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Monday's Mid-Day Options Volume Leaders
Monday, August 1, 2011 - 12:34pm | 69Here are today's mid-day options volume leaders… 1. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) 158,351 contracts, 65.5% calls, 34.5% puts 2. Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) 120,326 contracts, 65.9% calls, 34.1% puts 3. Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) 65,962 contracts, 66.5% calls, 33.5% puts 4. JP Morgan Chase (NYSE:...
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Debt Ceiling Deal Is Done, Will The Rally Hold?
Monday, August 1, 2011 - 10:19am | 404This morning, the major stock market indexes are trading higher after a debt ceiling resolution was announced yesterday. The debt ceiling deal still needs to pass a critical vote in the U.S. Congress. Many traders and investors have already taken profits at the open this morning on any long...
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Shark Week and Morgan Properties Trust
Monday, August 1, 2011 - 1:01am | 575A couple things to get excited about? You better believe it! First of all, Shark Week on the Discovery channel is beginning today! Well, last night to be exact. Anyway, I have no idea why I get so excited about these educational shows about sharks , but I do know that millions of other people love...
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Earnings Preview: Prudential's Revenue Expected to Fall from Previous Quarter
Friday, July 29, 2011 - 4:21pm | 573Prudential Financial (NYSE: PRU) releases its next round of earnings this Wednesday, August 3, 2011. Here's Benzinga's essential guide to Prudential Financial's second quarter earnings report. Earnings and Revenue: Wall Street expects a EPS of $1.55 per share and revenues of $9.62 billion....
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Even Goldman Sachs Couldn't Hedge This Loss
Friday, July 29, 2011 - 2:36pm | 706According to Reuters own @Lauren LaCapra, there is a serious brain drain going on at Goldman Sachs Group Inc's (NYSE: GS), the likes of which the bank has not seen in some time. There has been several who have left the North American government bonds and derivatives trading desk over the past few...
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ETF Showdown: International Banking Battle
Friday, July 29, 2011 - 2:32pm | 500Unless one has resided under a rock or in a cave for the past three or four years, one knows that U.S. bank stocks have seen better days. European financials have faced and continue to face myriad problems, similar and exclusive to those endured by their U.S. brethren, so where do investors turn in...
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Friday's Mid-Day Options Volume Leaders
Friday, July 29, 2011 - 1:01pm | 84Here are today's mid-day options volume leaders… 1. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) 218,002 contracts, 60.7% calls, 39.3% puts 2. Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) 110,081 contracts, 60.0% calls, 40.0% puts 3. Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) 92,518 contracts, 48.2% calls, 51.8% puts 4. Annaly Capital Management (...
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Cutting Taxes to Create Jobs is a Lie
Friday, July 29, 2011 - 12:39pm | 1441For thirty years, Republicans have behaved exactly like dolls with pull strings. Tug on the back, and they repeat, without fail, "we need to cut taxes on businesses so they can create jobs". Likewise, for thirty years, Democrats have tried to tell Republicans that this is a terrible idea. "Reality...
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J.P. Morgan to Exit Tax Lien Business
Friday, July 29, 2011 - 10:36am | 89J.P. Morgan (NYSE: JPM) announced today that the firm would begin exiting its tax lien business, Plymouth Park Tax Services, LLC, which also operates under the name XSPAND. The firm will not pursue any new business in this area, effective immediately. XSPAND will continue to service existing tax...
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5 Bank Stocks Ready to Rocket
Friday, July 29, 2011 - 10:16am | 111(TheStreet) -- Bank stocks continue to dig a deeper hole with every negative headline, but analysts feel investors may have hit bedrock. The 12-month consensus price targets for shares of the nation's 50 largest banks by assets are well ahead of current market prices, according to data from...
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Stock Market Reality: The Truth On The House Vote
Thursday, July 28, 2011 - 1:48pm | 379The markets are holding their collective breath as they look towards the vote later in the House of Representatives. John Boehner's bill outlining budget cuts and raising the debt ceiling will be on the chopping block. This is ultimately the biggest vote the markets have seen since TARP passed in...
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Stock Market Reality: The Truth On The House Vote
Thursday, July 28, 2011 - 1:46pm | 379The markets are holding their collective breath as they look towards the vote later in the House of Representatives. John Boehner's bill outlining budget cuts and raising the debt ceiling will be on the chopping block. This is ultimately the biggest vote the markets have seen since TARP passed in...
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Kill Emotion Then Profit: Stock Markets Rise
Thursday, July 28, 2011 - 12:35pm | 327The house will be voting this evening on the John Boehner plan. There are questions on whether or not it will pass. Should it pass, the debt ceiling will be raised within days. Slight optimism is keeping this market higher today. The SPDR S&P 500 ETF (NYSE: SPY) is trading at $131.59, +0.99 (+0...
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Thursday's Mid-Day Options Volume Leaders
Thursday, July 28, 2011 - 12:12pm | 84Here are today's mid-day options volume leaders… 1. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) 182,698 contracts, 63.3% calls, 36.87% puts 2. Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) 111,272 contracts, 69.1% calls, 30.9% puts 3. Sprint Nextel (NYSE: S) 57,769 contracts, 66.4% calls, 33.6% puts 4. PetroHawk Energy Corp. (NYSE:...
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Too Big To Fail Keeps Markets Alive So Far
Thursday, July 28, 2011 - 10:49am | 326As we all know by now, the large financial institutions have lead the markets lower over the past three months. This morning, it is the large financial stocks that are trading higher on the session keeping the markets alive. When the financial stocks show intra-day strength it is very difficult to...