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Simon Property Group Inc. (NYSE: SPG) announced on Tuesday that it was making an offer to buy troubled General Growth Properties Inc. (OTC: GGWPQ ). General Growth Properties Inc. is a real estate investment trust that filed for bankruptcy protection last year. Simon Property Group said the deal is...

Direxion Daily Emerging Markets Bear 3x Shares(ETF) (NYSE: EDZ) gained 3.35% today as The MSCI Emerging Markets Index fell on the news that China decided to lift its reserve requirements. ProShares UltraShort FTSE/Xinhua China 25 (NYSE: FXP) added 3.41%, while one of the biggest components of FTSE/...

Developers Diversified Realty (NYSE: DDR), the Ohio-based real estate investment trust, has raised the amount of a share offering the company announced on Monday. Developers Diversified will now sell 37.3 million shares at $8.16 per share after previously saying it would sell 36 million shares. The...

Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC) and Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) are trading more than 3% down today, which has hurt Direxion Daily Financial Bull 3X Shares(ETF) (NYSE: FAS). FAS dropped 4.4% so far and has a volume of 28.77M traded shares. Market Vectors Gold Miners (ETF) (NYSE: GDX) lost 3.4...

Simon Properties Group (NYSE: SPG) will be reporting its quarterly numbers tomorrow morning before the opening bell. The Wall Street consensus is that SPG will report EPS of $1.52 per share on revenue of $963 million. In today's trading, the stock fell 2.50% to close at $70.98. I would not make any...

Kimco Realty Corporation (NYSE: KIM) will report fourth quarter (2009) earnings after the market closes on Wednesday. The consensus EPS estimate is a profit of $0.06, which is a drastic turnaround from the loss of $0.24 per share in the same quarter a year earlier. Kimco Realty Corporation has...

Macquarie upgraded Equity One (NYSE: EQY) from “neutral” to “outperform.” EQY last traded at $16.70 and has moved up only 13.14% over the past 52 weeks. The target price for EQY is set to $19.

Developers Diversified Realty Corp. (NYSE: DDR) expects fiscal year 2009 funds from operations to be in the range of $1.83 to $1.85 per diluted share excluding certain estimated non-operating net charges. With the inclusion of these charges it expects fiscal year 2009 funds from operations to be a...

Analysts at Morgan Keegan have raised Regency Centers Corporation’s (NYSE: REG) rating to Market Perform after considering a more reasonable valuation. There is greater clarity on sources and uses of funds in 2010 which reduces forward risk, and the new valuation range used is $34-$36 per share....

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Weingarten Realty Investors (NYSE:WRI) announced today that its fourth quarter 2009 earnings will be released after the market closes on Wednesday, February 24, 2010. Senior Management will host a conference call the following day, Thursday, February 25, 2010 at 10:00 a.m...

Below are the top 5 small-cap financial stocks on the NASDAQ and the NYSE in terms of earnings estimates. The per share earnings estimate for Stream Global Services Inc (NYSE: SGS) for next year is $79.25. SGS’s market capitalization is $471.2 million. The per share earnings estimate for Alexander'...

Historical data indicates that small cap stocks outperform the market over long periods. However, these scrips also have a high degree of risk associated with them. Bank of America Merill Lynch, in a recent report, tried to estimate potential winners and losers. Financial stocks are most likely to...