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Imagine a wide loss being considered a win. That is partly the case at Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS) This morning. The former "Golden Slacks" posted a loss of $4.97 EPS for the quarter and...
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It is reasonable to wonder if Bernard Madoff was in his right mind. Was he ever aware that what he was doing was criminally and morally wrong? Any rational person would have known that a Ponzi...
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This is a very important week for earnings from brokerage firms (or the new bank holding companies). Tomorrow morning we have earnings from Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE: GS) and on Wednesday morning...
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Schwab (SCHW) said that trades by its customers dropped 18% from October to November falling to "408.0 thousand", as the firm likes to put it. The market still seems volatile. All that moving around...
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If you have been waiting for the smaller brokerage firms in the Tier-2 and Tier-3 categories to start merging, it looks like the first shot in the consolidation wars has been fired. Rodman &...
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If you haven’t heard of a creative and backward way of trying to rapidly acquire assets, you can look to Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE: GS) this morning. The WSJ is reporting that the investment bank...
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In a home run for troubled credit markets, Goldman Sachs (GS) raised $5 billion with backing from the FDIC. It is likely that a number of other US financial firms will follow quickly, The terms for...
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E*TRADE Financial Corporation (NASDAQ: ETFC) announced this morning that it is continuing to work with regulators through each phase of its TARP application and that it "remains optimistic that it...
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E*TRADE FINANCIAL Corporation (NASDAQ: ETFC) has been hit much harder than other financial institutions and the last two weeks have been rather challenging for the company and its shareholders. ...
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Sandler O’Neill is an institutional brokerage firm that many individual investors have not ever heard of, yet it has been around for roughly 20 years. It also does business in some form or...
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E*TRADE FINANCIAL Corporation (NASDAQ: ETFC) has announced its intent to participate in the Treasury’s TARP bailout funding program. The online brokerage firm confirmed that it filed an...
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Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE: GS) had been the one spot in the brokerage sector which was immune from the credit crunch and nearly immune from the mortgage mess. In fact, the company made a fortune...
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Greenhill & Co., Inc. (NYSE: GHL) has filed to sell up to 3.5 million shares of common stock in a secondary offering. The offering will allow the company and certain stockholders to sell shares...
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Sometimes there is just lunacy written about financial companies, and sometimes there is lunacy inside of financial companies. Forget about the argument that there are usually both for a minute. ...
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This is obviously one of our ugliest mornings in years with futures trading limit down. What is interesting is that the financial stocks are the most leveraged to this, yet oddly enough most stocks...
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