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BloggingStocks (Free subscription) | yesterday
Filed under: Google (GOOG) , Apple Inc (AAPL) , Dell (DELL) , Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) , Market matters , Limited Brands (LTD) , Cramer on BloggingStocks , Technology From TheStreet.com Network Dell's Weak Numbers Sink Shares Five Dumbest Things on Wall Street: Nov. 20 TheStreet.com's Jim Cramer says traders who focus on the negative will pounce on this poor report. Thanks for nothing, Dell ( DELL )...
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SeekingAlpha.com (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Calafia Beach Pundit submits: This chart highlights the attainment of yet another "milestone" in the market's recovery from last year's panic recession. This is the MOVE index as calculated by Merrill Lynch: a weighted average of the implied volatilities of 1-month options on 2, 5, 10, and 30-year Treasuries. The implied volatility of the bond market has now subsided to levels not seen since...
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Market Watch (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Companies are on pace to issue the most non-investment-grade debt on record, as investors continue to seek higher returns and credit markets return closer to normal, credit strategists at Bank of America Merrill Lynch said.
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla., Nov. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Newbridge Securities Corporation ("Newbridge" or the "Firm"), a full service securities broker-dealer and investment bank, is pleased to announce that it has hired Kathleen Reed as a Senior Vice President and Equity Research Analyst to cover the Consumer Products sector. Ms. Reed has an extensive background with over 15 years experience...
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Stocks to Watch Today (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Japan’s Mitshubishi UJ Financial Group (MTU) said it will raise $11.2 billion in new shares in advance of its purchase of the Morgan Stanley’s (MS) Japan brokerage unit, the Financial Times reports. That’s equal to roughly 18% of the firms capitalization, according to its American Depository Receipts. The company is [...]
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
NEW YORK and LONDON, Nov. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- A majority of investors expects the U.S. Federal Reserve to hold off from raising interest rates until the second half of 2010, according to the BofA Merrill Lynch Survey of Fund Managers for November.
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Market Watch (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Invesco Ltd.'s PowerShares unit launched a new taxable exchange-traded fund on Tuesday, to help investors buy in Build America Bonds, a federally-subsidized form of taxable municipal debt that helps states and local municipalities get a better deal on selling taxable debt to finance capital projects. The fund comes after issuers have sold almost $50 billion in the securities...
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
NEW YORK, Nov. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research today announced that David Beker will be rejoining the company as head of Latin America Economics and Fixed Income Strategy. In this role, he will be responsible for the growth, inflation, exchange rates and fixed income recommendations across Latin America.
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Market Watch (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
LONDON (MarketWatch) -- Axa was cut to equal-weight from overweight by Morgan Stanley, which said there's better risk/reward profiles elsewhere even though the Axa franchise remains attractive, the Axa Asia-Pacific offer makes strategic sense and the 2 billion euro rights issue improves solvency and leverage. The brokerage prefers Zurich Financial and Aegon . In the U.K., it upped Standard Life to...
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Market Wire (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
NEW YORK, NY (MARKET WIRE) Morgan Stanley is the prime brokerage preferred by hedge fund managers with more than $1 billion in assets in the fifth annual Alpha Awards, which rank the top service providers as chosen by managers of hedge funds large and small.
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sahilsimran | 02/16/2009
Morgan Stanley is expected to cut around 2,000 jobs this month. According to a report in The Times, the cull will focus on back-office roles and will not affect financial advisers, who are involved in the imminent launch of a joint venture with Citigroup. The bank is in the process of acquiring a majority stake in the [...] readmore
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konaxis.net | 01/16/2009
The Royal Bank of Scotland Group (PLC) is raising as much as US$2.37 billion by selling profitably its entire 4.3% holding in Bank of China Ltd., at between HK$1.68 and HK$1.71, a 7.6% to 9.1% discount to Bank of China's Hong Kong closing price of HK$1.85 a share Tuesday (Jan 13), according to reliable sources. Morgan Stanley and RBS jointly arranged the sale. Foreign strategic investors have been...
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juliasmith98 | 12/13/2008
Dow Jones Slump Could Begin to Threaten Global Markets As European governments struggled to contain banking failures, the Dow Jones Industrial Average plummeted by 800 points at one stage, exceeding last week’s largest ever one-day points drop of...