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KeyCorp Upgraded to Outperform - Analyst Blog
Monday, January 3, 2011 - 2:03pm | 740We are upgrading our recommendation on KeyCorp (KEY) to Outperform from Neutral, based on its strong earnings and improving fundamentals. KeyCorp's third quarter results mark its second consecutive profitable quarter since the beginning of the financial crisis in early 2008. Third quarter net...
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KeyCorp Upgraded to Outperform - Analyst Blog
Monday, January 3, 2011 - 1:30pm | 740We are upgrading our recommendation on KeyCorp (KEY) to Outperform from Neutral, based on its strong earnings and improving fundamentals. KeyCorp's third quarter results mark its second consecutive profitable quarter since the beginning of the financial crisis in early 2008. Third quarter net...
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Sterling Savings Bank of Announces Winter Bonus Sale
Monday, January 3, 2011 - 1:00pm | 116Sterling Savings Bank , a subsidiary of Sterling Financial Corporation (NASDAQ: STSA), today announced an incentive program for buyers of Sterling-owned properties. All single-family residences and condominiums currently owned by Sterling qualify for this incentive. Incentives are offered...
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Stock Market News for Jan 3, 2011 - Market News
Monday, January 3, 2011 - 10:36am | 1287Investors mostly stayed away from the Street on Friday, being New Year's Eve and markets closed largely mixed. This was also one of the lightest volume trade days of the year. Though, apart from the Dow, certain benchmarks shed a few points on the closing day, the markets posted an optimistic...
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Stock Market News for Jan 3, 2011 - Market News
Monday, January 3, 2011 - 10:07am | 1287Investors mostly stayed away from the Street on Friday, being New Year's Eve and markets closed largely mixed. This was also one of the lightest volume trade days of the year. Though, apart from the Dow, certain benchmarks shed a few points on the closing day, the markets posted an optimistic...
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Zacks #5 Rank Additions for Monday - Tale of the Tape
Monday, January 3, 2011 - 9:30am | 344Here are 5 stocks added to the Zacks #5 Rank ("strong sell") List today: ACI Worldwide Inc (ACIW) Alaska Comm Systems Inc (ALSK) BNC Bancorp (BNCN) Crescent Financial Corp (CRFN) Eastern Insurance Holdings (EIHI) View the entire Zacks #5 Rank List. ACI WORLDWIDE (ACIW): Free Stock Analysis...
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Zacks #5 Rank Additions for Monday - Tale of the Tape
Monday, January 3, 2011 - 9:14am | 344Here are 5 stocks added to the Zacks #5 Rank ("strong sell") List today: ACI Worldwide Inc (ACIW) Alaska Comm Systems Inc (ALSK) BNC Bancorp (BNCN) Crescent Financial Corp (CRFN) Eastern Insurance Holdings (EIHI) View the entire Zacks #5 Rank List. ACI WORLDWIDE (ACIW): Free Stock Analysis...
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Merger Arbitrage Mondays – January 3, 2011
Monday, January 3, 2011 - 6:50am | 4842Merger activity decreased last week with two new deals announced and four deals closing. You can find all the deals listed below in our Merger Arbitrage Tool that automatically updates itself during market hours. Deal Statistics: Total Number of Deals Closed in 2010 144 Total Number of Deals...
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Stocks Going Ex Dividend the Second Week of January
Sunday, January 2, 2011 - 4:48pm | 741Here is our latest update on the stock trading technique called 'Buying Dividends'. This is the process of buying stocks before the ex dividend date and selling the stock shortly after the ex date at about the same price, yet still being entitled to the dividend. This technique generally works only...
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Being Nimble & Disciplined Will Be Key in 2011 12-31-2010
Friday, December 31, 2010 - 6:32pm | 739Cusick's Corner The market did as expected into the After Hours -- nothing. As we look towards 2011, this new year might shape up to be a trading year. Being nimble and disciplined are going to be the keys to trading in 2011 (the market will probably be one in which you will have to reassess your...
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Telestone Technologies Up 5.9% (TSTC)
Friday, December 31, 2010 - 4:24pm | 154Shares of Telestone Technologies Corp. (Nasdaq: TSTC) are currently up 5.9% at $10.60 per share during Friday afternoon trading. Today's trading range for shares of Telestone Technologies Corporation has been between $10.05 and $10.78 per share. The consensus price target of analysts covering the...
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Final Trading Hours of 2010 12-31-2010
Friday, December 31, 2010 - 3:20pm | 751Cusick's Corner The key today is do no damage. It's been an incredible month and the market is very quiet, so try not to over analyze the data and headlines today. Also don't interpret any market pullbacks (most likely due to some tax selling) as the beginning of the end or the time to really...
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Friday's Put/Call Ratio Leaders (FITB, ETN, UTX, JDSU, COH)
Friday, December 31, 2010 - 1:07pm | 92Here is a quick peek at stocks that have abnormally high daily put/call ratios today relative to their average…. 1. Fifth Third Bancorp (NASDAQ: FITB) 12,713 puts, 292 calls 2. Eaton Corp (NYSE: ETN) 3,009 puts, 108 calls 3. United Technologies (NYSE: UTX) 2,873 puts, 393 calls 4. JDS Uniphase Corp...
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Options Brief: Fifth Third Bancorp (FITB)
Friday, December 31, 2010 - 12:19pm | 77Shares of Fifth Third Bancorp (NASDAQ: FITB) are higher on the session by 0.27%, trading at $14.68. Overall call volume is now running at 2.26x the daily average, with 3% of all calls traded being purchases on the offer. 10,095 contracts have traded on the session so far. Fifth Third Bancorp is a...
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Hampton Roads Bankshares Director Buys 36,819,012 Shares of HMPR
Thursday, December 30, 2010 - 5:13pm | 51In a Form 4 filed earlier today, Hampton Roads Bankshares (NASDAQ: HMPR) Director, Robert Goldstein, reported that he purchased 36,819,012 shares of HMPR on December 28th for an average price of $0.40. The transaction totaled $14,727,605. Mr. Goldstein owns 151,042,787 indirect shares of HMPR....