sellers had increased their bets against banks and financials, even if this was right at the time that the big short squeeze came via a huge market rally.  But what is...
Meredith Whitney is and was one of the most influential banking analysts on Wall Street. She was  negative on the banking and investment banking sector for roughly two years and has been credited as...
As you will see below, there are many new calls in the banking and brokerage sector this Tuesday morning: Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS), Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) Started as Outperform at Oppenheimer. ...