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MasterCard to Offer Daily Deal
Tuesday, April 17, 2012 - 9:15am | 93MasterCard (NYSE: MA) today announced plans to expand its support of issuer and merchant efforts to meet Americans' desire for increased shopping value through relevant “daily deal” offers. This daily deal content will initially be powered by Local Offer Network, a pioneer in deal aggregation and...
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UPDATE: Stifel Nicolaus Raises PT to $505 on MasterCard
Monday, April 9, 2012 - 8:31am | 100Stifel Nicolaus increases its price target from $440 to $505 on Buy-rated MasterCard (NYSE: MA) on continued upside expected despite share price run-up. Stifel Nicolaus says, "Although MA shares recently hit another new high, we continue to see significant upside potential as strong spending...
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UPDATE: Oppenheimer Raises Visa and Mastercard's PT
Thursday, April 5, 2012 - 7:19am | 167According to a research report published earlier today, Oppenheimer has increased Visa's (NYSE: V) and Mastercard's (NYSE: MA) PT from $126 to $140 and from $400 to $475, respectively. In the report, Oppenheimer said, “In consideration of strong quarterly volume trends we are raising our...
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Under 1.5 Million Hit By MasterCard, Visa Hackers
Monday, April 2, 2012 - 10:07am | 89The credit card processor involved in a possible data security breach affecting millions of MasterCard and Visa card holders says that fewer than 1.5 million credit card numbers in North America might have been impacted by the incident. Atlanta-based Global Payments (GPN), the third-party...
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Card Data Breach Feared
Friday, March 30, 2012 - 6:49pm | 659. Visa (V) and MasterCard (MA) said a security breach potentially threatened tens of thousands of credit and debit card holders. Published reports said the 3rd-party payment processor in question was Global Payments (GPN). Visa fell 0.8% and MasterCard dropped 1.8%. Global Payments sank 9%...
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MasterCard, Visa Warn Banks Of Breach; Global Payments Hit
Friday, March 30, 2012 - 12:45pm | 66Credit card processors Visa (V) and MasterCard (MA) are warning banks of a potential massive security breach that could involve the data of more than 10 million accounts. The breach -- first reported by a security blog and then the Wall Street Journal -- involved an outside payment processor. That'...
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MasterCard, Visa Notifying Banks of Security Breach
Friday, March 30, 2012 - 12:27pm | 110Credit card processors Visa (NYSE: V) and MasterCard (NYSE: MA) are warning banks of a potential massive security breach that could involve the data of more than 10 million accounts. The breach -- first reported by a security blog and then the Wall Street Journal -- involved an outside payment...
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MasterCard, Visa Notifying Banks Of Security Breach
Friday, March 30, 2012 - 11:41am | 84Credit card processors Visa (V) and MasterCard (MA) are warning banks of a potential massive security breach that could involve the data of more than 10 million accounts. The breach -- first reported by a security blog and then the Wall Street Journal -- involved an outside payment processor....
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3 Good looking charts on the long side
Wednesday, March 21, 2012 - 6:11pm | 921( click to enlarge ) Zagg Inc(NASDAQ: ZAGG) stock displayed some impressive relative strength with a 6.81% gain. After consolidating in between the 10.45 resistance and the 9.81 support for over three weeks, the stock finally broke out from its consolidation and marked a new month's high of 10...
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Caterpillar, Discover Financial and Other Illinois Primary Stock Picks
Tuesday, March 20, 2012 - 6:42am | 1149Today, Illinois holds its Republican Primary, as the candidates hope to add to their delegate counts. Polls show a close race between frontrunners Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum. While the focus is on Illinois, let's have a look at the stocks of some of the many corporations headquartered in the...
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Apple, PepsiCo and IBM Join Our Most Admired Companies Portfolio
Wednesday, March 14, 2012 - 5:25am | 663James Roberts, Fortune's Most Admired Companies Investment Model Author: James Roberts Covestor models: Fortune's Most Admired, StockDiagnostics, Best Ideas The Most Admired Companies portfolio is approximately 97% invested in 19 different companies. We will have a full complement of 20...
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ETFs For Access to $100+ Stocks (AAPL, XLK, SKYY)
Monday, March 12, 2012 - 11:56am | 725Ah yes, triple-digit stocks. So alluring and yet so off limits to many investors. It's an unfortunate reality that has been highlighted many times during Apple's (Nasdaq: AAPL) amazing run. A stock trading over $100 is prohibitive to a many ordinary investors. Go over $400, $500 and above and the...
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MasterCard Embraces Emerging Markets, New Technology
Monday, March 12, 2012 - 9:19am | 109MasterCard (NYSE: MA) helped fuel the transition from cash to credit and debit cards. Now the payment processor is expanding into electronic payments using mobile phones and other devices while seeking new business in developing countries, CEO Ajay Banga recently told IBD. He said MasterCard...
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Virtual Currencies, Online Transactions, and the Future of Cash
Sunday, March 11, 2012 - 1:55pm | 1959Is a cashless revolution at hand? Might we find ourselves using virtual currencies for everyday transactions in the near future?A recent article from Fox Business written by Peter Andrew asked the question, "Is cash really going to disappear?" In light of the advantages of having cash, Andrew...
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The Peyton Manning ETF Portfolio (XLP, XLY, IYG)
Wednesday, March 7, 2012 - 1:52pm | 597If we could do it for some of the Republican presidential candidates we can certainly do it for superstar NFL quarterback Peyton Manning. It is undoubtedly a sad day in Indianapolis as the Colts have opted to cut Manning, a four-time NFL MVP and lauded pitchman, after 14 years of service to the...