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Stocks Back in Red as Tech Drags
Monday, May 16, 2011 - 2:02pm | 149(TheStreet) -- Stocks slipped back into the red as weakness in technology stocks offset strength in basic materials. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down by 22 points, or 0.2%, at 12,573. Earlier in the session, the index rose to as high as 12,642. The S&P 500 was down by 4 points or 0.3...
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Calls Purchased on Discover Financial Services (DFS)
Monday, May 16, 2011 - 12:10pm | 128Shares of Discover Financial Services (NYSE: DFS) are higher on the session by 3.34%, currently trading at $25.05. The stock has been moving largely higher over the past six months and is currently trading above the 50-day and 200-day moving averages. Options traders are buying calls on the name...
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Citi Reiterates Buy on Capital One Financial (COF)
Monday, May 16, 2011 - 8:18am | 98Citi is out with its report today on Capital One Financial (NYSE: COF), reiterating Buy. In a note to clients, Citi writes, "Overall, April results were solid with further improvement in credit and stabilization in US Card balances. Despite the strong YTD performance (+23% vs. BKX -5%), we see...
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Earnings Scheduled For May 16 (VOXX, JCP, ALN, LOW, STV, WINN, SORL, GLPW, CTRP, URBN, JST, ZOOM, DL, MNOV, DRJ, JADE, FMD, CTC, GLGL, CHGS, GOK, GSL)
Monday, May 16, 2011 - 12:48am | 581Audiovox Corporation (NASDAQ: VOXX) is estimated to post its FQ4 earnings at $0.02 per share. J.C. Penney Company Inc (NYSE: JCP) is projected to report its Q1 EPS at $0.25 on revenue of $3.95 billion. American Lorain Corporation (AMEX: ALN) is expected to report its Q1 EPS at $0.08 on revenue...
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Yahoo (YHOO) Alibaba Dispute on Alipay, is it legal and 100% transparent?
Saturday, May 14, 2011 - 2:10pm | 1362Yahoo! Inc (YHOO) prized investment in Chinese Internet company Alibaba Group Holding Ltd has turned into a stock market millstone. Alibaba's recently disclosed spinoff of an online-payment unit called Alipay is raising worries about the value of Yahoo's 43 percent stake in Alibaba. Alibaba Group...
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NASDAQ Top Percentage Gainers
Friday, May 13, 2011 - 3:04pm | 596POINT ROBERTS , Wash., May 13, 2011 - www.InvestorIdeas.com, a global investor research portal for independent investors, reports on trading leaders on the NASDAQ. Top gainers include Tree.com, Inc. (NasdaqGM: TREE), Tranzyme, Inc. (NasdaqGM: TZYM), Gulf Resources, Inc. (NasdaqGS: GFRE) and...
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NASDAQ Top Percentage Gainers
Friday, May 13, 2011 - 3:03pm | 596POINT ROBERTS , Wash., May 13, 2011 - www.InvestorIdeas.com, a global investor research portal for independent investors, reports on trading leaders on the NASDAQ. Top gainers include Tree.com, Inc. (NasdaqGM: TREE), Tranzyme, Inc. (NasdaqGM: TZYM), Gulf Resources, Inc. (NasdaqGS: GFRE) and...
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Morgan Stanley Maintains Equal-Weight on Discover Financial Services (DFS)
Friday, May 13, 2011 - 7:23am | 65Morgan Stanley is out with its report today on Discover Financial Services (NYSE: DFS), maintaining Equal-weight. In a note to clients, Morgan Stanley writes, "We're Equal-weight DFS. We expect significant EPS growth through 2012 due to improving credit trends, and look for capital deployment to...
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Discover to Acquire Mortgage Origination Business from Tree.com for $55.9M
Thursday, May 12, 2011 - 4:04pm | 65Discover Financial Services (NYSE: DFS) announced today that it has reached a definitive agreement to acquire substantially all of the operating and related assets of Home Loan Center, a subsidiary of Tree.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: TREE) for approximately $55.9 million, adding a residential mortgage...
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Tree.com Signs Definitive Agreement to Sell Certain Assets to Discover Financial Services for $55.9M
Thursday, May 12, 2011 - 4:02pm | 62Tree.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: TREE), today announced that it has reached a definitive agreement to sell substantially all of the operating assets of its Home Loan Center subsidiary to Discover Financial Services (NYSE: DFS), headquartered in Riverwoods, Illinois for a net purchase price of approximately...
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Earnings Preview for Kohl's (KSS)
Wednesday, May 11, 2011 - 8:54am | 230Kohl's (NYSE: KSS) will be reporting its first-quarter 2011 results tomorrow, May 12, before the opening bell. Analysts are looking for the company to post earnings of $0.72 per share on revenue of $4.2 billion. That is up from $0.64 per share on $4.0 billion in the same period of last year. Note...
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Nelnet Boosts Quarterly Dividend to $0.10 from $0.07 (NNI)
Tuesday, May 10, 2011 - 7:08am | 16Nelnet (NYSE: NNI) boosts quarterly dividend to $0.10 from $0.07.
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On This Day – 5 Stocks For Nelson Mandela
Monday, May 9, 2011 - 11:00am | 284On May 9, 1994, Nelson Mandela was elected the first black President of South Africa after spending 28 years in prison for armed attempts to end apartheid. To mark that historic occasion, we look at five stocks that might be of interest to the great man. Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (NASDAQ:...
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Retail Earnings: A Sneak Peek (KSS, JWN, WMT, TGT, HD)
Monday, May 9, 2011 - 8:50am | 631The earnings season is beginning to wind down for another quarter. That can only mean that it is time for some of our favorite shopping mall and strip mall retailers to step into the earnings spotlight. Kohl's (NYSE: KSS) and Nordstrom (NYSE: JWN) start things off later this week when they report...
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Citi Comments On American Express Following Recent Management Meeting
Monday, May 9, 2011 - 8:06am | 199American Express's (NYSE: AXP) mgt set a constructive, confident tone emphasizing the momentum AXP had built growing their penetration of high-end spending despite increased competition. Chenault highlighted the fact that 2010's 160 bps improvement in U.S. spending market share to 25.4% was AXP's...