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Thursday's Put/Call Ratio Leaders
Thursday, July 7, 2011 - 1:31pm | 78Here are today's Put/Call Ratio leaders… 1. Hormel Foods (NYSE: HRL) 2,642 puts, 34 calls 2. Thoratec Corp. (NASDAQ: THOR) 7,363 puts, 160 calls 3. Santander Finance Preferred (NYSE: STD) 4,375 puts, 159 calls 4. HSBC Holdings (NYSE: HBC) 4,385 puts, 171 calls 5. Forest Laboratories (NYSE: FRX) 4...
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Options Brief: Allied Irish Banks
Tuesday, July 5, 2011 - 10:23am | 92Shares of Allied Irish Banks (NYSE: AIB) are lower on the session by 3.25%, trading at $2.06. Overall call volume is now running at 9.87x the daily average, with 35% of all calls traded being purchases on the offer. 1,273 contracts have traded on the session so far. Allied Irish Banks, p.l.c....
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Wells Fargo Reports 687,047 Active Trial and Completed Modifications through May 2011
Friday, July 1, 2011 - 3:19pm | 250Wells Fargo & Co. (NYSE: WFC) reported today that active trial or completed mortgage modifications started since the beginning of 2009 were in place on 687,047 loans in its servicing portfolio as of May 31, 2011. That included 585,213, or 85 percent of the total, done through the company's own...
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Benzinga's Top Upgrades
Friday, July 1, 2011 - 8:25am | 107Analysts at JP Morgan upgraded Murphy Oil Corp (NYSE: MUR) from “underweight” to “neutral.” MUR's shares closed at $65.66 yesterday. Murphy Oil's trailing-twelve-month revenue is $25.52 billion. Analysts at UBS upgraded Westpac Banking Corp (NYSE: WBK) from “neutral” to “buy.” WBK's shares closed...
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UBS Upgrades Westpac Banking To Buy
Friday, July 1, 2011 - 8:12am | 19UBS has upgraded Westpac Banking (NYSE: WBK) from Neutral to Buy.
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Fast Money Picks For July 1st (DAR, TSL, WFC, GLW)
Thursday, June 30, 2011 - 6:50pm | 205On CNBC's Fast Money, Joe Terranova said that if you are in the agriculture trade, you have to be concerned. He closed his position in Darling International Inc. (NYSE: DAR), and he has no exposure to this space. Darling International Inc. (DAR) dropped 4.32% today, and it closed at $17.70. Guy...
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How to Season Your Portfolio With a Little Greek Opa
Thursday, June 30, 2011 - 1:45pm | 474Sure, Greece is facing doom, and despite favorable negotiations of late, the country might just drag the entire European zone into a bank-failure debt crisis that sinks the euro. Maybe you, like a lot of investors, can't stomach the thought of buying some cheap (and probably worthless) Greek bonds...
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Goldman Sachs Warning Of Lay Offs
Thursday, June 30, 2011 - 1:15pm | 189Beleaguered investment bank Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) is likely going to lay off around 230 employees according to the Wall Street Journal. The Wall Street house cited economic reasons for the move. In a notice dated June 29, Goldman said a "plant layoff" may affect those employees between late...
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Most Americans Still Want To Own A Home But Concerns Remain
Thursday, June 30, 2011 - 12:31pm | 608According to a New York Times article, Americans still remain committed to the dream of owning a home, but many doubt that the housing market represents a good investment anymore. Around 9 in 10 Americans say that homeownership is an important part of the American dream according to a new New York...
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Kohlberg Kravis Roberts Awarded License in Saudi Arabia
Thursday, June 30, 2011 - 11:00am | 146Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (NYSE: KKR) today announces that KKR Saudi Limited has received an Arranging License from the Capital Market Authority (CMA) to conduct business in Saudi Arabia. The license will enable KKR to expand its operations in the region and it plans to actively seek investment...
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Puts Purchased on Allied Irish Banks
Thursday, June 30, 2011 - 10:56am | 140Shares of Allied Irish Banks (NYSE: AIB) are lower on the session by 5.00%, currently trading at $2.09. The stock has been moving largely lower over the past six months and is currently trading below the 50-day moving average. Options traders are buying puts on the name today. A short while ago...
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11 Stocks to Watch: Lloyds, First Solar
Thursday, June 30, 2011 - 10:19am | 138(TheStreet) -- London-based Lloyds (NYSE: LYG) plans to cut 15,000 jobs in an effort to save 1.5 billion pounds ($2.4 billion) a year by 2014. HSBC (NYSE: HBC) said it will cut 700 jobs across the U.K. as the banking giant braces for changes in financial services regulations that could weaken...
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How to Profit from Passage of Greek Austerity Measures
Thursday, June 30, 2011 - 9:00am | 800It looks as though Greece will avoid plunging the international financial system into turmoil, as the Greek Parliament is preparing for a second vote on austerity measures that the European Union (EU) demanded in order for Greece to receive the next installment of the 110 billion euro bailout that...
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News Summary for June 30, 2011
Thursday, June 30, 2011 - 7:59am | 413This is your Benzinga news summary and traders' outlook for Thursday, June 30, 2011, covering headlines from overnight and Thursday's pre-market session. Today in domestic pre-market trading, U.S. equity futures are trading higher and the U.S. dollar lower after Greece voted yesterday to cut...
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US Stock Futures Up Ahead Of Jobless Claims, Chicago PMI Data
Thursday, June 30, 2011 - 6:24am | 444US stock futures are higher this morning, as investors are awaiting jobless claims and Chicago PMI data. Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average surged 24 points to 12,242.00 and futures on the S&P 500 stock index rose 2.50 points to 1,306.80. Nasdaq 100 futures gained 6.00 points to 2,300....