Specialized Finance

Keefe Bruyette & Woods is maintaining its price target of $30 and its Market Perform rating on Encore Capital Group (NASDAQ: ECPG) following the company's Investor Day, as well as its presentation at KBW's Investment Management & Specialty Finance Conference. ECPG closed at $31.27 on...

Keefe, Bruyette & Woods is maintaining its Market Perform rating and its $44 price target on CIT Group (NYSE: CIT) following the company's presentation at KBW's Investment Management & Specialty Finance Conference. CIT closed on Friday at $42.17.

By Bob van der Valk As of Friday June 10, the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) of London Brent crude oil price went up $2.38 at $119.06, while July West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil gained $1.87 at $100.94 a barrel. At the conclusion of the June 8th Organization of the Petroleum Exporting...

By Bob van der Valk As of Friday June 10, the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) of London Brent crude oil price went up $2.38 at $119.06, while July West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil gained $1.87 at $100.94 a barrel. At the conclusio... Go to http://SwingTradingDaily.com for full article,...

The Financial Sector has been the weakest performing area of the market in today's trading session, currently 1.5% lower on the day. The worst performing stocks in the S&P Financial Sector currently are: 1) Genworth Financial (NYSE: GNW): Shares of Genworth are currently trading down 3.9%...

Diana Containerships Inc (NASDAQ: DCIX) dipped 7.17% to $7.38 in the pre-market session. DCIX priced its public offering of 14,250,000 shares of its common stock at a price to the public of $7.50 per share. Life Partners Holdings Inc (NASDAQ: LPHI) dropped 7.16% to $3.50 in the pre-market trading...

J.P. Morgan, which lowered its PT on shares of CME Group Inc. (NASDAQ: CME), is providing some color on the stock. “We are maintaining our Overweight rating on CME. CME has underperformed in 2011,” J.P. Morgan writes. “With the outlook for Fed tightening quickly moving to mid-2012, owners of CME...

JP Morgan has lowered the price target on CME Group (NASDAQ: CME) from $350 to $320 and maintains its Overweight rating.

The International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private-investment arm of the World Bank Group, has agreed to loan USD 4 million to microfinance institution (MFI) AccessBank Tajikistan to expand the MFI's loan portfolio, develop a greater variety of credit products and “support competition in the...

The Nasdaq OMX Group (NASDAQ: NDAQ) has said that it is going to more closely vet reverse-merger companies before listing their shares on the Nasdaq exchange. This decision comes on the heels of SEC and short-sellers' scrutiny of Chinese reverse-merger companies such as China Media Express and Rino...

The Financial Sector is one of the strongest areas of the S&P 500 in today's session, currently trading up 1.3% from yesterday's close. Today's best performing stocks in that sector are: 1) Moody's (NYSE: MCO): Shares of Moody's are currently trading up 3.5% from yesterday's close to $40.80....

Stifel Nicolaus has upgraded Nasdaw OMX Group (NASDAQ: NDAQ) from Hold to Buy and maintains its $40 price target.

Below are the top small-cap life insurance stocks on the NYSE and the NASDAQ in terms of operating margin. The trailing-twelve-month operating margin at Life Partners Holdings Inc (NASDAQ: LPHI) is 46.85%. LPHI's ROE for the same period is 45.91%. The trailing-twelve-month operating margin at...

TruthisTreason.net – Kevin Hayden Source: Space The sun unleashed a massive solar storm today (June 7) in a dazzling eruption that kicked up a vast cloud of magnetic plasma that appeared to rain back down over half of the sun's entire surface, NASA scientists say. The solar storm hit its peak at...

TruthisTreason.net – Kevin Hayden Source: Space The sun unleashed a massive solar storm today (June 7) in a dazzling eruption that kicked up a vast cloud of magnetic plasma that appeared to rain back down over half of the sun's entire surface, NASA scientists say. The solar storm hit its peak at...