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There has been an IPO filing from online travel portal MakeMyTrip Limited  This is an Indian online travel company and it filed to raise up to $100 million in its initial public offering.  The...
The E.U. bank stress tests are due at 12:00 PM EST today, an interesting time considering that the U.S. will be the only active market. Many of the top banks are lower ahead of the reports, partly on...
After Moody’s downgraded Ireland, there may be more of a buffer ahead in place than additional negative catalysts working against its two key banks of Allied Irish Banks plc (NYSE: AIB) and The...
Maybe the markets felt directionless for most of Friday ahead of earnings season, but the trading action of this week might make some wonder if a Double-Dip Recession is less likely.  The economic...
A thousand dollars or less per person per year in GDP – the consequence of poverty, genocide, years of war, lack of natural resources, poor farm management, and limited access to clean water and...
Petroleo Brasileiro SA (NYSE: PBR), or Petrobras, is delaying its monster offering.  Reports from Brazil say its huge $25 billion share sale is now expected to take place in September rather than...
The global unemployment problem is so huge that the total number of jobless in the ten most populous nations in the world totals 1.1 billion. That is only slightly smaller than the population of...
The global equity market is about to get ready to absorb one of the world’s largest securities offerings ever.  Petroleo Brasileiro SA (NYSE: PBR), or the state-run ‘Petrobras,’ has hired a...
Morningstar has issued a report this week for oil services operations calling the opportunity in Iraq as “one of the greatest capacity increases in the industry’s history.”  The analysis says...
Maybe you remember the “Bear Market Financial Terms”… If you are getting as sick of the daily financial news out of Greece and its financial games as we are, here are some new Greek Financial...
The end of this last week and weekend reviews showed how the highly volatile Direxion Daily Financial Bear 3X Shares (NYSE: FAZ) and the Direxion Daily Financial Bull 3X Shares (NYSE: FAS) were...
McDonald’s Corp. (NYSE: MCD) may be the world’s largest fast food chain. In fact, we have even noted how it is effectively worth more than all public US restaurant companies combined.  The...
The Treasury bond market weakness is tied in part to a poor US Treasury auction of $42 billion in five-year notes at Wednesday’s auction with a high rate of 2.605% on a bid-to-cover ratio of...
ConocoPhillips (NYSE: COP) is living up to its promise, or at least trying to live up to the promise of selling some $10 billion in assets.  According to reports from Reuters and from Dow Jones, the...
China’s trade minister recently said that China may see a trade deficit for March 2010. The combination of a Chinese March trade deficit and US saber-rattling on the need for stronger Yuan have...