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Long time readers will know that the best return on investment (ROI for you wonky types) in America is lobbying dollars. For a pittance you can purchase present your case to a Congressman or woman and generate multitudes of that same dollar spent in return. It appears Federal Reserve and Treasury...
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CEO Conflict: Layoffs Boost CEO Pay (C, BAC, CAT, VZ, PFE, EMR, JPM, AA, WMT, MRK, JNJ, HPQ, DIS, IBM, T, F, UTX)
247wallst.com
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Sep 01, 2010
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AA, CAT, UTX and 14 moreDIS, C, PFE, VZ, BAC, F, JNJ, MRK, JPM, WMT, T, IBM, HPQ, EMR
The Institute for Policy Studies, a progressive think tank, has published its 17th annual survey of CEO compensation, noting, among other things, that CEOs of the 50 firms that have laid off the most workers in 2009 took home 42% more pay than CEOs at S&P 500 firms as a group. Average compensati...
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Burger King (NYSE: BKC) is for sale (WSJ)
Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) will team up with a partner in China to expand its search operations. (WSJ)
JPMorgan Chase (NYSE: JPM) will close its proprietary trading operations (various)
Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) will start an IPTV servic...
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globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com
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Sep 01, 2010
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C, BAC, JPM and 1 moreWFC
Inquiring minds are investigating the FDIC Second Quarter 2010 Quarterly Banking Profile.Quarterly Earnings Are Highest in Almost Three Years Reductions in loan-loss provisions underscored improvement in asset quality indicators during second quarter 2010. The industry’s quarterly earnings of $21.6...
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blogs.barrons.com
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Aug 31, 2010
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JPM
Shares of JP Morgan (JPM) closed up 51 cents, or 1.4%, at $36.36, following a Bloomberg article by Dawn Kopecki and Chanyaporn Chanjaroen saying the bank will end its proprietary trading, starting with the commodities desk and followed by fixed income and equities.
The authors cite a “person familia...
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businessinsider.com
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Aug 31, 2010
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JPM
JPMorgan has plans to shut down all of its prop trading desks, says Bloomberg.
CNBC just reported that under 20 commodities traders in London were told to apply for jobs elsewhere inside the bank.
They say the move will take around one to two months.
From Bloomberg:
JPM told traders who bet on com...
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247wallst.com
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Aug 31, 2010
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JPM, GE
Andrew Ross Sorkin of the New York Times today waxed eloquently on how quickly President Obama’s friends on Wall Street deserted him. It was remarkable, however, that they stood by him as long as they did.
Democrats are trying to make the election a referendum on Wall Street. Wags at MSNBC have ev...
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pheedcontent.com
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Aug 27, 2010
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JPM
Filed under: International Markets, Newsletters, JPMorgan Chase (JPM), ETF Investing, Recession"As an income investor, it's difficult to find solid investments that can protect you from interest rate risk; but JPMorgan Chase Fixed-to-Floating Rate Securities (JPM-Z), which offer a 7.6% variable yiel...
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If no one wants to borrow money even as long-term interest rates are low and going lower, then it’s hard to see how a bank is going to make money. That, at least, is the view of an analyst at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE:GS) who has cut 2011 price targets and EPS estimates for seven large US banks...
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The credit ratings of banks with large mortgage origination businesses could come under threat if Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac succeed in forcing them to increase the amount of bad loans they repurchase.
Fitch Ratings is undertaking a review to assess whether investors such as the GSEs have expanded...
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As widely expected, General Motors has filed a prospectus with the Securities & Exchange Commission this afternoon to offer its shares to the public.
The S1, which lists Morgan Stanley (MS), JP Morgan (JPM), Bank of America (BAC), Citigroup (C), Barclays (BCS), Credit Suisse (CS), Deutsche Bank...
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Filed under: Time Warner (TWX), Getting Started, JPMorgan Chase (JPM), Reliance Steel and Aluminum (RS), Serious Money, Stock Picks, Transocean Ltd. (RIG), Prudential Financial (PRU), Ameren Corp (AEE)In case you need to be reminded to look closely at the books, today's poster boy for erroneous ledg...
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These days, chief information officers at Fortune 500 companies are spending a lot of their time saying “no.” The good ones are masters at it.
They have to turn down pleas from department heads for new software and hardware all the time. Salesmen better be prepared to prove their latest version of...
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minyanville.com
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Aug 13, 2010
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GS, JPM
Editor's Note: This is Part 2 of a multi-part series. Read Part 1 here and look for the continuation in the days ahead.Part 2Assumptions Guiding the ActThe Consumer Protection Act is guided by several broad concepts:1. Wall Street must be strictly regulated to prevent systemic risk and to promote fi...
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Members of Dell Inc.’s (NYSE: DELL)Board of Directors have many distractions preventing them from reviving the struggling computer maker which help their back accounts and hurt the computer’s long-suffering shareholders.
Many have overseen the company from its time at the top of the PC market to whe...
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pheedcontent.com
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Aug 08, 2010
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GS, JPM
Filed under: JPMorgan Chase (JPM), Goldman Sachs Group (GS), Commodities, Federal Reserve, Financial CrisisYup. You've read it right. A JPMorgan trader lost $130 million trading coal. You are probably wondering why a bank like JPMorgan Chase (JPM) is trading coal. That's a good question. But the ans...
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businessinsider.com
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Aug 06, 2010
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JPM
Great things are happening inside JPMorgan's headquarters right now as they update everything to make it "green."
Sadly, the positive changes have claimed a victim: The cafeteria.
The JPM office (headquarters) has been making environmentally friendly renovations for awhile now and the effects they...
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This has been a year to forget for Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ). Unfortunately for shareholders, the company’s board appears ill-equipped to handle two serious problems that may tarnish the company’s reputation.
In January, the U.S. Department of Justice accused J&J of paying millions of...
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thebigmoney.com
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Jul 26, 2010
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JPM, NYT
On Friday, federal judge Jed S. Rakoff issued an order blocking JP Morgan Chase (JPM) from selling any part of a 2007 credit agreement between itself and Mexican media giant Televisa to any entity controlled by Cablevision's largest rival, particularly Banco Imbursa. This latter company is the empir...
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pheedcontent.com
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Jul 23, 2010
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NEM, JPM
Filed under: JPMorgan Chase (JPM), Newmont Mining (NEM), OptionsJP Morgan (JPM) closed up 96 cents to $39.40. Option volume of 48K contracts compares to put volume of 28K contracts. August put option implied volatility is at 30, below a level of 37 from July 14, according to Track Data, suggesting d...
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