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businessinsider.com
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Nov 06, 2009
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C, JPM
John Reed, who originally helped merge Traveller's Group with Citibank with Sandy Weill, is performing a mea culpa for creating megazombie Citigroup (C):
Bloomberg: “I’m sorry,” Reed, 70, said in an interview yesterday. “These are people I love and care about. You could imagine emotionally it’s not...
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straightstocks.com
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Nov 06, 2009
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NILE, GOOG, M and 8 moreAMZN, VZ, F, JPM, SBUX, DB, GE, AIG
• Starbucks (NASDAQ:SBUX) reported fourth quarter earnings of 24 cents a share, up from last year's 10 cents, above Zacks estimates of 21 cents, as revenues dropped 3.7% to $2.42 billion. The firm raised its 2010 guidance to 15-20% earnings growth from prior guidance of 13-18% growth
• Hyatt Hotels...
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blogs.barrons.com
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Nov 05, 2009
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AXP, BAC, JPM
Maybe the Yankees are going to turn out to be good for the bulls after all.
One day after the Bronx Bombers demonstrated their dominance over the artistically superior but fundamentally wanting Philadelphia Phillies, Wall Street took off in a way it hasn’t in nearly four months. The Dow Jones Indus...
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The Bulls could not have asked for a better rebound.
The Dow surpassed the "magical" 10,000 mark, closing at at 10007, up 2% or 204 points. The NASDAQ gained 2.4% to close at 2104 and the S&P 500 closed up 1.9% at 106. One of the biggest lossers of the day is the double-whammy that hit CVS Care...
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minyanville.com
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Nov 05, 2009
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C, JPM
A recent Bloomberg article was titled Pandit “Near Death” Hoard Signals Lower Bank Profits and stated that Citigroup Inc. (C) and JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) were hoarding cash as if another crisis were on the way. Also a Wall Street Journal article entitled Jittery Companies Stash Cash showed th...
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U.S. stocks ended mixed Wednesday after a late-session profit taking almost wiped off a 156-point rally in the Dow average that was fueled by the Fed’s encouraging assessment of the economy and its decision to keep interest rates low for an extended period. The optimism was short-lived as investors...
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It will be a shame when the day comes that Apple can’t put out good news every day. The market has become used to it. Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) now has the 9th highest market cap of all companies traded on a US exchange at $173 billion, about the same at Procter & Gamble (NYSE:PG) and JPMorgan (NYSE:J...
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Updated throughout the day.
The CEOs of Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) and JPMorgan (NYSE:JPM) met pay czar Feinberg before he announced pay cut plans (Bloomberg)
Time Warner’s (NYSE:TWX) Time, Inc publishing division will lay off 500 people (various).
Senator Chris Dodd will propose merging all four ban...
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businessinsider.com
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Nov 04, 2009
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BAC, JPM
We were so naive. We honestly thought that the major banks and credit card issuers would engage in a big campaign to clean up their image (if only for show), while getting behind some self-serving consumer financial protection regime.
But no. They reall seem hellbent on making their customers hate t...
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businessinsider.com
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Nov 03, 2009
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JPM
It's no secret banks are raising interest rates and fees on credit cards, but Bank of America absolutely takes the cake this time around, charging one customer 279% interest:
Zero Hedge: Courtesy of a reader, no photoshops were harmed in the creation of this usury. Granted, the finance charge seems...
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The big news of the morning was Warren Buffett's purchase of Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation with his Berkshire Hathaway investment vehicle. Shares of BNSF (BNI) are up over 28% at 97.58, leading the path for other railroad companies like Union Pacific (UNP), up nearly 7% at 58.78 and CSX (...
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pheedcontent.com
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Nov 02, 2009
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JPM
Filed under: Deals, JPMorgan Chase (JPM)In North America, the big focus for independent exploration and production firms is on natural gas. Yet, there is still a good amount of oil to be tapped (assuming prices remain relatively high). So this week, Denbury Resources (NYSE: DNR) capitalized on the o...
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businessinsider.com
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Nov 02, 2009
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JPM
If you think tensions over swine flu are exaggerated, think again.
We saw a violent altercation between two women this morning on the New York City subway over H1N1.
The D train was traveling south from Rockefeller Center (50th Street) and Times Square (42nd Street). One woman, perhaps 5'7", slightl...
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straightstocks.com
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Nov 02, 2009
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AA, KFT, CIT and 8 moreBAC, DHI, MS, HD, F, JPM, CSCO, MA
Faced with grim signals about the state of the economy, investors sold off stocks Friday, sending benchmark indexes sharply lower and fanning worries that an economic recovery would take time to materialize. The Nasdaq composite index and the Standard & Poor’s 500 index reversed a seven-month w...
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businessinsider.com
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Nov 02, 2009
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JPM
It looks like reform of our financial regulatory scheme will have to wait until next year.
The Obama administration has proposed one set of reforms that greatly increases the scope of the Federal Reserve's supervisory authority. The House of Representatives has several bills in the works, reflecting...
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247wallst.com
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Nov 02, 2009
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BX, CMCSA, EBAY and 15 moreGS, C, CIT, PFE, BAC, FNM, F, JPM, EAC, DNR, WMT, GE, BK, HGSI, AAPL
Reuters: Investors in the banking sector were disturbed by the CIT (NYSE:CIT) bankruptcy.
Reuters: Summers will lead a high level meeting on the economy.
Reuters: US companies are holding more cash.
Reuters: The Fed is likely to keep interest rates flat due to economic uncertainty.
Reuters:...
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short-termtrading.blogspot.com
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Nov 01, 2009
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INTC, XOM, DD and 27 moreCAT, AA, PG, MO, MMM, DIS, UTX, MCD, C, AXP, VZ, KO, PFE, HD, MRK, JNJ, GM, JPM, HON, WMT, GE, BA, MSFT, IBM, HPQ, T, AIG
The 60-minute trend is negative according to the force index indicator. %b has printed a slightly positive divergence. Prices are testing the lower trendline of the recently formed downward channel. Finally, the long awaited correction has started. At 9600 there is an important level; here there i...
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businessinsider.com
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Oct 30, 2009
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GS, JPM
More Friday document dumping, this time from The White House, which just released visitor logs for Obama's first 6 months in office.
Says the White House: "Today marks a major milestone in government transparency--and an important lesson in the unintended consequences of such vigorous disclosure."
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It got pretty ugly out there today or downright spooky (lame Halloween joke). The S&P 500 got whacked today by -2.82% to 1036 finishing right at the low for the day and the low for the week. It was an across the board ugly sell off but some losers that stood out for the day were the financials:...
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Updated throughout the day.
Venezuela may have gold reserves with a total value over $13 billion. (CNBC)
JP Morgan (NYSE:JPM) may have had concerns about Galleon as early as 2001 (Financial Times)
Likely near-term tech acquisition targets include Sapient (NASDAQ:SAPE), Computer Sciences (NYSE:CSC)...
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