Consumer Finance

Capital One Financial (NYSE: COF) announced net income that exceeded analysts' expectations for the second quarter. The Numbers: Capital One has now seen net income rise in three straight quarters. Net income rose 59.7% in the first quarter. In the fourth quarter of the last fiscal year, the...

Electronic Arts (NASDAQ: ERTS) is trading over 2.70% lower near $23.5 after it was announced that the company had purchased PopCap Games. Tibco Software (NASDAQ: TIBX) is trading over 2.50% lower near $29.09 after it was announced that the company's COO had filed to sell 65k shares. Capital One...

This is your Benzinga news summary and traders' outlook for Wednesday, July 13, 2011, covering headlines from overnight and Wednesday’s pre-market session. Today in domestic pre-market trading, U.S. equity futures are trading higher as investors wait to see what Federal Reserve Chairman Ben...

Capital One Financial Corp (NYSE: COF) reported a 50% rise in its second-quarter net income and announced its plans to sell $2 billion of common shares. Capital One reported its quarterly earnings at $911 million, or $1.97 per share, up from $608 million, or $1.33 per share, in the year-ago...

Capital One Financial Corporation (NYSE: COF) today announced an underwritten public offering of $2.0 billion of its common stock, which will be subject to the forward sale agreements described below. Barclays Capital, Morgan Stanley, BofA Merrill Lynch and J.P. Morgan are acting as book-running...

Stocks trading at or near 52-week highs and lows provide excellent trading opportunities, as volatility tends to increase at such levels. The following stocks hit new 52-week highs in Tuesday's trading session (listed from highest total volume to lowest): 1) Adventrx Pharmaceuticals (NYSE: ANX...

Cusick's Corner Last night as I was doing a webinar I was catching myself trading more than teaching as the markets were on the move - US Dollar was running to the upside, Euro sliced through $1.40, bonds were running on the long end and the equities sliced through that support level, 1315. Then...

Stocks trading at or near 52-week highs and lows provide excellent trading opportunities, as volatility tends to increase at such levels. The following stocks hit new 52-week highs in Monday's trading session (listed from highest total volume to lowest): 1) BioSante Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: BPAX...

Nelnet (NYSE: NNI) today announced that it closed on a transaction to purchase the residual interest in $1.9 billion of Federal Family Education Loan Program consolidation loans from an affiliate of Greystone & Co., Inc. Nelnet acquired the ownership interest in GCO SLIMS Trust-1 giving the...

Stocks trading at or near 52-week highs and lows provide excellent trading opportunities, as volatility tends to increase at such levels. The following stocks hit new 52-week highs in Friday's trading session (listed from highest total volume to lowest): 1) Melco Crown Entertainment (NASDAQ:...

While Associated Press Economics writers like Christopher Rugaber and Paul Wiseman, as seen in a post this morning (at NewBusters; at BizzyBlog), talk of “baffled economists” and a job market that is “defying history,” one AP writer, in discussing stocks which have done well in this economy, has...

MasterCard (NYSE: MA) and Visa (NYSE: V) reached new 52-week highs of $322.27 and $90.83 per share, respectively, in Thursday's trading session. MasterCard surged from $279 to $309 per share at the end of June, following the Federal Reserve's decision to place a higher-than-proposed cap on debit-...

Stocks trading at or near 52-week highs and lows provide excellent trading opportunities, as volatility tends to increase at such levels. The following stocks hit new 52-week highs in Thursday's trading session (listed from highest total volume to lowest): 1) Shares of Level 3 Communications hit...

Shares of Cardtronics (NASDAQ: CATM) are higher on the session by 0.92%, currently trading at $24.22. The stock has been moving largely higher over the past six months and is currently trading above the 50-day moving average. Options traders are buying puts on the name today. A short while ago...

American Express (NYSE: AXP) and Discover (NYSE: DFS) reached new multiyear highs of $53.69 and $27.92 per share, respectively, Thursday morning. American Express recently launched a free tool designed to help small businesses monitor social media and also said members could use reward points to...