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American Express Declares Dividend of $.18
Monday, November 22, 2010 - 4:24pm | 37The Board of Directors of American Express Company (NYSE: AXP) today declared a regular quarterly dividend of $0.18 per common share, payable on February 10, 2011 to shareholders of record on January 7, 2011.
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First Marblehead to Acquire Tuition Management Systems
Monday, November 22, 2010 - 9:44am | 59The First Marblehead Corporation (NYSE: FMD) today announced the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire Tuition Management Systems (TMS) from KeyBank, N.A. Under the terms of the transaction, TMS will be acquired by a wholly owned subsidiary of The First Marblehead Corporation.
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FCFS Enters Oversold Territory - Tale of the Tape
Friday, November 19, 2010 - 12:33pm | 113First Cash Financial Services, Inc.'s (FCFS) share price has entered into oversold territory with a stochastic value of 18.02. The Zacks Consensus Estimate on the company's earnings for 2010 increased by 9 cents over the past month to $ 1.71 per share. First Cash Financial Services, Inc is a Zacks...
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Piper Jaffray Incrementally Confident In ADS, CSE, DLLR, and PRAA
Friday, November 19, 2010 - 11:02am | 228At a recent Financial Services Summit in Boston, Piper Jaffray said that it is most incrementally confident in the following companies: “Alliance Data Systems (NYSE: ADS): Improving fundamentals. Growth and cash flow still underappreciated. Management continues to focus on reducing controversy in...
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FCFS Enters Oversold Territory - Tale of the Tape
Friday, November 19, 2010 - 6:54am | 113First Cash Financial Services, Inc.'s (FCFS) share price has entered into oversold territory with a stochastic value of 18.02. The Zacks Consensus Estimate on the company's earnings for 2010 increased by 9 cents over the past month to $ 1.71 per share. First Cash Financial Services, Inc is a Zacks...
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Sallie Mae Announces Preferred Dividends
Thursday, November 18, 2010 - 5:19pm | 131SLM Corporation (NYSE: SLM) today announced a 2011 first-quarter dividend on its Preferred Stock Series A of $0.87125 per share. The dividend on the Preferred Stock Series A will be paid on Jan. 31, 2011, to shareholders of record at the close of business on Jan. 21, 2011. In addition, the company...
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Most Large Banks Ready for Stress Tests, Dividends
Thursday, November 18, 2010 - 1:22pm | 430Most of the 19 large bank holding companies that will submit their capital plans to the Federal Reserve in early 2011 appear set to gain approval to begin returning capital to investors by increasing their dividends or buying back shares. The regulator made clear that banks still owing the...
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White River Capital, Inc. Does Not Comment on Unusual Market Activity
Tuesday, November 16, 2010 - 3:05pm | 51In view of the unusual market activity in the stock of White River Capital, Inc. (NYSE: RVR) the NYSE has contacted White River in accordance with its usual practice. White River stated that its policy is not to comment on unusual market activity.
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Friday's Put/Call Ratio Leaders (FCS, RDS.A, SFY, SLM, UNP)
Friday, November 12, 2010 - 1:27pm | 85Here is a quick peek at stocks that have abnormally high daily put/call ratios today relative to their average…. 1. Fairchild Semiconductor (NYSE: FCS) 5,849 puts, 12 calls 2. Royal Dutch Shell (NYSE: RDS.A) 3,096 puts, 19 calls 3. Swift Energy (NYSE: SFY) 2,508 puts, 138 calls 4. SLM Corp. (NYSE:...
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Options Brief: SLM Corporation (SLM)
Friday, November 12, 2010 - 12:26pm | 124Shares of SLM Corporation (NYSE: SLM) are lower on the session by 1.73%, trading at $11.96. Overall put volume is now running at 2.88x the daily average, with 57% of all puts traded being purchases on the offer. 4,120 contracts have traded on the session so far. SLM Corporation, known as Sallie...
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Dollar Financial Corp to Present at the Sidoti & Company Third Annual New York Conference
Friday, November 12, 2010 - 11:43am | 77Dollar Financial Corp (NASDAQ: DLLR), today announced that Jeff Weiss, Chairman and CEO, and Randy Underwood, Executive Vice President and CFO, will present at the Sidoti & Company Third Annual New York Conference on Monday, November 15, 2010 at 2:00 p.m. Eastern time at the Grand Hyatt Hotel...
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China Fighting Inflation 11-11-2010
Thursday, November 11, 2010 - 7:35pm | 831Cusick's Corner I did say that we should be ready for a consolidated market and we certainly have it going into the last trading day of the week. The NASDAQ was very busy as tech bellwether, Cisco, CSCO, was down hard under heavy trading. But we did see some key commodity markets, like Copper,...
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Focus on G20 Comments 11-11-2010
Thursday, November 11, 2010 - 3:18pm | 873Cusick's Corner Market players are focusing on G20 comments, especially with the currency war rhetoric continuing. While there is little expectation of a lot getting done at the conference, there will be some headlines. The current pullback is tempered and the bid has been nibbling, but not biting...
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Discover Bouncing Hard (DFS)
Thursday, November 11, 2010 - 12:48pm | 69Discover Financial Services (NYSE: DFS) is moving sharply higher, from a low of $18.30 on the day, to $18.96 at last trade. Volume is fairly strong, as it's already traded more than 2.3 million shares today. The average daily volume for DFS is just under 5 million shares. Discover operates as a...
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Dollar Financial Unit Buys Stores - Analyst Blog
Thursday, November 11, 2010 - 11:33am | 486In order to expand its footprint in the Canadian markets, National Money Mart, the wholly owned Canadian subsidiary of Dollar Financial Corporation (DLLR), acquired nine franchise stores in the Alberta region for approximately C$13.0 million ($12.9 million). Following the acquisition, Dollar...