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Tax-Cut Deal: Enough to Boost Jobs? - Analyst Blog
Thursday, December 16, 2010 - 3:00pm | 950Is sustaining the Bush-era tax cuts adequate to address unemployment? President Barack Obama's tone at a White House event last week gives us confidence, but questions on the efficacy of the tax-cut still lingers. Though the tax-cut deal -- better to say Obama's compromise with Republicans to...
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Tax-Cut Deal: Enough to Boost Jobs? - Analyst Blog
Thursday, December 16, 2010 - 2:40pm | 950Is sustaining the Bush-era tax cuts adequate to address unemployment? President Barack Obama's tone at a White House event last week gives us confidence, but questions on the efficacy of the tax-cut still lingers. Though the tax-cut deal -- better to say Obama's compromise with Republicans to...
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Thursday's Put/Call Ratio Leaders (LVLT, FLR, STD, MT, LFC)
Thursday, December 16, 2010 - 1:19pm | 92Here is a quick peek at stocks that have abnormally high daily put/call ratios today relative to their average…. 1. Levels 3 Communications (NASDAQ: LVLT) 10,102 puts, 244 calls 2. Fluor Corp. (NYSE: FLR) 5,943 puts, 627 calls 3. Santander Finance (NYSE: STD) 2,539 puts, 364 calls 4. Arcelor Mittal...
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Wells Fargo Completes Conversion of Lowe's Employee Retirement Plans
Thursday, December 16, 2010 - 11:30am | 60Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC) announced today it has successfully moved 246,000 Lowe's (NYSE: LOW) employees to its retirement services platform, marking the customer relationship forming between the nation's second largest home improvement company and the largest U.S. bank provider of...
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Wells Fargo Initiates Comerica At Outperform
Thursday, December 16, 2010 - 9:42am | 180Wells Fargo has published a research report and has initiated coverage on Comerica Inc. (NYSE: CMA) with an Outperform rating. In the report, Wells Fargo writes "We are initiating coverage of CMA with an Outperform rating and a 12-month valuation range of $49-52--implying 20-27% potential upside...
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Comerica To Benefit From Texan Economy, Oppenheimer Reports
Thursday, December 16, 2010 - 9:35am | 110Oppenheimer reports that it recently met with three Houston-based commercial banks to discuss banking trends in the Texas market. “The strength and diversity of the state's economy is expected to drive greater lending opportunities, though over the near term it appears organic growth will remain...
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Keefe Bruyette Downgrades CMA To Market Perform
Thursday, December 16, 2010 - 9:34am | 41Analysts at Keefe Bruyette downgrade Comerica Incorporated (NYSE: CMA) from "outperform" to "market perform." CMA's shares lost 1.30% to close at $40.24 yesterday. More Analyst Ratings here
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Zacks #5 Rank Additions for Thursday - Tale of the Tape
Thursday, December 16, 2010 - 9:33am | 346Here are 5 stocks added to the Zacks #5 Rank ("strong sell") List today: AK Steel Holding Corp (AKS) Amer River Bankshares (AMRB) Ameron Intl Corp (AMN) Aviat Networks Inc (AVNW) Banco Santander (STD) View the entire Zacks #5 Rank List. AK STEEL HLDG (AKS): Free Stock Analysis Report AMERON INTL...
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Zacks #5 Rank Additions for Thursday - Tale of the Tape
Thursday, December 16, 2010 - 9:14am | 346Here are 5 stocks added to the Zacks #5 Rank ("strong sell") List today: AK Steel Holding Corp (AKS) Amer River Bankshares (AMRB) Ameron Intl Corp (AMN) Aviat Networks Inc (AVNW) Banco Santander (STD) View the entire Zacks #5 Rank List. AK STEEL HLDG (AKS): Free Stock Analysis Report AMERON INTL...
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KBW Believes Comerica Will Deploy Excess Capital
Thursday, December 16, 2010 - 8:58am | 97KBW is out with its report on Comerica (NYSE: CMA) after lowering CMA's rating to Market Perform from Outperform. In a note to clients, KBW writes, "We continue to believe that CMA will be able to deploy its excess capital, as we have already seen from the dividend increase and reauthorization of...
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Keefe Downgrades Comerica To Market Perform
Thursday, December 16, 2010 - 8:34am | 26Keefe Bruyette & Woods has downgraded Comerica Inc. (NYSE: CMA) from Outperform to Market Perform with a $44 price target.
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CNO Financial Prices Credit Notes - Analyst Blog
Wednesday, December 15, 2010 - 3:33pm | 416In order to retire the existing senior credit facility, CNO Financial Group Inc. (CNO) has priced its senior secured notes together with the new senior secured credit facility and CNO Financial's available cash. CNO Financial has priced its $275 million principal amount of 9.0% senior secured...
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CNO Financial Prices Credit Notes - Analyst Blog
Wednesday, December 15, 2010 - 3:00pm | 416In order to retire the existing senior credit facility, CNO Financial Group Inc. (CNO) has priced its senior secured notes together with the new senior secured credit facility and CNO Financial's available cash. CNO Financial has priced its $275 million principal amount of 9.0% senior secured...
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Large Cap Winners & Losers (NVS, CAT, HDB, FBR)
Wednesday, December 15, 2010 - 2:43pm | 320The broader markets are solidly negative, but despite this, there are some large cap stocks that are outperforming today, for a variety of reasons. There are also a handful of stocks that are being hit sharply. Novartis (NYSE: NVS) is up around 5% on news that the company is completing its...
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HCP to Offer Common Shares - Analyst Blog
Wednesday, December 15, 2010 - 10:33am | 782HCP Inc. (HCP), the largest medical real estate investment trust (REIT) in the U.S., has recently announced its offer of 40 million common shares at $32.00 per share. The company had earlier announced its offer of 31 million shares, but was forced to increase the secondary offering due to strong...