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American Express March U.S Card Metrics: Write-Off Rate of 3.7% vs. 3.8% (AXP)
Friday, April 15, 2011 - 11:13am | 21American Express (NYSE: AXP) March U.S Card Metrics: Write-Off Rate of 3.7% vs. 3.8%
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Options Brief: Discover Financial Services (DFS)
Thursday, April 14, 2011 - 1:28pm | 85Shares of Discover Financial Services (NYSE: DFS) are lower on the session by 1.11%, trading at $23.96. Overall call volume is now running at 4.15x the daily average, with 62% of all calls traded being purchases on the offer. 4,594 contracts have traded on the session so far. Discover Financial...
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American Express and Payfone Announce Strategic Alliance
Wednesday, April 13, 2011 - 8:07am | 53American Express (NYSE: AXP), and Payfone today announced a strategic alliance to create and power a new global mobile checkout service. As part of the agreement, Payfone will combine its advanced mobile authorization and payment services with American Express' recently launched digital payments...
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J.P. Morgan Discusses Credit Card Names (AXP, COF)
Wednesday, April 13, 2011 - 7:52am | 212J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. is out with a research note on credit card names, such as American Express (NYSE: AXP) and Capital One Financial (NYSE: COF). It has a Overweight rating and a $52 price target on American Express, and a Neutral rating and a $52 price target on shares. In a note to...
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Top Percentage Gainers And Losers As Of 3:30 p.m. 4/12/2011 (CYH, THC, IDIX, BAC, ANIK, SKH, JPM, UAL, BIOD, SCEI, DGW, CCRT, WMS, EXTR, LFT, SB, HOGS, CAAS, SGI)
Tuesday, April 12, 2011 - 3:48pm | 585Best 1) Community Health Systems (NYSE: CYH): Shares have continued to build on earlier gains, currently up 18.77% to $30.75; sitting near the highs of the day. Skepticism has grown about Tenet Healthcare's (NYSE: THC) lawsuit against the company. The stock took a huge hit in yesterday's session...
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Top Percentage Gainers And Losers As Of 2 p.m. 4/12/2011 (CYH, THC, IDIX, BAC, SKH, JPM, BIO, REDF, DEER, THC, CYTX, CCRT, WMS, EXTR, LFT, SB, DRRX, BRNC, MCRL)
Tuesday, April 12, 2011 - 2:09pm | 558Best 1) Community Health Systems (NYSE: CYH): Shares are surging 13.09% to $2.32 as skepticism grows about Tenet Healthcare's (NYSE: THC) lawsuit against the company. The stock took a huge hit in yesterday's session, trading down as low as $22.32 after Tenet's lawsuit alleging illegal admission...
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CompuCredit Holdings Corporation Announces Preliminary Results of Tender Offer to Purchase up to 13,125,000 Shares of Its Common Stock
Tuesday, April 12, 2011 - 1:33pm | 107CompuCredit Holdings Corporation (NASDAQ: CCRT) today announced the preliminary results of its tender offer to purchase up to 13,125,000 shares of its outstanding common stock, no par value per share (the "Common Stock"), at a purchase price of $8.00 per share. The tender offer expired at 11:59 p.m...
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Top Percentage Gainers And Losers As Of 10 a.m. 4/12/2011 (CYH, THC, SKH, JPM, EXEL, GS, TIBX, HPQ, SIFY, WMS, GFRE, EXTR, SB, AIB, CCRT, GIL, THLD, BRNC, SIMG)
Tuesday, April 12, 2011 - 10:28am | 464Best 1) Community Health Systems (NYSE: CYH): Shares are vaulting 16.57% to $30.18. The stock took a huge hit in yesterday's session, trading down as low as $22.32 after Tenet Healthcare (NYSE: THC) filed a lawsuit against the company alleging illegal admission of patients in order to benefit...
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Morning Market Losers (GFNCL, WMS, CCRT, JOEZ)
Tuesday, April 12, 2011 - 9:59am | 102General Finance Corporation (NASDAQ: GFNCL) fell 20.00% to $2.80 at 9:55 am. GFNCL's trailing-twelve-month ROE is -5.35%. WMS Industries Inc (NYSE: WMS) shares dropped 15.27% to $30.69. WMS projects to report downbeat earnings for the third quarter. CompuCredit Holdings Corporation (NASDAQ: CCRT...
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Mad Money Lightning Round: Cramer Likes OpenTable (WEC, DFS, OPEN, FAST, NTES, BIDU, SINA, TSLA, PPO, BAC)
Tuesday, April 12, 2011 - 12:14am | 297On CNBC's Mad Money, Jim Cramer said during the Lightning Round that Wisconsin Energy (NYSE: WEC) is a “growth utility, but I want to ring the register. Let's not give that gain back." For Discover Financial Services (NYSE: DFS), he said, "They are blowing away the numbers and I'm not chasing it...
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UPDATE: Jefferies Lowering Price Target On Dollar Financial (DLLR)
Wednesday, April 6, 2011 - 7:56am | 165Jefferies & Co. is lowering its price target on shares of Dollar Financial (NASDAQ: DLLR) to $25 from $26, but it still has a Buy rating on shares. In a note to investors, Jefferies writes, "DLLR announced late Tuesday that they are issuing at least 5M shares to pay down the credit facility...
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Dollar Financial Corp. Announces Common Stock Offering of 5M Shares
Tuesday, April 5, 2011 - 4:41pm | 62Dollar Financial Corp. (NASDAQ: DLLR) today announced that it has commenced an underwritten public offering, subject to market and other conditions, of 5,000,000 shares of its common stock. The Company also intends to grant to the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 750,000...
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Stifel Nicolaus Raises PT on Capital One to $64 (COF)
Tuesday, April 5, 2011 - 9:04am | 80Stifel Nicolaus is out with its report today on Capital One (NYSE: COF), raising its price target from $60 to $64. In a note to clients, Stifel Nicolaus writes, "In conjunction with our updated credit card industry macro forecast, we are raising estimates and reiterating our Buy rating on shares...
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Kohl's Department Stores Announces Completion of Private-Label Credit Card Portfolio Transfer to Capital One
Tuesday, April 5, 2011 - 8:09am | 71Kohl's Department Stores (NYSE: KSS) today announced the completion of its private-label credit card portfolio transfer to Capital One Financial Corporation (NYSE: COF), effective as of April 1, 2011. Capital One has acquired the more than 20 million existing Kohl's Charge accounts and through the...
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More Customers Exposed as Big Data Breach Grows (C, TIVO, COF, HSNI)
Monday, April 4, 2011 - 9:43am | 162The names and e-mails of customers of Citigroup (NYSE: C) and other large U.S. companies, as well as College Board students, were exposed in a massive and growing data breach after a computer hacker penetrated online marketer Epsilon. In what could be one of the biggest such breaches in U.S....